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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

About the Author

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic and lineage holder in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is the founder of The Golden Sufi Center and the author of several books including "Spiritual Ecology" and "Darkening of the Light." For more information, please visit www.goldensufi.org

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The Call of the Earth, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Call of the Earth, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

January 10, 2018By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Reconnecting to the sacred, from a Sufi teacher

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The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

April 29, 2017By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

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Aaron Huey, Sufi shrine in the city of Multan, Pakistan

Part of an Ancient Story: A Conversation with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (Full Version)

November 15, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

One August day recently in Northern California, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee sat down with Parabola in to speak about free will and destiny.  The English-born Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic and lineage holder in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi […]

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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Part of an Ancient Story: A Conversation with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

October 28, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

One August day recently in northern California, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee sat down with Parabola to speak about free will and destiny.

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Not Knowing, Non-Being, and the Power of Nothingness, By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, with Hilary Hart

Not Knowing, Non-Being, and the Power of Nothingness, By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, with Hilary Hart

July 20, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Desert and void. The Uncreated is waste and emptiness to the creature. Not even sand. Not even stone. Not even darkness and night. A burning wilderness would at least be “something.” It burns and is […]

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Seek & You Shall Find

the Spring 2018 issue

“You cannot serve both God and mammon,” advises Jesus in the Gospel of St. Matthew, but many of us spend our lives trying to do just that. Our inner search is real—and so is our desire for the pleasures of this world and the money that can buy them.

In this Spring 2018 issue on “Wealth,” we explore how men and women, great teachers and ordinary sinners alike, have approached this fundamental challenge of human existence: God, mammon, or both? The ways are many. Read more>

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Fall 2018
The Journey Home
Editorial Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2018

Winter 2018-2019
Being with Change
Editorial Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2018

Spring 2019
Awakenings
Editorial Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2018

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Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The only point where one can start to talk about anything, including death, is where one finds oneself. And for me this is as a Benedictine monk. In the rule of St. Benedict, the momenta […]

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

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Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female […]

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

This story is so old we don’t know who told it or who it’s about, except that it speaks to all of us. We no longer know if it was a “he” or “she” at the center of the story. […]

Karen Armstrong

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong

One bright spring day, Parabola met with Karen Armstrong  in her suite at the Parker Meridian hotel in Manhattan.  The petite, friendly 62-year-old British ex-nun, arguably the most influential commentator on religion in the English-speaking […]

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