Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

Imam Feisal is recognized throughout the world for his work building bridges between people in the US and throughout the Muslim world.  His Cordova Initiative celebrates the spirit of a time in history when Jews, Christians, and Muslims flourished together creative harmony.  He was the first Muslim teacher for Spiritual Paths, helping us to launch our inaugural program at the Aspen Institute in 2002.‹

Swami Atmarupananda is an ordained monk in the Ramakrishnan Order of Hinduism.  Swami lives at
the Trabuco Monastery in Southern, California.  He is a leading member of the Snowmass InterReligious Conference, active in interfaith issues throughout the world.  Swami’s great sense of humor, his scholarship, deep contemplative practice, and sincere interest in other traditions provides a model for InterSpiritual collaboration.

Rami is widely regarded as one of the most creative voices in contemporary American Judaism. An award winning poet and essayist, his liturgies are used in prayer services throughout North America. He has written over a dozen works of poetry, liturgy, short story and non-fiction including: Open Secrets, The Jewish Prophets, Proverbs, The Wisdom of Solomon, Minyan, Ten Principals for Living a Life with Integrity, Last Breaths, Open Hearts, Open Minds, and The Divine Feminine. Rabbi Shapiro is a graduate of Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, and holds a doctoral degree in religious studies from Union Graduate School.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, is a profound spiritual elder, teacher and exemplar of InterSpiritual Wisdom, and mentor to Spiritual Paths. Better known as “Reb Zalman,” he is an unending resource for the world religious community. He is the father of the Jewish Renewal and Spiritual Eldering movements, an active teacher of Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism, and a participant in ecumenical dialogues throughout the world, including the widely influential dialogue with the Dalai Lama, documented in the book, The Jew in the Lotus. Reb Zalman currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, and continues to be active in mentoring his many students the world over.

Camille and Kabir are Sufi teachers of the Mevlevi Islamic Sufi tradition founded by Jalaladin Rumi in the thirteenth century.  They have authored many books on Sufism and are the founders of the Threshold Society that has provided programs on Sufism for over thirty years.  In each of our programs, they lead the Spiritual Paths students and faculty in a form of music, chant, and movement based on ancient Muslim traditions that we call our “InterSpiritual Zikr.”