Category: Issue 92

Archives 92 – Winter Issue

EDITORS’ NOTE

Issue 92 of SUFI brings the reader right up against what is uncomfortable. Forget about politics: let’s talk about the weather. Too hot in cold months, too dry in wet ones, ferocious when it should be bleating like a lamb. READ MORE

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DISCOURSE

CLIMATE CHANGE: A CASE FOR CONTENTMENT
by Alireza Nurbakhsh

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

THE SECRET KINGDOM IS EVERYWHERE
by Mark Nepo

SILENCE: THE QUAKER SACRAMENT
by J. Brent Bill

HEART OR RATIONAL SOUL?
AL-GHAZĀLĪ’S EARLY INSIGHTS INTO THE REASONS OF THE HEART
by M. Coetsee

THE SECRET OF BEING A MASTER
by D. Ghalandar

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INTERVIEWS

THE ROOTS of YOGA and THE DIVERSE
TRADITIONS of HINDU SPIRITUALITY
EDWIN BRYANT Interviewed by KOMAL MAJMUNDAR and JAWID MOJADDEDI
SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM
BRIDGING CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE AND ACTION: A CONVERSATION WITH ADAM BUCKO
interviewed by Safoura Nourbakhsh

CULTUREWATCH
MUSIC REVIEW

QAWWALI
A “Riot of Perfume in My Heart”
by BARBRA JOFFE

CULTUREWATCH
BOOK REVIEWS

Becoming Wise—An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
by Krista Tippett reviewed by Tim Smith

The Way Under the Way
by Mark Nepo reviewed by Tim Smith

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POETRY

LET GO
by Alireza Nurbakhsh

BEING HERE
by Mark Nepo

WHITE CHERRY
by Jeni Couzyn

THE FRENCH GARDEN’S GARDEN
by Raphael Block

THE RAIN THAT MAKES THE ASHES DANCE
by William Wolak

CONTRIBUTORS

ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS

EDITORS’ NOTE

NIMATULLAHI SUFI CENTERS

FEATURED POET
Raphael Block

FEATURED ARTIST
Matika Wilbur

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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.)