Temple of the Human Heart

In this week's Temple session, we explore The Great Forgetting—the moment we become separated from ourselves.Through trauma, expectations, rejection, religion, family systems, and the need for acceptance, many of us learn who we must become to survive. Over time, the masks, roles, and responsibilities can become so familiar that we forget who we are beneath them.Using the story of the Prodigal Son and the wisdom of the Gospel of Thomas, this message invites us to consider a different possibility:What if the greatest human problem is not that we are broken?What if we have simply forgotten?Join Yisra'el Apriale as we explore remembrance, identity, self-worth, and the journey back to the kingdom within.Seek first the kingdom within. As you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.Temple of the Human Heart — Season One: Awakening and Return.

Why does the Temple of the Human Heart exist?In this deeply personal episode, Yisra'el Apriale shares the story behind the Temple, the wilderness journey that followed leaving religion, and the awakening that emerged from more than 25 years of questioning, studying, searching, and returning.Together we explore the foundational scriptures that guide this work, including "The Kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21), "Seek first the kingdom" (Matthew 6:33), and the powerful moment when the prodigal son "came to himself" (Luke 15:17).This is a conversation about awakening, remembrance, Sophia, Christ, spiritual transformation, and the journey back to the self. If you have ever questioned what you were taught, felt lost in the wilderness, or sensed there was something more waiting within you, this message is for you.Seek the kingdom within, and as you return to yourself, what was fragmented begins to gather again.Temple of the Human Heart with Yisra'el Apriale.

In this Temple session, we explore a different perspective on divine timing, identity, and restoration. What if divine timing is not about waiting on God, but about becoming the version of yourself capable of holding what you have been asking for? We journey through Matthew 6:33, Romans 12:2, and the story of Job through a Temple lens, uncovering how fragmentation, survival patterns, and inherited identities can separate us from our authentic selves.Together we examine what it means to "seek first the kingdom within" and how returning to yourself allows what has been fragmented to begin gathering again. We explore Job not simply as a story of suffering and reward, but as a story of awakening — moving from hearing to seeing, from borrowed understanding to lived truth.If you have ever felt delayed, stuck, disconnected, or as though life was happening to you rather than through you, this session is an invitation to pause and ask a deeper question: Who am I becoming while I wait?Because perhaps what you're waiting for is also waiting for you.Temple of the Human HeartLove is the Doctrine. Compassion is the Practice. Awakening is the Work.Connect with the Temple:[email protected]

In this Temple session, Yisra’El Apriale explores the deeper spiritual meaning behind Luke 15:17 — “And when he came to himself.” Through the teachings of Christ, the Apocryphon of John, and Romans 12:2, this message examines how many people lose themselves through survival, conditioning, religion, trauma, and performance. This sermon is a call to awaken from false identity, reconnect with the authentic self, and understand the deeper meaning of “the kingdom within.” A reflective teaching on remembrance, transformation, and returning home spiritually, emotionally, and internally.

What if the thing you spent your entire life searching for was never outside of you to begin with?In this Temple of the Human Heart teaching, Yisra’el Apriale explores the connection between “Seek ye first the kingdom…” and “The kingdom of God is within you,” uncovering a deeper message about awakening, self-reconnection, and healing from spiritual disconnection. This is a conversation for anyone who has walked away from religion, questioned what they were taught, or felt exhausted by performance-based spirituality.Tonight’s message explores:returning to yourself after indoctrinationwhy many people feel spiritually disconnectedthe difference between fear and awakeningthe prodigal son as a story of returnreconnecting with the divine withinThis is not about perfection.It is about remembrance.Love is the doctrine.Compassion is the practice.Awakening is the work.Temple of the Human Heart

What happens after you walk away from religion?Not the polished version. Not the answers people give to pull you back in. The real experience—the silence, the questions, the uncertainty, and the unexpected realization that you don’t know where to stand anymore.In this first teaching from the Temple of the Human Heart, Yisra’el Apriale speaks directly to those who have stepped away from organized religion but are still searching for truth. This is not a call to return to systems that no longer feel aligned. It is an invitation to understand what that “something feels off” moment really was—and why it matters.Many of us were taught that questioning is dangerous. That doubt is a failure. That if something doesn’t feel right, the problem must be us. But what if that feeling wasn’t rebellion? What if it was awareness?This message explores the difference between God and what we were taught about God. Through reflection on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the lens of awakening found in both biblical and Gnostic traditions, this teaching begins to separate truth from conditioning. It gently challenges the idea that truth exists only outside of us and reintroduces the possibility that the first place truth speaks… is within.This is a space for those who have felt judged for asking questions. For those who were never given a safe place to explore their thoughts without correction. For those who walked away, not because they wanted to be lost—but because something in them knew there had to be more.The Temple of the Human Heart is not about performance, pressure, or perfection. It is about returning. Returning to your awareness. Returning to your voice. Returning to the part of you that was taught not to be trusted.In this message, you will:Understand why discomfort within religion is often a sign of awakening, not failureBegin to separate spiritual truth from learned conditioningExplore what it means to “return to yourself” as a spiritual pathBe introduced to a different way of engaging sacred texts—through awareness, not fearFind language for an experience many feel but struggle to explainThis is the beginning of a different kind of journey—one that does not ask you to abandon yourself in order to find truth, but invites you to come home to yourself as the starting point.If you are in the space between leaving and becoming… this message is for you.Join us every Sunday night as we continue the work of awakening—together.