by Charlotte Heckscher
Most people go to Egypt to see the pyramids, but I believe I have come here for the rare pleasure of sitting at a café in Khan al Khalili,
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Baaghy and the Special Cargo
Baaghy and the Special Cargo: Some Kind of Story by Martin Harris
The onion tree had stood just inside the gates of the Sufi house for maybe 300 years,
The Illusion of Self
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
Each of us tends to think of him- or herself as a distinct being, a “self” that is both separate from other people and separate from our bodies and our perceptions, thoughts and feelings.
A Body Made Holy / Science, Body and Ritual
by Rebecca Sachs Norris
What is “body”? We speak about bodies as though we know what we are referring to, but we really don’t know what they are.
Meditation in Motion
by Kabir Helminski“Sema is to struggle with the notion of one’s self, like a dying, bloodstained bird, fluttering in the dust.” -Jalaluddin Rumi.
Till Death Do Us Part / The Marriage of the Feminine Sensible to the Masculine Transcendental in Rumi’s Masnavi
by Safoura Nourbakhsh
“In the woman’s view of life, the outer world and the inner world, the words and the actions, the “sensible” and the “transcendental” must inform one another.”
Robert Thurman and Hyun Kyung Chung Interview
by Llewellyn Smith
What is our body, what is its meaning in this life? We put these questions and others to two spiritual luminaries with different cultural and life perspectives.
Sudipto Chatterjee’s Search for the ‘Man of the Heart’
By Sholeh Johnston
For issue #85 of SUFI, theatre artist and academic Sudipto Chatterjee shared the work he is doing to bring the songs of renown Baul poet, Lalon Phokir, to the stage.