Fostering Wisdom in the New Global Culture

Seven Pillars' Guiding Voices Retreat

Shams Kairys

Over the Memorial Day weekend, 38 visionaries, teachers, artists and change agents of many faiths and professions came together for a special gathering at the Abode of the Message in upstate New York. read more »

Approaching Seven Pillars, House of Wisdom

Christopher Bamford

I have been asked to say something about my experience of Seven Pillars. For me, Seven Pillars has been, and I am sure will continue to be, a learning experience. read more »

Creating the Universe Anew

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan

Nature mystic Richard Jefferies speaks about how one night he felt himself as wandering amongst the stars. read more »

Returning the Soul to Poetry

Jennifer Ferraro

In a techno-consumer culture enraptured with externals and superficiality, the tendency toward poetry can represent a struggle to value, protect and embody those qualities that are most hidden in oneself, the qualities of the soul. read more »

The Golden Elixir

Evolutionary Change and the Post-Modern World

Lee Irwin

There is a creative tension, one we all face, in reconciling the teachings and traditions of the past with the tremendous global changes of the present. Our current era is one of dynamic change, fraught with all the eddies and currents of conflicting interests and aspirations, stirred by the plasmic energies of technology, and heated by increasing sensitivities of personhood—in gender, age, ethnicity, community, language, ideology, and local, layered identities no longer confined to simple bodily perceptions. read more »

A Great Urgency

To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders

Chief Arvol Looking Horse

Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer. read more »

Art and the Restoration of a Unified Field of Knowledge

Michael Green

We are curious creatures. As long as we have inhabited this world we have sought to understand it and to understand ourselves. To do this we have developed many strategies, which could be generally categorized as either the Way of Science or the Way of Religion. To these, the compelling power of beauty – the Way of Art – should be added. read more »