Murshida Rani McLaughlin
Biography
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Murshida Rani Kathleen McLaughlin has followed the Sufi path for over 40 years, having been initiated by Pir-o-Murshid Hidayat Inayat Khan. She has served the Message through various functions. She has actively participated in the Federation of the Sufi Message gatherings for the last 20 years.
Murshida Rani has taught classes, led meditations, and given individual guidance since 1992 in Portland, Eugene, the Tri-Cities and Seattle. Also, she has given lectures at the Universelle of the International Sufi Movement in Katwijk, Holland and published articles in the international Sufi journal Toward the One, including “The Veil of Beauty” and “The Shadow of the Beloved”.
Murshida Rani has a Master of Theology degree from Harvard Divinity School (1969) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the California Institute of Integral Studies (1977). She taught as an Associate Professor of World Religions at Lewis and Clark College from 1970 to 1987.
During her academic career she published articles in journals in England, America, and India on subjects that included Jungian depth psychology, meditation, mythology, Goddess symbols, and Buddhist psychology. She has also trained extensively in Eastern meditation traditions, especially Vedantic (Hindu) and Vipassana (Theravadin Buddhist) in India, Myanmar, and the US. Her exploration of, and experience in, these and other psychological and spiritual practices led her to join the path of Universal Sufism.
After leaving her academic career, Murshida Rani earned a Master of Social Work degree at Portland State University (1990), and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She is also a certified psychoanalyst (Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, 2005).
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