Episode Description
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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HINENI: Conversations on the Path of Desert Devotion is the podcast of Return to the Desert, exploring the wisdom of the Divine Mother in Her original desert world, and the many spiritual and mystical traditions that guide us back to Her heart.