Archives 96 – Winter Issue

EDITORS’ NOTE

Internal.  External.  Eternal.  These aspects of a seeker’s self are always in conversation. The writers in this issue eavesdrop on this conversation, and relay what they’ve heard with varying approaches at turns lyrical or layered in complexity, direct or meandering. Some grounded in ancient history, and some firmly planted in a technological future. What do you know of yourself?  Perhaps it might be more interesting to ask who—and where—is the you that is knowing it? READ MORE

 

 

 

 

DISCOURSE

KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF
by Alireza Nurbakhsh

 

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

DIFFRACTING RUMI
On Becoming Human
by Annouchka Bayley

THE SONG BECOMES EVERYTHING
Kanai Das Baul and the Path of Longing
by Surat Lozowick

LETTER PRESSING
by Mary Gossy

INTERVIEWS

HEART OF THE MATTER
Interview with Tiokasin Ghosthorse
by Sholeh Johnston

BEYOND MATERIALISM
Interview with Bernardo Kastrup
by Neil Johnston

 

CULTUREWATCH

ZIKR: A SUFI REVIVAL
Virtual Journeys Into the Nature of Reality
Interview with Gabo Arora
by Sholeh Johnston

POETRY

THE CREED OF DRUNKENNESS
by Alireza Nurbakhsh

HOW COULD I KNOW
by Jalaluddin Rumi

HIDDEN COMPANIONS
by Roger Loff

NAMELESS
by Elif Sezen

MAY MY SOUL BE A TEMPLE
by Marina Featherstone

FIREFLIES
by Jeni Couzyn