December 2024
New in Audio Library: The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology; This talk, given at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, delves into the transformative practice of spiritual ecology. It emphasizes awakening a deep, primordial memory of the Earth as a sacred, living being—a radical act in a culture that has largely forgotten this sacred connection. Remembering our intimate relationship with the Earth is a vital spiritual responsibility of our time. By recognizing and embracing this truth in our hearts, we sustain a practice of love and care for the suffering Earth—a being we are, and have always been, inherently part of.
New in Audio Library: Simplicity and Discernment; In this talk, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee reflects on being a mystic in an increasingly toxic world. He emphasizes the importance of discernment in making choices that align with what truly matters. Being attentive and remembering the simplicity of life are essential elements. By turning toward the Beloved with love and embracing responsibility, we can live in the world without being swayed by it, creating a vessel in our hearts for God.
July 2024
New in Audio Library: These talks, given at a retreat in Devon during the summer of 2024, delve into the profound role of prayer and the mystical journey. The first two talks outline the stages of the path and the role of prayer. The third talk centers on the power of the dhikr, the fourth talk explores the importance of including the Earth in our prayers, the fifth talk offers a framework for understanding prayer as projection, and the final talk highlights how listening serves as a central form of prayer for the mystic.
New in Audio Library: This talk was a keynote given during a conference on Spiritual Ecology and Peace Building at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in July 2024. It explores an essence of spiritual ecology that connects memory, prayer, and spirit. We share a spiritual connection with the Earth which has been covered over by our collective forgetfulness. How might we rekindle this connection with the Earth and embrace a way of being that returns to ancient truths? Central to this exploration is prayer, which fosters a space of listening and reverence.
April 2024
New in Audio Library: Three talks were given at a retreat on the theme of Remembering Earth Time at The Sharpham Trust in Devon, UK, in April 2024. The Axis of All Things explores the ways in which we have extracted time from the fabric of creation and turned it into a tool of control and a marker of progress. By reducing its mystery into a singular expression—the tick of the clock—we have forgotten the axis of love that runs through time. Time and Place explores the profound connection between time and place. It highlights how this intimate relationship can be awakened, fostering ties of kinship, when we attune our senses to the cyclical rhythms present in the landscapes surrounding us. Remembering Earth Time offers a perspective for understanding Earth time that transcends linear thinking. It emphasizes the principles and practices of spiritual ecology which enables the essence of love to emerge.
New in Audio Library: London Seminar Talks. These talks were given at a seminar in London in April 2024. Form and Formlessness speaks to the formless and adaptable outer nature of the tradition and how the forms of the wayfarer’s inner life evolve and shift as the journey unfolds. The Individual Nature of the Journey highlights the individual nature of the wayfarer’s journey, and how even within a tradition each soul must be treated individually, just as ultimately each soul finds their own way back to God.
January 2024
New in Audio Library: On Simplicity. Given on Zoom on New Year’s Day, this talk reflects on simplicity as a rediscovery of the essential, an inner space from which a practice of simplicity flows. This inner space not only aids in maintaining the mystic’s inward alignment but also serves as a sanctuary and place of protection in toxic and tumultuous times.
November 2023
New in Audio Library: A Space of Offering. These two talks, given in London this past November, speak to the vital role of embracing offering as a foundational frame and way of being in both the mystical journey and the wayfarer’s practice.
New in Video Library: Shifting Landscapes. Given at St Ethelburga’s Center for Reconciliation and Peace in London in November 2023, this talk speaks to the possibility of profound inner transformation amid the great changes that are engulfing the Earth and explores the need to step away from a human-centric paradigm and towards a remembrance of the Earth as divine being. As so much falls away, what can we offer to the Earth? How can we orient ourselves in relationship with her? What opens when love becomes present between us?
