On Human Belonging

The following podcast is an excerpt reading from The Song of the Human Heart: Dawn of the Dark Feminine in Islam paired with audio recording from the Aniwa Gathering 2022, recorded and shared with permission from the Yawanawa tribe. Aniwa is an annual gathering of 40 indigenous leaders from around the world. “We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments

It’s said that if you want to communicate anything effectively, you should be able to explain it to a child. So much about how I write and communicate is rooted in that lesson, given that I taught little humans for years before moving toward cultivating discussions around faith. In these new spaces I move in now where very sober conversations are had about faith and identity, whenever I hear any pairing of children and stories it’s always some boorish comment about how religion is little more than a