205. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - a podcast by Rick Archer

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher and author. Born in London he moved to Northern California in 1991 and founded the Golden Sufi Center, (goldensufi.org). In recent years the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of global crisis, and an awakening global consciousness of oneness (workingwithoneness.org) (Working with Oneness). More recently he has written about the feminine (The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul), and the emerging subject of Spiritual Ecology (emergencemagazine.org) He has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday and featured on the Global Spirit Series shown on PBS. His most recent book is Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. Much of this interview focused on the topic of that book.

Other books:Darkening of the Light: Witnessing the End of an Era
Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a MysticPrayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism
Sufism: The Transformation of the HeartAlchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life
Love Is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home
Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian PsychologySpiritual Power: How It Works
The Signs of GodThe Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography
The Bond with the Beloved: The Inner Relationship of the Lover and the BelovedTravelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

Transcript of this interviewInterview recorded 11/10/2013

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.YouTube Video Chapters:


00:00:00 - Introduction to Llewellyn Vaughan- Lee and his work00:02:23 - The Key to a Different World
00:04:57 - The Beginning of My Spiritual Journey00:07:04 - The beginning of my spiritual journey above Mrs. Tweedie
00:08:53 - The Decision to Go to America00:10:37 - Spiritual Freedom in California
00:12:37 - Learning from a Spiritual Teacher00:14:52 - A State of Pure Light and Bliss
00:16:32 - Oneness and Shattered Ego00:18:48 - Reconstituting the ego around a different center of consciousness
00:20:58 -"Abiding after Passing Away"00:23:44 - The Compilation of Essays
00:26:47 - Our Responsibility Towards Creation00:29:41 - Becoming Responsible spiritual citizens of the world
00:32:09 - The Next Step: Servanthood00:34:18 - The Contribution of Spiritual People
00:36:25 - The Listening of the Heart00:38:13 - The Forgotten Spiritual Body of the Earth
00:40:23 - Sustainability and the Responsibility to Creation00:42:48 - The Great Chain of Being and the Ecological Crisis
00:45:13 - The Quest for the Grail00:48:19 - The Awakening and Service to the Whole
00:48:41 - Keeping Integrity Amidst Commercialization00:50:50 - Embracing the responsibility of awakening
00:53:00 - Connecting through the Web of Light00:55:11 - Beneficial and Less Beneficial Forces in the World
00:57:22 - Censored from an Awareness of Inner Beings00:59:29 - The Inclusiveness of Oneness
01:01:32 - Prayer for the Earth and Spiritual Intimacy01:03:55 - A Connection between People and the World
01:06:10 - Music

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