Aramaic Lord's Prayer

A Healing Journey with the Aramaic Lord's Prayer: Reclaiming the Mysticism of Jesus through His Native Language by Elizabeth A. Reed co-created with Neil Douglas-Klotz [ Course Reviews ] (Audio Message from Course Instructor)

Course Description

You are invited on a journey of healing with the Aramaic Lord's Prayer. Become a channel of Divine love, joy, delight, healing, and peace by embracing the prayer of Jesus, as if for the first time.

Growing up, many of you learned and recited the Lord's Prayer in church or at bedtime, saying something like this.


This is only one translation of Jesus' words, a translation based on Greek manuscripts which were translated over the centuries from one language into another -- into Latin, German, and then into various forms of the English language. However, Jesus did not teach in Greek, Latin, German, or English. He spoke and taught in Aramaic. In the Temple, he would have spoken Hebrew - a sister language to Aramaic, which was the more formal language for the Temple.

You now have the opportunity to return to Jesus' original language and original style of prayer. See what new meanings await your life.

Who is best served by this e-course?

You will be well served by this course if you are...

• Interested in Christian mysticism.
• Open to different meanings, understandings, spiritual practices, and life energy inspired by this prayer in its original form.
• Interested in learning a wide array of body prayers. Body prayers are an ancient form of spiritual practice utilized by many spiritual traditions.

Course Objectives
This course delves deeply into the Aramaic Lord's Prayer from a native Middle Eastern point of view. Each lesson focuses on a single line of the prayer breaking down the words, syllables and meanings.

• Learn and hear the rich sound and word meanings from Jesus' native language, Aramaic.
• Understand and experience your connection with the One Being, with Sacred Unity that is at the heart of all world religions and spiritual expressions.
• Experience body prayers that connect you with spiritual practices of Middle Eastern mystics and prophets of long ago. (As a reference point, recall times when you've seen orthodox Jews pray with a rocking motion, Muslims either rocking or swaying or prostrating themselves while reciting prayers, or Native or indigenous peoples dancing in scripted dances or open ecstatic movements. All of these are contemporary expressions of the ancient practice of body prayers.)

Ancient world-views did not see the body, mind, or emotions as separate aspects of being. Everything was one being; there were no distinct "parts." But we now find ourselves turning to wholistic practitioners in an attempt to reconnect these parts. Open your heart and mind to hear and receive the gift of this ancient prayer anew and be guided towards wholeness.


           


20 Lessons
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Recommended Course Pace: weekly receipt of lessons

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Special Course Features

• Web tool featuring different versions of the Lord's Prayer
• Printable reference guide
• Audio of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic
• Body Prayers
• Article, Book, CD, Web site recommendations

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Why e-learning?

Reportedly, e-learning results in a higher rate of information retention - with students demonstrating a 60% faster learning curve than those in instructor led classes. And, in contrast to a Web seminar, teleconference, or traditional class, our lesson delivery suits your lifestyle and schedule!


About the Instructors

Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D. is an international author in religious studies and somatic psychology. He is a senior teacher in a Western branch of Sufism and founder of the International Network of the Dances of Universal Peace. For ten years, he taught on the faculty of Matthew Fox's Institute for Culture and Creation Centered Spirituality. Currently residing in Edinburgh, Scotland, he co-directs the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning. He has authored Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus, Desert Wisdom, The Hidden Gospel, The Genesis Meditations: A Shared Practice of Peace for Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and The Sufi Book of Life: Meditations for the Modern Dervish. His web site is www.abwoon.com.

The Rev. Elizabeth A. Reed, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor in private practice and directs the non-profit Shalem Center in Ohio, dedicated to wholistic healing and growth of individuals and organizations. Over the past seven years, Shalem Center has developed a partnership with Douglas-Klotz' Abwoon Study Circle, supporting its work in North America. Elizabeth is an ordained minister in a mainstream denomination as well as within a Western Sufi path. She has published a number of articles in religious journals, many focusing inclusive language concerns and psychological issues for women in the church. A lifelong spiritual seeker, she has found great meaning through studies with Dr. Douglas-Klotz and wrote this course at his suggestion and with his collaboration. Her site is www.shalemcenter.org. She is the creator and instructor of these Self-Healing Expressions eCourses: Breathing with the Divine Breath: Deep Inner Healing in The Beatitude Way co-created with Neil Douglas-Klotz, and A Healing Journey with the Aramaic Lord's Prayer: Reclaiming the Mysticism of Jesus through His Native Language co-created with Neil Douglas-Klotz.