by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, September 2016
First published in Kosmos Journal
The sacred is all around us, woven with stories and starlight, in the rich texture of the soil, and in certain dreams that come on certain nights. Read More
by Barbara Sargent
of Kalliopeia Foundation
This is a transcript of a presentation on the importance of regular contemplative practice for the healing of the world. Read More
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, February 2017
First published in Common Ground
All of us want, or need, to be loved. The need for love is one of the most basic human impulses. Read More
by Anne Baring
Once upon a time, in a past so distant that we have no memory of it, the invisible and visible dimensions of life were imagined and instinctively experienced as a sacred unity. Read More
by Anne Baring
This essay, under the name “Who are we and why are we here?”, was originally published in A New Renaissance: Transforming Science, Spirit, and Society (Floris Books, 2011), edited by David Lorimer and Oliver Robinson, © 2010 Scientific and Medical Network. It has been reprinted and abridged with permission of the publisher. Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
In the dream the bird is doing something with its beak to the girl’s heart. It is in the heart that the mystery of spiritual conception takes place. This is not the physical heart but what the Sufis call the heart of hearts. Read More
by Anat Vaughan-Lee, August 2012
I woke up with the sound of bells ringing. It sounded and felt like a massive sound, as if bells were ringing from every top of every mountain, but mounting to ONE sound from a huge bell. The sound contained within it an unmistaken phrase: PLEASE REMEMBER! Read More
By Jules Cashford
Excerpted from chapter 14 of The Moon: Myth and Image (Cassell Illustrated, 2003) Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, February 2016
First published in Sutra Journal
One of the central teachings of Sufism is that God is both transcendent and immanent. Our Beloved is “beyond even our idea of the beyond,” and also “nearer to you than yourself to yourself." Read More
By Anat Vaughan-Lee
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