205. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher and author. Born in London he moved to Northern California in 1991 and founded the Golden Sufi Center, (goldensufi.org). In recent years the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of global crisis, and an awakening global consciousness of oneness (workingwithoneness.org) (Working with Oneness). More recently he has written about the feminine (The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul), and the emerging subject of Spiritual Ecology (emergencemagazine.org) He has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday and featured on the Global Spirit Series shown on PBS. His most recent book is Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. Much of this interview focused on the topic of that book. Other books: Darkening of the Light: Witnessing the End of an Era Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life Love Is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology Spiritual Power: How It Works The Signs of God The Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography The Bond with the Beloved: The Inner Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 11/10/2013 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Llewellyn Vaughan- Lee and his work 00:02:23 - The Key to a Different World 00:04:57 - The Beginning of My Spiritual Journey 00:07:04 - The beginning of my spiritual journey above Mrs. Tweedie 00:08:53 - The Decision to Go to America 00:10:37 - Spiritual Freedom in California 00:12:37 - Learning from a Spiritual Teacher 00:14:52 - A State of Pure Light and Bliss 00:16:32 - Oneness and Shattered Ego 00:18:48 - Reconstituting the ego around a different center of consciousness 00:20:58 - "Abiding after Passing Away" 00:23:44 - The Compilation of Essays 00:26:47 - Our Responsibility Towards Creation 00:29:41 - Becoming Responsible spiritual citizens of the world 00:32:09 - The Next Step: Servanthood 00:34:18 - The Contribution of Spiritual People 00:36:25 - The Listening of the Heart 00:38:13 - The Forgotten Spiritual Body of the Earth 00:40:23 - Sustainability and the Responsibility to Creation 00:42:48 - The Great Chain of Being and the Ecological Crisis 00:45:13 - The Quest for the Grail 00:48:19 - The Awakening and Service to the Whole 00:48:41 - Keeping Integrity Amidst Commercialization 00:50:50 - Embracing the responsibility of awakening 00:53:00 - Connecting through the Web of Light 00:55:11 - Beneficial and Less Beneficial Forces in the World 00:57:22 - Censored from an Awareness of Inner Beings 00:59:29 - The Inclusiveness of Oneness 01:01:32 - Prayer for the Earth and Spiritual Intimacy 01:03:55 - A Connection between People and the World 01:06:10 - Music

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gaspa. My name is Rick Archer, and my guest today is Llewellyn von Lee. Welcome, Llewellyn.
0:33.6	Hi, nice to be here with you. Good to see you. I've really enjoyed listening to you over the years.
0:40.3	It's like poetry or something, listening to you speak.
0:42.3	I've seen you speak at the last couple of science and non-duality conferences, and you missed
0:48.3	you this year.
0:49.3	You didn't make it to the conference, but I'm really pleased to have you on the show.
0:53.3	Let me read a quick bio of you and then we'll get into it.
0:56.1	So Llewellyn von Lee is a Sufi teacher and author. Born in London, he moved to Northern California in 1991
1:02.1	and founded the Golden Sufi Center. In recent years, the focus of his writing and teaching has been on
1:08.0	spiritual responsibility in our present time of global crisis
1:12.6	and an awakening global consciousness of oneness.
1:15.6	More recently, he has written about the feminine and the emerging subject of spiritual ecology.
1:21.6	He has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday and featured on the Global Spirit series shown on PBS. His most recent
1:29.1	book is Spiritual Ecology, Cry of the Earth, which is what we're going to be talking about today.
1:34.9	I thought that perhaps we could start, Lou Ellen, by having you just give us a little bit of
1:39.6	background about yourself, because some people might not be familiar with you. And you do have
1:43.8	quite an interesting story.
1:45.6	Yes, I mean, I was born in a middle-class English household
1:50.6	and sent to boarding school at the age of seven,
1:53.0	which is a kind of English equivalent to the Tibetan monastery, I think.
1:56.8	So I was at boarding school from 7 to 17.
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