Journal Of A Sufi Odyssey Volume Ii

Author : Shaykh Tariq Knecht
Publisher : Bilquees Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450518499

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Journal of a Sufi Odyssey - Volume II by Shaykh Tariq Knecht Pdf

With respect to things which can be said, this trilogy is one of the most revealing excursions into the nature of the Sufi path that has been written in the last 736 years. There are four kinds of people ... within and without.There are those who know and know that they know. These rare dimensions of the Self are spiritually realized, and one should seek them out and learn from them.There are those who know but don't know that they know. These individuals are asleep and should be woken up.There are those who don't know and know that they don't know.These souls are able to learn and should be taught.There are those who don't know and don't know that they don't know. These are the ignorant ones, and they should be avoided.

Author : Shaykh Tariq Knecht
Publisher : Bilquees Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450554398

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Journal of a Sufi Odyssey - Volume III by Shaykh Tariq Knecht Pdf

With respect to things which can be said, this trilogy is one of the most revealing excursions into the nature of the Sufi path that has been written in the last 736 years. There are seven kinds of people ... within and without. There are those who know and know that they know. These rare dimensions of the Self are spiritually realized, and one should seek them out and learn from them. There are those who know but don't know that they know. These individuals are asleep and should be woken up. There are those who don't know and know that they don't know. These souls are able to learn and should be taught. There are those who don't know and don't know that they don't know. There are the ignorant ones, and they should be avoided. There are those who know that they don't know but who, for a variety of reasons, attempt to induce seekers of truth to believe that the former know what they do not. These are the charlatans ... and there are many of them amongst us. There are those people who even when they are shown the truth cannot bear to live with the implications of what has been disclosed and choose to live their lives in various states of denial that become the doorways through which further evil enters into their lives. There are those who seek the truth and try, to the best of their ability, to act judiciously with respect to what has been realized no matter where such truth may take them ... and who, therefore, also are prepared to accept the possibility that truth may be other - in part or in whole -- than what they believe it to be and, therefore, make accommodation for this possibility through their thought and behavior.

Author : Mehmet Yavuz Seker
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597848770

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A Map of the Divine Subtle Faculty by Mehmet Yavuz Seker Pdf

The heart in the Islamic understanding is the expression of a human being's spiritual existence. It is a Divine gift and Divine subtle faculty bestowed upon humanity. It is a polished mirror reflecting God. Like a general, the heart commands all other bodily organs and faculties, which are its troops, Everything that comes from a human being, whether good or bad, is a product of the heart. Mehmet Y. Seker, a scholar of Sufism and tasawwuf, studies the concept of the heart in the Islamic tradition looking at how it is approached by three prominent scholars and thinkers of Islam: Ghazali, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen. Being the first in English to take as its focus the human heart from an Islamic spiritual, this book comparatively analyzes classical and modern age interpretations and evaluations on the concept and adds to the rich literature of spirituality in the Islamic tradition.

Author : Anab Whitehouse
Publisher : Bilquees Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Spirit of Religion by Anab Whitehouse Pdf

The current volume explores a variety of topical themes within the general field of religion -- defined as the search for the truth concerning the nature of one's relationship with Being/Reality. Among the topics explored are: Evolution, the origins of faith, conceptual viruses, suffering, irreligion, the new atheism, nihilism, sacredness, the nature of the self, mythology, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, free will, epistemology, and spiritual abuse. All of the foregoing topics are critically examined against a backdrop that helps orient the discussion. More specifically, most human beings wonder, in one way or another, about the nature of reality ... that is, they seek to deal, as best they can, with the reality problem. The Final Jeopardy challenge refers to the task of trying to work toward providing a best-effort final response to the reality problem that resonates with, and reflects to varying degrees, the character of reality, before the sands in the hourglass of time run out in a person's life.

Author : Jamal Malik,Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004393929

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Sufism East and West by Jamal Malik,Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh Pdf

Sufism East and West, edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, investigates the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of cross-cultural exchange in the resonance spaces of “East” and “West.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fourth Way (Occultism)
ISBN : IND:30000107583472

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The Gurdjieff Journal by Anonim Pdf

Exploring Gurdjieff's teaching of the Fourth Way - the way of transformation in ordinary life.

Author : Anna T. Challenger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004496064

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Philosophy and Art in Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub by Anna T. Challenger Pdf

This book demonstrates that the most forceful contribution to George Gurdjieff's world-view is Sufism, understood as the tradition of seeking truth wherever it can be found, especially at the meeting place of the world religions. Gurdjieff's masterpiece, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is philosophically analyzed in its use of literary devices to jolt the reader into radical transformation.

Author : Arthur J. Magida
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635195

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Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida Pdf

A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020 A Padma Lakshmi Favorite Read of 2021 The captivating story of the valiant Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic and unlikely World War II heroine. Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of Nazi violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and trained in espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. She returned to Paris under an assumed identity immediately before the Germans mopped up the Allies’ largest communications network in France. For crucial months of the war, Noor was the only wireless operator there sending critical information to London, significantly aiding the success of the Allied landing on D-Day. Code-named Madeleine, she became a high-value target for the Gestapo. When she was eventually captured, Noor attempted two daring escapes before she was sent to Dachau and killed just months before the end of the war. Carefully distilled from dozens of interviews, newly discovered manuscripts, official documents, and personal letters, Code Name Madeleine is both a compelling, deeply researched history and a thrilling tribute to Noor Inayat Khan, whose courage and faith guided her through the most brutal regime in history.

