Pilgrims of the Heavenlies

HINENI Podcast has taken a turn upward...

What happens when a pilgrimage through the ancient deserts leads you somewhere unexpected: into the heavens?

After years of traveling through Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Sinai, and Egypt, I've come to recognize a fascinating thread connecting the traditions I've been studying and practicing: astral wisdom, ascent mysticism, and divine encounter.

From the lunar priestesses of ancient Ur to Enoch's heavenly journeys, from Jewish throne mysticism to the celestial mysteries of early Christianity and the Prophet Muhammad's Night Journey, the ancient desert world was filled with people who looked toward the heavens and wondered whether human beings could enter them.

Who were these extraordinary travelers? What did they believe existed beyond the visible world? How did they prepare for encounters with divine beings? And what might their experiences reveal about the relationship between humanity and the cosmos?

In this opening episode of Pilgrims of the Heavenlies, I share the personal pilgrimage that brought me to these questions, introduce some of the remarkable people and traditions we'll encounter along the way, and explain why I've come to believe that the ancient heavens still have something extraordinary to teach us.

Our journey begins where mine did: in the desert.

From the sand to the stars.

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✦ EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:

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✦ ABOUT HOUSE OF DIVINE RADIANCE

House of Divine Radiance is a sanctuary between earth and heaven, exploring the curious cosmologies of the desert traditions—including astral wisdom, ascent mysticism, and narratives of divine encounter.

Founded by Lisa Moriah, the House weaves together scholarship, imaginative world-building, and embodied experience. Come explore the ancient and living relationships between the human and divine worlds.

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✦ From the sand to the stars… and back again.

Four Strands of Living Wisdom

What does it actually mean to live by Embodied Gnōsis?

In this episode of HINENI, Lisa Moriah explores four interwoven strands that help turn inner knowing into Living Wisdom: Deep Listening, Historical Inquiry, Creative Synthesis, and Lived Practice.

Rather than treating gnōsis as every intuition, impulse, or mysterious thought that crosses our minds, we explore a way of knowing that can be both tender and sensitive, yet tensile and rigorous.

Deep Listening teaches us to hear. Historical Inquiry brings us into honest relationship with our ancestral wisdom streams. Creative Synthesis asks what happens when ancient wisdom encounters our lives now. And Lived Practice gives that meeting a body.

These aren't four steps to follow in order. They're threads on a loom, continually crossing, testing, and strengthening one another as practice sends us back into listening again.

Along the way, we meet HaOreget, the Sacred Weaver, an image of the Divine Feminine who works with the strands of Reality not by erasing their differences, but by drawing them into relationship.

What might happen if we approached our own spiritual lives in the same way?

Not collapsing. Not choosing one strand over another.

Weaving.

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Continue through Wisdom’s Gate…

🎙 Episode transcripts + House of Divine Radiance:

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✍️ Research, reflection + revelation at Magdalene Merkabah:

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“There is another gate into the biblical sacred world. Her name is Wisdom.”

Three Spirit Guides to Awaken Your Embodied Gnōsis

What if the Divine Feminine meets us not in one form, but three?

In this episode of HINENI, Lisa Moriah explores a feminine “Holy Family” drawn from ancient Jewish Apocalyptic and Gnostic Christian wisdom traditions:

• Parthenos, also Betulah, the fertile Silence from which all things emerge;
• Chochmah, also Living Wisdom, who descends, speaks, and calls to us; and
• Maryam Magdalene, who offers an image of Wisdom embodied in a fully human life.

Along the way, we encounter the Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Mary, Pistis Sophia, Proverbs, and the forgotten Divine Feminine traditions of ancient Israel, asking what these ancient texts might reveal about awakening our own Embodied Gnōsis.

The episode closes by moving from inquiry into practice, with a simple devotional chant:

בתולה · חכמה · מרים ... היא אחת · והנני עמה

Betulah, Khokh-mah, Mar-yam... Hi E-khat. V’hineni Imah.
The Virgin, Living Wisdom, Maryam… She is One. And I am here with Her.

An invitation into Silence, Wisdom, devotion, and the living stream within.

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Continue through Wisdom’s Gate…

🎙 Episode transcripts + House of Divine Radiance:

https://houseofdivineradiance.com/podcast

✍️ Research, reflection + revelation at Magdalene Merkabah:

https://magdalenemerkabah.substack.com

🎥 House of Divine Radiance YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@houseofdivineradiance

🪔 More ways to explore Living Wisdom:

https://linktr.ee/enterhergate

“There is another gate into the biblical sacred world. Her name is Wisdom.”

The Ancient Practice of HINENI

What does it mean to become fully human?

In this inaugural episode of HINENI: Conversations on the Path of Desert Devotion, Lisa Moriah explores one of the Hebrew Bible’s most powerful responses to that question: the Hebrew word hineni—“Here I am.”

Rather than understanding hineni as simply a statement of physical presence, we consider it as a posture of undivided awareness: a way of inhabiting our lives with openness, attentiveness, and wholehearted presence before God, ourselves, and one another.

Drawing from the stories of the prophet Isaiah and the Christian Testament's Maryam Magdalene, we explore how this ancient practice echoes across Jewish apocalyptic wisdom, early Gnostic Christian traditions, and the contemplative path.

The episode concludes with a guided meditation using the sound of the Turkish ney, inviting listeners to experience Hineni not merely as an idea, but as an embodied way of being.

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Continue through Wisdom’s Gate…

🎙 Episode transcripts + House of Divine Radiance:

https://houseofdivineradiance.com/podcast

✍️ Research, reflection + revelation at Magdalene Merkabah:

https://magdalenemerkabah.substack.com

🎥 House of Divine Radiance YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@houseofdivineradiance

🪔 More ways to explore Living Wisdom:

https://linktr.ee/enterhergate

“There is another gate into the biblical sacred world. Her name is Wisdom.”

From the Sand to the Stars...

Pilgrims of the Heavenlies - A Podcast About Celestial Journeyers

What happens when a pilgrimage through the ancient deserts leads you somewhere unexpected: into the heavens?

After years of traveling through Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Sinai, and Egypt, I've come to recognize a fascinating thread connecting the traditions I've been studying and practicing: astral wisdom, ascent mysticism, and divine encounter.

From the lunar priestesses of ancient Ur to Enoch's heavenly journeys, from Jewish throne mysticism to the celestial mysteries of early Christianity and the Prophet Muhammad's Night Journey, the ancient desert world was filled with people who looked toward the heavens and wondered whether human beings could enter them.

Who were these extraordinary travelers? What did they believe existed beyond the visible world? How did they prepare for encounters with divine beings? And what might their experiences reveal about the relationship between humanity and the cosmos?

In this opening episode of Pilgrims of the Heavenlies, I share the personal pilgrimage that brought me to these questions, introduce some of the remarkable people and traditions we'll encounter along the way, and explain why I've come to believe that the ancient heavens still have something extraordinary to teach us.

Our journey begins where mine did: in the desert.

From the sand to the stars.