Name: gazing at the moon (Dharam Singh) by VISION LAB
Duration: 11 min 13 s
Description: The first sound we hear as a human being is the double heartbeat. We heard the beating of our heart and, as if it were an echo, the heartbeat of our mother - carried us for the first nine moons. At birth the second heartbeat we always knew disappeared. So often we feel alone, and not at home and spend our whole life silently longing for that missing heartbeat.

Hadra in the Mosque of Ibn 'Arabi | الشيخ الأكبر محيي الدين بن عربي

Hadra In The Mosque Of Ibn 'Arabi الشيخ الأكبر محيي الدين بن العربي

Dr. Xavier is a professor of Religious Studies at Queens University in Ontario Canada. She works on contemporary global Islam and Sufism, with particular regional interests in North America (United States and Canada) and South Asia(Sri Lanka). She broadly examines how Sufism transforms and/or maintains continuity as it is transmitted to new regions, such as through migration, diaspora, literature, and popular culture (i.e., Rumi). In doing so, she engages sacred spaces (Sufi shrines), rituals, practices, and memory, in addition to gender dynamics.  

She is the author of Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures (2018), and the co-author of Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics and Popular Culture (2017). She is currently work on two book projects. The first is a case study on the development of Sufism in Toronto. For her second project, she is documenting Sufi shrines in Sri Lanka and its contemporary legacy, amidst growing anti-Sufism on the island.

#037: The Life & Legacy of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen w/ Shobhana Xavier

Kythe on violin, Jackie on harp + ambient sounds

Jackie Wang And Kythe Heller Improvisation

Created and recorded in one session between midnight and six am on February 1, 2013, as a gift for a friend in recovery. Thanks to musicians Shahjehan, Billie, and Miguel; to sound engineer Arjun and to producer Farida.

Wake Up, Jake Lightning

Quick mix of a gypsy-reggae jam at Echo. Kythe Heller on concept and Vox, Miguel Romero and Shahjehan Khan on guitars, Arjun Ray and Rusty on Bass, and Billie Bearse on drums, with the help of Farida Amar behind the scenes.

Kythe Heller and the Cosmo-nots

The first sound we hear as a human being is the double heartbeat. We heard the beating of our heart and, as if it were an echo, the heartbeat of our mother - carried us for the first nine moons. At birth the second heartbeat we always knew disappeared. So often we feel alone, and not at home and spend our whole life silently longing for that missing heartbeat.

gazing at the moon (Dharam Singh)

VISION LAB

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