As we move further into Yeshua’s story of transmission in the Gospels of John and Thomas, Neil describes a moment when temple officials in Jerusalem tried to entrap Jesus — and how he evaded them by exposing their own guilty secrets.

In this setting, Yeshua said, “I am the light of the world,” a phrase often interpreted to mean that believing in Jesus is the only way. Seen through the lens of Aramaic, however, this teaching speaks instead to our own consciousness and to the ways we perceive the world.

Neil will reinforce this with a parallel saying from the Gospel of Matthew: “You are the light of the world.” The metaphor that followed — often misunderstood today — opens a window into how this can be true for each of us.

You’ll explore how connecting your individual “I” with its source — “I to I,” self to soul — can clarify and illuminate your inner world at the level of your deepest heart.

In this opening session, you’ll discover:

• After temple leaders accused a woman of adultery, Yeshua shared a teaching about the true self — “I-I is the light of the world” — showing the difference between the personal “I” and its divine Source
• A chant, body prayer, and meditation to experience this directly
• How Yeshua used the metaphor of a “city on a hill” to illuminate the saying “you are the light of the world” — in a way quite different from today’s political usage
• What it means to “let your light shine” in lived practice, beyond theological abstraction
• A second chant, meditation, and body prayer to take this teaching deeper into experience

Building on the events in Jerusalem, Neil describes how Yeshua revealed a way for each person to receive the light that clarifies the heart’s true direction — a light that frees us. 

When someone challenged him by saying, “Why do we need your freedom? We have Abraham as our father, and so are free anyway,” Yeshua’s response shocked those gathered as he pointed back to the light of the first creation moment and to the real lineage he was part of.

In this module, you’ll deepen into an experience of the light and love we each carry in our innermost sense of self — an experience unburdened by past impressions of who we think we are. This speaks to our true ancestral lineage as “children of humanity,” created in the divine image.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• How the “Before Abraham” saying reveals the ancient Southwest Asian nomadic perception of time
• A meditation on “caravan time,” using breath, heart awareness, and this story
• The creation of the human self and our potential divine image as described in the Bible, compared with the story in the Qur’an
• How Jesus healed a man born blind, and the response of his students and the temple officials
• A chant based on Yeshua’s words followed by a meditation on further embodying this light

After connecting more deeply with the light present before our birth, Neil will describe how Yeshua led his students further into the mysteries of the human self and our real identity. 

Our personal self — our naphsha — still has the tendency to wander and forget its origin and purpose.

To address this, Yeshua offered a multi-layered teaching story about sheep, sheepfolds, gates, and those who try to steal sheep. He spoke over (and around) the heads of the temple officials who were still trying to entrap him, while offering a profound teaching about how to navigate life in a body, in time and space.

In this class, you’ll encounter places within yourself that can receive the light of love and the wisdom of Holy Wisdom herself.

You’ll also explore:

• The inner meaning behind the usually mistranslated saying “I am the door, and if anyone enters, he shall be saved”
• A chant and meditation to find this experience within yourself
• More about the “thieves” who try to seduce the sheep-like voices of our self and society today with its symbols of power and authority
• How to recognize who the real “good shepherd” is as a living presence both within and around you
• A chant, body prayer, and meditation to embody Yeshua’s saying “the I-I is the good shepherd”

Back in Jerusalem, Jesus spoke further about the liberation of our “inner sheep” and what prevents us from connecting our human self with our soul (ruha). 

Neil will describe how Yeshua’s words again upset and confused the temple officials when he said something usually mistranslated as “I and the Father are one.”

In just a few Aramaic words, Yeshua disclosed both his own relationship of intuitive guidance with the Source of Reality and the role that deep, intimate human love plays in this connection. 

Here, you’ll begin to enter and experience the sacred marriage of love and knowledge within yourself.

Although these two ways are often seen as separate, you’ll explore — and directly experience — how they come together when you touch the depth of your heart, opening a portal between your soul (ruha) and your self (naphsha).

During this session, you’ll:

• Explore another Aramaic word Yeshua used for the many varieties of what we simply call “love,” and how this term points to the great potential held in all intimate relationships
• Experience a chant and meditation to embody this love and connect to your real “I,” one that never exists in isolation or loneliness
• Understand what Jesus meant when he quoted a psalm, saying “you are gods,” and then, “I and the Father are one together”
• Examine what being a bar Alaha (usually translated “son of God”) meant to Yeshua and to later “Jesus movement” followers outside the Roman Empire
• Participate in a meditation on this phrase, as well as bar nasha or “son of man”, in their Aramaic sense

Jesus’ dramatic resurrection of his friend La’azar (Lazarus) has inspired not only enormous theological speculation, but also literary interpretations by figures as diverse as Eugene O’Neill and Kahlil Gibran. 

