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.
Words From the Water’s Edge
Words from the Water’s Edge is a comprehensive anthology of a Sufi teacher’s writings, talks, and previously unpublished pieces. Here, spiritual teachings interweave with deeply personal passages describing experiences on the path centered on the inner relationship of lover and Beloved, how love nourishes both the soul and the outer world, and the spiritual roots of our ecological crisis. While sharing decades of visions, sorrows, and ecstasy, this remarkable book never leaves the mystical landscape of Vaughan-Lee’s own heart, where love and life reveal their many secrets and nature is the first book of revelation.