Adab and the Unveiling of Secrets
This talk examines how inner and outer abab provide an essential container for the mystic’s journey home while also helping one navigate the amplified toxicity of our present moment. Although an etiquette and attitude, adab must transcend intention and become an embodied way of being. Exploring how this unfolds with the inner relationship to the path, this talk describes how adab creates a space where one can be present with the authentic nature of the soul and offer this presence towards God.
The Earth is a Living Story and the Seasons are Her Songs
Given at St Ethelburga’s Center for Reconciliation and Peace in the spring of 2026, this talk provides a grounded framework for moving beyond a conceptual spiritual ecology, toward living an embodied relationship with the sacred Earth. A remembrance that the Earth is animate and alive requires engagement and participation, and the myriad ways Earth expresses Herself through the seasons’ cycles are doorways through which we can step into this space of attention. When the inner and outer senses are truly receptive in every moment, even amid the unraveling of our world, our response can become one of humility and unabashed love.
Stories for a Living Future—Series 4: My Own Story
The stories for this fourth series came unexpectedly as Spring turned to early Summer. Although they include the story of the Earth and our shared journey together, they are more autobiographical, more directly mystical. They speak about the light and love that have been central to Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee’s own journey in recent years.
Lover and Beloved
Sufism is a mystical path of love. The Sufi is a traveler on the path of love, a wayfarer journeying back to God through the mysteries of the heart. For the Sufi the relationship to God is that of lover and Beloved, and Sufis are known as lovers of God. As Rumi wrote:
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology
Drawing from a deep relationship with nature, the transformative power of story, and Sufi teachings, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee guides us beyond today’s ecological and cultural crises to the heart of the matter: our collective forgetfulness and the severing of our primordial bond with Earth. In this new book, he follows the entwined threads of grief and love to the seeds of transformation and regrowth within our moment of crisis.