The Song of the Human Heart

Shireen Qudosi
5 min readMar 28, 2022
Above: “I came from cultures of casual oppression. I used my experience to build a platform that scrutinizes radicalization: the narrow idea that there is only one way to be and belong in the world.”

“ The Song of the Human Heart is an invitation to the greatest exodus humanity has ever known. It is a constellation mapping the way back home to human belonging.” — Shireen Qudosi

The Song of the Human Heart is about a return to belonging and remembering the intimacy of what it means to be human. My book 20 years in the making, The Song of the Human Heart is a crafted storytelling that turns decades of lived experience into a constellation mapping the way back home to human belonging.

Human belonging is grounded in faith (the opus of a Great Intelligence), in identity (an expression of the symphony of the human soul), and in intimacy (the practice of heart-led knowing). The way back to authentic human belonging is through compassion (a recognition of love as the highest form of intelligence). Belonging is the salve for separation; it is humanity’s homecoming. Belonging is the godhead of faith and the signature of identity.

The Song of the Human Heart casts light on the architect of control: The Distortion. The Distortion keeps us from true belonging. The Distortion embeds infinitely self-propelling programs of control within belief systems. The Distortion has humanity imprisoned through a subversion of faith and identity. The Distortion is an entity that lives in the rot of separation. It has survived unseen for thousands of years by taking…

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Shireen Qudosi

I write on faith, identity, and belonging, focusing closely on the sacred feminine and cultivating intimacy with the profane.