Sufism

The Seven Rivers of Damascus

I remember vividly my first impression of Asad Ali as he opened the door of his home. This “Arab ascetic” was dressed in a stylish white suit and greeted us with a broad smile and a flamboyant “Salaam! Salaam!” We were about to enter a new world of cultivated meaning, high conversation, and spiritual refinement. It is said that the high art of the Arab is rhetoric, and in Damascus, we witnessed a love of language and mystical discourse greater than anything we had so far experienced.

The Threshold Approach to Spiritual Development

Wishing to express Threshold's approach to spiritual awakening, development, realization, here and now in the year 2025, we offer these words. It is using all of our human faculties illuminated by the finer energies of divine love. It is nothing less than an awakening of the heart that transforms our relationships, and reveals a new [...]

George Eliot’s Sufi Influence

Daniel Thomas Dyer explores George Eliot’s most celebrated novel, Middlemarch, and the characters that powerfully evoke Sufi wisdom

UK Retreat September 2025

Threshold Society UK Retreat September 26-29th, 2025 at The Vendanta Lincolnshire

The Idea of Spiritual Training

From The Knowing Heart The role of a Sufi teacher in modern culture is analagous to an athletic coach who would like to train people to develop their abilities to an Olympic level. He would have been educated for this and have the appropriate degree. Without necessarily being the greatest athlete himself, he would be [...]