Upcoming Events October 14, 2007 Murshida Khadija Goforth    Murshida Khadija Julia Goforth has studied and taught in the Sufi Ruhaniat International Chishti lineage of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel Lewis for 28 years. She creates circumstances in which groups can share wisdom and guidance via attunement; as a siraj (senior minister) she co-creates communities and events in which harmony among people and the world's many traditions can be explored while celebrating the beauty of each. Date: Sunday October 14, 2007 Time: 2 to 5 PM Click for direction.

Upcoming Events

Please join us to welcome our guest speaker:
        
      Murshida Khadija Goforth  

Title:
        21st CENTURY SUFIS:
           Legacy &   Challenge

   During a 2005 television interview sheikha Khadija was asked why Sufism was becoming prominent in New York City at this time. She replied that it is possibly because the current world situation asks us all to discover what unites us rather than what divides. According to Sheikha Khadija, this has always been the work of the heart-awakened  mystic: To awaken to Unity at life's source and to serve the awakening of this Unity in humanity. She asserts that our legacy from the great Sufis of history is the means to gather in the Great Heart where heaven and earth meet, where our most authentic humanity and our
spiritual ideals abide. Our challenge is service, to carry this light of human exaltation in the Divine Presence into daily existence.

   Murshida Khadija Goforth has studied and taught in the Sufi Ruhaniat International Chishti lineage of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel Lewis for 28 years. She creates circumstances in which groups can share wisdom and guidance via attunement; as a siraj (senior minister) she co-creates communities and events in which harmony among people and the world's many traditions can be explored while celebrating the beauty of each.

   In 1994 she served as the first woman semazenbashi (dance master) in 450 years at Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi's tomb in Konya, Turkey. She has a master's in psychology, taught middle school for seven years, worked as a theater and dance photographer, and is a wife and mother. After serving as a sheikh for seven years, she was initiated as a murshida (senior teacher) by Murshid Moineddin Jablonski, Samuel Lewis' successor.


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