EDITORS’ NOTE
That is the purpose of reaching beyond what we know to encounter the unknown? Whether it be through travel or an encounter with someone with very different perspectives to our own, going beyond our comfort and subjective perception is what brings us opportunities to understand ourselves and the nature of reality more deeply, to truly wrestle with the ego’s limits, and develop our capacity for divine love and selfless compassion.. READ MORE
DISCOURSE
BEYOND US VERSUS THEM
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
WHEN A SUFI CHOOSES TO TRAVEL
Two South Asian Pilgrimages
by John L. Caughey
THE WORLD IS AS YOU SEE IT
by Igor Kufayev
THE COSTLY TRANSGRESSION
Woman as Lover in Sufi Discourse
by Safoura Nourbakhsh
AYURVEDA
A Spiritually Rich Education
by Acharya Shunya
COMMUNION OF SAINTS
The Christian Mystical Tradition
in Dialogue with Sufism
by Dorothy C. Buck
INTERVIEW
NOMADS OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
Interview with
Trachung Kunchok Palsang
by Tracy Burnett & Tsering Dorje
ESSAYS
NUDGE
by John Backman
ENCHANTMENT OF THE FREEWAY
by Grace Harwood
CULTUREWATCH
THE PSYCHOMAGIQUE OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky
by Reid Pierce
THE APHORIST
In Conversation with Yahia Lababidi
by Sholeh Johnston
POETRY
I AM DRUNK FROM HEAD TO TOE
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
THE BEES OF THE INVISIBLE
by Wally Swist
DEPTHS
by A. G. Parker
UNLESS
by Roger Loff
SHAGGY DOG
by Eve Powers
COVER ARTWORK
FRONT OUTSIDE
© Peter Pharoah
FRONT & BACK INSIDE
© John Paul Caponigro