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Announcing Seven Pillars’ Guiding Voices

Posted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on February 4, 2010

Seven Pillars has been in existence for a year and a half now, and with each passing season our “house with no walls” has taken fuller shape.

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Praying My Way to Sleep

Posted by Pythia Peay on February 4, 2010

The images of devastation in the wake of Haiti's earthquake follow me to bed, and continue to haunt my sleep.

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Barbara Tedlock

Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D. is the granddaughter of an Ojibwe midwife and herbalist and was trained and initiated as a shaman by the K'iche' Maya of…

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Anna Less

Anna Less is a senior teacher in the Sufi Order, and co-director of Rising Tide International. She is one of the few Westerners to hold…

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Michael Banks

Michael Banks is a bishop in the Mennonite Church, with responsibility for six churches in the Bronx, New York. He is also a dynamic preacher…

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Shams Kairys

Shams Kairys recently joined Seven Pillars’ as its editor of online and print media, with a special emphasis on crafting language for a general audience.…

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Gayan Macher

Gayan Macher devotes his life to the spiritual unfoldment of souls. He has taught groups and guided individuals for 30 years, from the perspective of…

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4 February
2010

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Wisdom vs. Knowledge

A Seven Pillars Guiding Voices Dialogue

On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, a group of Seven Pillars Guiding Voices met for one hour via conference call to discuss the topic: What differentiates wisdom from other forms of knowledge?   read more »

4 February
2010

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I often wonder at the range of emotion engendered by our relationship with our voice, from giddy delight to deep shame. Or interestingly, there might be a neutral attitude toward one’s voice, or even a total removal from knowing it at all, so that one never takes the time to consciously feel its nuances, leaving that to the experts and approaching it only as a means to an end: communication, usually of a verbal kind. Perhaps something in us understands the power of our voice to bear witness, to answer the call, and perhaps most shattering of all, to call forth. read more »

4 February
2010

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What Happens When the Ice Melts

The River of Life and the Need for a Symbolic Consciousness

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

While in deep meditation I am drawn into awareness. Rather than dissolving deeper into the emptiness of inner silence I am asked to listen for a sound, the specific sound of ice cracking. But I can hear nothing, no sound of ice cracking. read more »

3 December
2009

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Joan of Arc's Trial at Rouen

Spiritual Chivalry Anthology

Call for Submissions

The anthology, Spiritual Chivalry: A Code for Our Time, will introduce the chivalric path and the personal qualities, or virtues, that make a Chivalric code of honorable behavior relevant to present day challenges and possibilities. All are invited to submit essays/articles on chivalry and chivalric codes, demonstrating how their core values address contemporary issues. read more »

14 January
2010

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ecology, language, avatar
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Avatar, 20th Century Fox

Avatar and the Vocabulary of Evildoers

Josh Schrei

While critics have unanimously agreed that the visual spectacle that is James Cameron's Avatar is beyond compare, there has been less enthusiasm for the plot line, which has been called out as flat and unoriginal.     read more »

14 January
2010

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Christ
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Michelangelo's The Last Judgement

Meditation on Christ

Richard Grossinger

The intelligence of the universe towers above this world, unscrolling a pale blue creation. By Gnostic lore we dwell several octaves below Christ, several more below Divine Intelligence.   read more »

14 January
2010

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commodification, beauty
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Today we’re going to continue our Conversations With Remarkable Minds series with Dr. Piero Ferrucci, a psychologist and philosopher who today is one of Europe’s leading intellectuals in spiritual psychology. We’re going to talk about beauty and the soul, and the role of beauty in intelligence, health, creativity, social action and spiritual awakening. read more »

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