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  • Idries Shah: DreamWalkers 8/10

  • Idries Shah: DreamWalkers 1/10

  • Nirmala What are you? [2/3]

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  • Sufi Art: Tughra

    Tughra is a unique calligraphic device that is used as a royal seal. The nishanghi or tughrakesh is the only scribe specialized in writing Tughra. The emblems became quite ornate and were particularly favored by Ottoman officialdom.

  • Rumi: Say I Am You

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  • Shinzen Young: The True Beauty of Your "Soul"

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  • Video: J. Krishnamurti The Nature Of Problems Brockwood Park, England 1985

    [gv data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=2162798652047900364&hl"][/gv] Why have we so many problems? All our life from the beginning to the end, from being born to dying, we are crowded with problems, we are all worn out by problems – worry, anxiety, uncertainty, and

  • Hakm Tirmidh and the Malmat Movement in Early Sufism

    by Sara Sviri Original Article: Read Here I. INTRODUCTION The history of the formative years of Sufism has yet to be written. Much of our knowledge and understanding concerning the early spiritual centres, teachers and teaching, their interaction and the formation of their mystical vocabula

  • Meetings with Imaginal Men

    by William C. Chittick Among the thousands of verses found in Ebno'l-'Arabi's Fotuhat al-mak-kiya are the following. They describe some of his encounters with embodied spirits: One embodied himself to me in the earth,another in the air.One embodied himself wherever I was,another embodied him

  • Alan Watts: The Value of Psychotic Experience

    With Alan WattsI think most of you know from the announcement of this series of seminars and workshops during the summer, they're entitled 'The Value of Psychotic Experience.' And many people who are interested in an entirely new approach to problems of what have hitherto been called mental health a

  • Jalaluddin Rumi: The Chickpea

    A chickpea in a pot leaps from the flame,out from the boiling water,Crying, "Why do you set fire to me?You chose me, bought me, brought me home for this?"The cook hits it with her spoon into the pot."No! Boil nicely, don't jump away from the one who makes the fire.I don't boil you out of hatred.Thro

  • Jeff Foster: Dialogue @Never Not Here

  • A Sufi Cookbook: The Story of Tea

    by Khwaja Yusuf al-Hamadani In ancient times, tea was unknown beyond China. Rumors of its existence had reached other lands, and those who heard of it tried to find out what it was in accordance with their desires or imagination. The king of Inja sent an envoy to China, who returned with a gift of t

  • Alan Watts: The Nature Of Consciousness 1/3

    The Nature Of Consciousness: Part 1/3 by Alan Watts I find it a little difficult to say what the subject matter of this seminar is going to be, because it's too fundamental to give it a title. I'm going to talk about what there is. Now, the first thing, though, that we have to do is to get our per

  • Rupert Sheldrake: The Extended Mind

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  • Inayat Khan: On Sufism

    Sufism originated from the ancient school of Egyptian mysteries, a school which existed even before Abraham, the father of three great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Those who know Sufism from superficial writings, and, sometimes, from translations of the Arabic or Persian literature,

  • The Sufi Path with Irina Tweedie

    An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. With me today is Mrs. Irina Tweedie, the author of an interesting, marvelous book, an autobiography called Daughter of Fire, which documents her years of training in India with a Sufi Master. We're going to be discussing the Sufi tradition

  • Video: Llewellyn Vaughan Lee Welcoming the Beloved

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  • Classical Sufism: The Contribution of Indian Sufis to Peace and Amity

    with K. A. Nizami Higher spiritual experience in all religions of the world aims at bridging the gulf between humans by imbuing them with high moral ideals. Bergson very rightly observes that ‘a great mystic feels the truth flow into him from its source like a force in action. His desire is w

  • Richard Lang: Seeing Who You Are

  • Rupert Sheldrake Interview 2/2

  • Nisargadatta: The Living Present

    with Nisargadatta Maharaj The Living Present Questioner: As I can see, there is nothing wrong with my body nor with my real being. Both are not of my making and need not be improved upon. What has gone wrong is the inner body, call it mind, consciousness, antahkarana, whatever the name. Maharaj

  • Introduction to The Story of Mushkil Gusha

    Prelude with Idries Shah When a number of people come together, and if these people are harmonised in a certain way, excluding some who make for disharmony - we have what we call an event. This is by no means what is generally understood in contemporary cultures as an event. For them, something w

  • Illusions Left vs Right: Brain Test

    THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?  If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if

  • Bowl of Saki: The Soul's True Happiness

    by Inayat KhanThe soul's true happiness lies in experiencing the inner joy, and it will never be fully satisfied with outer, seeming pleasures. Its connection is with God, and nothing short of perfection will ever satisfy it. People say, 'Let us enjoy ourselves and be happy; there is plenty of

  • Krishnamurti: On Seekers after Truth

    With Jiddu Krishnamurti Friends, I should like you to make a living discovery, not a discovery induced by the description of others. If someone, for instance, had told you about the scenery here, you would come with your minds prepared by that description, and then perhaps you would be disappointed

  • Scott Kiloby: Is Thought Bad?

