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Meditations on the
Aramaic Words of Jesus
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A pioneering book in the movement to recover the wisdom of Jesus as a Native Middle Eastern person. The Lord's Prayer and Beatitudes in new, multi-layered interpretive translations, from the native language of Jesus.
Reviews of Prayers of the Cosmos by Neil Douglas-Klotz
"This book compares with the Dead Seal Scrolls and Elaine Pagels' Gnostic Gospels in its revolutionary presentation of Jesus' most beloved utterances--and it goes beyond them in making the material experiential. Here we find a Lord's Prayer and Beatitudes that call even the most agnostic of ecofeminists and deep ecologists to reverence--and to a glad reconnection with forgotten roots of our shared culture. For the many of us who want to peel away centuries of dualistic, patriarchal forms and recover the life-affirming beauty of our Christian roots, nothing could be more welcome than this exquisite little volume. Breath a sigh of relief as you open Prayers of the Cosmos! It is high time we reclaimed the ecstatic love of creation that is at the heart of Jesus' mission and message.
--Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self and Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age" Reader beware: this book contains the seeds of a revolution! Prayers of the Cosmos embraces, surprises, grounds, challenges. It opens our hearts to cosmology once again--as Jesus was open to cosmology and all native persons are open to cosmology. It allows the mysticism of our scriptural heritage to move us once again. Maybe even to transform us. It welcome this book and the rich fruit it is sure to bear."
--from the Foreward by Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing and Sheer Joy!"[Prayers of the Cosmos] holds the power to lull the angel with the flaming sword to sleep and sneak us back into paradise..."--physicist/ cosmologist Brian Swimme, author of The Universe is a Green Dragon and The Universe Story
"A new world view is emerging today to such an extent that the United Nations has proclaimed 1993 International Year for the World's Indigenous People, not only to defend their rights, but also to listen to their views, so much closer to nature than those of western humanity. Perhaps the time has come to turn similarly to the ancient texts of the world's religions in order to determine what their etymology had to say about the early perceptions of the mysteries of Creation and of human meaning and fate on this planet. This book by Neil Douglas-Klotz opens up this new field in which linguists should be given the first voice."
--Robert Muller, Chancellor, U.N. University for Peace, Costa Rica"For women who have too long felt the alienation of the western Christian tradition, this work comes as a refreshing source of meditation--it is inclusive and nurturing. My woman-spirit rejoices in Prayers of the Cosmos! For people of all faiths and no faith--it is like mother's milk and father's tenderness to the the children of the earth.
--Marlene DeNardo, Eco-Feminist Program Faculty, Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality
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