Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD
Learn how you can heal your past, transform your sense of separation, and understand your soul’s purpose through the wisdom of the most famous misunderstood mystic of all time — Yeshua (Jesus), as experienced through chants and meditations.
What would it have been like to hear Jesus speak in person, in his native language of Aramaic? What might you have heard or felt?
Understanding Jesus’ original teachings before organized religion translated (and often misrepresented) his message can help you connect with a very different time — when people rarely lived lives of isolation, and humanity, nature, and the Divine were seen as profoundly interconnected, says scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD.
A renowned researcher of 40+ years in Middle Eastern spirituality and the interpretation of the ancient Semitic languages, Neil teaches that once you hear and feel the true meaning of Jesus’ messages in Aramaic, you’ll understand that he wasn’t telling us about sin and guilt — but about how to empower ourselves.
You’ll learn that Jesus wasn’t instructing us to have faith in him, but to have the same trust that he does — and that there’s a bigger sense of Self, and a much bigger universe in which we partake... that we can make present here and now, says Neil.
Neil’s 44 years of research into Aramaic and ancient Semitic languages, chants, and the Native Middle Eastern contemplative tradition reveals what Jesus actually meant — and offers similar spiritual practices, prayers, and meditations that he had offered to his followers.
If you’ve been disillusioned by your religious upbringing and have an intuitive feeling that there must be more to Jesus than what you’ve learned — through the dogmas, mistranslations, and toxic ideologies that are allegedly based on Jesus’ perspectives, you’re not alone!
Understanding what Jesus truly exemplified and said, in Aramaic, can set you free to build your trust (haimanuta) in your larger Self, which Jesus calls ruha, and heart (leba) — to expand your perspective and bring more joy into life.
You’re invited to join Neil for a brand-new hour-long event as he shares how Jesus’ original teachings in Aramaic provide a practical, embodied way of living and spiritual practice that you can bring into your daily life, no matter which tradition you’re part of (or not part of).
Neil will guide you to experience Aramaic chants and meditations that will help you truly understand the impact of the Lord’s Prayer (or Yeshua’s Prayer) — so you can deeply feel the more loving, more humane way of being that’s possible for you.
As you’ll discover, when you interpret Jesus’ sayings and actions through his native language, you’ll find a hidden gospel — a stunning spiritual practice that’s been obscured by hundreds of years of mistranslation and misunderstanding. And you’ll find that Jesus’ way of spirit and breath can come through in your own embodied experience.
Join us for an illuminating exploration of Jesus’ holistic, compassionate solution to humanity’s most pressing issues, including the struggles you’re navigating in your own life — whether it’s love and relationships, self-trust, healing from past trauma, fear of the future, or a desire to find the heart of clarity and purpose.
In this hour-long free online event, you’ll:
- Experience Aramaic chants and meditations to feel the impact of the Lord’s Prayer (or Yeshua’s Prayer) and how it can transport you to a more loving, more humane way of being
- Get a taste of what it was like to hear Jesus speak during his lifetime, and experience the world through the lens intended — to reveal a deep spirituality and liberation that can transform your life
- Find that examining the worldview that existed in Jesus’ time — when humanity, nature, and the Divine were more interconnected — can help you feel more grounded and centered amidst the changes unfolding around you
- Release the feelings of separation and alienation that our modern world can evoke by understanding your place and purpose in relation to Spirit, the whole of humanity, and nature
- Find trust in your larger Self to expand your perspective and bring more joy into your life
When you join us for this hour-long event, you’ll also hear more about Neil’s upcoming 7-week course featuring one line of the Lord’s Prayer (or Yeshua’s Prayer) each week.
Neil’s work is for anyone who longs to know the real Jesus and exemplify his message of love and connection — including Christians and “recovering Christians” of all denominations, members of 12-step groups, people who have a heart feeling for Jesus but not for religion, those interested in the native traditions of the Middle East, or those with no religious affiliation at all.
Neil will share teachings, meditations, chants, healing and breath practices, and body awareness attunements to address contemporary challenges and help transform your life.
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What People Are Saying About Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD...
