Ivan Ickovits

Ivan Ickovits was born in a small town near Debrecen, Hungary to survivors from Aushwitz. After a few years, in Hungary, his family’s escape took them to Haifa, then Toronto, Canada, and finally settling in Los Angeles, California. Ickovits’ higher education included a PhD program after Physics and Math undergrad at UCLA in quantum theory and particle physics. His teachers were Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize winners in Physics). Between his undergrad and graduate school studies, he became an intern at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico in an effort to produce a functional controlled nuclear fusion to enable power generation. As a systems engineer, his satellite projects included NASA and DoD programs: a Mars lander, Space Shuttle, Space Station, Deep Space Surveillance System, Defense Support Program, Brilliant Eyes, Chandra, a space x-ray scanning platform, and Star Wars involving space based and terrestrial high energy lasers. In the 1970s, after meeting Pir Vilayat, over time, he became a representative, a Cherag (minister), Healing Conductor, Ziraat Farmer, senior teacher, guide and retreat guide mentor, (Sufi Order now Inayatiyya) and Pir Vilayat’s consultant on Physics, especially Bohm’s Quantum Physics, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, etc. Pir Vilayat would often prepare to meet with physicists at conferences, where he would discuss consciousness, mysticism and science. Ickovits had the honor to edit and offer suggestions to some of Pir Vilayat’s later works: Ecstacy Beyond Knowing, and In Search of the Hidden Treasure.