“Who verifies for oneself – which the common legal scholars call sincerity, and which the Sufis call Presence, and which the ones who verify for themselves call inner energy; but I, and those like me, call grace.”
—Ibn ‘Arabi
invocation (n.) late 14c., "petition (to God or a god) for aid or comfort; invocation, prayer.” From Proto-Indo-European root *wekw– "to speak".
We might understand the practice of ally work as invocation. We might see ally work as invoking the inner speech, the inner words. Inner speech and inner words functioning as spiritual forms – vessels – carrying communication from the domain of the essence.
Our practice methodology includes intention, attention, presence, and active imagination. With grace, we may receive the inner speech – in words, in image, in the felt sense.
Ibn ‘Arabi indicates that sincerity, presence, and inner energy are mostly deeply understood as grace. What is our understanding of grace in the practice of ally work? Beyond methodology, beyond possibility, beyond the known, how may we be informed by grace?
In this session we’ll reflect through group dialogue and written reflection on our deeper understandings of grace.
Sessions do not have a monetary cost, but ask each person for their attention, contribution to discussion, and presence on camera.