Upgrading the Software of the Multiverse
Science and Mysticism: the influence of Pir Vilayat Khan
A zoom webinar by Ivan Raqib Ickovits and Don Azar Baksh Weiner
10 am to 5 pm Eastern time Saturday, Sept. 18th.
“…I believe the Sufi teachings represent the spiritual dimensions of the scientific paradigms of our time…. We are the being of God discovering unforeseeable possibilities within Himself by concretizing that which has never been done before.” – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Topics will include:
God and science – experiencing the vastness, Neoplatonic models, PVIK inverted cone model, consequences of our shift from Newtonian to quantum universe; relational spirituality with the aim of awakening in life; holographic nature of reality; retro-causality
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Experiencing that which transpires behind that which appears – subtle senses, subtle energy, implicate and explicit; holomovement, cosmic & transcendental consciousness, mandelbrot images, chaos theory and fana/baqa; research that shows the world is very different from how we assume it is, dhikr practice to connect the many levels on which we exist
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Stereoscopic consciousness – maintaining different perspectives in the moment, multidimensionality, subtle realms of being; Bekenstein’s bound
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Beings of light in a universe of light – what is light? Light as the boundary between etheric and physical reality. Light as awareness of individual and divine intelligence. Practices with light. Information and black holes, ecstasy beyond knowing practices. Everyone and everything is Gabriel longing to reveal its unique divinity
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Pull of the future – where to here?, how we each uniquely transform the divine impulse that brought about our being; new creation in every instant; fulfilling our purpose in life
The recording of this webinar will be available to everyone who registers.
Spiritual Practices will be incorporated throughout the day.
10:00-11:15 Presentation
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 Presentation
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Presentation
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Presentation
4:30-5:00 Q&A
Registration: https://theabode.secure.retreat.guru/program/upgrading-the-software/
Suggested donation $50, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Don Azar Baksh Weiner is a retired Ph.D. psychologist in Corpus Christi, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Cal Tech and Stanford in math and honors psychology, and received a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he did the first doctoral dissertation on meditation. He was a student of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan for 25 years, and is a Murshid (senior teacher) in the Inayatiyya (a Sufi Order). He has written GPS for the Spiritual Journey and Upgrading the Operating System of the Soul: A Manual of Quantum Sufism (with a foreword by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan). He and his wife Diane have written The Gabrielite Work – Broadband Spirituality for the 21st Century and have a forthcoming book, Awakening as a Human*Divine Being. They have developed a synthesis of their work together over the years called the Gabrielite Work, which offers advanced spiritual methodology integrating contemporary scientific discoveries with the wisdom of ancient Sufi traditions. Don has taught a number of series of classes which are available on YouTube on his drdonwcc channel including God and Science, Broadband Spirituality for the 21st Century, and Spiritual Awakening as Service to the World.
Ivan Ickovits was born in a small town near Debrecen Hungary to survivors from Aushwitz. After a few years, in Hungary, our escape took us to Haifa, then Toronto, Canada, and finally to Los Angeles, California. Higher education included a PhD program after Physics and Math undergrad at UCLA in quantum theory and particle physics. My teachers were Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winners in Physics). Between my undergrad and graduate school studies, I became an intern at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico in an effort to produce a functional controlled nuclear fusion to enable power generation. As a systems engineer, my satellite projects included NASA and DoD programs: a Mars lander, Space Shuttle, Space Station, Deep Space Surveillance System, Defense Support Program, Brilliant Eyes, Chandra, a space x-ray scanning platform, and Star Wars involving space based and terrestrial high energy lasers. In the 1970s, after meeting Pir Vilayat, over time, I became a representative, a Cherag (minister), Healing Conductor, Ziraat Farmer, senior teacher, guide and retreat guide mentor, (Sufi Order now Inayatiyya) and Pir Vilayat’s consultant on Physics, especially Bohm’s Quantum Physics, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, etc. Pir Vilayat would often prepare to meet with physicists at conferences, where he would discuss consciousness, mysticism and science. I had the honor to edit and offer suggestions to some of his later works: Ecstasy Beyond Knowing, and In Search of the Hidden Treasure.