Lex Hixon

Lex Hixon ( born December 25, 1941 in Pasadena, California; † 1 November 1995) was an American poet and spiritual teacher.

Hixon was a student of Muzaffer Efendi, 19th Sheikh of Dscherrahi - Tariqa ( Jerrahi - dervish orders ) from Istanbul (Turkey). Later he founded under the name of Nur al - Jerrahi its own Order - branch called Only Ashki Jerrahi Sufi order, which even today (as of 2006) in the United States ( including Hawaii ) and Mexico is active.

Life

Lex Hixon was interested in his childhood religious questions. After finishing school, he studied philosophy at Yale University. There he met his first spiritual teacher, the Lakota Sioux Vine Deloria, the father of his roommate. After studying philosophy, he completed a study of Religionan, which he finished in 1963.

In 1965 he met during a visit to New York Vedanta Center in New York City on Swami Nikhilananda. He became his disciple and lived until his death in 1972 with him. Nikhilananda encouraged Hixon, 1976 to earn his doctorate at Columbia University in religious history.

1971 Hixon began his radio program In The Spirit on WBAI radio in New York, where known religious figures such as Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen were guests during the 14 years charisma.

From 1975 Lex Hixon gave lectures at the New School for Social Research. In 1976 he began studies of Buddhism in a Tibetan Lama, which led him to a Buddhist pilgrimage.

1979 met Lex Hixon in an interview to In The Spirit on his future spiritual teacher Muzaffer Efendi and spent the next six days with him and his dervishes. In the subsequent Islamic fasting month of Ramadan Muzaffer Efendi invited him to Istanbul, where he worked in the so-called Laylat -ul Kadr ( Night of Power ), in which, according to tradition the Prophet Muhammad, the first revelations of the Quran were notified to the rank of Sheikh the Dscherrahi - Tariqa was charged. Muzaffer Efendi Tekke opened in 1980, a called Masjid al - Farah in New York. Lex Hixon was entrusted for the period of absence Efendi with the management. In 1987 he accepted an invitation to Mexico, where he soon opened another Tekke, whose director Sheikha Amina Teslima was.

Hixon died at his home in Riverdale cancer.

Literary works

  • Coming Home
  • Great Swan
  • Mother of the Buddhas
  • Mother of the Universe
  • Living Buddha Zen
  • Heart of the Koran
  • Atom from the Sun of Knowledge
  • Recolección de la Miel

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