Lex Hixon

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

Hixon was a student of Muzaffer Efendi , 19th Sheikh of Jerrahi - Tariqa (Jerrahi- dervish -Orden) from Istanbul ( Turkey ). Later he founded his own branch under the name Nur al-Jerrahi called Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order , which is still active today (as of 2006) in the USA (including Hawaii ) and Mexico .

Life

Lex Hixon was interested in religious issues from childhood. After graduating from high 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 went on to study religion , 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 student and stayed with him until his death in 1972. Nikhilananda encouraged Hixon to earn his doctorate in the history of religion from Columbia University in 1976 .

In 1971, Hixon began his radio program In The Spirit on WBAI radio in New York, which featured well-known religious figures such as Mother Teresa , the Dalai Lama and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen during the 14 years of broadcast .

From 1975 Lex Hixon gave readings at the New School for Social Research . In 1976 he began studying Buddhism with a Tibetan lama , which led him on a Buddhist pilgrimage .

In 1979 Lex Hixon met his future spiritual teacher Muzaffer Efendi during an interview on In The Spirit and spent the next six days with him and his dervishes . In the following Islamic fasting month of Ramadan , Muzaffer Efendi invited him to Istanbul , where he was given the rank of Sheikh in the so-called Laylat-ul Kadr ( Night of Power ), in which, according to tradition, the first revelations of the Koran were communicated to the Prophet Muhammad the Jerrahi - Tariqa was raised. In 1980 Muzaffer Efendi opened a tekke called Masjid al-Farah in New York. Lex Hixon was entrusted with its management during the time of Efendi's absence. In 1987 he accepted an invitation to Mexico , where he soon opened another Tekke, of which Sheikha Amina Teslima became the director.

Hixon died of cancer in November 1995 at his Riverdale home.

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
  • Immeasurable light Edition Avicenna, 2016

swell

  1. ^ Sufi Review (Pir Publications, Spring 1997), pp. 5-8

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personal data
SURNAME Hixon, Lex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet and spiritual teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena , California
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1995