The 1,400 year-old spiritual path known as Sufism emphasizes the power of love to create transformation in a person’s consciousness. One of the greatest teachers of the Sufi path is Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), a Persian mystic whose poetry and writings on love have become extremely popular in recent years. In this talk, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, uses stories and the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi to explore the three stages of the Sufi path of love.

About Netanel Miles-Yepez

Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez is the head of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism and a scholar of comparative religion. He was a student of both Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, and Father Thomas Keating, the founder of the Centering Prayer movement. He has been deeply involved in ecumenical dialogue and is considered a leading thinker in the InterSpiritual and New Monasticism movements. Pir Netanel is the translator of My Love Stands Behind a Wall: A Translation of the Song of Songs and Other Poems (2015), and the editor of Meditations for InterSpiritual Practice (2011). Currently, Pir Netanel teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.