Ibn ‘Arabi’s Alchemy of Human Happiness: Interview with Stephen Hirtenstein

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  • @jheredia3152
    @jheredia3152 4 роки тому +12

    I'm definitely taking the advice from one of the cohosts and will start re-reading the Alchemy of Human Happinness. I was fortunate to go to some of the reading groups for the Fusus and other talks given by Stephen Hirstenstein in London. It's definitely a treasure of knowledge and wisdom which even though I sometimes lose focus and find myself lost in the labyrinths of life, its a truth to which I always return.

  • @polyontomorphic
    @polyontomorphic 6 місяців тому +5

    this is a really good conversation. thank you.

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +20

    LA ILAHA ILLA HOO , 36 TIMES IN QURAN. UNITY --- affirmation of Unity brings happiness.

    • @amadouthiam7967
      @amadouthiam7967 Рік тому

      Asmaa ul tahlil aka La illaha illala 36 time👍😊🙏❤️

  • @dralmansour
    @dralmansour 4 місяці тому +3

    It is great talk for deep understanding of the subject. I have ibn Arabi,s great books since 15 years. They are very deep in true divine spiritual sense. Thanks to all of you for enlightening us on this great subject.

    • @ThorePesh
      @ThorePesh Місяць тому

      Is there something taught by Ibnul Arabi which you read or PERFOME you will actually feel the divine presence or any kind of spiritual experience.?
      I Just want to be sure that Ibnul Arabi was on the right path before devoting myself into him.
      Because accepting his beliefs is also a great risk in my spiritual life

  • @chyfields
    @chyfields 4 роки тому +17

    Fascinating show. Thank you.
    One of your best?

  • @saminayousaf3514
    @saminayousaf3514 Рік тому +2

    Many thanks to you all and specifically mr Stephen.

  • @maqboolusman2914
    @maqboolusman2914 18 днів тому

    Really enjoyed this thankyou, great job Stephen much appreciated ❤

  • @cryptogenie01
    @cryptogenie01 3 роки тому +6

    He was such a great sufi and scholar . Thanks for doing this work

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +3

    For a seeker of reality / spirituality, it is profound discussion. Did not know that Ibne Araby was such a deep thinker. Every human being has the capability of attaining this realization that we are and should be in a state of gratitude to THE CREATOR. And this brings in deep sensation of PEACE & HAPPINESS.

    • @solsak836
      @solsak836 3 роки тому +4

      Ibn 'Arabi wasn't a thinker, he would receive knowledge from unveiling.

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +2

    Music ---- and its effect on a human being is so pleasing and comforting. Sort of DIVINE PASSION which occurs as a result of MUSIC & SONG.

  • @fineasfrog
    @fineasfrog Рік тому +2

    Given the time limit in a precious conversation like this: When we go off on a tangent or a side track what allows that to work rather than impede? One key to this is to ask the question and keep it available when need be all along the way. That question is: What roughly is the essential question that we have before us? With this in the back of our mind we can ask of ourselves about any tangent or idea that might pop up in our mind during the conversation. We can ask: Will this diversion or idea help with clarifying the question and help the unfolding of the answer/s to this question or will it most probably not? It is a balancing act and one of subtle discernment. However if we keep it in mind, the precious little time will less likely go to a waste of time. Again it is a question of balance, not too tight and not too loose. On the whole you guys do a good job of it. G. I. Gurdjieff once said: "In the course of our talk we must (need to) gradually mark the signpost of a productive conversation." Thanks be and keep up this good work.

  • @IMAHMS
    @IMAHMS 2 роки тому +5

    The Master and His Emissary
    Book by Iain McGilchrist
    Describes all the science behind the fact that we have two different persons with completely distinct worldviews and mode of being and knowing inside each of our heads.

    • @hkoehli
      @hkoehli 2 роки тому +1

      Yes, a great book!

    • @IMAHMS
      @IMAHMS 2 роки тому +1

      @@hkoehli the book is some work, but the idea is most profound yet most people casually move pass it refusing to be convinced which I believe is what the left hemisphere does; it somehow hates the idea there are someone else in control.

