Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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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, (www.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 (www.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 (http://spiritualecology.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

Interview recorded 11/10/2013

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