Archive

Curious about my own Living Wisdom and bodies of work? You're welcome to explore my interconnected worlds.

The projects below form part of my personal, evolving ecosystem of mystical research, embodied sound, lineage transmission, and Living Wisdom work.
My body of work has been shaped by deep engagement with Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Mesopotamian traditions — and by eight years of residence in the Middle East and North Africa.
Though each project takes a different form, all are united by one central concern:
How do we preserve the humanity, embodiment, and integrity of meaningful work in an age of fragmentation?
Projects are shown from earliest to latest.

Embodied feminine wisdom from the desert traditions

The Temple of Divine Radiance was an online temple and school devoted to Divine Feminine wisdom, embodied sacred medicine, and transformative devotion within Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mysticism — what I collectively call the desert traditions.
Through ritual, chant, sacred text, meditation, movement, and contemplative practice, the project explored how ancient devotional technologies regulate the nervous system and emotions. I also explored the development of spiritual perception through embodied sacred practices that are "medicinal" in the traditional sense.
For five years, the Temple served as my primary container for living ritual, wisdom transmission, sacred arts, and spiritual education. I delivered hundreds of hours of live teaching and ceremony online, much of which later became evergreen paid educational offerings and ongoing digital resources.
The Temple is currently offline for renovation. Portions of the work remain accessible for review here:

A Mesopotamian lunar shrine rises again in the digital age

This devotional and archival project explored a wisdom lineage of early Mesopotamia through sacred history, temple culture, ritual arts, and the restoration of cultural memory.
Centered around the ancient lunar temple associated with Nanna/Sîn, once housed at Harran (now in southeastern Türkiye), the project investigated how early Near Eastern civilizations approached devotion, cosmic order, ritual practice, sound, beauty, and the relationship between sacred space and human life.
Ehulhul serves as a creative archive and a contemplative inquiry into the spiritual foundations that later shaped the desert traditions of the Middle East. I wanted to re-imagine a beloved early temple space in the modern digital realm—not as a place for ongoing ritual, but like many real ancient shrines, a quiet space where people could enter and contemplate.

An exploration of Silk Road healing and migratory sound

Field notes, research, and historical exploration surrounding Turkish Music Therapy, Silk Road sound traditions, Ottoman makam, and the teachings of Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç.
This project emerged from my long-term study of sacred sound, migratory wisdom traditions, nervous system regulation, and historical therapeutic music practices across Central Asia, Anatolia, and the broader Islamic world.
Much of the work focuses on helping modern audiences orient themselves within these traditions historically, philosophically, and somatically — especially where older lineages and contemporary technologies of transmission intersect.

Meditations at the crossroads of Kabbalah and Sufism

This nascent podcast and multimedia project explores shared spiritual, musical, and mystical landscapes of Jewish and Islamic traditions across the medieval Middle East, North Africa, Anatolia, and the Silk Road.
Through history, poetry, sacred sound, devotional philosophy, and migratory wisdom traditions, the Jewish Sufi Pilgrim traces the places where Jewish mystics, Sufi seekers, musicians, and contemplative communities shaped one another across centuries of shared cultural life.
Topics include:
● Jewish–Sufi mystical parallels,● sacred sound and devotional music,● pilgrimage and sacred geography,● Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Persian traditions,● Silk Road transmission,● contemplative practice, and● the movement of wisdom across cultures and generations.
The project serves as both a public educational archive and an ongoing exploration of what it means to walk a path of devotion across inherited boundaries.

An English-language doorway into Turkish Music Therapy

An educational platform and public orientation space devoted to Turkish Music Therapy, Ottoman makam traditions, sacred sound, and historical therapeutic music practices across the Silk Road world.
This simple project was created in response to a major gap within the field: despite growing international interest in Turkish Music Therapy, no introductory English-language public-facing platform existed that clearly introduced the historical foundations, philosophical context, therapeutic frameworks, and transmission lineages underlying the work itself.
The site serves as an accessible gateway into traditions associated with Ottoman music therapy, Central Asian sound practices, Rahmi Oruç Güvenç’s lineage, sacred listening, nervous system regulation, and embodied therapeutic sound.

Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç remembrance and English gateway

This simple project is a devotional archive and English-language gateway dedicated to the life, teachings, music, and transmission lineage of Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç — the most prominent proponent of the Turkish Music Therapy method, who is known affectionately to many students simply as “Oruç Baba.”
While extensive material about Oruç Baba already exists in Turkish, this project was created to help provide an accessible doorway for English-speaking audiences seeking orientation to his work, philosophy, musical traditions, and therapeutic approach to sacred sound.
The archive includes translations, historical context, commentary, educational resources, and preservation work surrounding Baba’s teachings on makam, sound, movement, breath, spiritual development, and embodied healing traditions rooted in Central Asian and Ottoman musical culture.

Reflections on the tradition of Semitic love mysticism

This developing multimedia project explores Maryam Magdalene within her original Jewish and Semitic world through devotional reflection, sacred sound, contemplative practice, and visionary storytelling.
The project approaches Maryam not primarily through later Western religious frameworks, but through the landscapes, languages, spiritual imagination, and heart-centered devotional traditions of the ancient Near East.
Through essays, chant, audio teaching, and artistic transmission, Magdalene Midrash explores themes of feminine wisdom, prophetic love, embodied devotion, mystical perception, and relational encounter with the Divine.
At its center is a simple orientation: Wisdom must not only be studied. It must be lived, felt, embodied, and loved.