Fifteen minutes on belonging to several traditions at once without making them into one.
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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.
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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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