Humanity is a Chorus and the Earth is Ready for a New Song.
with Shireen Qudosi
As an immigrant over and over again across three continents, I lived the themes coloring our cultural landscape today: migration, radicalization, and adaptation across seismic cultural shifts. But my most important journey — our most important journey — is the journey within.
The wilderness of my heart brought an awakening to mysticism. In 2022, I took off the last of the mask of all my identities and embraced my gift as a mystic. I also left the normal career path, divided between being a “professional” despite the fact that there were days where I would receive revelations for upwards of hours while also trying to be present to a normal job. Eventually, I was forced to choose between the world of the mundane and the world that was calling to me, the world of the sacred. I chose the sacred. What you read in my Substack is an expression of that gift.
Initially, I started my Substack focusing only on radicalization and extremism. I coin radicalization as the belief that there is only one way to be and belong in the world; extremism is the use of physical and psychological force to ensure that singular worldview.
Yet, in 2019 I grew deeply concerned about the new eruptions of extremism and saw identity politics a gateway drug to radicalization. The following year, alarmed by normalization and acceleration of radicalization, I shed the skin of my own identity markers by choosing to no longer self-identify based on race, ethnicity, faith, or political ideologies. I began taking off the mask, piece by piece, layer by layer.
In 2021, I formed The Foundation for Human Belonging, which works with organizations, communities and institutions, fostering tolerance and resiliency against radicalization and extremism. I paced myself on that project, wanting to be thoughtful and intentional about what is being offered. It’s a project I welcome collaboration and partners on.
All the while, I’m also working on my book, The Song of the Human Heart, which is the culmination of 22-year journey ushered toward becoming a devotee of the Mystery — which many call the Holy Spirit, or divine revelations.
In the summer of 2022, I let go of the last attachment to a normal career path and dedicated myself to the path of the divine. Two years ago on my 40th birthday, I had a powerful channeling experience at a dinner table full of people. It lasted three days. Those experiences and abilities have grown. For so many years, it would be dreams or knowing things — stunning dreams that only now really are understood, and small knowings of things that would happen which I called a “future memory.”
It’s become something more, something that’s still arriving and happening. Some sort of revelations, Spirit, the Mystery, channeling, guides… all of it. It changes, but it is with me with the slightest breeze and I have to be fully present to receive it, work with it, and offer it outwards to all of you.
Today, I practice moving beyond polarity and offer a new model of conscious leadership rooted in the sacred feminine, in dignity and the interdependence of all life on earth.
About Me
I write on faith, identity and belonging. I look at issues from radicalization to childhood through the lens of the sacred feminine, through the heart-field. My story is a winding 42-year journey across literal and figurative landscapes, as a daughter of refugees across three continents, and as an explorer in the wilderness of the heart.
For more, visit https://www.shireenqudosi.com