Navigating the Tricosm—Spirit, Mind, & Matter w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Navigating the Tricosm—Spirit, Mind, & Matter w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Bad Bevensen, Germany, July 28th – August 3rd, 2024
Goldfish are known to stay small when kept in little containers, and to grow large when introduced to spacious lotus-strewn waters. We human beings are psychically sized in accord with the paradigms we inhabit. When we occupy brittle flatlands, our own beings are consequently truncated. Conversely, when we rediscover the multidimensionality of reality, we unfurl forgotten potentialities. But paradoxically, to become fuller is to become more empty as we realize that in this vast, interconnected tricosm of spirit, mind, and matter, all experiences ultimately derive from and accrue to the One, whose ecstasy lies at the center of it all.
In this five-day retreat, through discourse, meditation, and zikr, we will survey the mesh of the spiritual, mental, and physical worlds, rediscover our location within the tapestry, and rededicate ourselves as instruments of the Mystery from which all has come into being, and into which all is dissolving.
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Speaker
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Pir Zia Inayat KhanPir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; and the editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org
