Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Time and Timelessness
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Our inner and outer worlds, while constantly changing, feed into each other, mirror each other, and both carry an imprint of what is eternal. In this narrated essay, author and Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee shows us how the sacred dimension of time, where the linear is absent, can lead us inwards to silence and emptiness; and outwards, towards a pure sensory awareness of the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the Earth. Sharing that time and timelessness “are not separate but part of a living structure that includes a mayfly that lives for a day and a thousand-year-old sequoia,” Llewellyn calls us to regain a relationship with time beyond numbers and schedules; to remember that time belongs to the deeper patterns of life.
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Artwork by Laura Dutton.
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Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher who has specialized in dreamwork and Jungian psychology. He is the author of numerous books on Sufism and spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, including For Love of the Real and Seasons of the Sacred, and editor of the anthology Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. His most recent book is Seeding the Future: A Deep Ecology of Consciousness.
Laura Dutton is a photo/video-based artist and an assistant teaching professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria. She works with photography and video installation to unravel the materiality of photographic images. Recent solo exhibitions include Deluge Contemporary (Victoria), The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna), and the Esker Foundation Project Space (Calgary).
