The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human

We are souls in progress, integrating into ourselves the invisible qualities and virtues of a spiritual reality that is our birthright.

“In the city of your dreams you found nothing lacking except a noble person.”[1] In a city where you find all the beauties, pleasures, delights, and various adornments of nature, yet you didn’t find one intelligent person, it would have been better the other way around! That city is the human being. If it has a hundred thousand accomplishments but

So many forces in today’s world routinely use emotional conditioning and social engineering for the purpose of control. Most people are very suggestible and are easily subjected to emotional and mental manipulation. It is only necessary to provide a powerful emotional experience in some form of mass suggestion to convince people that something is “

To take the path of Sufism is not to have “mystical” visions or ecstatic experiences, to withdraw from everyday life, or to try to become someone special. To be a Sufi is to be free of one’s ego and live from the soul.

study your reactions, judgments, and opinions, to not give them so much importance,

We are a culture that has made an idol of “work” to such an extent that in this culture, more than in most, people are identified with their work, their positions, and their financial security. This enslavement to society’s demands is rampant, out of perceived necessity and sometimes from misplaced ambitions. We have to acknowledge how much our ind

Assuming responsibility for ourselves will begin with wresting attention from trivialities and distractions, and reconnecting it with the soul.

To connect oneself to that charge requires a certain emptying of self: letting go of one’s preoccupations, agendas, and complexes. This rarely happens on one’s own. A spiritual community, a group of people who recognize a higher Source and who honor their own interdependence can become a vehicle for this higher energy and help. Through the rituals

Within ourselves, in our core, is a power, a sacred impulse, a holographic sample of the Infinite, that is waiting to be purified and focused.