«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Madonna practises Kabbalah, of course, and she wishes to inform readers about this embrace of what she imagines to be Jewish mysticism, having been told about it at a dinner party 14 years ago. "Life no longer seemed like a series of Random events," she writes, deploying capital letters to devastating effect. "I started to see patterns in my life. I also began to see that being Rich and Famous wasn't going to bring me lasting fulfillment and that it was not the end of the journey. That it was the beginning of the journey."Traditional Jewish Kabbalah study is regarded as so complex that one is only permitted to embark upon it after the age of 40, and only then with a deep knowledge of Jewish law. In Madonna's version, although you have to fork out hundreds of dollars for the 23-volume holy book, you don't even have to read Hebrew to get the benefit. According to the insurance salesman who started the sect, you just look at the books and the "energy" will come.

The Guardian
August 7 2009