“Neil Douglas-Klotz is a rare jewel; a brilliant scholar with heart whose words have the power to reconnect us with our sacred source.”
Neil Douglas-Klotz is a rare jewel; a brilliant scholar with heart whose words have the power to reconnect us with our sacred source. Original Meditation is truly a book for our times. The perfume of divine belonging rises from every page as this modern mystic skilfully guides us into the essence of the sacred mystery.
— Joan Borysenko, author of Seven Paths to God
“Neil Douglas-Klotz has distilled his decades of rigorous scholarship, deep practice, and revolutionary insight into a potent elixir for our times.”
In Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus, a luminous offering, we discover the wisdom teacher this burning world is yearning for: a native Jesus deeply connected to the Earth and her wisdom, a Jesus long-ago silenced by the religion founded in his name, a Jesus who speaks directly to the heart of people of all faiths, and maybe especially to those of us who cannot fit ourselves into the confines of a single tradition. Neil Douglas-Klotz has distilled his decades of rigorous scholarship, deep practice, and revolutionary insight into a potent elixir for our times.
— Mirabai Starr, translator of Julian of Norwich and author of Wild Mercy
“... translations of Neil Douglas-Klotz cut through the rote and bring us to the deeper meanings of Jesus’ teaching...”
Religion easily dies when it succumbs to rote. The Aramaic translations of Neil Douglas-Klotz cut through the rote and bring us to the deeper meanings of Jesus’ teaching that can still touch our hearts, move our souls, and ignite our action. It can open our hearts anew. My original foreword to Neil’s first book, Prayers of the Cosmos, began with these words: “Reader beware: though this book is brief, it contains the seeds of a revolution.” More than 40 years later, I do not think history has proven me mistaken.
— Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing, from the foreword to Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus
“Neil Douglas-Klotz has been exploring the mysteries of the Syriac and Aramaic languages to better understand what Yeshua wanted and still wants to tell us.”
For more than 40 years, Neil Douglas-Klotz has been exploring the mysteries of the Syriac and Aramaic languages to better understand what Yeshua wanted and still wants to tell us. This patient work is not in vain, it is necessary to bring us closer to this presence and this teaching, which enlighten us, awaken us, heal us, and save us. Neil Douglas-Klotz is not only a scholar but also a man of the desert, where the breath and energy of the words join the prayer of the sands to trace a path in the heart of what remains without path.
— Prof. Jean-Yves Leloup, author of The Gospel of Thomas: the Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus and The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
“Neil Douglas Klotz’s depth of study gives new life to these great teachings...”
Neil’s work returns us to the original Aramaic of Jesus’ words, where the breath, the body, and the soul are part of a living wholeness in which nature and the Divine are not separate. Here language is a part of the creative flow of the seasons and our inner being, awakening us to the holy wisdom that is within. Neil Douglas Klotz’s depth of study gives new life to these great teachings, helping us to be in harmony with our original nature, our own connection to sacred unity.
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, author of Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism
About Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD
Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD, is a renowned writer, researcher, meditation teacher, and musician in the fields of Middle Eastern spirituality and the translation and interpretation of the ancient Semitic languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. Living in Scotland, he was for many years the co-chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion. He also co-founded the International Network of the Dances of Universal Peace in 1982.
A frequent speaker and workshop leader, he is the author of several well-known books. His books on the Aramaic spirituality of Jesus include Prayers of the Cosmos (1990), The Hidden Gospel (1999), Original Meditation (2003), Blessings of the Cosmos (2005), and Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus (2022). His books on a comparative view of Native Middle Eastern spirituality include Desert Wisdom: A Nomad’s Guide to Life’s Big Questions (1995, 2010) and The Tent of Abraham (2006, with Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Sr. Joan Chittister).
His books on Sufi spirituality include The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish (2005) and A Little Book of Sufi Stories (2018). He has also edited four collections of the work of Middle Eastern mystic Kahlil Gibran and written a mystery novel set in the first century C.E. Holy Land entitled A Murder at Armageddon (2015). His biographical collections of the works of his Sufi teachers include Gardens of Vision and Initiation (2020, Samuel L. Lewis) and Illuminating the Shadow (2016, Moineddin Jablonski).
