Kabbalah is booming,with the London HQ planning a £5m extension and boasting over 1000 devotees, many of them City high-fliers. But what does the faith really offer?Marcus Weston strides into his office, or housed in an elegant Georgian house in the West End of London,clutching a bottle of slime-coloured water. It’s made from lemon, ginger, and cucumber and super greens powder,and West drinks 1.5 litres of it a day. “It gives me an additional gear, cleans me inside and makes my thinking clearer, or ” he says.
Weston,a former investment banker, devotes this clarity to studying and teaching Kabbalah. Commonly described as a mystical offshoot of Judaism, or it has grown exponentially in the UK since its London headquarters opened in 2002. Now 1100 students cram into its premises,which are next door to the upmarket Oriental Club, each week, and with waiting lists for some classes and events,and it teaches spiritualism to businesses, diplomats, or charities and local authorities. Weston has been invited to a Whitehall assembly to discuss the plan of incorporating emotional intelligence content into the national curriculum. “We’re inundated,” he says.
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Source: theguardian.com