This Virtual Sufi Lodge is a Place for Spiritual Companionship (Sohbet)
A Door Held Open Wide
Matthew Wright from the Threshold West Park NY circle reflects on the Mevlevi path and how we can live a spiritual life beyond labels and dogma.
Be Humble in Love; Be Bold in Loving
Hz. Abul Hasan Kharaqani, Kars Sooner or later those who travel the path of God will encounter a series of questions related to the very existence of the "self." What began as a self-evident and solid "I," an identity made up of desires, satisfactions, disappointments, insecurities, and aspirations, gradually becomes a rather different [...]
Unfold the Wings of your Essence
In the State of True Friendship: Shams & Mevlana A recent sohbet with Shaikh Kabir & Camille Ana Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Kabir Dede: This is the day that Hazreti Shams first came to Konya. In emptying our hearts, as much as we are able, we will hear and be encouraged in our own journeying by [...]
Unfold the Wings of Your Essence (11/29/2018)
Spiritual conversation (sohbet) with Shaikh Kabir Helminski
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Endeavor to Make God Your Companion in Every Spiritual State
A transcribed sohbet of Shaikh Kabir, from the forthcoming book The Living Tradition, Discourses on the Sufi Path The Qur’an says: In His causes you ought to strive. The Arabic word jihada could be translated as “strive.” The real jihada, the real spiritual striving, is reconciling the energy or force from which we gain a [...]
The Spiritual Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, Trans-Humanism, and the Post-Human World
This talk by Shaikh Kabir created quite a stir at the Science and Non-Duality Conference, The Mystery of Being Human, Oct 26th 2018. What compels me to speak about the challenge of trans-humanism, artificial intelligence, and the post-human world is our culture’s lack of a metaphysical framework to understand what's happening. With [...]
Rumi And The Mystery of Being Human (07/23/2018)
A talk offered by Shaikh Kabir Helminski at the Bradford Literature Festival in Bradford, UK, in July 2018
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Presence, Stillness and Fasting (06/14/2018)
Spiritual conversation (sohbet) with Shaikh Kabir Helminski
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Keep God as Your Companion (06/07/2018)
Spiritual conversation (sohbet) with Shaikh Kabir Helminski
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Eighteen Stages of Service
Eighteen Stages of Service[1] The soul of the Mevlevi Dergah (training center) is the kitchen (matbah). In the kitchen, the Head Cook Dede (Ashchi Dede; Ser-tabbah),[2] the Cauldron Dede (Kazanci Dede), the Internal Affairs Dervish, the person in charge of the house work in a dervish convent (icheri meydancisi) and the Dish-washing Dede (Bulashikchi Dede) [...]