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Teleseminar with Shaykh Yassir Chadly (sample)
Just as the surfer becomes one with the wave, so does the human heart become one with the Eternal through the Sufi practice of remembrance (Dhikr-Allah, or chanting). Shaykh Yassir Chadly is a native of Morocco and has been the imam (spiritual leader) of the Masjid Al-Iman, a multicultural Sufi mosque, since 1992.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-04-15
- 00:10:46
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Living Deeply Practice: "Remembrance" with Shaykh Yassir Chadly
Shaykh Yassir Chadly has been the imam (spiritual leader) at the Masjid-Al Iman, a multi-cultural Sufi-oriented mosque in Oakland, California, since 1992. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
- Audio Experientials
- 2008-07-07
- 00:04:47
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"Sufism and Rapid Wound Healing" with Howard Hall
We explore the mysteries of consciousness and Howard Hall’s systematic research of Sufism and rapid wound healing for the past decade. The question of consciousness and healing has to ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-05-25
- 00:55:37
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Men in Black Dresses
A Quest for the Future Among Wisdom Makers of the Middle East
Men In Black Dresses takes the reader behind the walls of desert monasteries, Sufi enclaves, ancient cathedrals and mosques -- where the author knocks, uninvited, and waits for the wise men to allow her in ...
- Publications Books
- November 1, 2003
- 284 pages
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Living Deeply Practices DVD
Practices from the World's Transformative Traditions
A digital video disc containing nine experiential practices guided by master teachers of transformative traditions including: Catholicism, Religious Science, Buddhism, Himalayan Yoga, Cross-Cultural Shamanism, Sufism, Expressive Arts, Kabbalism, and African Yoruban Spirituality.
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Intention Downloads Interview: James O'Dea
In his deeply heartfelt and poetic style, James contrasts a more materialistic understanding of intention with the summoning of purpose in a life such as we witness with a Mahatma Gandhi. His discussion connects intention to such concepts as Flow, Aikido, the Tao and the transmission of love from one heart to another.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:28:50
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Essential Shifts Interview: Andrew Harvey
In this interview, scholar and mystic Andrew Harvey blazes a path straight into the sacred heart, shying away from none of the horror of the world’s situation while calling us into our most naked and vulnerable core.
- Audio Interviews
- 00:52:49
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Shaykh Yassir Chadly
Shaykh Yassir Chadly has been the imam (spiritual leader) at the Masjid-Al Iman a multi-cultural Sufi-oriented mosque in Oakland, California since 1992. His unique blend of deep spiritual subjects combined with Sufi Folk traditions and his own distinctive sense of humor has made him an extremely popular lecturer around the Bay Area on subjects such as Islam, transformation and Sufism.
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Steven Vedro
Vedro worked for thirty years as a technology planning consultant for public television stations and universities. His book, Digital Dharma: A User’s Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Age of the Infosphere, uses the technologies of the Infosphere as metaphors on the path of evolving “teleconsciousness.” Vedro is an Elder in the Mankind Project and an initiate of the Ruhaniat Sufi Order. His blog is teleconsciousness.blogspot.com, and his Rumi-inspired poems are at myblessingcircle.com. He can be reached at dharma@srvedro.com.
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Howard Hall
Dr. Howard Hall holds two doctorate degrees in psychology, a Ph.D. from Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) in experimental psychology and a Psy.D. from Rutgers University (Piscataway, New Jersey) in clinical psychology. He is boarded in biofeedback and is an approved consultant in clinical hypnosis. His clinical psychology internship was at Rutgers Medical School (Piscataway, New Jersey); post doctoral studies at Rutgers University, Center of Alcohol Studies (New Brunswick, New Jersey); and a fellowship at The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Faculty Development Program in the Prevention of Substance Abuse. Dr. Hall has conducted research and taught hypnosis at the Pennsylvania State University and at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Hall is currently an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, at the Case medical center and on staff at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital and Universities Hospitals of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio). In his current position as attending doctor he treats both children and adults presenting with complex medical symptoms employing hypnosis and biofeedback within a spiritual context. Dr. Hall has conducted and published pioneering work on the effects of hypnosis, imagery, and relaxation on immune responses. For the past decade he has been traveling to the Middle East and scientifically investigating Sufi (Islamic mysticism) rapid healing phenomena.
