Blessings of the Cosmos: Benedictions from the Aramaic Words of Jesus [With CD]

when I sat down with Hidden gospel, I was like, I know he can improve on this, but how.. well juimney Christmas.. he dunfangly did it. since reading Hidden.. my path has found yoga and meditation.. and cosmic is like da bomb.. i'm in the works at this point actually of integrating an aramaic/sanskrit kreya, or actually a few of them, based upon some of the ghems in here... why haven't you bought this already.. it's freakin amazin i tell ya.. (and no, i'm not a relative of Neil's)

I always return to this book to be inspired, amazed, and when I need to remind myself of my own humility, insignificance, and connection to the cosmos. Neil's poetic verse captures something substantial and solid. These waters are pristine, so drink deep. This wisdom may transport you somewhere else, it may transform the way you view the world. Klotz is one of the few men on the planet who I admire - not only for his creative insight - but for his far reaching authenticity. His words are visionary and meaningful interpretations of the Aramaic prayers of Jesus. You cannot go wrong with this book, my friends. It is a spiritual guide in times of darkness. Moreover, it awakens the imagination (a portal if you will) and throws you out of dogmatic sleep and binding chains into another place where surprise captures what is essentially human and unique in each of us.

This book reads like poetry. The meaning behind the words that Jesus spoke and are quoted in the Bible come to life when you hear them from his native tongue. With wonderful textual notes so that you get the full meaning of each word, these verses come to life with a whole new meaning. When I read this book I knew that this was the Jesus I knew in my heart. It just made so much more sense and touched my heart so deeply it was like the love song I have been waiting to hear. This book is a must for anyone wishing to hear the Truth of what Jesus was saying to us. An absolutely masterpiece!!

I very much enjoyed this book. Language is a reflection of how a group of people think and interact and this book brings out additional nuances to Jesus' teachings that led me to a deeper understanding -- always a good thing, to my way of thinking! If you like digging deeper into the meaning of things, you'll like this book, too.

Reading this book, and working with it, is like breathing in deeply out in my garden at twilight, when the flowers and leaves and soil are giving off the perfume they've been growing all day in the sun. Breathing in peace, breathing out conflict, quandries, decisions, worries, burdens. I first studied with Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz over a decade ago, and was astonished to find that there were actually other people besides me who worked deeply with the words we use so cavalierly most of the time. "Blessings of the Cosmos" follows in the tradition of "Prayers of the Cosmos" and "Desert Wisdom" (both also by Dr. Douglas-Klotz) in being a gentle, peaceful offering of the author's work with these words and phrases, which becomes soil in which my own spirituality may be planted, and grow, and flower. Neil Douglas-Klotz makes offerings, not fiats or pronouncements; he offers another way to look at words and phrases which, for many of us, have rather rigid interpretations that have been given to us, and repeated so often, that they are so familiar they might be the wall-paper in the hallway. As we read, and as we allow these offerings to wander around inside us, we may pick up the offering "as is" and use it, or we may find that this offering has stimulated the growth of something new, and completely personal to us, opening a door through which we may step into a more expansive relationship with all facets of the cosmos. Consider this way of looking at Matthew 11:28 which, in the KJV reads, "Come unto me, ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.": "Come to me, all of you, all of yourselves, in your frenzied weariness, your movement without end, your action without purpose, not caring in your fatigue whether you live or die. "Come enmeshed by what you carry, the cargo taken on by your soul, the burdens you thought you desired, which have constantly swollen and are now exhausting you. "Come like lovers to your first tryst. I will give you peace and renewal after constant stress: Your pendulum can pause between here and there, between being and not-being." Enriched by the discussion of the word-roots which follows, and the suggested meditations (available also on the included CD), this wording reaches me in places that I didn't know, or didn't remember, existed. It allows me to see things in my life, and labels for those things provided to me by other sources, in a different light, and leaves me openings to find new meanings that can feed my soul in this moment. And, I know from his previous books, that coming back to the work at another time will have the sa