Mysticism

Harmonia traces the flowering revolution and the 130-million-year story of beauty as the force that built the living world.

Harmonia sits uninvited at Judy Chicago's Dinner Party and traces why Ishtar, Kali, and Mary all reveal the same human aspiration.

The story of Layla and Majnun as a Sufi allegory for the soul's longing for the Divine and the sacred threshold of the Lote Tree.

The Cloud of Unknowing teaches that love, not intellect, is the instrument that crosses the threshold between the human and the divine.

Lal Ded, 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poet, whose vakhs on the sacred dignity of every soul shaped a valley and seeded a revolution.

In this episode, Harmonia remembers Guru Ravidas, a 15th-century poet-saint of the Bhakti movement whose hymns defied caste, and revealed the sacred in work itself.

Sarmad Kashani, the naked mystic of Mughal Delhi, who chose death over finishing a sentence he had not yet lived.