The Unbroken Thread: Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Pir Zia on the secret history of the world

From a nondual perspective, aren't the world's great spiritual traditions expressions of a single living wisdom? In this intimate conversation, Pir Zia Inayat Khan explores the inspiration behind Tears from the Mother of the Sun, a sweeping mythic chronicle of sages, exiles, and revelations spanning continents and planes of existence. Drawing on sacred stories from Persia, India, Egypt and beyond, the book weaves the world's legends into a vision of humanity's shared spiritual inheritance. Together we discover the place of myth in a modern world, the imagination as a path of knowing, and the role of our deepest stories in restoring a sense of belonging to one another, to the Earth, and to the mystery that animates us all.

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00:00 Welcome

00:03 Growing up in a universalist lineage

00:06 Ferdowsi, Soroush, and the frame of the book

00:11 Why the world's traditions belong to one story

00:14 History as a living stream: the three worlds

00:16 The Mongols, violence, and unification

00:19 "I was a hidden treasure": the beginning of history

00:22 Syzygy, and the question of AI

00:29 Honoring the Earth inside our devices