Stories for a Living Future with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

My Own Story—Epilogue: The Nature of Divine Light

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The nature of the light which I have described in these recent podcasts is that it comes direct from the Source, from the undifferentiated Essence. It...

Death

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I talk about death, a subject central to the life of a mystic. The Sufi says that we should “die before we die,” die to the ego, a...

The Song of the Heart of the World

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The teachings of the Tao have always been a hidden influence in my own journey, its qualities of silence and stillness, and a relationship to the “n...

Walking Between Worlds

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The path of the mystic has drawn me deep into the inner worlds. Returning to our fragile Earth and my own vulnerable self, I become a place where the ...

Series 4 - My Own Story: A Return to Love

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My own story has been a journey of love. Sitting at the feet of my teacher I experienced a love that was all-embracing, and which took me on its path,...

Into the Light and Back Again

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A final piece that describes part of my own journey into the light and back again, a personal description of the landscape of light and love into whic...

Angels and Devas

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We are surrounded by many unseen worlds of angels and nature devas, spirit guides and elemental beings, and yet we have cut ourself off from these wor...

Love and Prayer

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Praying for the Earth as a living being, I feel the love that runs through all things, every cell and every star. I sense that love is really all we h...

Listening to the Wind

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this time between stories, where are the visions to guide us, the dreams to follow? How can we understand the conflicting forces that define our wo...

Trailer: Stories for a Living Future, Series 3: Stories of the Heart

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this third podcast series I return to familiar themes: living at the end of an era, in a time of great dying, and yet holding a thread to a living ...

Awakening

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As an interlude between Series 2, From the Edge of the World, and Series 3, Stories of the Heart, I want to go back to the beginning, to a talk “Awa...

Foundations for a New Era

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The final podcast in this second series is the shortest, but in many ways the most essential. One morning I awoke long before dawn with the clear know...

Watching the Stars

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Watching the stars, the Milky Way stretching across the sky, I sense how the changes happening within the Earth reach far into the cosmos. Our journey...

The Living Moment: Reflections of an Old Man

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Getting older I find it easier to be more fully in the moment, a place without clocks or calendars. The present moment is all around us, though mostly...

Living Oneness

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Oneness is a foundational principle for the new era, but in order to recognize how we are a part of this living wholeness we need a new quality of per...

Earth Changes

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In order to understand more fully the changes taking place I try to let the Earth and my heart speak to me, tell me their story, how the threads of cr...

A Dream of the Earth

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Around us we can see the cascading crises of the end of an era, but we have little awareness of how the Earth Herself is changing. Even as the Earth i...

Colliding Forces

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Collectively we are walking along a fault line where two eras meet, forces constellating deep within our psyche and within the Earth. And yet we have ...

A New Note in the Axis of Love

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The axis of love runs through all things, present in every grain of sand, every drop  of rain, every laugh, every tear. And this axis is coming alive...

The Gift of a Garden

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this liminal landscape, a place between stories, it is more and more important to find a place of belonging. In my own journey this has been the gi...

Prayer of the Heart

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As I experience our world becoming darker and more self-destructive, I am drawn more and more into prayer as a refuge and response. Prayer, like the f...

A Four-Point Plan Revisited

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What should we do in response to the present time of darkening and cascading crises? Although there is much work to be done in the outer world, there ...

Watching at the Edge of the World

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the edge of the world one can see not only storms building far out to sea, but also forces forming across continents. If we are to walk through the...

Trailer: Stories for a Living Future, Series 2: From the Edge of the World

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Space Between Stories

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This short piece is an interlude between Stories for a Living Future Series One, and Series Two: From the Edge of the World. It explores the need to h...

Epilogue

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Summarizing these stories I am trying to turn our attention to a way to walk through this dying land without losing our way, to travel through these s...

Life Amidst the Ruins

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to live at the end of an era, and how can we hold the light that is left in this time of rising darkness to find our way towards a l...

A Hidden Pathway

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A simple spiritual teaching is to live in the moment, the now. Rather than being caught in memories of the past or thoughts of the future we are atten...

Words

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this piece I reflect on the limitations of language to describe a pathway to a living future. If we are to read the signs that are already around u...

Love, Care & Community

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we walk into the liminal landscape of the present time, when so much is uncertain, what are the qualities we need to support us and reconnect us to...

Watching River Otters

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Watching river otters in the nearby wetlands I sense a world without the conflict or division that is present all around us. They point to a doorway i...

A Story of Beginnings

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Once again my consciousness is drawn back to the early days, before of what we think of as “the Fall,” when the worlds of light and the physical w...

Threads of Love

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast explores the intersection of spiritual practice and our ecological crisis, and how these two central threads have been woven into my own ...

Blood Moon

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Walking early one morning I discover a blood moon through the trees, an encounter that reconnects me to the mystery of the multidimensional world that...

When the Source Ran Free

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Written during the early months of the pandemic, this piece describes the moment outside of time when everything is new, and is lived for the very fir...

Introduction

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At this present time, when the story of humanity and its patterns of conquest and control are in direct conflict with the story of the Earth and its p...

Trailer

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas