The marketplace always stuck out to me as a very important image in both Sufi oral histories as well as writing. It symbolized for me all the complexities of daily life. There are goods to be bought and sold and a myriad of transactions going on at every moment. In many ways the marketplace symbolizes…
Talk with Dr. Yannis Toussulis Author of Sufism and the Way of Blame: Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology. By David Paquiot & Dr. Yannis Toussulis (Read Part 1& Part 2) _________ Murshid Mehmet Selim Bey says in your interview with him that “It is imperative that mystics of the world’s religion come together in dialogue…
Dr. Yannis Toussulis and I ‘sat down’ Spring 2011 for this following interview. I would like to take a moment to thank him firstly for taking time from his daily affairs to do this, and more importantly for the painstaking effort he has taken to write Sufism and the Way of Blame. I’m not alone…
Aluna The Movie Trailer Aluna Trailer from Alan Ereira on Vimeo. ALUNA is being made by and with the KOGI, a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast. The Kogi say that without thought, nothing could…
This article was Written by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee PhD is a Sufi teacher who has written many books, His latest work focuses on mysticism & spiritual responsibility in the context of ecological crisis & cultural transition. It originally appeared here ________________ On Spiritual Ecology Part 2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a lament for the loss of a whole inner world. EB: Thomas Berry…
This article was Written by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee PhD is a Sufi teacher who has written many books, His latest work focuses on mysticism & spiritual responsibility in the context of ecological crisis & cultural transition. It originally appeared here ________________ Part 1 Ecobuddhism: ’Spiritual Ecology’ is a concept you have put forward that we also find very relevant. Could you…
