Zvi Ish-Shalom, PhD, is a modern mystic, teacher, and guide whose work bridges contemplative depth with embodied human life. He has worked with thousands of people worldwide over the past three decades, facilitating direct experiences of awakening, healing, and the activation of dormant capacities within human consciousness. 

Zvi serves as a bridge from the Primordial Light realm — the sourceless source of the deepest cosmic love. He is here to share teachings and cosmic frequencies that are designed specifically for this time in human and planetary life. He is the vehicle for the Primordial Light Codes — a series of energetic transmissions first shared in 2020, through which distinct frequencies of primordial light have been reaching people worldwide. You can experience the Light Codes at lightcodes.org.

Zvi's background is unusually broad: he is a former Hasidic rabbi who was ordained by the leading kabbalists and scholars of the pre-WW2 generation. He is also a former ordained Diamond Approach teacher, certified Rolfer, and a lifelong practitioner of somatic disciplines including yoga and Tai Chi — a rare convergence of spiritual, psychological, and somatic lineages in a single person. 

Zvi's work is grounded in rigorous scholarship. He holds a degree in Classics from McGill University and a PhD in Jewish Mysticism from Brandeis University. His peer-reviewed academic book, Sleep, Death, and Rebirth: Mystical Practices of Lurianic Kabbalah, hailed as a “tour de force” by AJL News and Reviews, is widely regarded as the seminal scholarly study of reincarnation and contemplative practice in Kabbalah. 

For the past two decades, Zvi has been a core faculty member at Naropa University, where he teaches courses on mystical experience, world religion, Kabbalah, and consciousness. He is also the founder of Kedumah — the Primordial Torah — a universal path of awakening that refracts the Primordial Light realm through ancient Hebrew mysticism. These teachings are outlined in his books The Kedumah Experience: The Primordial Torah and The Path of Primordial Light: Ancient Wisdom for the Here and Now. These books have been endorsed by Father Thomas Keating, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Richard Schwartz, Jack Kornfield, and others.

Zvi is the founder of the Soulship, a collective vehicle of presence that he created to hold the Primordial Light teachings on the earth plane, which he has been guiding for the past decade. He also leads ongoing specialized programs for international business leaders and people in positions of influence, bringing spiritual depth into the rooms where decisions shape the world.