Good Vibrations

By Robert Mc Lure - Seattle Post - Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan brings his message of harmony with the Earth to North Seattle Community College, Friday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m.

"What is Earth's cry today? The population of Homo sapiens is out of control, as is its insatiable appetite for consumption.

Instead of a genuine planetary civilization, we are witnesses to the proliferation of a soulless monoculture.

At its heart, the human species remains as spiritually divided as ever -- indeed more so, as sectarian ethnic, political and religious agendas take on a new misguided urgency in direct proportion to the absence of authentic personal and collective fulfillment.

The taproot of pathological division is in the human psyche itself. The Western mind has undergone an epic cognitive odyssey over the last three hundred years."

(From his writings).

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan is the grandson of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan and the head of the Sufi Order International.

Pir Zia received his education in Sufism from Indian and Turkish Sufi Pirs and has studied extensively with masters of many paths including His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in Dharamsala, India.

Pir Zia holds a doctorate in Religion from Duke University. He is also a recipient of the U Thant Peace Award.

His free public talk kicks off a weekend of events: more information at http://soi-seattle.org/events/specialevents.htm#PZIK

[Read also: Sufism, the West, and Modernity http://www.uga.edu/islam/sufismwest.html

Visit the Sufi Order International website : http://www.sufiorder.org/].