For more than two thousand years, the Abrahamic faiths have known God in masculine terms. But is it possible our mutual spiritual ancestors worshipped a powerful Goddess?
As a shamanic priestess, somatic sound healer and spiritual coach, I offer my work in devotion to EL(OAH) SHADDAI, goddess of patriarchs and prophets.
The School of Divine Radiance is dedicated to reviving this mostly-forgotten fertility wisdom, and celebrating the Goddess in all Her powerful forms across the earliest civilizations. My intention is to help you anchor your own unique belief system and spiritual practice through this early wisdom.
Our honored ancestral guides are the EN priestesses of Ur in Sumer, of whom Sarah (Abraham's wife) may have been one.
Shlama שלמא سلام!
I'm so delighted you're here ... and I hope the resources available at School of Divine Radiance are a blessing to you as you seek to re-member your own spiritual path, with the inspiration of early wisdom.
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Before Judaism, Christianity or Islam existed, priestesses across Mesopotamia embodied the Goddess through ritual leadership, creative work and powerful voice.
In this 10-module mini-course, you'll meet these sacred ancestors, and experience the gifts they have to share with us, as we re-member Goddess in our birth religions and return with love to our earliest-recorded spiritual origins.
Join me live or online for:
Religious Herstory
Courses and workshops featuring comparative theology amongst Sumer and Akkad, early Israel and Anatolia, and later Abrahamic religious record. We re-read the Hebrew matriarchs as priestesses and the patriarchs as Goddess-worshippers.
Drum & Voice Healing
Private sessions, workshops and events featuring human voice and the ancient frame drum. These simple, powerful vibrations bring the human body vessel "into rhythm" with its own life purpose and activate greater creativity and fertility.
Inner Alchemy
Private coaching, workshops and events guiding women to embody the Goddess within and come into union with King energy (men, money, mission and the Divine Masculine) so they can experience a natural flow of wealth, health and love.
Her land speaks ...
Working with Shaddai has drawn me deep into spiritual archaeology and into a living relationship with ancient soil.
I practice amid the 5000-year-old ruins of Harran, in southeast Türkiye, which is Eloah Shaddai's home territory, the former home of Abraham and Sarah and site of a powerful temple where EN priestesses served.
Here, every stone has a story and the ground yields secrets to those who listen. Harran holds potent energetic medicine for fertility, sexual healing, wealth, sacred love and belovedness ... and the growth of our capacity to be, like Goddess, generous holders of paradox in an increasingly polarized world.
This is the ancient practice of shuv l'makom (שוב למקום) or "returning to the place."
מאל אביך ויעזרך ואת שדי יברכך ברכת שמים מעל ברכת תהום רבצת תחת ברכת שדים ורחם׃
The God[dess] of your father’s [house], who helps you
And Shaddai who blesses you
With blessings of heaven above
Blessings of the deep that couches below
Blessings of the breast and womb
~ Genesis 49:25
Wondering where to start?
If you are new to biblical Goddess study, Abrahamic shamanism or ancient Mesopotamian perspectives on feminine power ... the simplest place to start is with my 2023 book, SHADDAI: Goddess of the Abrahamic Covenant.
This systematic study examines every mention of Shaddai in the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament). It also answers questions like, "When did Goddess disappear from biblical tradition?" And "How can we begin to reclaim Goddess and shamanic practice in spirituality today?"