    • @naturalhealingmexico
      @naturalhealingmexico Рік тому +1

      ​@@IMAHMS how about the master is the brain(both sides) and the disciple it's the heart?

    • @IMAHMS
      @IMAHMS Рік тому

      @@naturalhealingmexico the heart has no efferent neurons to the brain

    • @naturalhealingmexico
      @naturalhealingmexico Рік тому

      @@IMAHMS the heart thinks, sees and reflect ... Western culture has banned the heart from its functions, I am sure Ibn arabi referred to the heart as the disciple when he wrote this chapter ... He was from a another time and culture...

  • @patriciagiuliano3294
    @patriciagiuliano3294 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you

  • @chrisshrubshall4670
    @chrisshrubshall4670 4 роки тому +6

    Great interview! Enjoy the shows and subject matter!!!!

  • @TheCazuzo
    @TheCazuzo 4 роки тому +6

    I've read ''traité de l'amour'' treaty of love? by Ibn Araby beautiful, that's where I understood the completion of spiritual suffies with christianity....thanks for your work

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +2

    Very deep, profound conversation about spirituality.

  • @Liyah-encyclopedia333
    @Liyah-encyclopedia333 Рік тому +2

    I am reading this book. Thank you❤

  • @EldersTree
    @EldersTree 9 місяців тому +2

    Interesting

  • @Goldenfish450
    @Goldenfish450 2 місяці тому

    Very vast knowledge
    Sir
    In this video at 9min and 56 sec.
    I want to say that camal is called JAMAL and beauty is called JAMAAL.
    So slight difference is there.
    Route may be same.
    Like jamal is jeem+ meem+ laam
    And Jamaal is
    Jeem + meem+ alif + laam
    Thankyou.

  • @MaslakulHudaa
    @MaslakulHudaa Рік тому +1

    Very insightful indeed, thank you so much, may Allah reward you guys, amin 💙

  • @Klazyo
    @Klazyo 4 роки тому +6

    This is the reality and specially cause what is written on the books and also imam al ghazali goes on the meme road as People who experienced NDE " Near Death Experience ".
    There is a word in the Quran called " Tesbih " تسبيح Movement .
    Thank you for this video

  • @datodrali3998
    @datodrali3998 3 роки тому +2

    Alhamdulillah...Masha Allah

  • @amineessa9573
    @amineessa9573 2 роки тому +1

    Ibn Arabi and Soufisme in general is more than ever an actual subject , especially after the paradigm of modern astrophysics and the non sense of creative chaos , look to all these infinite constants, the least deregulation of a decimal can shoot the univers to unknown realm which we are not aware of , constants like plank, speed of light, Boltzmann ,thousands of others also in biology that moves the universe . and the impossibility of them to align in one dash board without the interference of supreme creator/pilot.

  • @foadnowshadi7800
    @foadnowshadi7800 Рік тому +1

    Realisation can not be obtained on individual level as Truth is not bonded to limitations that associated with that . Individual has to overcome it’s limitation of personal self . Individual is the divination that elude the realisation of The Truth that always is and has been beyond time .

  • @msolomonii9825
    @msolomonii9825 8 місяців тому +1

    Taoist book mentioned "Foundations of Internal Alchemy The Taoist Practice of Neidan" Wang Mu ?

  • @zeldaaachen7200
    @zeldaaachen7200 Рік тому +1

    Thanks

  • @mohammadadam9084
    @mohammadadam9084 2 роки тому +1

    Great discussion 👍🏼

  • @artbysamianazir471
    @artbysamianazir471 3 роки тому +1

    Loved this

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +2

    ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS--- BY IBN E ARABI. IT IS VERY RICH AND CAN BE TRANSFORMING. BEAUTUFUL.

    • @mosualeh3189
      @mosualeh3189 2 роки тому

      Its by Al Ghazali no?

    • @mohsen6327
      @mohsen6327 Рік тому

      @@mosualeh3189 Yes it is. But this is " Alchemy of Human Happiness" which is a chapter from Al futuhat Al Makkeyah.

  • @rokhshanadaudi3751
    @rokhshanadaudi3751 6 місяців тому +1

    “ Union is the only remedy for separation!!!”

