Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D. is a Sufi teacher and author. Born in London he moved to Northern California in 1991 and founded the Golden Sufi Center, (goldensufi.org). In recent years the focus of his writing and teaching has been on spiritual responsibility in our present time of global crisis, and an awakening global consciousness of oneness (workingwithoneness.org) (Working with Oneness). More recently he has written about the feminine (The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul), and the emerging subject of Spiritual Ecology (emergencemagazine.org) He has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday and featured on the Global Spirit Series shown on PBS. His most recent book is Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. Much of this interview focused on the topic of that book.

Other books:

Darkening of the Light: Witnessing the End of an Era

Fragments of a Love Story: Reflections on the Life of a Mystic

Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism

Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart

Alchemy of Light: Working with the Primal Energies of Life

Love Is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home

Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology

Spiritual Power: How It Works

The Signs of God

The Face Before I Was Born: A Spiritual Autobiography

The Bond with the Beloved: The Inner Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved

Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 11/10/2013

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction to Llewellyn Vaughan- Lee and his work

00:02:23 - The Key to a Different World

00:04:57 - The Beginning of My Spiritual Journey

00:07:04 - The beginning of my spiritual journey above Mrs. Tweedie

00:08:53 - The Decision to Go to America

00:10:37 - Spiritual Freedom in California

00:12:37 - Learning from a Spiritual Teacher

00:14:52 - A State of Pure Light and Bliss

00:16:32 - Oneness and Shattered Ego

00:18:48 - Reconstituting the ego around a different center of consciousness

00:20:58 - "Abiding after Passing Away"

00:23:44 - The Compilation of Essays

00:26:47 - Our Responsibility Towards Creation

00:29:41 - Becoming Responsible spiritual citizens of the world

00:32:09 - The Next Step: Servanthood

00:34:18 - The Contribution of Spiritual People

00:36:25 - The Listening of the Heart

00:38:13 - The Forgotten Spiritual Body of the Earth

00:40:23 - Sustainability and the Responsibility to Creation

00:42:48 - The Great Chain of Being and the Ecological Crisis

00:45:13 - The Quest for the Grail

00:48:19 - The Awakening and Service to the Whole

00:48:41 - Keeping Integrity Amidst Commercialization

00:50:50 - Embracing the responsibility of awakening

00:53:00 - Connecting through the Web of Light

00:55:11 - Beneficial and Less Beneficial Forces in the World

00:57:22 - Censored from an Awareness of Inner Beings

00:59:29 - The Inclusiveness of Oneness

01:01:32 - Prayer for the Earth and Spiritual Intimacy

01:03:55 - A Connection between People and the World

01:06:10 - Music