Explore astral wisdom, mystical ascent, divine encounter, sacred sound, and embodied gnōsis in this beautifully illustrated guide to the strange celestial worlds of the desert traditions.
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Human beings have always been travelers.
But some of our strangest journeys were not across the Earth.
They were into the heavens.
What you'll DISCOVER
For thousands of years, people across Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant, Arabia, and surrounding desert worlds watched the skies, mapped the heavens, encountered divine beings, and told extraordinary stories about humans crossing the boundary between Earth and the celestial realms.
All Roads Lead Up is an invitation to explore those worlds without requiring you to decide in advance exactly what they were experiencing.
- Lisa Moriah,
House of Divine Radiance
Discover the star-filled cosmologies of the ancient desert world, from Mesopotamian astral religion and celestial maps to the heavens imagined within Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, and Islamic traditions.
Meet the extraordinary traditions of mystical ascent: celestial gates, angelic guides, divine throne rooms, secret names, heavenly journeys, and the travelers who claimed to cross from this world into another.
Explore what happens when the boundary moves in the other direction: angels descend, gods speak, visions erupt, prophets receive messages, and human beings find themselves unexpectedly face-to-face with the sacred.
Follow the role of sacred sound, chanting, movement, ritual, pilgrimage, and embodied gnōsis in preparing the human being for encounter, including the strange possibility that the road into the cosmos begins inside the body itself.