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Archives 89 – AWAKE Film
Archives 89 – The Ecstacy of Music
Archives 88 – Winter Issue 2015
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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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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Archives 89 – Summer Issue 2015

FROM THE EDITORS
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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Archives 88 – Detachment
Having worldly possessions and comforts is not incompatible with the state of detachment in Sufism. It is not the possessions that obscure our vision.
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.”
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.