Author : Carl Vett,Elbridge Hathaway
Publisher : Bridges Pub
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3929345315

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Dervish Diary by Carl Vett,Elbridge Hathaway Pdf

The rediscovery of this almost forgotten book in which the author, the Danish publicist and anthroposophist Carl Vett, is telling of a forgotten time is a lucky coincidence. "In 1925 I was in Constantinople, and was, so it was generally said, the first non-Mohammedan to be allowed to live for a time as a dervish in a Sufi monastery . Many years of study had made me familiar with the phenomena of psychic research, and I wanted to observe at first hand the ecstatic states attained by the dervishes in their way of initiation - for the dervish orders of Islam are schools of initiation. Before and during my stay with the dervishes I kept a diary. It was not intended for special publication, but in view of the execution of twenty-nine men, most of whom were sheiks or members of the Naqshbandi order . it has seemed that these experiences might be of more general interest; and so I have decided to offer them to the public."(From the author's foreword) Even now, more than 70 years after its initial publication, this book is a valuable read for anybody interested in the Islamic aspect of the mystical heritage of mankind.

Author : Mohammad Tamdgidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230102026

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Gurdjieff and Hypnosis by Mohammad Tamdgidi Pdf

This book explores the life and ideas of the enigmatic twentieth century philosopher, mystic, and teacher of esoteric dances George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, performing a hermeneutic textual analysis of all his writings to illuminate the place of hypnosis in his teaching. Foreword by J. Walter Driscoll.

Author : Olav Hammer,Mikael Rothstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107493551

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The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements by Olav Hammer,Mikael Rothstein Pdf

New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years come to be treated in the same way as established religions, that is, as complex cultural phenomena involving myths, rituals and canonical texts. This Companion discusses key features of NRMs from a systematic, comparative perspective, summarizing results of forty years of research. The volume addresses NRMs that have caught media attention, including movements such as Scientology, New Age, the Neopagans, the Sai Baba movement and Jihadist movements active in a post-9/11 context. An essential resource for students of religious studies, the history of religion, sociology, anthropology and the psychology of religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004302549

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion by Anonim Pdf

The interest of the book lies in the diversity of the geographical areas, religions, and online religious presence which nevertheless have a lot of points in common. Non-interactive websites, social networks, chat lines, and so on come together to provide a good panorama of the online opportunities to religions nowadays.

Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351706476

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Routledge Handbook on Sufism by Lloyd Ridgeon Pdf

This is a chronological history of the Sufi tradition, divided in to three sections, early, middle and modern periods. The book comprises 35 independent chapters with easily identifiable themes and/or geographical threads, all written by recognised experts in the field. The volume outlines the origins and early developments of Sufism by assessing the formative thinkers and practitioners and investigating specific pietistic themes. The middle period contains an examination of the emergence of the Sufi Orders and illustrates the diversity of the tradition. This middle period also analyses the fate of Sufism during the time of the Gunpowder Empires. Finally, the end period includes representative surveys of Sufism in several countries, both in the West and in traditional "Islamic" regions. This comprehensive and up-to-date collection of studies provides a guide to the Sufi tradition. The Handbook is a valuable resource for students and researchers with an interest in religion, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Joseph Azize
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190064075

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Gurdjieff by Joseph Azize Pdf

"This is the first analysis of all of Gurdjieff's published internal exercises, together with those taught by his students, George and Helen Adie. It includes a fresh biographical study of Gurdjieff, with ground-breaking observations on his relationships with P.D. Ouspensky and A.R. Orage (especially, why he wanted to collaborate with them, and why that broke down). It shows that Gurdjieff was, fundamentally, a mystic, and that his contemplation-like methods were probably drawn from Mt Athos and its hesychast tradition. It shows the continuity in Gurdjieff's teaching, but also development and change. His original contribution to Western Esotericism lay in his use of tasks, disciplines, and contemplation-like exercises to bring his pupils to a sense of their own presence which could, to some extent, be maintained in daily life in the social domain, and not only in the secluded conditions typical of meditation. It contends that he had initially intended not to use contemplation-like exercises, as he perceived dangers to be associated with these monastic methods, and the religious tradition to be in tension with the secular guise in which he first couched his teaching. As Gurdjieff adapted the teaching he had found in Eastern monasteries to Western urban and post-religious culture, he found it necessary to introduce contemplation. His development of the methods is demonstrated, and the importance of the three exercises in the Third Series, Life Is Real only then, when 'I Am', is shown, together with their almost certain borrowing from the exercises of the Philokalia. G.I. Gurdjieff P.D. Ouspensky A.R. Orage George Adie Mysticism Meditation Contemplation Fourth Way Hesychasm Western Esotericism"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114624179

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The Journal of Speculative Philosophy by Anonim Pdf