Navigating the Tricosm — Spirit, Mind & Matter

Navigating the Tricosm — Spirit, Mind & Matter

A Retreat in Bad Bevensen, Germany
Week 1, July 28 – August 3, 2024

We are delighted with the high number of registrations so early in the year. In-person tickets are booked out. If you would like to be on the waiting list, please send an informal message to info@zenithinstitute.com. To register for online participation, see the ticket option at the bottom of the page. 

Goldfish are known to stay small when kept in little containers, and to grow large when introduced to spacious lotus-strewn waters. We human beings are psychically sized in accord with the paradigms we inhabit. When we occupy brittle flatlands, our own beings are consequently truncated. Conversely, when we rediscover the multidimensionality of reality, we unfurl forgotten potentialities. But paradoxically, to become fuller is to become more empty as we realize that in this vast, interconnected tricosm of spirit, mind, and matter, all experiences ultimately derive from and accrue to the One, whose ecstasy lies at the center of it all.

In this five-day retreat, through discourse, meditation, and zikr, we will survey the mesh of the spiritual, mental, and physical worlds, rediscover our location within the tapestry, and rededicate ourselves as instruments of the Mystery from which all has come into being, and into which all is dissolving.

Pir Zia Inayat Khan carries the Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University. His books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity, and the Mystical Quest, Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions, and Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Suluk Academy. Now based in Richmond, Virginia, he and his family live both in the United States and France.

This program takes place at the Caduceus Center, Niendorfer Weg 5b, 29549 Bad Bevensen, Germany. Find all the information about our location for this summer’s program here.

Schedule, Central European Time:

6:30 – 7:30: Early morning meditation with Saki Lee
7:45: Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15: Morning session 1 with Pir Zia
10:45 – 12:00: Morning session 2 with Pir Zia
12:30: Lunch
13:45 – 14:45: Midday Session (e.g. Yoga/Chi Gong)
15:00 – 16:15: Afternoon session 1 with Pir Zia
16:45 – 18:00: Afternoon session 2 with Pir Zia
18:30: Dinner
ca. 20:00 – 21:30: Evening program

Online Schedule, Central European Time:

9:00 – 10:15: Morning session 1 with Pir Zia
10:45 – 12:00: Morning session 2 with Pir Zia

15:00 – 16:15: Afternoon session 1 with Pir Zia
16:45 – 18:00: Afternoon session 2 with Pir Zia

Online Schedule, Eastern Time (New York):

3:00 am – 4:15 am: Morning session 1 with Pir Zia
4:45 am – 6:00 am: Morning session 2 with Pir Zia

9:00 am – 10:15 am: Afternoon session 1 with Pir Zia
10:45 am – 12:00 pm: Afternoon session 2 with Pir Zia

 Online Participation:

• ♥ All sessions with Pir Zia are live-streamed to Zoom. The Caduceus Center offers a steady and fast internet connection, and we can deliver a high-quality live stream with multiple camera angles. We don’t plan on streaming the morning meditation and evening program. 
• ♥ To register for an online ticket, please use our booking system below, or send us an email to info@zenithinstitute.com
• ♥ You’ll receive the Zoom link the week before the program and again on the first day of the program. 
• ♥ Unedited recordings will be available within 12 hours via a link which you’ll receive in the same mail. 
• ♥ Edited recordings will be available within a week after the program, and will stay available long-term. 

At the moment, we only sell online tickets. For regular seminar spots, there’s a waiting list. Should you experience difficulties during checkout or have questions concerning your registration, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email: info@zenithinstitute.com