Includes bibliographical references.

Intro; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Netanel Miles-Yépez; Introduction by the Author; PART 1: PIR VILAYAT KHAN; The Formative Years; Hazrat Inayat Khan; The Message Brought by Hazrat Inayat Khan; The Flowering of Universal Sufism in the 1960s; Murshid S.A.M.; Pir Vilayat Khan and the Blossoming of the Sufi Order; The Alchemical Retreat; Stages of the Retreat; The Cosmic Celebration; Connecting with Pir Vilayat Khan; Reb Zalman and the Jewish-Sufi Connection; A Pilgrimage to Mount Sinai; A Pir Vilayat Interview with Ellen Burstyn

The Divine ProgrammingUniversalist Sufism and Islamic Sufism; A Pir Vilayat Radio Interview with Lex Hixon; Words from a Universal Worship Service; Pir Vilayat's Visit to Nashville; A Peak Experience; Discovering in Ourselves the Awakening of the Universe; Pir Vilayat's Last Years; Endnotes; PART 2: REB ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI; The Early Years; Connecting with the Universalist Rebbe; Universalism and the Renewal of the Sacred Traditions; Jews Seeking Fulfillment Outside Judaism; There Are Still Treasures in the Tradition; Considering Critiques of the Traditional Image of God

Distinguishing Myth and Allegory from Literal HistoryIssues Around Spiritual Renewal; Generic Religion; The Four Levels of Reality and the Multidimensionality of God 142; God in the Physical World; God in the Feeling World; God in the Mind World; The World of Divine Transcendence; The Four Paths of Yoga; Karma Yoga (in the World of Action); Bhakti Yoga (in the World of Feeling); Jnana Yoga (in the World of Knowledge); Raja Yoga (in the World of Being and Transcendence); Introduction to the Four Worlds in Kabbalah and Sufism; The Four Worlds in Psychology and Jung's Four Types

Archetypal and Accessible ModelsFurther Elaborations on the Four Worlds by Reb Zalman; Patterns of Good and Evil; Four Levels of Meaning in the Scriptures; The Levels of the Soul in Kabbalah; A Conversation About the Soul with Reb Zalman; Accessing Your Fully Enlightened Self; The Ten Sephirot and the Inner Council; Further Sephirotic Considerations from Reb Zalman; Updating Our God Language and Concepts; If God is Good, Whence Comes Evil?; How Our Language Misleads Us; God as Father, Enthroned on High; Spiritual Paradigm Shifts and the Evolution of the God Ideal; Teilhard de Chardin

How the Divine Ideal Has Changed Over TimeThe Age of Taurus, the Bull; The Age of Aries, the Ram; The Age of Pisces, the Fish; The Age of Aquarius, the Water Bearer; The Astrological Ages in the Context of the Four Worlds; The Second Axial Age; The Buddhist Connection: Meetings with the Dalai Lama; Renewing the Sufi Connection; The Passing of Reb Zalman; Endnotes; Appendix A: Kabbalistic Meditations by Pir Vilayat Khan; The Sephirot on the Tree of Life; Meditation on the Descent; The Christian Meditation of Nicholas of Flüe; Endnotes; Appendix B: The Gospels as Midrash

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This is a book about the intersection of Sufi and Hasidic wisdom as gleaned from the lives and teachings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and Pir Vilayat Khan, the head and spiritual director of the Sufi Order of the West. The foreword is by Netanel Miles-Yépez who is one of the founders of the Adam Kadmon Book imprint as well as a Pir and founder of a Jewish-Sufi lineage which was blessed and inspired by Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat. Reb Zalman and Pir Vilayat knew and held each other in the highest regard while still living. Indeed they were initiated into each other's spiritual community. More than anything, this book shows how a deep spirituality can be developed that is rooted in religious tradition but transcends it.