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

Author Archive Page

The Call of the Earth, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

January 10, 2018By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Reconnecting to the sacred, from a Sufi teacher

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

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 […]

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.

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

July 20, 2015By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Exploring the “hidden face of God”

Stephen Weiss, MD, portrait of Brother David Steindl-Rast, Mt. Saviour Monastery, Elmira, NY

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

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

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

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. […]

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 […]