5 min
Talk
Total Humanity
Five minutes, and the clearest statement of what he meant by parallel sacred worlds.
About the teacher
Lex Hixon
American poet and teacher (1941–1995) who held membership in several traditions at once and called them parallel sacred worlds. He prayed with a Lakota elder at nineteen, became a disciple of Swami Nikhilananda of the Ramakrishna Mission, took a doctorate on an early Advaita text at Columbia, and was made a sheikh of the Jerrahi Sufi order under the name Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
15 min
Talk
The Open Space Beyond Religion
Fifteen minutes on belonging to several traditions at once without making them into one.
29 min
Talk
The Heart of the Koran
A 1989 talk on his own rendering of the Koran, read as a book of mystical experience.
Path
The wider context.
ॐ
Ancient inquiry into what remains
Vedanta
Classical Hindu philosophy of Self-inquiry into the nature of Atman and Brahman, transmitted through scripture, teacher lineages and rigorous study.
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