This isn't an invitation to find your own way into the 99 Names of Allah. The Names are mine — the fixed point I happened to be given, the tradition I stand inside. For my own practice, I lean on Physicians of the Heart by Wali Ali Meyer, Bilal Hyde, Faisal Muqaddam, and Shabda Kahn for how I come to understand what each Name actually means.
But the method underneath it travels further than the Names ever could. Take something you already love completely, without justifying it — a special interest, a fascination, an obsession, gaming, Gundam, gardening, anything — and let it sit next to whatever you hold sacred or significant in your own life. A faith tradition, maybe. Maybe not. Notice where they touch, if they do. The noticing is the practice. You don't need to have found the connection yet.
You can see it already happening if you read through the archive's comments — people writing in from their own blogs, their own songs, their own reference points entirely, and finding they'd landed somewhere near mine. I never asked for that. It just kept happening, one comment at a time. This page is just a clearer door for it.