Podcast - The Threshold Society
Latest Episodes
Awakening the Latent 1st Evening (4/2/2016)
First evening of two sohbets on this month's theme: Prayer (dua) and zhikr are methodologies to manifest the divine names latent in our being. Click for PDF file "Eighteen Beloved Names." - [powerpress]
The Themes of 2015, A Retrospective (12/31/2015)
"The Themes of 2015, A Retrospective" is a sohbet on the themes of the last year, some core principles of Sufi practice, and the possibilities of conscious community. [powerpress]
December Theme: As Much As We Love (12/5/2015)
Reflections on this month’s theme, ‘The beauty of the human being is as much and as great as their love.’ [powerpress]
July Theme: Affirming the Real Ya Haqq (7/2/2015)
Reflections on this month’s theme, ‘Be cleansed of shallow idolatries; affirm the Real. Ya Haqq.’ [powerpress]
June Theme: Patience is Crowned with Faith
What benefit can there possibly be in rushing through some moments to get to others? Every moment is the perfect gift of the divine, manifested for our benefit. Moments of difficulty and challenge are moments in which the soul has the potential to deve...
The Natural State of the Human Being (4/23/2015)
Sohbet recording with reflections on the theme for April 2015, ‘The natural state of the human being is worship. The human being needs God as the garden needs spring’. [powerpress]
The Simplicity We Trust
Late on Saturday night of the recent retreat, "The Alchemy of Character," Kabir gave this short talk about the essentials of the inner life. Within each human being is a witnessing silence, a space beyond thought and emotional reactions, and it is from th
RUMI ALIVE, THE NEW YEAR, Camille Adams Helminski
A talk by Camille from a weekend of “Rumi Alive” with friends gathering in Alabama in remembrance in 2007. It opens with Mevlana’s prayer offering from Book IV of the Mathnawi which seems a wonderful prayer to offer in remembrance as we begin a New Year.
Be Gold Yourself (11/06/2014)
Sohbet recording with reflections on the theme for November 2014, two lines from a Ghazel of Hafiz: - “Wash your hands of the cheap metals of existence like the mature, so that you may find the philosopher’s Stone of love and become gold yourself.