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Bisan Toron on the Dimensions of Voice

February 07, 2012: Vocalist, Bisan Toron, in her very unique style, brings us into the experience of our own voice. From Seven Pillars’ Vanishing Art: An Intimate…

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Robert Kelly & Charlotte Mandell Readings

February 07, 2012: Robert Kelly and Charlotte Mandell, distinguished guests participating in Seven Pillars’ Vanishing Art event, offer two readings. Robert reads from his own work on Vanishing…

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Yuval Ron Workshop on the Affects of Sound

February 07, 2012: Yuval Ron, the very accomplished musician, composer and producer, leads us through a series of exercises on the affects of sound. From Seven Pillars’…

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Yuval Ron Opening Night Performance

February 07, 2012: Please enjoy this free gift, a special performance featuring Yuval Ron, Bisan Toron and Nur Habib Tiven from the opening night of Vanishing Art: An…

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Christopher Bamford on Vanishing Art

February 06, 2012: Please enjoy this free audio! Christopher Bamford orients us to the theme “vanishing art” during the opening evening of our event, Vanishing Art: An Intimate…

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Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on Agency and Beauty

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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19 April
2012

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A Hidden Treasure

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan


Imagine yourself floating in space with outspread limbs. Thus suspended in midair your recumbent form gives itself over to a delicious languor, and one by one your senses close down. The eyes cease to see and the ears cease to hear. Smell and taste go dormant. Afterimages linger for a time, but in the absence of new stimuli the eidola that haunt the halls of memory slowly fade into oblivion. The void that surrounds you now pervades you. You are dead to the world—and yet you live. read more »

18 April
2012

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The Practice of Presence, Part Two

Lee Irwin


The mystery of the human experience is inseparable from our capacity to recognize the multiple fields of awareness that infuse our day-to-day consciousness. This flow of consciousness is the experiential ground of Being and Spirit, and as such this flow is the participatory medium through which our capacity to be “a light unto the world” is actualized. read more »

17 April
2012

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Goethe in Marienbad

Christopher Bamford


Appropriately, if only by name, the legendary Bohemian Spa of Marienbad is a place of alchemical associations, harking back as it does to the legendary alchemist Maria the Jewess, “divine Maria” or Maria Prophetissa, the supposed sister of Moses, who was the inventor, among other alchemical apparatuses, of the celebrated balneum Mariae or the bain Marie: the double boiler. read more »

14 April
2012

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Seven Pillars Update & News

January – March 2012


Spring has sprung, and with the energy and inspiration of rebirth that accompanies this time of year, we have been very happily up to our eyebrows in exciting new projects! As we wrote about in our 2011 Year-End Review, everything we do from this point forward will focus on the “seven pillars” – The Journey of Life, Universe Story, Cloud of Witnesses, Unity of Being, The Cry, What May Be and The Pledge. read more »

14 February
2012



Vanishing Valentines for You

Introducing Floetry


Seven Pillars' Vanishing Art Festival last August experienced some unexpected weather issues, particularly with Hurricane Irene. Consequently, we never developed an envisioned (non) manifesto on art and wisdom. We have our chance now, through Floetry. We invite you to create a poetic (non) manifesto with us. read more »

7 February
2012

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Reimagining the Arts in a Material(ist) World

Christopher Bamford


Do we live actually in a dualistic world, a world of matter and spirit, mind and body? To treat matter as separate already makes it so. Matter, as we know it, is the matter of materialism (egotism, dualism). Yet it really didn’t come into being until Descartes divided the world into res cogitans and res extensa, thinking things—minds—thought of as spiritual, and extended things—bodies—thought of as mechanical. read more »

5 February
2012

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Vanishing Art: Water Element

Consecrating the Pond at the Abode of the Message


Each day during Seven Pillars’ Vanishing Art event in late August 2011 a “poetic action” was planned related to one of the elements, Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Nature, in the form of Hurricane Irene, as well as other unforeseen factors, intervened, leaving the poetic action for Water undone. read more »

1 December
2011

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Seven Pillars Year-End Review 2011


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

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The Practice of Presence, Part One

Lee Irwin


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

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Dispelling Ignorance and Developing Harmony

Sister Joan Kirby


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

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Reflections on the Life of a Mystic

Excerpt from the New Book Fragments of a Love Story

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee


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 »

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