Light on the Hill, Van Etten, New York (near Ithaca)

If religion is a body, prophecy is its beating heart. The message of the prophets is at once a warning and a blessing, a call for the  creation of a better world and a revelation of the perfection that already indwells in the human soul. Heard as a single sacred symphony,  the voices of the prophets carry a message that leads not to the past but to an as yet unrealized future, a visionary rendezvous beyond the morass of materialism, fundamentalism, ecocide and war.

General Admission: $10

To register for this evening talk, or the two-day Sufi retreat that follows, please contact alice@lightonthehill.org or call 607-589-4419. www.lightonthehill.org

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, founder of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, is the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International, a mystical and ecumenical fellowship rooted in the visionary legacy of his grandfather, Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is also President of the Suluk Academy. Pir Zia holds a doctoral degree in religion from Duke University, is a recipient of the U Thant Peace Award, and is a Lindisfarne Fellow.