ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the central features of the theosophy of the 13th-Century Islamic mystic Rūmī, for which in the West, one might lend the phrase a “performance philosophy of everyday life.” Rūmī is presented here specifically as a performance philosopher of grief, a guide to the nexus of love and loss where, upon arrival, we vanish and affirm our weak agency within the vast nothingness of Being. Rūmī understands this as a place – or a journey, rather – from which multiplicity spins out from pure unity.
