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 gnōsis from the ancient traditions of the desert

The House of Divine Radiance is a sanctuary for Embodied Gnōsis under the patronage of Maryam Magdalene. The space hosts spiritual exploration rooted in Jewish apocalyptic wisdom, early Christian and Gnostic traditions, and Israelite Temple mysticism.
Through sacred text, ritual, sound, movement, contemplative practice, and creative expression, the House explores wisdom not simply as something to be studied, but as something encountered, embodied, and lived.
At the heart of this work is an ancient understanding of Wisdom as a living presence available for relationship. Known in Hebrew / Aramaic as Chokhmah, or in Greek / Coptic as Sophia, She is the luminous feminine voice who calls the human being toward remembrance, transformation, and undivided presence.
Two core research specialities particularly inform the House’s offerings and events: ascent mysticism, the ancient tradition of heavenly pilgrimage, and the forgotten matrilineal streams surrounding the Jesus movement. These include women such as the second-century Marcellina, a Gnostic teacher who established her own ekklesia in Rome and claimed Jesus's women disciples as her apostolic forebearers.
The House brings together a decade of my work in sacred arts, spiritual education, ritual, scholarship, and wisdom transmission. It also opens a new chapter of this work, one devoted to recovering ancient pathways of embodied knowing within and for contemporary life.

Exploring the forgotten cosmologies of heavenly ascent

Magdalene Merkabah is a research and writing project exploring the ancient worlds of heavenly ascent, Jewish apocalypticism, early Christianity, and Gnostic cosmology through the figure of Maryam Magdalene.
Beginning with Maryam as an ascent mystic in the Gospel of Mary, the project traces the cosmologies, heavenly journeys, gates, powers, mysteries, and transformative practices that surround early Jewish and Christian understandings of the human journey toward the Divine.
Its research moves across interconnected wisdom streams, from Mesopotamian and Enochic cosmologies to Jewish apocalyptic and Merkabah traditions, the Gnostic Christianities of Egypt, and extraordinary ascent texts such as Pistis Sophia and the Books of Jeu.
Through historically grounded essays, textual exploration, sacred practice, and embodied gnōsis, Magdalene Merkabah asks what these forgotten maps of the heavens reveal about the ancient quest to become fully human, and what they might still disclose to us today.
At its center stands Maryam Magdalene: not simply as disciple, apostle, or beloved, but as visionary, revealer, and traveler through the worlds beyond the world.

Conversations on the Path of Embodied Gnōsis

HINENI is a podcast exploring Embodied Gnōsis: the ancient understanding that wisdom is not merely something we know, but something we become.
Drawing from Jewish apocalyptic wisdom, early Christian and Gnostic traditions, desert mysticism, sacred sound, and contemplative practice, each episode explores what these ancient wisdom streams might reveal about the experience of becoming fully and consciously human.
Along the way, HINENI moves between scholarship and lived experience: ancient texts and contemporary questions, cosmology and the body, sacred practice and ordinary life. Some episodes journey deeply into forgotten traditions; others begin with a single question, practice, story, or conversation and follow where it leads.
The name comes from the ancient Hebrew response הנני hineni: Here I am. More than a statement of physical presence, it is an answer to a call, an offering of one's undivided presence to what is being asked in this moment.
At its center is a question both ancient and immediate:
What might become possible when we learn to say, with our whole being: Hineni. Here I am?

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.