Articles and Interviews

Neither of the East nor of the West:
The Journey of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddiyya from India to America

NEW: Where the Two Seas Meet: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic
Excerpt from final chapter of the book Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic. Published online at sevenpillarshouse.org, October 2011

NEW: Praying for the Earth
Published online at Huffingtonpost.com, August 2011

Meditation: Transcript of Talk
and Transcript of Question and Answers
Transcript of recording from event December 2009 in Tiburon, California.

The Wall
Published online at sevenpillarshouse.org, June 2011

Witnessing the End of an Era, Part 1 and Part 2
Published online at Ecobuddhism.org, May & June 2011

A Prayer for the World
Published online February 2011

Spiritual Maturity and Service
Published online at Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, October 2010

The Dhikr As An Archetype of Transformation
Published online at The Sound Journal, August 2010

What Happens When the Ice Melts:
The River of Life and the Need for a Symbolic Consciousness
Published online at Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, February 2010

Spiritual Ecology
Published online at Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, August 2009

Sufi Dreamwork
Published online by Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, October 2008

The Gift of Peace
Published in Sufism Journal, Spring & Summer 2007

Article Excerpt: Divine Intoxication:
The Mystic Poet Rumi Finds His True Voice Through the Bliss of Love
Online excerpt of article from Ascent Magazine, Winter 2006

A Dialogue of Light:
the Spiritual Activism of Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (PDF Download, 150kb)
Article/Interview by Jeannie Zandi, published in The El Dorado Sun Magazine, December, 2006

Anima Mundi: Awakening the Soul of the World
Published in Sufi Journal, Issue 67, Autumn 2005

The Awakening of the World
Published online Autumn 2005

Simple Answers
Published online Summer 2005

Spiritual Maturity
Published in Sufi Journal, Issue 64, Winter 2004-2005

The Web of Light
Published by Light of Consciousness Journal Spring and Summer, 2003

Uniting the Inner and the Outer:
Spiritual Responsibility at a Time of Global Crisis
Winter, 2002, published online by Caduceus Magazine and Sounds True December Online Newsletter

Interview with Mariana Caplan
from Do You Need A Guru: Understanding the Student-Teacher
Relationship in an Era of False Prophets

Interview with Tami Simon of Sounds True
from Sounds True, 1998

The Grace of the Guru: Keeper of the Gates of Grace
Published in Light of Consciousness Journal, Fall 1998

The Sufi Meditation of the Heart
The article the Sufi Meditation of the Heart is now published in The Experience of Meditation ed. Jonathan Shear 2006. This book is available through the publisher: The Experience of Meditation

Love and Longing: The Feminine Mysteries of Love
Published in Personal Transformation, Summer 1999

The Relationship with the Teacher
Published in Sufi Journal, Spring 2001

NEW: Transcript of an early talk given by Irina Tweedie
This is a transcript of a recording from an early talk given in England, shortly after her time in India. You can also listen to this talk online: Listen, Part 1 | Listen, Part 2

Both Feet Firmly on the Ground: Reflections by Irina Tweedie
an Interview from The Laughing Man, 1987

Spiritual Sufi Training is a Process of Individuation Leading into the Infinite
This paper was presented to the VIII International Conference of the International Transpersonal Association at Davos, Switzerland, Sept 1st, 1983.

Daughter of Fire: an Interview with Irina Tweedie
Published in Yoga and Life, 1990.

Yoga of the Heart: an Interview with Irina Tweedie
Published in Yoga Journal, 1986

Suffering and Self-Realization: An Interview with Irina Tweedie
Published in The Spiral Path

Chasm of Fire: The Laughing Man Interviews Irina Tweedie
an Interview from The Laughing Man, around 1985-87

Knowing Beyond Knowing: The Heart of Hermetic Tradition
Published in Parabola [New York] 22/1 (1997), pp. 21­25.

In the Dark Places of Wisdom: The Forgotten Origins of the Western World
Published in Parabola [New York] 23/4 (1998), pp. 40­46 (pre-publication excerpts from the book of the same name)

Hakîm Tirmidhî and the Malâmâtî Movement in Early Sufism
Published in Classical Persian Sufism from its Origins to Rumi, ed. L. Lewisohn, KNP Publications, London and New York 1993, 583-613 (The Heritage of Sufism vol. I, Oxford, Oneworld 1999)