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  • The Sufi Tradition: Interview with Idries Shah

    by Elizabeth Hall Idries Shah, you are the West's leading exponent of Sufism, that rich religious tradition growing out of the Middle East. Why, at a time when new cults are springing up, do you refuse to be a guru? You could easily become one. There are a lot of reasons. But if we are talking a

  • Video: An Enlightenment Interview with Professor Charles T. Tart

    "Well, they didn't want an impressionable young man like me exposed to a wildman like Gardner Murphy, so they got me a postdoctoral fellowship in California at the peak of the psychedelic revolution and saved me from all those wild influences in Kansas." [gv data="http://www.enlightenment.com/media

  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam: Knowledge and Religious Experience

    by Mohammad Iqbal What is the character and general structure of the universe in which we live? Is there a permanent element in the constitution of this universe? How are we related to it? What place do we occupy in it, and what is the kind of conduct that befits the place we occupy? These question

  • Tony Parsons Adventures in Unknowing

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  • The Wizard of Oz: The Perilous Journey

    By John Algeo Reprint from Quest 6.2 (1993 Summer): 48-55 and American Theosophist 74 (1986): 291-7. Undoubtedly the best known and most loved of all modern fairy tales is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although it was first published in 1900, the story is most widely known today through the Judy Gar

  • Video: The Many & The One

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  • Linda Riebel: Self-Sealing Doctrines, the Misuse of Power, and Recovered Memory

    Abstract The self-sealing doctrine, a defensive maneuver used to protect cherished beliefs from disconfirmation, is discussed. Most evident in doctrinaire religious groups, the self-sealing doctrine may also appear among scholars and practitioners, and it can be discerned on both sides of the heated

  • Tony Parsons: Lovemaking and the mortgage

    What would you say about choice? When awakening happens, it is seen that there was never anyone there to achieve that awakening. It is also recognized that throughout the life apparently previously led, there was never a 'chooser' or a 'doer.' Everything that happened, from the tiniest nuance to wh

  • Knowing Beyond Knowing: The Heart of Hermetic Tradition

    by Peter Kingsley At the center of the Hermetic tradition lies the need for a certain type of knowledge: gnosis, or knowledge of the divine. This is something entirely different from formal types of knowledge, which separate and distance us from what we think we know. Yet according to the Hermeti

  • Video: J. Krishnamurti San Diego 1970 [ Talk 3/4 ]

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  • The Wolves

    "Master, you must help me," said the visitor. "I am at my wit's end." "What seems to be the problem?" The sage asked. "I am having a hard time controlling my anger," the visitor said. "It's just the way people are. I see them criticizing others while totally unaware of their own faults. I do not

  • Classical Sufism Abdal Hakim Murad Muslim Influences on Europe and the West

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  • Krishnamurti + David Bohm + Rupert Sheldrake + John Hidley: The Nature of the Mind [ Part 1 ]

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  • Video: Adyashanti Beyond the Personal Will

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  • Bowl of Saki: On Limited and Unlimited Love

    With Inayat Khan The individual soul is a shoot that springs from the all-pervading Spirit, its goal being its origin; and every attachment it has on its way is, no doubt, a detaining on the journey. The soul is never fully satisfied so long as it has not reached its destination. The love of the e

  • Rupert Sheldrake: Prayer: A Challenge for Science

    Since ancient times, a strong and pervasive belief in the efficacy of prayer–for the living and the dead–reinforces the notion that consciousness is not limited to the physical body. Not only do traditions throughout the world share a belief that prayers may in some way help (or invoke

  • Those whose food is self-deceit

     by Idries Shah A certain quiet dervish used often to attend the weekly meals given by a cultivated and generous man. This circle was known as 'The Assembly of the Cultured'. The dervish never took part in the conversation, but simply arrived,smilingly shook hands with all present, seated hims

  • S. C. Malik The Illusion of Seeking Peace

        A human being is a part of this whole, called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison

  • Thich Nhat Hanh: Please call me by my true name

    Do not say that I will depart tomorrowbecause even today I still arrive Look deeply: I arrive in every secondto be a bud on a spring branchto be a tiny bird, with wings still so fragilelearning to sing in my new nestto be a caterpillar in the heart of flowerto be a jewel hiding itself in stone I

  • The Martial Arts as spiritual and psychological disciplines

    By Peter Payne The exigencies of combat place great demands on the capacities of the warrior. These demands can act as powerful learning situations for self-discovery and self-confrontation, and may be used to further the spiritual endeavor. Perhaps the most important of these is the confronta

  • Video: Adyashanti That Which Always Is [1/3]

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  • Krishnamurti: Kingdom of Happiness (1927)[E-book]

    I: THE VOICE OF INTUITION I want, if I can, to put before you certain ideas which you should cultivate and which would give you a definite and intelligent conception of true spiritual life. I think all of you realize that to create, as you must create if you would live, there must be struggle a

  • Krishnamurti Self Knowledge & the World

        THE PROBLEMS OF the world are so colossal, so very complex, that to understand and so to resolve them one must approach them in a very simple and direct manner; and simplicity, directness, do not depend on outward circumstances nor on our particular prejudices and moods. As I was poi

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  • Video: Vera Kohn Return to the Wholeness
  • Shinzen Young: Authority, Opinions and the Buddhist Canon
  • Video: Adyashanti Turning Around of the Heart
  • Rumi: “Go, seek the water!”
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