Shem Center friends,

Neil Douglas-Klotz, a friend and colleague of mine for many years offers us an opportunity to experience his research and wisdom regarding the words of Jesus in his own Aarmaic language. His words found in ancient texts offer us new understanding of his teachings familiar to us from Greek and Latin scriptural texts. Please join us by registering for the dates it is offered. This free opportunity is his gift to us, the followers of the teachings of Jesus.  

— Joseph Kilikevice, OP, Shem Center Founding Director

A Free Video Event With Teacher and Scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD

Receive Yeshua’s Teachings to Resurrect Your Heart & Your Divine Human Potential

Rediscover the original Aramaic words of Jesus’ most intimate and final teachings as a path to awakening the consciousness he embodied — and exude the love, wisdom, and interconnectedness he lived to ignite within you.

What if the teachings Jesus shared in his final days weren’t meant to create worshipers, but to awaken his closest students — and YOU — to the same divine consciousness he carried?

Join us for an illuminating event in which renowned scholar of Middle Eastern spirituality and the ancient Semitic languages Neil Douglas-Klotz will open the doorway into Yeshua’s final and most intimate teachings…

… which he entrusted only to his closest students, preparing them to embody his wisdom once he was no longer physically with them.

Based on Yeshua’s original Aramaic words, Neil will reveal a living heart-centered transmission that’s been obscured for centuries by mistranslation, doctrine, and distortion.

You’ll explore how Yeshua spoke to his inner circle — not as followers, but as equals in awakening — guiding them to recognize the divine breath within themselves and to live from the same field of love, clarity, and interconnectedness he embodied.

As Neil brings these teachings to life through chant, story, and breath, you’ll begin to begin to appreciate what Jesus intended all along…

… not belief, but embodiment; not worship, but the remembrance of your own sacred identity; not separation, but the realization that the divine “I” Yeshua spoke from lives in you, too.

About the Workshop

In this illuminating event, you’ll:

• Experience an Aramaic chant and meditation that reawakens your heart awareness and renews your capacity for love and inner clarity.
• Learn about the alternative Jesus traditions that flourished outside the Roman Empire — communities that preserved a spirituality of connection long after dogma took hold
• Release the inherited weight of mistranslations and rigid teachings, and rediscover the empowerment Yeshua’s words were always meant to offer
• Get a firsthand glimpse of what Yeshua’s “I AM” sayings truly reveal— not about one man’s divinity, but about your own living connection to the Source
• Explore how Yeshua’s direct transmission of spirit and breath links us to a lineage of mystics, from the “burning bush” of Moses to Sufi and Christian saints who carried his heart forward

What People Are Saying About Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD

For more than 40 years, Neil Douglas-Klotz has been exploring the mysteries of the Syriac and Aramaic languages to better understand what Yeshua wanted, and still wants, to tell us. This patient work is not in vain — it is necessary to bring us closer to this presence and this teaching, which enlightens us, awakens us, heals us, and saves us. Neil is not only a scholar but also a man of the desert, where the breath and energy of the words join the prayer of the sands to trace a path in the heart of what remains without path.
— Jean-Yves Leloup, author of The Gospel of Thomas: The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus and The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Without this work, I would have missed the opening for a spiritual life, which I had given up, and the sense for inner guidance which I did not know in my life before. And I found Jesus as a friend, being with me, very alive. I love the breathing practices. They are guiding me beyond the understanding of the words and helping me to find that place of simple presence that I have missed in my life before.
— Gritta, Germany

The beautiful part of practicing the Aramaic prayers and body prayers is that I feel them in the heart and body. Somehow (more than I can understand), the sung words resonate and bring healing to the inner child within. With them and in them I AM whole. As I take responsibility to repent and return to my heart, I travel through all the trauma my body remembers and stores. Love’s living vibration brings healing and allows the duality of my life to be knit back together from within. I tremble in the body but the heart cries out “Freedom!!”
— James, Canada