Alighting and Entering

Weekly on Sundays
19:00 – 21:30 AEST

An online study course run by a member of Beshara Australia exploring the theme of aim and intention in the search for spiritual knowledge through the unity of existence.

Course Description

Each session will include silent group meditation and discussion texts, which will include The 29 Pages and The Kernel of the Kernel. Copies of the texts will be provided courtesy of Beshara Australia.

Contemplation and practices will also be offered for those who wish to do them at home in between sessions.

Each complete cycle of 12 weeks will be limited to 12 people and is particularly for people in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Newcomers are welcome.

Further cycles will be offered and a waiting list created if/when the first cycle is full.

Further information about study activities organised by Beshara Australia can be found here: https://www.beshara.org/contact/beshara-australia

Booking

Cost: FREE via Zoom

Contact: Mark Temple at markvtemple@gmail.com

Know Yourself

Know Yourself

Wednesdays from 5th August 2020 (20.00 – 21:00 BST)
& Mondays from 10th August 2020 (20.00 – 21:00 BST)

One session per week (5 week period)

Online study of Know Yourself, an explanation of the oneness of being attributed to Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi and Awhad al-din Balyani, translated by Cecilia Twinch (via Zoom)

Dante’s Divine Comedy

Weekly from 25th October 2022
19:00–20:30 BST/GMT

An introduction to the spiritual journey (online via Zoom).

Ibn ‘Arabi Study Afternoon

July 7, 2018 (2–5pm)
The October Gallery, London, UK

An afternoon seminar on the chapter on Solomon from Ibn ‘Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam (The Bezels of Wisdom).

Transito en Espiral (Spiral Transit). Painting by Remedios Varo (1962)

Towards Sacred Union – The Mystical Journey of the Soul

A talk by Julienne McLean

Saturday 28th November 2026
14:00 – 17:00 GMT
The October Gallery, London

This talk explores striking similarities between Christian and Sufi understandings of the soul’s spiritual journey towards closeness to the Divine

Beshara Turkey Discovering Unity

İstanbul Birliğin Keşfi

22 Eyül – 3 Kasım, 2016

7 haftalık akşam buluşmalarıyla insan olmak üzerine kısa bir kurs

Finding Radical Freedom: Some Reflections on Meister Eckhart

10th October, 2021
15:00 – 16:30 BST

Some say Meister Eckhart is simply a philosopher, the father of German philosophy. Others see him as the profoundest of mystics, ‘the man from whom God hid nothing’, ‘the mystic’s mystic’. Whatever else, Eckhart probed the depths of human freedom, unfolding the art of “living without a why”. In this seminar we will try to catch a first glimpse of what such freedom might mean.

Registration via Eventbrite

Learning from the natural world: Ibn ‘Arabi on the wisdom of the animals, plants and minerals

August 31, 2018 (11am – 12.30pm)
University of Melbourne, Australia

A public talk exploring some of Ibn ‘Arabi’s highly original – and currently relevant – writings on our relationship to the natural world.

Angel of Revelation, William Blake

William Blake and the Rediscovery of the Imagination

Saturday 25th October 2025
14:00–17:00 GMT
The October Gallery, London

“Nature is imagination itself!” declared Blake – also realising that imagination is divine.

Contact: Michael Cohen  london@beshara.org

Compassion for the World

January 26, 2019 (2–5pm)
The October Gallery, London

How can the wisdom of Ibn ‘Arabi help us solve contemporary problems like global warming?

Discovering Unity Introductory Weekend

March 10 – 12, 2017

Explore deeper questions in the light of the unity of all existence at the Chisholme Institute. Guided group study of wisdom texts, meditation and more…

Ibn Arabi Study-week Retreat

August 27, 2016 – September 3, 2016 

‘The Twenty Nine Pages’ revisited and the Wisdom of the Self in the Word of Jonah, in the Fusus al Hikam by Ibn ‘Arabi

Love Divine: a conversation between Rumi and St. John of the Cross

Meditation and poetry workshops 

Fortnightly from 18th January – 29th March
Saturdays: 10:00am – 11:30pm (GMT)
or
Fortnightly from 25th January – 5th April
Saturdays: 10am – 11:30am (Pacific Time), 12:00pm-13:30 (Central Time), and 5:00pm-6:30pm (UK time).


Meditation workshops following a format of reading some lines of poetry with contemplative meditation and shared reflections. There are a few places left.