Category: Issue 88

Archives 88 – Winter Issue 2015

MartinIMG_5240lowresFROM 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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Rose petals cascading from the oculus of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy

DISCOURSE

LAURENT_CHEHERE©FlyingHouselowresDETACHMENT
by Alireza Nurbakhsh

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

Spread#2©BrittographyRosePetals-lowresGUARANTEED FOR LIFE
by Mary Gossy

Brainbow Hippocampus in BlueslowresDARKNESS HAS FALLEN
by Sister Miriam MacGillis

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by Safoura Nourbakhsh

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Psychology_34235011 ElenaRaylowresARTICLES AND ESSAYS

Spirit of the MountainLowResRUMI’S PREFERENCE FOR SCANDALOUS SUFIS
by Jawid Mojaddedi

shutterstock_34345969 ElenaRaylowresSUFI PRACTICE & CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS
by Michele Rousseau

NARRATIVE

Shoemaker-Spread-lowresBOOT CAMP OF COLLAPSING FORMS
by Jan Shoemaker

CULTUREWATCH

Brooks214459534_8cada32ac1_lowresTHE 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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TA MAIN DANS LA MIENNE

POETRY

Chateau_Chambord_double-helix_staircase-lowresREMEMBERING YOU
by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

I THOUGHT I COULD FOLLOW
by John Wolf

shutterstock_38131522_Tish lowresAMOR FATI
by André Bjerke, translated by Hossein Kashani

THE BREATH OF THE ZEKR
by Irving Karchmar

CHORDS
by Roger Loff

FEATURED POET
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FEATURED ARTIST
PATRIZIA MAÏMOUNA GUERRESI

FEATURED WEBSITE POET
FARRAH A. BOLVARDE
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Issue 88 Featured Website Poet

FARRAH A. BOLVARDE

is a Computer Engineer who lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

 

SAMA

With souls engulfed and hidden
in Your love, this is our Sama  

We are ruined; what separation,
or union!? this is our Sama  

Dead to our desires, drenched
in blood and far from all, this is our Sama  

The twists and turns of this
world are nothing to us, this is our Sama  

Clinging to Your wings with hearts soaring
in your love, this is our Sama   

Mesmerized by Your beauty, with
only half a glance at the lifeless self, this is our Sama  

Wrapped in Your remembrance
with our every particle dancing in ecstasy, this is our Sama

FARRAH A. BOLVARDE

Archives 88 – Editors’ Note

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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

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Archives 88 – Detachment

by Alireza NurbakhshLAURENT_CHEHERE©FlyingHouses_Web

Having worldly possessions and comforts is not incompatible with the state of detachment in Sufism. It is not the possessions that obscure our vision.

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Archives 89 – Guaranteed for Life

by Mary GossySpread#2©BrittographyRosePetalsWeb

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.”

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Archives 88 – Darkness Has Fallen

by Sister Miriam MacGillisBrainbow Hippocampus in Blues Webf

On the hillside is a ceremonial space called the Path of the Fourfold Wisdom, which Thomas Berry describes as a fourfold legacy of human wisdom we can draw from in this moment.

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