VIDEO TALKS
Nestled in the Womb of God
The Divine-Human Entanglement in the Cosmologies of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Speaker: Hina Khalid
October Gallery, London, December 2023
Hina says: ‘In this talk, I venture into the relatively unexplored terrain of a Hindu-Muslim comparative inquiry into the intimate presence of the divine reality to the finite world. I offer a comparative analysis of the conception of the infinite in the worldviews of two major philosopher-poets of the Indian subcontinent – Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).
Neoplatonism and the Islamic Tradition
Speaker: Stefan Sperl
October Gallery, London, December 2022.
The teachings of Plotinus and his followers, known today as “Neoplatonism”, became the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity. Neoplatonism represents a common heritage shared by the cultures which arose out of the three monotheist religions. Its legacy bridges the divide between East and West, North and South. This presentation examines the question of the degree to which the Islamic tradition bears the imprint of Neoplatonism.
Know Yourself: Ibn ‘Arabi & Self-Knowledge
Speaker: Cecilia Twinch
Bristol, October 2013.
Cecilia Twinch discusses her new translation of ‘Know Yourself’.
Ibn ‘Arabi and the Ecological Crisis: a Merciful Nemesis? Revisited
Speaker: Peter Coates
October Gallery, London, September 2023
A talk and discussion with Peter Coates about the ecological crisis and its deeper significance.
“Hubris against the essential divine order of nature would be followed by its appropriate nemesis” (Aldous Huxley)
Notes from the Underworld
Speaker: Janet Bowers
October Gallery, London, March 2019.
A talk exploring death as one of the most essential aspects of our humanity from a psychological and spiritual perspective.
‘How One Becomes What One Is’
Some personal reflections on the grounds of self-knowledge in Ibn ‘Arabi and Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaker: Peter Coates
October Gallery, London, March 2023
“Man is a rope, fastened between animal and superman – a rope over an abyss. A dangerous going-across, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and staying-still. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal; what can be loved in man is that he is a going-across and a down-going. “
(Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra)
In the Footsteps of St Cuthbert
With Katherine Tiernan
An interview with author Katherine Tiernan discussing St Cuthbert and her study tours in his footsteps.
AUDIO TALKS
These talks were given at the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education at Chisholme House, at Swyre Farm and at a world Symposium on Humanity
Open Heart Surgery: the Operation of Love in Rumi’s Masnavi
By Professor Alan Williams
Meister Eckhart
By Adam Dupré
Psychotherapy and the Unity of Being
By Janet Bowers
The Meaning of ‘Hu’
By John G. Bennett
Sadr al-dīn Qunawī: His importance to us, and his relationship to Rūmī
By Jane Clark
St.Cuthbert: Life and Legacy
By Katharine Tiernan
Ayurvedic Philosophy
By Elizabeth Roberts
Union
By Bulent Rauf
The Singleness of Being Within the Context of the Work of St. Gregory of Nissa
By Edward Hallinan
The Art of the Insoluble
By Colin Tudge
The Vision of Rumi: The Perspective of the Eye of the Heart in the Masnavi
By Professor Alan Williams
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