October 4 - 6, 2019
The Pir Vilayat Center
The Abode of the Message
Facilitated by Himayat Inayati
"He brought the cosmos into existence upon His own form. Hence it is a mirror within which He sees His own form."
Ibn al-Arabi
***“Who is man? The reflection of the Eternal Light. What is the world? A wave on the Everlasting Sea. How could the reflection be cut off from the Light? How could the wave be separate from the Sea? Know that this reflection and this wave are that very Light and Sea, for here duality is impossible, impossible. Look atthe travelers on the Path of Love, how each has a different spiritual state. The one sees in each atom of the world a Sun radiant and imperishable. Another directly witnesses in the mirror of exitece the beauty of the hidden archetypes. Amd a third sees each one in the other, without veiling or defect.”***
’Abd al-Rahman Jami
"Envision your consciousness expanding, encompassing increasingly wider fields of perception and mentation. Now if you think that your body was confectioned out of the stardust - that the outburst of radiance at the instant of the big bang continues to live now as your body, your sense of identity - your notion of yourself extends. The cosmic dimension is evidenced by our sense of participation in the entire cosmos."
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
This three-day retreat at The Pir Vilayat Center will be an introduction and exploration of al-Insān al-Kāmil, the universal human, a transpersonal archetype activating each of us to manifest as a unique exemplar.
The teaching and practice offered by this retreat process will be an exercise of awakening to an inner condition of perfection resting as a pearl awaiting us in our soul. Our retreat will support an exploration and awakening of the innermost aspects of each participant’s unique and innate disposition - orienting each to the fulfillment to her or his life’s purpose.
For Information & Registration Visit: https://www.theabode.org/retreatguru/723/the-universal-human/
The Pir Vilayat Center at the Abode | 5 Abode Road, New Lebanon, NY | 518-794-8095 | [thepirvilayatcenter.org | theabode.org ](http://thepirvilayatcenter.org | theabode.org)