Director Paola Di Florio in conversation with Sholeh Johnston
AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda charts the life of one of the 20th century’s most influential spiritual figures, Paramahansa Yogananda, a Hindu Swami who brought Yoga to America for the first time in the early 1920s.
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol in conversation with Sholeh Johnston
CultureWatch: At the turn of the millennium, successful jazz musician Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol embarked on an odyssey of discovery that would profoundly reshape his musical career as a composer and performer.
FROM THE EDITORS In a time when attachment to the world and its wealth seems to many to be out of reasonable control, Winter Issue #88 SUFI explores the many facets of the act of detachment, and how the art of letting go creates a gateway to love. READ MORE
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DISCOURSE
DETACHMENT
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
GUARANTEED FOR LIFE
by Mary Gossy
DARKNESS HAS FALLEN
by Sister Miriam MacGillis
WOMEN ON THE ROOFTOP
by Safoura Nourbakhsh
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ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
RUMI’S PREFERENCE FOR SCANDALOUS SUFIS
by Jawid Mojaddedi
SUFI PRACTICE & CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Michele Rousseau
NARRATIVE
BOOT CAMP OF COLLAPSING FORMS
by Jan Shoemaker
CULTUREWATCH
THE THEATRE OF PETER BROOK The Invisible Made Visible
by Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEWS
SACRED SEED
Compiled and edited by the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW)
by Rachel Carson
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POETRY
REMEMBERING YOU
by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
I THOUGHT I COULD FOLLOW
by John Wolf
AMOR FATI
by André Bjerke, translated by Hossein Kashani
THE BREATH OF THE ZEKR
by Irving Karchmar
CHORDS
by Roger Loff
FEATURED POET
JOHN WOLF
FEATURED ARTIST
PATRIZIA MAÏMOUNA GUERRESI
FEATURED WEBSITE POET
FARRAH A. BOLVARDE
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At the heart of nearly every spiritual tradition is the figure of the spiritual guide or leader whom seekers turn to for guidance and inspiration and choose to follow as disciples. In this issue of SUFI, various facets of the role of the guide are explored across different spiritual paths, READ MORE
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DISCOURSE
THE SPIRITUAL GUIDE
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEW
TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM
by Jay Valentine
IRADA / DEVOTION: THE SPACE WHERE SUFISM HAPPENS
by H. Talat Halman
THE GUIDE: INTERVIEW WITH A SUFI SHAYKH
interviewed by Safoura Nourbakhsh
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ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
TRANSCENDANT BEING OR FALLIBLE HUMAN?
by Angela Burt
NARRATIVE
CHESHM
by Dani Kopoulos
CULTUREWATCH
AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA
Director Paola Di Florio
interviewed by Sholeh Johnston
THE ECSTACY OF MUSIC
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol in
conversation with Sholeh Johnston
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CULTUREWATCH
BOOK REVIEWS
Hafez—Translations and,
Interpretations of the Ghazals
translated by Geoffrey Squires
reviewed by David Paquiot
The Principles of Sufism
by A’ishah Al-Ba’uniyyah
reviewed by Terry Graham
POETRY
THE MASTER’S GRACE
by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
IN GETTING THERE
by Mark Nepo
THE BEYOND WITHIN
by DANIEL SKACH-MILLS
GIVE UP WHAT YOU SEE WITH YOUR EYES
by Kathleen M. Kelley
I LOVE YOU
by Ali Asghar Mazhari
FEATURED POET
BILL WOLAK
LOST AT THE CROSS ROADS
FEATURED ARTIST
MATTHIEU RICARD
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FROM THE EDITORS It is too easy to forget the importance of nature to our spiritual nourishment, to forget our commitment to serve all living things—not just other human beings. However, as this issue of SUFI attests, there are remarkable people whose connection to nature translates to active engagement, who seek to adapt to nature’s creative ebb and flow, and for whom service to all of creation is at the heart of spiritual practice.
Sufi Summer Issue #87 Editors’ Note
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DISCOURSE
CLIMATE CHANGE
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
SEEKING THE KOGI
by Maria Gutierrez with Sholeh Johnston 
SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY The New Revolution in Consciousness
by Les Sponsel
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY Photo Essay: Shaking Hands with Nature
introduction by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
EVERYTHING THAT I LOVE IS FREE
by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne
IN PRAISE OF SABI: A LETTER FROM EARTH
by Dani Kopoulos 
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INTERVIEW
SATISH KUMAR’S New Ecological Paradigm
interviewed by Llewellyn Smith and Annie Stopford 
CULTUREWATCH
PLANETARY Towards a Cosmic World View: an interview with Planetary Collective
interviewed by Sholeh Johnston 
BOOK REVIEWS
SILENT SPRING
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
by Rachel Carson
Review by Peter Valentyne
THE ANIMALS’ LAWSUIT AGAINST HUMANITY
review by Terry Graham
DREAMING A NEW EARTH
review by Terry Graham
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POETRY
THE BROKEN-WINGED BIRD
by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
ESHQ
by Roger Loff
ECOLOGY
by Jeni Couzyn
A PERFECT DAY
by Chris Hoffman 
THE MACHINE ENDANGERS ALL WE HAVE MADE
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
WHEN GOD WAKES UP INSIDE YOU
by Michael Sowder
FEATURED POET
MICHAEL SOWDER
FEATURED ARTIST
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
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Editors’ Note
In a time when attachment to the world and its wealth seems to many to be out of reasonable control, Winter Issue #88 SUFI explores the many facets of the act of
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
Having worldly possessions and comforts is not incompatible with the state of detachment in Sufism. It is not the possessions that obscure our vision.
by Mary Gossy
I wanted to be a nun like the nuns I could not see at the cloistered Carmelite monastery near where I grew up. Every October my grandmother took me there to participate in the “Shower of Roses.”
