• See Seminars Page for more info.
• Java, 3 day retreat, July 4-6, 2008
  Bisma
• From the Heart of Silence,
  April 26, 27, 2008
  Portland, Oregon
  suficircleofportland.org
  Contact: platt.mc@gmail.com
• The Path of Completion
  Garrison, New York, August 29 - September 1; with Kabir, Camille, James Morris. rahimamcc@sbcglobal.net
• The Meaning of Dervishhood Amsterdam, October 24-26. Camille and Kabir.
  sipko.den.boer@planet.nl

Spiritual Paths Program in
Interspiritual Wisdom
MA & Certificate:


The Spiritual Paths Foundation brings together a number of spiritual teachers to share the wisdom and experience of their own contemplative traditions. Over the several years we have worked together we have increasingly recognized the common themes of spirituality, as well as the unique qualities of each. This is not a project to homogenize or blend the spiritual traditions; rather, it is an opportunity to learn from some people who are at the cutting edge of contemporary spirituality, offering new perspectives and insights, while affirming the value of traditional wisdom. The Program in Interspiritual Wisdom is not meant as a substitute for a spiritual path, rather, it is to enhance our own wisdom through contact with different, yet complementary, perspectives. Furthermore, the two year Masters or Certificate Program offers a structure for deepening our understanding of fundamental metaphysics, spiritual models and roadmaps, applied spirituality, and the global vision of our time. It is exciting to be part of this.

~Shaikh Kabir Helminski

Your Image
Rumi Translated by Rezwani and Helminski
Furuzanfar Divan 644

Once Your image settled into our hearts,
we found ourselves sitting in Paradise .

All our worries of Apocalypse and Armageddon
each turned into the face of a houri
and the charm of a Chinese beauty.

All that men and women fear to look at,
all that stalks them, now became close companions.

The skies became a rose garden and earth a buried treasure;
yet, what sort of "thing" are You
that all existence became this way because of You?

Since we saw Him we have been prospering day after day;
the thistle that happened to find Him
became a flower bed of certainty.

The unripe grapes turned ripe by the Sun and became sugary;
likewise, dark rock turned into a gem.

Many an earth was transfigured by His charisma;
the sinister turned felicitous out of His hand of fortune.

The darkness of the heart, became an opening of the heart;
the waylayer of faith is now a mentor and a leader.

The dark well of suffering which was a prison to Joseph,
became a strong rope for him to climb out.

Every particle is, like the army of Allah,
under Divine command,
to the faithful servant a guarantee and to the denier an ambush.

Keep silent, these words are like the Nile :
One, a Copt, will drown in this blood;

another, a blessed Israelite, will be buoyed along.
Keep silent. These words are ripened figs,

but not every bird of the air
will come to discover them.