August 2023
New in Audio Library: A series of four talks given by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee during a two week residency in London in the summer of 2023. The first two talks (Part 1, Part 2) outline the five pillars of the path. Effort and Grace speaks to the relationship between one’s individual effort and divine grace while the fourth talk explores the central Sufi practice of polishing the mirror of the heart and learning to live with one’s ego.
New in Audio Library: Three talks were given by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee during a retreat on the theme of Shifting Landscapes at The Sharpham Trust in Devon in the UK, in July 2023. Stepping into the Liminal offers a framework for how to navigate our rapidly shifting landscapes, the role of witnessing and grief and ultimately the power that love holds for bringing us back into a space of kinship with the living world. Learning to be a Lover speaks to how we must learn to be in relationship with the Earth as a lover. Embracing Limitations speaks to the danger of creating conditions of how we can be in relationship to the sacred nature of creation.
New Article: Lover and Beloved: Mystical Love in Sufism by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.
January 2023
New in Audio Library: A New Year’s Orientation of Love, talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, recorded in Inverness, California.
November 2022
New in Audio Library—two talk series by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, recorded in London, England: Living with the Unknown, a talk given at St. Ethelburga’s Center for Reconciliation and Peace, which explores how we can find our ground in a groundless reality when everything can shift at a moment’s notice, and the pathways of healing that can be walked at this time; and Attending to Love, two talks given at a recent London seminar, that speak to the need to be attentive and attending to the love that lies at the heart of the mystical journey.
October 2022
New in Audio Library—four new talk series by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee: Sufism and Spiritual Ecology, a series of four talks given July 2022 in Switzerland, exploring how the Naqshbandi practices and principles can help bring us into relationship with the sacred nature of creation and live in deeper kinship with the living world.
February 2022
New Free eBook: Seeding the Future: A Deep Ecology of Consciousness by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. A German edition is also available: Samen für eine neue Welt: Eine Tiefenökologie des Bewusstseins.
December 2021
New Video: Nature Meditations with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Pir Zia Inayat Khan.
November 2021
A series of Zoom talks given in 2021: The Authentic Nature of the Soul on the journey of reclaiming and living ones authentic true nature; Mysticism in the Anthropocene, which explores the role of the mystic at this time; and The Higher Self, Listening and Attentiveness, two talks that explore the nature of the higher self—how a seeker nourishes and stays in alignment with the higher self and how one learns to be attentive to and listen to the higher self.
New Video: The Authentic Nature of the Soul with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee—recorded as part of a series of Zoom talks in 2021, this talk speaks to the journey of reclaiming and living one’s authentic true nature, the nature of the soul.
New Article: A Story of Beginnings: Memories of Magic and Wonder by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.
September 2021
New in Audio Library—two new talks by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee: Threads of Love, which explores the intersection between spiritual practice and our present ecological crisis; and When the Source Ran Free: A Story for the Time of the Pandemic, which speaks to the need for a new story that goes back to the beginning, when the Earth was fully alive with magic and sacred meaning. Recorded in Inverness, California, Fall 2021.
June 2021
New in Archive: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee’s last talks, from 2017 and 2018, have been added to our audio archive libraries, see: English Audio Archive and German Audio Archive. His final video recording is also available: The Journey of the Soul, recorded in 2018 at the Mercy Center, in Burlingame, California.
April 2021
New Book & New Videos: Seasons of the Sacred: Reconnecting to the Wisdom Within Nature and the Soul by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.
New Article: A Letter to My Granddaughter by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, published by Dumbo Feather Magazine.
December 2020
New Free eBook & New Videos: Handbook for Survivalists: Caring for the Earth, a Series of Meditations by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. A German edition is also available: Handbuch für Überlebenskünstler: Sorge tragen für die Erde – Meditative Betrachtungen.
June 2020
New: Interview with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, published by the Australian Magazine Dumbo Feather for their February 2020 Mysticism-themed issue.
New Video: A Return to Love: A Few Simple Words for Mystics and Lovers with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.