In this module, Neil will describe what the Aramaic text says about this pivotal moment in Yeshua’s journey, and how what might have happened relates to the ancient Mediterranean practice of vision journeys.

Yeshua’s saying, usually translated as “I am the resurrection and the life,” again points beyond Jesus personally and back to what can resurrect our own life when we face the “small deaths” that happen along the way. 

Here, you’ll be invited to open an even deeper doorway into the real “I” within you — your sacred human self-image — one that, once awakened, can offer a renewed sense of “standing again.”

In this session, you’ll:

• Explore the circumstances around Lazarus’ seeming illness and Yeshua’s delay in going to the side of his good friend
• Learn about ancient Mediterranean traditions before and after Yeshua’s time that can shed light on what might have taken place
• Reflect on Yeshua’s conversation with Martha, in which he said “I am the resurrection and the life,” and what this reveals about the relationship between self and soul
• Experience a chant and meditation to begin sensing what Yeshua pointed to in our own consciousness as it awakens to its real nature
• Discover what the word “death” meant in the ancient Semitic languages and how the ancient Mediterranean world imagined the afterlife
• Be guided in another chant about love and death from the Hebrew of the Song of Songs

Before returning to Jerusalem, Yeshua took his students to an ancient site in the Golan Heights associated with the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean “Green Man.”

There, he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” Shortly afterward, he brought a smaller group to a mountain where they experienced a vision of the prophets together.

Neil will describe how, in these moments, you can see Jesus demonstrating how we can stop clinging to the ephemeral ups and downs of inner experience. 

You’ll begin to sense this for yourself through meditation, and hear your own inner response to the question “What is a human being, really?”

Yeshua then made a very public entry into Jerusalem, later commemorated in Christian tradition as Palm Sunday. Using images from nature and planting, he offered guidance to his students about tending their own self (naphsha) with care, so as to avoid what we might now call “spiritual inflation.” 

At the same time, he used a powerful and beautiful phrase in Aramaic to dedicate his own “song” to the melody and harmony of reality.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• An Aramaic view of what happened in Caesarea Philippi and, shortly after, at the “transfiguration” experienced by Jesus and a few students — as related in the Gospels of Matthew and Thomas
• The meaning behind Yeshua’s often misunderstood saying about “loving” and “hating” the personal Self — and his advice for working with this part of us
• The planting and nature images Jesus used to point to the alchemical transmutation of the personal self
• A chant and meditation inspired by his teaching that each moment is a “song” to be consciously returned and dedicated to its Source, Alaha
• What Jesus’ advice to his students “Walk while you have the light” can mean for us today
• A saying from the Gospel of Thomas in which Yeshua described how to “sift” the self so new growth can arise through the soul

At the start of what appears to be a Passover meal in Jerusalem, Jesus washed the feet of his students — a ritual often remembered, though what he said about it is frequently overlooked. 

Viewed in Aramaic, his words speak directly to the nature of your own spiritual transmission and empowerment. Neil will describe how Yeshua’s new commandment “love one another as I have loved you” becomes a much deeper lesson in Aramaic, one that contradicts today’s toxic theology of the so-called “sin of empathy.”

You’ll discover how Jesus recommended that we regard the “other” in a healthy way — not as a burden or cross to bear, but as an essential part of connecting our soul to our human self. 

Yeshua’s words over the bread and wine — usually translated as “this is my body and this is my blood” — also open into deeper meanings in his native language. You’ll experience how your own body and blood connect you with the earth and with the flow of life in both the seen and unseen worlds.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how Jesus prepared his students for his final separation from them, at least in physical form
• Understand the inner meaning of his washing their feet — and the warning contained within it
• Explore the various versions of his disciple Judas’s “betrayal”
• Experience a chant and body-awareness meditation to enter more deeply into Yeshua’s new commandment “Love one another as I have loved you”
• Work with Yeshua’s way of resolving the seeming challenge between our self and the “other”
• Discover an Aramaic view of Yeshua’s words over the bread and wine — what “body” and “blood” pointed to — along with a chant and meditation to embody this teaching

The traditional interpretation of Jesus’ words “I go to prepare a place for you” and his mention of “many mansions” has often created the image of a heavenly penthouse reserved for believers. 

Neil will show how the Aramaic words reveal something much deeper and more immediate — connected to our own experience of spiritual relationship with helpful ancestors in the unseen worlds.

