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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

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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

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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

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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

CONTRIBUTORS

ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS

EDITORS’ NOTE

NIMATULLAHI SUFI CENTERS

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92 Featured Poet

RAPHAEL BLOCK is the author of several books of poetry, including Spangling Darkness and most recently, Strings of Shining Silence: Earth Love Poems. His work speaks to Earth’s call for a heartfelt response to our ecological crisis. Born on a kibbutz, Raphael spent his boyhood playing on the hills of Haifa. His family later returned to London, where learning British English shaped his ear for sound. He currently lives and writes in Northern California.

92 Featured Artist

MATIKA WILBUR is from Swinomish and Tulalip in Washington State. She studied photography at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana and the Brooks Institute of Photography in California. She has exhibited extensively in regional, national, and international venues such as the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, The Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in France, the Seattle Art Museum, the Burke Museum of Natural History and the Tacoma Art Museum. She is the creator of Project 562. (See Artists & Photographers.)