The Alchemy of Character
A Sufi Residential Retreat With Kabir & Camille Helminski (Special guests to be announced)
The Soul as a Work of Art
The Soul is a work of art. The child of the marriage of self and Spirit. In this new video talk on Threshold Society's YouTube channel, Shaikh Kabir reflects on the development of soul in daily life.
How To Be Rumi Without A Cultural Identity
Academy of Self Knowledge 2013 Annual Conference, held in March of 2013 at the Rasooli Center in Pretoria, South Africa - Shaikh Kabir Helminski talks on how to be Rumi without a cultural identity.
Threshold Vancouver Sema – Sep 2012
From a retreat with the Threshold Society.
Reflections from Africa
I think there are three main points that I took out from this trip, namely: 1. The main purpose of this path is not to attain mystical states, rather the aim is the perfection of human character. 2. We get exactly what we need at the exact moment we need it. Therefore have complete faith [...]
Washing Vegetables in the Maidaan
When we were taken by Uzeyir to the Maidaan to help Aicha with the preparation of the meal, I was all geared up to roll up my sleeves and work fast and hard at chopping, stirring, brushing, mopping etc. When given the job of washing vegetables, the direction Aicha gave us for this took me [...]
We, We, We
We, We, We We were taken on a journey within a journey. We had seen the pilgrims off and left the ascetics behind in their retreat We were neither in this world nor the next; We were at the threshold of Unity. We saw the subtle as apparent and knew the language of impressions We [...]