After questioning from his students, Yeshua used another frequently misunderstood saying, usually translated as “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me.”

In the original Aramaic, his words carry a depth very different from the later theological interpretation that “Jesus is the only way.” At the same time, this saying opens further doorways through the heart into the experience of our own real “I.”

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How Yeshua’s students urgently needed to disengage their naphsha from an unhealthy attachment to the person of the teacher — a human tendency we still struggle with today
• What “preparing a place” and the “many mansions” meant in Jesus’ Aramaic
• A chant and meditation to experience these teachings more deeply
• How Jesus’ students became confused about how to “find” him in the other world — and how to avoid being deceived by unhelpful spirits or entities
• Jesus’ clarification of “many mansions,” which transforms one of his most misunderstood sayings into one of his most mystical and liberating ones
• A chant, body prayer, and meditation for his saying about “way, truth, and life”

At what later became known as the “Last Supper,” Jesus emphasized to his students that what they idealized in him was really their internal image of reality — their own unique divine spark reflected back to them. 

Neil will describe how Yeshua spoke about the trust and heartfelt service they would need to cultivate in order to “do the works I have done, and greater.”

Yeshua also spoke about the real source of his students’ guidance, which would be freed precisely by his leaving them in person. Their future heart-relationship would develop through what was later translated as the “spirit of truth” or the “Paraclete.” 

You’ll explore — and experience through chant and meditation — how all of this points to your own unique, wordless, love-filled sense of guidance, available at any moment… 

… and how connecting through Yeshua (without stopping with him as the sole Source) can help free it within you.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The rich meaning behind the key words in Jesus’s saying about the “greater works” people will do after him — and the conditions for this to unfold
• A chant and body prayer to experience this more deeply
• How asking from within for his “name” can become an everyday spiritual practice
• The heart mysteries disclosed by his promises to send a “comforter” and a “Spirit of truth” — neither of which require Yeshua’s physical presence
• A chant and body-prayer meditation to experience the ruha d’shrara (“spirit of truth”) and phraraqlitha (“Paraclete”) — and how this presence can strengthen and “harvest the fruits” of the relationship of our personal “I” within the “I” of Reality

As we move deeper into Yeshua’s final teachings at the Last Supper, Neil will explore how most Christian theology has overlooked the true meaning of Yeshua’s saying usually translated as “peace I leave with you.” 

In Aramaic, Yeshua is pointing to shlama — a peace that goes far beyond the duality of “war” and “peace.”

You’ll discover how this deeper peace can be “released” from within and then “loved” outwardly through a willing heart. 

Yeshua also advises his students — and us — not to let our hearts become “troubled,” and then offers one of his most powerful natural images…

… the intimate connection between “I” and “you,” like a grapevine joined to its root stock.

Neil will also describe Yeshua’s teaching on the “pruning” necessary for a vine to bear fruit, and how he had prepared his students to be pruned of unnecessary confusions — rooting them more firmly in what flowed through him, rather than in personal attachment to him. 

This entire section sheds light on how healthy spiritual transmission can unfold in a community today.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• How we’re meant to actively release the peace seeded within us before birth — and radiate this peace into the world around us, without words
• A chant and meditation to deepen your experience of this saying
• What kind of “peace” Yeshua is truly speaking about — and how this differs from the Aramaic term behind the often-mistranslated saying, “I have come not to bring peace but a sword”
• Yeshua’s subtle images of the vine, branches, root, and the flow of life-sap that connects a living teacher with students — and all of us with our wider environment
• A chant, body prayer, and meditation to embody this living imagery

Neil will describe how — as Yeshua’s time with his students drew to a close — he reaffirmed his teaching on a deeper form of love — one that would continue to connect them with him and with each other far into the future. 

At the same time, Yeshua spoke about “joy” using an Aramaic word that points to an inner state through which guidance and intuition become even stronger.

You’ll explore how to hear this teaching as a personal call to reconnect with joy-filled guidance and action — the quiet question of the heart — “What is truly mine to do in this life?” 

You’ll also learn how Yeshua’s Aramaic words reveal a simple, daily practice for experiencing the “greater love” he emphasizes, one that leads to a radically different way of relating to one another.

Neil will describe how, like many ancient teachers, Yeshua dedicated and released his work — returning its “melody” through him to Alaha’s (Reality’s) universal song. 

