SKU: 0930872363

• Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan
• ISBN: 0930872363
• Book (Paperback)
• Omega Publications
• 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
• .75 lbs
• 233 pages

Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on the mind and its role in the spiritual life are provocative and illuminating. In Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology he explores the purification and training of the psyche, its use as a tool in spiritual growth, and the inner teachings of the mystics on intuition, visionary dreams, inspiration, revelation.

This collection is the most comprehensive gathering of Inayat Khan's teachings on the mind and its potential, and contains material which has not been published elsewhere.

"One learns to understand that in one's mind there is the source of happiness and unhappiness, the source of light and darkness; and that it can be awakened either mechanically or at will, if only we know how to do it." -Inayat Khan

Editor's Note: Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology is made up of transcripts of lectures that Inayat Khan gave in the 1910's and twenties. Some of this material has previously been published, scattered throughout a number of volumes in the Sufi Message Volume series; a large portion of it, including most of the papers in Part Four, on psychic power and the higher vision, has never before been made public. Edited by Anka Laura de la Torre Bueno

Hazrat Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order International, came to the West as a representative of the highest musical traditions of his native India, and brought with him a message of love, harmony and beauty that was both the quintessence of Sufi teaching and a revolutionary approach to the harmonizing of Western and Eastern spirituality. He dedicated his early life to the mastery of subtle intricacies of classical Indian music, winning the high title of Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad, a powerful ruler and renowned patron of the musical arts.

In fulfillment of his quest for a spiritual teacher, Inayat Khan took initiation from Shaykh al-Mashaykh Sayed Muhammed Abu Hashim Madani. While he was an inititator of the four main Sufi lineages in India, Madani's primary connection was with the Chishti Order. At the end of his apprenticeship, Inayat Khan was enjoined by his teacher to travel to the West and harmonize the two cultures.

On September 13 of 1910 Inayat Khan began an odyssey which would encompass three continents, and transform the lives of thousands. He eventually settled in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris. During his sixteen years in the West, he created a school of spiritual training based upon the traditional teachings of the Chishti Sufis, and infused with a revolutionary vision of the unity of religious ideals and the awakening of humanity to the divinity within.

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