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Death Makes Life Possible/People
People On Camera Experts Lauren Artress, DMin, Episcopal priest, credited with reintroduction of the labrynth to Western culture Ed Bastian, PhD, Religious scholar Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, New Thought minister ... -
From Loneliness to Solitude
From Loneliness to Solitude By Payam Ghassemlou The experience of being by yourself can feel like either painful loneliness or nourishing meaningful solitude. In loneliness, you can feel alone, without ... -
Simplifying Nonduality
A Sufi, a philosopher, and a psychotherapist discuss the enigmatic nature of nonduality and why it is relevant.
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Brother David Steindl-Rast
Br. David Steindl Rast was born July 12, 1926, in Vienna, Austria, where he studied art, anthropology, and psychology, receiving an MA from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from the University of Vienna. In 1952 he followed his family who had emigrated to the United States. In 1953 he joined a newly founded Benedictine community in Elmira, NY, Mount Saviour Monastery, of which he is now a senior member. In 1958/59 Brother David was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, where he also became the first Roman Catholic to hold the Thorpe Lectureship, following Bishop J.D.R. Robinson and Paul Tillich.
After twelve years of monastic training and studies in philosophy and theology, Brother David was sent by his abbot to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, for which he received Vatican approval in 1967. His Zen teachers were Hakkuun Yasutani Roshi, Soen Nakagawa Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and Eido Shimano Roshi. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and received the 1975 Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building bridges between religious traditions.
For decades, Brother David divided his time between periods of hermit's life and extensive lecture tours on five continents. On a two-month lecture tour in Australia, for example, he gave 140 lectures and traveled 12,000 miles within Australia without backtracking. His wide spectrum of audiences has included starving students in Zaire and faculty at Harvard and Columbia Universities, Buddhist monks and Sufi retreatants, Papago Indians and German intellectuals, New Age communes and Naval Cadets at Annapolis, missionaries on Polynesian islands and gatherings at the United Nations, Green Berets and participants at international peace conferences. Brother David has brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless people whom he touches through his lectures, his workshops, and his writings.
He has contributed to a wide range of books and periodicals from the Encyclopedia Americana and The New Catholic Encyclopedia, to the New Age Journal and Parabola Magazine. His books have been translated into many languages. Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart have been reprinted and anthologized for more than two decades. Brother David co-authored Belonging to the Universe (winner of the 1992 American Book Award), a dialogue on new paradigm thinking in science and theology with physicist, Fritjof Capra. His dialogue with Buddhists produced The Ground We Share: Buddhist and Christian Practice, co-authored with Robert Aitken Roshi. His most recent books are The Music of Silence, co-written with Sharon Lebell, and Words of Common Sense.
Brother David contributed chapters or interviews to well over 30 books. An article by Brother David was included in The Best Spiritual Writing, 1998. His many audio and videotapes are widely distributed.
At present, Brother David serves a worldwide Network for Grateful Living, through www.gratefulness.org, an interactive website with several thousand participants daily from more than 235 countries.
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East Meets West on Evolution’s Border
The official theme of the third annual Science and Nonduality conference was “On the Edge of Time,” but the unofficial narrative was about time running out on the flat-earth paradigms of our day: the world works like a machine, consciousness follows matter, our lives are essentially meaningless, we are in this thing alone.
- Collective Intelligence
- Global Shift
- Worldview
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The Contemplative Life as Freedom: The Liberative Model of Human Development
The keys that open the door to contemplation are mindfulness and a peaceful heart. With these qualities we can liberate ourselves from the biosocial conditioning of our lower self and transcend that self in the vertical dimension of experience.
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ProcessMind: A User’s Guide to Connecting with the Mind of God
The processmind is both inside of you and connected to everything you notice. It is an active, intelligent “space” between the observer and observed. It is both you and me and the “us” we share. Studying and experiencing this processmind will connect the now separate disciplines of psychology, sociology, physics, and mysticism and provide new useful ways to relate to one another and the environment.
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Sounds of Transformation: Vedic Breath, Orisha Heart
Sound is the breath of life, the heart of this ever-evolving symphony – musical vibrations pulsing through us like blood. Together, Vedic and Orisha traditions lay a firm foundation for understanding the soteriology of sound. At the root of each of these practices are the ideas that direct and immediate transformation can occur through sound and that it is all held within community.