Humans are complex and conflicted beings. We crave certainty, but live in a highly uncertain world. We are highly intelligent and seek answers, but the universe is beyond our ability to comprehend it.
How do we live with a need to be certain about things which we cannot?
How do we distinguish between what we can know and what we can’t?
How do we learn to face the world with humility about that which we believe we know and with confidence in the face of that about which we must remain uncertain?
These questions and others will be discussed in a conversation with Sheik Abdul Hayy Holdijk and Mario Sikora, facilitated by Tamer Zanaty. This session is a highly anticipated and requested follow up to their conversation at the 2022 IEA Egypt conference.
About Speaker
Abdul Hayy is a dynamic and demanding teacher who sets very high standards for the teaching of homeopathy at the professional level. He is very interested in incorporating a clearer concept of consciousness and the notions of self into the homeopathic discipline and how this impacts on our whole notion of what needs to be healed. As part of his teachings on self-development, he uses a number of different modalities like Shadow Work and Voice Dialogue as a means of therapy. In addition, he is a qualified Enneagram instructor who regularly gives courses on the Enneagram.
He has been a follower of a Sufi path for the past 40 years and is interested in studies in religion and consciousness. He regularly lectures on a wide variety of topics including the Enneagram, Shadow Work, Voice Dialague, Love, Dream interpretation, Jekyll and Hyde, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and other topics related to consciousness and personality development. He regularly leads spiritual retreats in Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, and the region.
In his other incarnations Abdul Hayy worked full time at both the American University in Beirut for several years, and for 35 years at the American University in Cairo. He was instrumental in setting up the Department of Rhetoric at AUC and he focused on developing and teaching several courses like “Who am I?: Self and Consciousness Across the Disciplines”, and “Integral Living” for final year students, designed to integrate the multiple perspectives of religion, science, social conditioning, and work in preparation for their careers after university.