Saturday, February 26, 1:00pm - Sunday, February 27, 4:00pm (EST)
Illuminating the Shadow:
Searching for Hidden Treasure in the Ashes of Life
February 26-27, 1800-2100 UK time (1000 - 1300 West Coast North America) each day. On Zoom.
Diving into psychological and spiritual dimensions of life with the Rev. Tasnim Fernandez and Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz.
The weekend will also include a special attunement to Hazrat Moineddin Jablonski on the day of his urs, February 27.
Whatever remains unconscious in us can potentially trip us up and obstruct the light of Reality from clarifying what appears in our lives. This is the nature of the human self, which was created, according to the Biblical traditions as the “image and shadow” of the divine.
Consequently, the Sufi path recommends remaining as much as possible in “cautious awareness” (taqwa). In this state we realize our full human potential as “middle people,” with a heart bridging ruh and nafs, soul and self, in order to allow the Heart of Reality to continually discover its “hidden treasure” through us.
Likewise Hazrat Inayat Khan emphasizes a spirituality with feet in the earth and head in the heavens. Samuel Lewis embodied this in the challenges he met in the long journey of his life. Moineddin Jablonski, his successor, likewise charted a honest, human course through the turbulent seas of the Sufi path—one that recognized the necessity to continually “illuminate the shadow.”
This weekend seminar with Tasnim and Saadi will explore several contemporary challenges:
•How can spiritual practice today return to being “practicing for life” as it was originally meant to be?
•How can we apply our practice to our inner lives with loving honesty but without “spiritual bypass”?
•What do ethics and right action for us mean in relation to freedom and “spiritual liberty”?
•How can we make our own unique “transaction” with life, as the Qur’an recommends, or as Hazrat Inayat Inayat Khan paraphrases with the saying “each person is their own religion”?
We will share:
•Meditation, chant, contemplation, and body prayer to explore the self and allow it to be more transparent to the light of life.
•Beautiful names that allow us to deal in a healthy way with our individual self and its difficulties without either denying them or collapsing because of them.
•Poetry, story and teaching that aim to inspire us further to become beings of service and “bestowers of blessing.”
By freewill donation.
After registering, you will receive the links to the live sessions as well as the recordings after the reteat is over.
Register below:
Our registration is now closed. We are beginning today at 1800 UK time, 1000 North America West Coast time. Another event with Tasnim and Neil coming in May.
warningZoom meeting - two days
Neil Douglas-Klotz, abwoon@mac.com