A Talk by Doug Marman: The Call of the Unknown — A Spiritual Adventure


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The spiritual path is not a path where we find answers that bring an end to our questions. It is a path that leads deeper and deeper into the unknown.
As the Sufi poet, Rumi, says, we have to continually give up everything we think we know to take the next step on the spiritual path. This means, over and over again, becoming a beginner, like a child who sees life as completely new. We need to keep starting over because our experience with life changes us as we grow spiritually. We are changed so deeply that we see the world through different eyes.
We like to reassure ourselves about how much we know and how much we have learned, especially as we grow older. It gives us the feeling that we are standing on firm ground and that we know who we are. However, this won’t do us much good if we are seeking what Rumi calls the real jewel of life—the treasures hidden in the unknown. To find the wisdom of the invisible worlds within us we must let go of the firm ground beneath our feet and who we think we are. We must risk everything. This is every bit a true adventure.
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Speaker's Biography:
Doug Marman has been writing, lecturing, and leading classes on the exploration of consciousness for more than forty years. He has written several books on spirituality including “It Is What It Is”; a comprehensive commentary on Rumi’s Fihe-Ma-Fih, which is a collection of Rumi’s lectures. “The Silent Questions” is another book written by Doug. It is a “true story of the quest to know. It is about the power hidden behind questions that have haunted people since the beginning of time; questions like Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life?
Among other books written by Doug is “Lenses of Perception” which dives into the foundations of physical reality and discovers the surprising role of consciousness at fundamental level of the universe.
He also has had a varied and interesting technical career:
• Chief Technology Officer of a $1.7B division of General Electric (GE).
• Invented and developed new technologies that were instrumental in growing a business from $15M in revenue to $780M, which was then acquired by GE.
• Co-founder of a technology start-up based on breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.
Inventor with more than 35 patents used in tens of millions of products worldwide.
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Webpage: Spiritual Dialogues (http://spiritualdialogues.com/)
Previous talks:
Seeing the Invisible (https://youtu.be/xRi4pVKLO8k)

A Talk by Doug Marman: The Call of the Unknown — A Spiritual Adventure