Product Description

Reinterpreting the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, Douglas–Klotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ that reveals a mystical, feminist, cosmic Christ.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127209 in Books
• Published on: 1993-10-22
• Released on: 1993-10-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780060619954
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
Reinterpreting the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, Douglas-Klotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ that reveals a mystical, feminist, cosmic Christ.

About the Author
Neil Douglas-Klotz is on the faculty of the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA, and is founding director of the International Center for the Dances of Universal Peace. He has over a dozen years of experience teaching movement, music, voice, and body awareness all over the world.

Customer Reviews

The first, and still the best
I first purchased a copy of this book when was originally released in 1990/1991. Something about the cover caught my attention. After the first page, I fully agreed with the intro: "In your hands lies a revolution..."

Fourteen years later, I am still learning from this little paperback and have puchased and given as gifts several dozen copies.

I have read through some of the other books ("Setting A Trap for God," etc.), but in my mind, "Prayers of the Cosmos" is still the best. It is simple, direct, and free of the trappings of ego that seem to permeate so many of the other books.

My only "complaint" is that the prayers aren't available in CD, only audio cassette.

Makes my Heart Sing
Not being an Aramaic scholar, I cannot really comment on the alternative shades of meaning and translations contained in this book, but I can, without reservation, say reading through these words and using the body prayers makes my heart sing. After many months I go back again and again to this book when I want more expansive material for meditations. Expansive, yeah, that's exactly what it is!

A familiar prayer takes on --and gives-- new life!
Jesus' Prayer is so very familiar that it can become 'fixed' in our minds and hearts -- our old meanings, images and feelings might be rich, but may also limit the possibilities of the Spirit's ever creative prayer in us. The original Aramaic words of Jesus, and the poetry and commentaries in this book, help Jesus to "teach us to pray" anew, with fresh associations to every word. The author gives us access to a sweetness and power of this prayer that is truly too deep for words.