The True Teachings of the Aramaic Jesus Christ with Neil Douglas-Klotz
There’s something profoundly liberating about peeling back the layers of history and finding the raw, untamed wisdom beneath. On today’s episode, we welcome Neil Douglas Klotz, a scholar and mystic whose journey into the Aramaic roots of Jesus’s teachings unveils a radically different understanding of the man, his message, and the world he lived in.
The Jesus many of us have encountered is a product of centuries of translation, political maneuvering, and cultural adaptation. The blue-eyed, English-speaking figure who stands at the center of Western Christianity is a far cry from the Aramaic-speaking mystic who roamed the hills of ancient Palestine. Neil Douglas Klotz takes us back to the beginning, to the words that Jesus actually spoke, words that vibrate with an entirely different rhythm than those found in the King James Bible. “If you read ‘spirit’ in the New Testament,” he says, “just put ‘breath’ over that word, because that’s what the Aramaic also means.”
It is in this forgotten wisdom that we find a Jesus who wasn’t simply demanding belief but rather inviting participation. One of the most p
1. Our Birth in Unity
Abwoon d'bwashmaya
(King James V version: Our Father which art in heaven)
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos,
you create all that moves
in light.
O Thou! The Breathing Life of all,
Creator of the Shimmering Sound that
touches us.
Respiration of all worlds,
we hear you breathing--in and out--
in silence.
Source of Sound: in the roar and the whisper,
in the breeze and the whirlwind, we
hear your Name.
Radiant One: You shine within us,
outside us--even darkness shines--when
we remember.
Name of names, our small identity
unravels in you, you give it back
as a lesson.
Wordless Action, Silent Potency--
where ears and eyes awaken, there
heaven comes.
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos!
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2. Clearing Space for the Name to Live
Nethqadash shmakh
(King James V version: Hallowed be they name)
Focus your light within us--make it useful:
as the rays of a beacon
show the way.
Help us breathe one holy breath
feeling only you--this creates a shrine
inside, in wholeness.
Help us let go, clear the space inside
of busy forgetfulness: so the
Name comes to live.
Your
A conversation with Neil Douglas-Klotz
Spirit crc new font 16 22/4/04 pm Page 16 Spirituality and Health International Volume 5 Issue 1 © Whurr Publishers Ltd A conversation with Neil Douglas-Klotz Neil Douglas-Klotz is co-chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion () and co-directs the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an independent scholar of religious studies, spirituality and psychology, and is the author of several books, including Prayers of the Cosmos (Harper, ), Desert Wisdom (HarperCollins, ), The Hidden Gospel (Quest, ), The Genesis Meditations: A Shared Practice of Peace for Christians, Jews and Muslims (Quest, ) and a re-edited edition of Lex Hixon’s Heart of the Qur’an (Quest, ). He holds a PhD in religious studies and psychology from Union Institute University and taught these subjects for 10 years at Holy Names College in California. He has followed the practices of the Sufi path since and was recognized as a senior teacher (murshid) in this tradition in He sits on the Advisory Board of the International Association of Sufism. Full information about his publications and lectures worldwide can be found a
Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz
I was raised by Christian parents who were both devout and freethinking. They brought into my early life the impulse to worship and praise, as well as to question everything that constricted and opposed the injunction "love your neighbour as yourself." My father was a chiropractor, my mother a student of the health education of Edgar Cayce; they raised me with a respect for the body and the wonders of nature found therein, as well as a disdain for the superficial innovations of humanity that polluted both body and nature.
Hearing from childhood German, Yiddish and Polish in our home, raised on the stories and miracles of Jesus, taught the practical truth of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, I formed an interest in language, spirituality, the body and ecological justice early in life. In many ways, I have been pursuing these interests ever since.
After graduation from college in , I pursued a care
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