Towards a Cosmic World View:
An Interview with the Founders of Planetary Collective
by Sholeh Johnston
In 2011, old school friends Guy Reid, Christoph Ferstad, and Steve Kennedy set out to challenge the misperception
Category: LATEST ARTICLES
Summer Issue 2014
SUFI Issue #87-ENVIRONMENT features LES SPONSEL on Spiritual Ecology, SEEKING THE KOGI a journey in Colombia, artist ANDY GOLDSWORTHY photo essay, and an interview with SATISH KUMAR on his New Ecological Paradigm.
Winter Issue: Sufism
Issue #86 features CARL ERNST Interview on Sufism, RUMI Beyond Religion, DISCOURSE Spiritual Yearning LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE Adab-Sufi Etiquette, JOHN L. CAUGHEY An American Ethnographer in a Sufi Community,
Spiritual Yearning
A Discourse by Alireza Nurbakhsh
In Sufism the state of spiritual yearning (“talab”) is the force that drives an individual on the path towards perfection.
Carl Ernst Interview
Sufism: History, Politics and Culture
Would Rumi feel shocked or amused by the popularity of his writing in the world?
Rumi and “Islam”
Reconsidered – The Light of God Beyond Religion by Jawid Mojaddedi
If one defines the issue as the relationship between Rumi’s teachings and that of the ulama,
Sufi Etiquette
“Adab” – Sufi Etiquette in the Outer and Inner Worlds by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
“Adab” is a code of behavior that is central to Sufism, a way to walk the Sufi path with the correct attitude and true courtesy.
Mirror of Consciousness
An American Ethnographer in a Sufi Community by John L. Caughey
“I was entranced. It was like coming to a place I had dreamed about, a true home.”