Beatitudes Online Retreat to Begin April 26
Beginning next Sunday 26 April, 6pm UK time, I will be offering an online, progressive retreat for 9 weeks focused around the Aramaic Beatitudes in Matthew. We will revisit the Beatitudes and their relevance to current life concerns, starting with...Desert Flowers Special Meeting on Zoom This Sunday: March 22, 5 pm UK time
Dear Friends, Our thrice-yearly Desert Flowers online group will meet online via Zoom this Sunday, 22 March at 5 pm UK time ( for reference: 10 am North America West Coast time). I will be sharing a few prayers and practices from the Aramaic Jesus tradition suited for...Audio of Sunday’s Webinar on “Engaged Sufism” now available.
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Free webinar on Saturday, 25 January
I am pleased to be sharing an hour webinar online tomorrow with my esteemed mentor Shaykh Fadhalla Haeri, who has been working on a new translation of and commentary on the Qur’an, as well as new friend Issa Baba. The theme is “What does it mean to be a...
End of Year Greetings and News for 2019
31 December 2018 Dear Friends of Abwoon, Greetings and blessings of Hogmanay, our end-of-the year celebration here in Scotland. While we are experiencing an unusual run of warm-ish weather (10 C, near 50F to you Americans), the early-fading winter light still draws...
Emergence Album released
Joanna Estelle (a member of the Abwoon Network) is about to release an album of her original music, including a setting of one of my Aramaic Prayer translations. Congratulations Joanna! –Neil News here:...Registration Now Open for “All Wisdom’s Children” at the Lama Foundation
26 February 2018 Registration is now open for the retreat at the Lama Foundation, August 21-26, 2018 with Neil Douglas-Klotz and Philip O’Donohoe You can read a description of the retreat at the Abwoon Network site here. You can register through the Lama...
Announcing: The Little Book of Sufi Stories…pre-order now!
Dear Friends of the Abwoon Network, I am happy to announce a new book published by Hampton Roads, due in June of 2018. The Little Book of Sufi Stories retells some of my favorite stories, and a few you haven’t heard before. I am just finishing...