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +1

    UNION IS THE ONLY WAY TO END THE SEPARATION!!

  • @selmir369
    @selmir369 3 роки тому +3

    GOD Is The Light. Light=Energy, Fills all infinite universe... One Is All, All Is ONE

  • @aryanknowledgeseeker9945
    @aryanknowledgeseeker9945 3 роки тому +2

    Mashallah

  • @lazut273
    @lazut273 3 роки тому +1

    tHANKS

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +1

    POP SONG & MUSIC ------ IF it is a deeper level ---- that is what is to transform. Higher level of BEING.

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +1

    Sexuality alone is at a lower level of existence----this must be elevated to higher level of LOVE & PASSION.

  • @Nonofyourbusinessq
    @Nonofyourbusinessq 4 місяці тому

    I don't understand the reason for the listener laughing whether lack of understanding of the depth of the subject or what? Great speaker on ibn arabi

  • @halimb4836
    @halimb4836 Рік тому +2

    Your other interview of Stephen got taken down ! 😢

    • @MindMattersVideo
      @MindMattersVideo  Рік тому

      It's up for us: ua-cam.com/video/Ee_P4O2gLOI/v-deo.html

    • @MindMattersVideo
      @MindMattersVideo  Рік тому +2

      Oh, you're right. It was blocked because we included an Ertugrul clip. Dumb. But we trimmed it out, so it should be available once that process completes.

    • @halimb4836
      @halimb4836 Рік тому

      @@MindMattersVideo it’s okay I found mp3 version 😮‍💨- but I still get
      This video contains content from TRT, who has blocked it on copyright grounds
      even on my other browser for the UA-cam vid FYI

  • @Naabi561
    @Naabi561 3 роки тому +2

    A Great show ended in a Great way.

  • @rajnigupta3187
    @rajnigupta3187 Рік тому +1

    What is human happiness ?

  • @atiqrahman7289
    @atiqrahman7289 3 роки тому +1

    Spiritual Transformation.

  • @bouchaibnatek6654
    @bouchaibnatek6654 4 роки тому +1

    لو عدنا لكتابات المرحلة المعاصرة لابن عربي سنجد كتابات في مجالات أخرى تشبه الى حد بعيد كتابات ابن عربي. كتابات تنشد المطلق والمبادئ و المحرك والدافع بلغة أخرى كتابات تسعى الى التنظير والإحاطة الشاملة. يشبه إلى حد بعيد حازم القرطاجني وشعر المتنبي يجب النظر الى ابن عربي من خلال منهاج البلغاء يشببه الى حد بعيد

    • @MindMattersVideo
      @MindMattersVideo  4 роки тому

      شكرا لك على تعليقك.

    • @bouchaibnatek6654
      @bouchaibnatek6654 4 роки тому

      سأكون سعيدا لو شاركت أو ساعدت في فهم وقراءة ابن عربي .

    • @bouchaibnatek6654
      @bouchaibnatek6654 4 роки тому

      I want be one of your team reading Ibn Arabi.

  • @fethk
    @fethk 7 місяців тому

    1:02

  • @freisein6554
    @freisein6554 3 роки тому +2

    The mind is a cage,...
    but there is no prisoner inside,...
    ( Jean Klein )

  • @salmantabatabai
    @salmantabatabai Рік тому +1

    I'm baffled that you talk a lot about alchemy and not mention Persia even once!!! As if east and west were just jumping over Persia which was a very massive country in those years...

    • @naturalhealingmexico
      @naturalhealingmexico Рік тому +1

      The west it's ignorant about it, please share some authors similar as Ibn arabi. Iran and Iraq gave great teachers of spiritual alchemy, but we are unaware of them.

    • @NN-sd2tv
      @NN-sd2tv 5 місяців тому

      @@naturalhealingmexico Please look up Rumi and Suhrawardi to begin with.