You’ll experience a companion practice that allows you to return the melody of your own day — your efforts, actions, and experiences — back to their Source.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• What Yeshua’s phrase “abide in my love” reveals as an inner reality we can each experience
• The simple heart attunement disclosed by the Aramaic words for “ask” and “receive” — and how this attunement becomes the key to accomplishing anything
• A chant and meditation to help you embody this saying in your own heart
• The lines from Yeshua’s prayer after the Last Supper that were later mistranslated to give certain authorities the power to “forgive sins”
• How Yeshua returned the fruits of his work to Alaha — and how realizing that his actions flowed from this deeper origin can open you to “life energy in all the worlds, then and now”
• A chant using the Aramaic word often translated as “glorify,” offering a practice for dedicating your own life’s melody to the Source at day’s end or any moment

In this session, Neil will explore the various accounts of Yeshua’s passion, crucifixion, and resurrection found in the four canonical gospels, as well as the commentary from several alternative texts — all through an Aramaic lens. 

He’ll begin by examining the hidden meaning behind Yeshua’s “words from the cross,” inviting you to hear and experience what they reveal for your own life. How do you “stand again” after the small “deaths” that mark every human journey? How do you navigate the inner reckoning your naphsha — your personal self — inevitably meets as part of living a real human life?

Neil will describe how Yeshua rejected the temptation to withdraw into spiritual privilege or isolation. Instead, he called his students to honesty, justice, and humble presence with one another. 

You’ll also hear how the Gospel of Mary Magdalene relates Mary’s vision after the resurrection and how her teaching emphasizes the ongoing need to work compassionately with our human self.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How Yeshua ended the personal dedication of his work by pointing to the deeper love we can experience — one that roots us in a wiser way of knowing, living, and loving our life in the world
• A breath and body-awareness meditation to experience this more deeply and open to your own liberated sense of guidance
• The meaning behind Yeshua’s Aramaic words from the cross — especially the often-mistranslated saying, “Why have you forsaken me?”
• How Yeshua’s resurrection was experienced by Mary Magdalene, and what the Gospel of Mary reveals about her role and insight
• Commentary on Yeshua’s death and resurrection from another early Jesus-movement community — the group responsible for the Gospel of Philip

After Yeshua’s crucifixion and resurrection, he appeared to people in a number of stories — both “official” and “non-official,” according to Western Christian theology. 

Neil will explore these accounts, including the moment on the “road to Emmaus,” when Jesus briefly shared a meal with two travelers who later recounted the encounter to his students.

Neil will describe the final episode in the Gospel of John, when Yeshua reappears at daybreak while his students are fishing… and asks Peter three times to “feed my lambs, feed my sheep.” 

As this earlier image of sheep returns, you’ll experience — through chant and meditation — how you can reaffirm the sacred presence seeded within your own heart, and your responsibility to be true to it.

You’ll also reflect on the human tendency to confuse organizational rituals, structures, and beliefs for this inborn presence — and how Yeshua continually pointed beyond those forms.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• An Aramaic view of several post-resurrection stories, including the “road to Emmaus” and its deeper Aramaic subtext
• A breath and body-awareness meditation to experience Yeshua’s greeting to his students after the resurrection
• The Aramaic meaning behind his instruction to Peter to “feed my lambs, feed my sheep”
• The roles that love and awakened natural morality play when you’re on a sincere spiritual path
• A chant and meditation to let this story and teaching settle more deeply within you

After exploring the resurrection stories, Neil will turn to the book of Acts and its account of the “Pentecost” experience among Yeshua’s students. 

Viewed through Aramaic, they experienced a powerful “breath” from the unseen world — the ruha d’qudsha, the “holy breath” — and perceived “tongues of flame” or “letters of light” resting on one another’s heads.

Neil will guide you in a meditation to help reconnect you with your own light-filled soul connection while remaining deeply rooted in your embodied self.

Acts also describes how people surrounding this first group of students received this wordless transmission — without any complex theology or required beliefs. Neil will share how this early experience eventually grew into the Christianity that later became the religion of the Roman Empire.

As you conclude your time together with Neil and your cohort of participants, you'll experience how you can follow the elegantly simple way Yeshua conveyed truth and bring it further into your life, day by day.

In this closing session, you’ll discover:

• What “receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit” means in the Aramaic of Acts — and how you can experience it yourself, beyond any specific religion or path, as a living inspiration
• A chant and meditation to experience this “gift” directly, helping you turn your naphsha — your personal self — into a source of blessing instead of burden
• A saying from the Gospel of Philip — “Truth is our Mother” — and the freedom this teaching reveals
• A review of your journey through Yeshua’s heart transmission and what it means to become “wholly human”
• A final chant and meditation to integrate and seal your experience of this potent course