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name: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
about: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic.Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953, London) is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork and spirituality.:: HistoryLlewellyn Vaughan-Lee was born in London in 1953. He began following the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi path at the age of 19, after meeting Irina Tweedie, author of Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master. He became Irina Tweedie's successor and a teacher in the Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and founded The Golden Sufi Center to help make available the teachings of this Sufi Lineage (see http://g Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi mystic.Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953, London) is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork and spirituality.:: HistoryLlewellyn Vaughan-Lee was born in London in 1953. He began following the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi path at the age of 19, after meeting Irina Tweedie, author of Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master. He became Irina Tweedie's successor and a teacher in the Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and founded The Golden Sufi Center to help make available the teachings of this Sufi Lineage (see http://goldensufi.org).:: WorksAuthor of several books, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe on Sufism, mysticism, Jungian psychology and dreamwork. He has also specialized in the area of dreamwork, integrating the ancient Sufi approach to dreams with the insights of Jungian psychology. Since 2000 the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, and an awakening global consciousness of oneness. More recently he has written about the feminine, the world soul, the anima mundi, and the emerging field of spiritual ecology (see http://workingwithoneness.org). He has also hosted a number of Sufi conferences bringing together different Sufi orders in North America (see http://suficonference.org).His initial work from 1990 to 2000, including his first eleven books, was to make the Sufi path more accessible to the Western seeker. The second series of books, starting from the year 2000 with The Signs of God, are focused on a spiritual teachings about oneness and how to bring them into contemporary life, with the final book in this series being Alchemy of Light.Llewellyn has been featured in two films, One the Movie &amp; Wake Up. He has also been featured in the Tv series Global Spirit and in August 2012, he was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey as a part of her Super Soul Sunday series. He also writes a blog on the Huffington Post.:: Books* The Lover and the Serpent: Dreamwork within a Sufi Tradition (1990: out of print)* The Call and the Echo: Sufi Dreamwork and the Psychology of the Beloved (1992: out of print, reissued in 1998 as Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology)* The Bond of the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved (1993)* In the Company of Friends: Dreamwork within a Sufi Group (1994)* Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters (1995)* Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart (1995)* The Paradoxes of Love (1996)* The Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography (1997, 2nd Edition 2009 with new Introduction and Epilogue)* Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology (1998)* The Circle of Love (1999)* Love is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home (2000)* The Signs of God (2001)* Working with Oneness (2002)* Light of Oneness (2004)* Moshkel Gosha: A Story of Transformation (2005)* Spiritual Power: How It Works (2005)* Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice (2006)* Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life (2007)* The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul (2009)* Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic (2011)* Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism (2012) ...more