    • @naturalhealingmexico
      @naturalhealingmexico 5 місяців тому

      @@NN-sd2tv those are in my list, any other author? I have Ibn Arabi, Avicenne, Rumi, Suhrawardi, and obviously Imam Jafar and Ali's writings, can you share some more names please? Thanks

  • @sstalks469
    @sstalks469 3 місяці тому

    Walter White is Back

  • @kimanimuthra9553
    @kimanimuthra9553 2 роки тому +1

    Who knows god is his

  • @HassanAli-ev7lt
    @HassanAli-ev7lt 4 роки тому +1

    Great show. The guy with shaved head in the first part spoke nothing though. Kinda took away our attention/libido for giving nothing in return.

    • @naradaian
      @naradaian 3 роки тому +5

      It's Adab under the circumstances

    • @HassanAli-ev7lt
      @HassanAli-ev7lt 3 роки тому +2

      @@naradaian apologies for being over critical back then

  • @earthpictures7761
    @earthpictures7761 4 місяці тому

    First of all his prophet had never reached the heavens because all the verses that speak about that were not addressed to Muhammad. And there is no way to learn how to ascend to heaven through studying people like Ibn Arabi, because ascensions only happen for a reason and only to whom God TRUST. You can speak as much as you like and waste time as much as you like. Human perfection can never happen through Alchemy or Sufism or Mysticism etc.., it can only occur through the heart and it already happened several times on an individualistic level. However unfortunately the collective perfection will never happen because the levels of arrogance, ignorance and greed in the majority of world population have reached the points of no return. Ibn Arabi and Muhammad have nothing to do with divinity.. They were merely tools used by the divine to deliver messages that not only helped to shape the future of the human race but also deeply convicted the two men as they fell into the traps of their own egos. The divine work via its own timing, for example it can deliver a cryptic message to Lincoln but its meaning can only understood by Obama decades later! No one can decipher the divine code without winning God's trust. God would never ask for faith to be spread by force. God would never allow a creature to equal in value 4 or 14 other creatures. And if you understand what I mean you would know that God can never allow someone who promotes polygamy and the use of force to reach heaven. Everything in Muhammad's lifestyle contradicts Jesus teachings. Muhammad was pro-worldly life while Jesus was pro Kingdom of God which will force itself eventually on this world which has been all the time a place of test and vetting or in another word a space to allow humans to create their eternal selves or lose the chance. To be or not to be? It has always been the question and we have been given the freedom of choice to decide by our own actions: to be or not to be!

    • @raphaelwalterlin1681
      @raphaelwalterlin1681 2 місяці тому

      "However unfortunately the collective perfection will never happen because the levels of arrogance, ignorance and greed in the majority of world population have reached the points of no return." -> Your comment proves exactly this. It reveals greed in the sense that you seem to be just another religious adherent trying to convince people of your own prophet / tradition (here: Jesus). It reveals ignorance because you obviously have only dealt with the matters discussed here in a superficial manner. And greed and ignorance together could be labelled "arrogant", couldn't they? So you are actually confirming that you yourself belong to that mass of people who suffer from "the levels of arrogance, ignorance and greed." So, yes, you are right, one has to be careful as not to fall "into the trap of one's ego."

    • @earthpictures7761
      @earthpictures7761 2 місяці тому

      @@raphaelwalterlin1681 I am anti-religious.. God sent warnings, reminders, and commandments but religions are man-made. We are here to be or not to be.. Our actions decide, and Sufism and Mysticism are never the way to create oneself.. It only reminds you that you have an eternal soul, but this soul is not yours, you have just borrowed it from God (The source of everything) to prove that you are worthy of owning it. The Soul is eternal because all souls are owned by God.. However, the human self is not eternal as long as it doesn't prove to God that it is worthy enough to own a soul. Your Ibn Arabi is dead, and Your Muhammad is DEADER than dead, so they failed to own their souls.. The only way they get back to live eternally is when the OMEGA soul of one person reaches the level God wanted to give a human the ownership of his eternal soul, the only two persons who managed to do so so far according to historical/ religious texts are ENOCH and JESUS. When a man reaches the 99.99% level of holiness he will share his soul standard with all the gooddoers who will get resurrected from their death to get eternal life, but the thanks won't be totally in that to those individuals but rather to the person to who God has given his total trust.