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The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus in “Virus Times”
These are two selections from the meditation and teaching that I shared in the online Desert Flowers group (https://abwoon.org/desert-flowers/) on March 22, 2020. The first is a short commentary on the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus for today (13 min): Aramaic prayer text...
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.
You will find this on this site's Podcasts page under Library in the menu above. Or direct link here: https://abwoon.org/library/podcasts/
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 Sufi in the...
Gibran’s Little Book of Wisdom Released
Government is an agreement between you and me.You and I are often wrong. Fife, Scotland: 2 September 2019 The last of my four "little books" of Kahlil Gibran is now out, this one full of wisdom for daily life--living in community and living alone, plus Gibran's often...
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...