December 01, 2011: Seven Pillars offers you this free gift from our Vanishing Art Festival held last August. As the wind and rains of Hurricane Irene were upon…
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June 13, 2011: What wisdom message does Judaism have to offer to the larger world community? We posed this question to Jewish leaders as well as audience members…
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June 13, 2011: For as long as societies have had warriors, they have experienced the wounding to mind, body, heart and soul that we now call Post-traumatic Stress…
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Angela Manno is an internationally exhibited artist known for her pioneering work combining contemporary, western art forms with ancient, non-western forms of expression. Her art…
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Jacob Ellenberg comes from an eclectic background that includes high-tech start-up companies, scholarly research and writing, and organizational consulting. Jacob holds a B.A. in Organizational Behavior…
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Phil Lane, Junior, a member of the Yankton Sioux and Chickasaw Nations, is a globally recognized Indigenous humanitarian, spiritual leader, educator, and Heredity Chief. He…
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Sohrob Nabatian studied pastoral counseling and psychology at Harvard Divinity School, and had the privilege of working as a hospital chaplain in Berkeley, California, where…
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Sister Joan Kirby is the Temple of Understanding's representative to the United Nations and a member of the Sacred Heart Order. www.templeofunderstanding.org
All along the primary question we’ve been asked is “What are the seven pillars?” During the spring of 2010, with this question vivid in our consciousness, the seven pillars revealed themselves in a dream and a new vision for Seven Pillars was born. read more »
11 October
2011
The practice of presence is no easy task and, spiritually, it is perhaps the most elusive of all practices. Imagine for a moment being fully present to yourself and to your situation. That is, imagine being fully aware of all that passes through and within you and also simultaneously aware of all that impacts you from the surrounding environment—people, places, atmosphere, sensory sensations, integrated with inner thoughts, feelings, memories, and bodily reactions. read more »
10 October
2011
What ignorance are we addressing here? I am considering ignorance here from the point of view of a westerner. We live in the global village, we share the same roof, we are interdependent and co-responsible for care of the Earth. And yet, we still think of ourselves, and our religion, as separate, distinct, and unique. read more »
9 October
2011
When I first met my teacher, Irina Tweedie, I sat in her small room, looked into her blue eyes and I knew that she knew. From that moment, without knowing why, more than anything, I wanted what she had. Much later I understood this as the knowledge that can only come from direct inner experience, which for the Sufi is imaged as Khidr. Khidr is the most important Sufi figure, the archetype of direct revelation. read more »
19 July
2011
Smell is the oldest, most magical sense. In 'In Search of Past Time,' Proust tells how, returning home for a visit one cold winter’s day, his mother offered him a cup of lime blossom tea with some plump little cakes, called “madeleines,” molded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell. At first, he declined, but then, for no particular reason, he accepted. As the lime-tea-soaked crumbs touched his palate, a strange emotion overcame him. The world stopped, and an exquisite, transcendent pleasure, like the effect of love, filling him with joy, suffused his senses. read more »
14 June
2011
Sunlight and Shadows Above Deilingen, Germany
In deep meditation I come to a wall. I know this wall. I have seen it many times before in meditation and waking visions. It is a high brick wall. I know what is on the other side of the wall: a world of light. But there is no way through; there is no doorway, no ladder, no break in the wall. When I come to the wall I walk along it, and then I have to turn away, back to the narrow streets of this world. read more »
Marketplace in Dehli, 2006
My Conscientious Self: Seek not profit by putting someone in straits. My Conscientious Self: Harm no one for your own benefit. Though we live in a world that habitually conflates them, money and happiness are two different things. Money is an object—a useful object often, but still only an object. Happiness is a state of being. read more »
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