“Journeys and Awakenings: Wisdom for Spiritual Travelers”

Journeys and Awakenings presents a diverse array of writers having penetrating insights into how we can help awaken a better world.

Spanning a wide swath of disciplines and cultures, what ties them together is their deep appreciation for the universal kinship at the heart of all spiritual and religious traditions. Each essay lights a path to a different place of wonder within us.

Writers and interviewees include William Irwin Thompson, Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, Christopher Bamford, Jane Goodall, David Spangler, Lee Irwin, William C. Chittick, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Winona La Duke, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Adam Bucko, Satish Kumar, Sister Joan Kirby, Yuval Ron, Charles Eisenstein, and others, each a luminary in their field. 

Foreward by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

The Urs of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

http://soi-seattle.org/event/urs2019/

“Death as an Ally”

Shahabuddin David Less: “Making Death an Ally for Living Our Fullest Life”

Ego As Opportunity

Premise (posted to my Facebook feed recently ago: “Inflated ego, an over-emphasis on one’s self (MY needs/ desires/ fears/ ‘my view is the right/true way’/etc.), is the primary obstacle to human evolution and to optimal futures for our planet.”

It’s not a “problem” if you look at ego inflation as a futile attempt of the Boundless in us to know and express Itself in and through the limitations of embodied life.

From that perspective, the thing is to drill into the facets & countenances of the “inflation” and discern what’s trying to surface and evolve through the constrictions and filters of the ego.

So it’s not a “problem,” it’s an opportunity.

“The Soul’s Journey” — Talks by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

“The Soul’s Journey” from before birth through the non-phsical vibratory planes to manifestation, and through the “afterlife” are a foundational teaching of the Sufis and especially of Hazrat Inayat Khan.

Pir Zia discourses on these teachings in four podcasts. This is “the Sufi Book of the Dead.” Highly recommended.