Peter Young
He studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, and Ottoman Turkish at Oxford. Later, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and for a time ran his own building company. He has been involved with Beshara since 1974, was a student of the first six-month Course in 1975 and has served as Principal of the Beshara School since 1984. He has published articles and given papers on the subject of the Unity of Existence, as well as lecturing and supervising courses internationally for the Beshara School. He is married and has four children and currently three grandchildren.
Working together between God's two hands
Climate Change, seen from a spiritual point of view (A paper delivered at a Symposium in Oxford 2006)
Letter to a war zone
Correspondence with a friend during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war
An Education for the Heart
A paper given at a Teacher's Forum for Faith and Philosophy in Edinburgh
11th September 2001 : A Response from Love (Scotland, 2001)
'The opportunity offered to each of us is to be of service to Reality, to be of service to the Love that is the expressive movement of One Existence.'
At the still point…
'Rumi's task has been the transformation of a perspective founded irrevocably upon the Unity of Existence’.
Ibn 'Arabi: towards a universal point of view (Oxford 1999)
'…Now, what is required beyond this is an education which leads to an all-inclusive point of view.’
A Universal Perspective
'…For Man there is a vision possible of One All-encompassing Unique Existence, and it is the possibility of the arrival at this vision that is the sole purpose of the emergence of humanity.’