Presenters for July 15-17, 2011 Baraka Retreat
Presenters for July 15-17, 2011 Baraka Retreat: Camille Helminski, Kabir Helminski, Amina Wadud, Ali Allawi, Robert Darr
THE NIGHT OF POWER & SURAH AL QADR, teleconference
On Monday, September 6th, Shaikh Kabir and Camille Helminski, with Mahmoud Mostafa, spoke for about 40 minutes with friends from the Baraka community. The Night of Al Qadr was when the Prophet, may he be blessed, in utter receptive stillness received a message that would transform a large portion of humanity. Al Qadr is the singular power that offers to each soul a unique destiny and peace of heart. Listen to a recording of that call...
THE DRINK SENT DOWN by The Dost Quartet
Since the Baraka advisory board has been stressing the value of creativity and adapting traditional forms to the contemporary world, we're offering an example of a contemporary adaptation of a traditional Turkish Ilahi. This track is from "The Garden within the Flames," Interworld Music, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1997. Listen to track...
AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAYKH FADHLALLA HAERI
Kabir Helminski conversed with Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri in Praetoria, South Africa about meeting the spiritual needs of our time, about reason and spiritual intelligence, about spiritual capacities and the power of unconditional love. Listen to this remarkable conversation.
TALKS FROM “SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE & AWAKENING LOVE”
Baraka's 2nd annual retreat offered inspiring and informative talks, spiritual practice, the sublime music of master neyzen, Eyman Gurten, as well as lots of friendship among people of all ages and backgrounds. Listen to all the talks...
TALKS FROM “FINDING OUR BALANCE,” 2009 BARAKA RETREAT
Cemalnur Sargut is one of Turkey's deepest and most inspiring spiritual teachers. We were honored by her participation in "Finding Our Balance," in October 2009. In this talk she shares her life experience, her love of her own teacher, Samiha Ayiverdi, her reflections on the nature of the spiritual journey, and her recommendations for how to live a spiritually balanced life. Listen to Cemalnur.
BARAKA: RECONNECTING WITH OUR SPIRITUAL LEGACY
Many spiritually inclined people, and especially those from a Muslim background, face a double alienation in today’s world. On the one hand, they are alienated from the mad rush of contemporary society with its commercialization, its ugliness, its pandering to the ego, and its lack of meaning. On the other hand, they are equally alienated from various expressions of Islam that fail to inspire them.
ISLAM AND THE NEW MILLENNIUM
T.J.Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad): an essay based on a lecture given at the Belfast Central Mosque in March 1997. “All too often they follow limited, ideological versions of Islam that are relevant only to their own cultural situation, and have no relevance to the problems of educated modern Westerners. We need to overcome this. We need to capitalise on the modern Western love of Islamic spirituality – and also of Islamic art and crafts. By doing so, we can reap a rich harvest, in sha’ Allah. . .”
IS ISLAM A “RELIGION OF THE SWORD”?
Kabir Helminski and Hesham Hessaboula There are a number of verses in the Qur’an that appear to call for Muslims to kill non-Muslims, and these verses have been too often quoted out of context with what appears to be a willful disregard of the context in which they occur.
GUEST TEACHERS FOR “SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE” RETREAT
GUEST TEACHERS FOR "SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE" RETREAT