Highlights

Issue 78
The Meaning of Surrender
Alireza Nurbakhsh
In SUFI’s 2009 winter issue, Alireza Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, explores the meaning of surrender to God. In his discourse, he points out that surrender occurs in the context of fighting or resisting aspects of our life situation....
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Issue 93
Is Reality Real? A Conversation with Evolutionary Game-Theorist Donald Hoffman
Interviewed by David Wright
Donald Hoffman is a renowned cognitive scientist working in the new field of evolutionary game theory. Using mathematical tools, he challenges the idea that our senses report the truth, pointing to our perceptual language of space, time, and physical objects as grossly inadequate to describe reality as it is....
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Issue 87
Spiritual Ecology: The New Revolution in Consciousness
Les Sponsel
SUFI’s 2014 issue on the environment featured an exploration of spiritual ecology by Les Sponsel, Professor of Ecological Anthropology and award winning of author of Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution....
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Issue 89
The Guide: Interview with a Sufi Shaykh
Interviewed by Safoura Nourbakhsh
In this interview, Hossein Kashani, one of the shaykhs of the Nimatullahi Order, speaks candidly about the distinct trials of a master/disciple relationship, when a perfected human being commits his or her life to guiding others on the path towards Truth....
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Issue 86
Mirror of Consciousness: An American Ethnographer in a Sufi Community
John L. Caughey
Ethnographer John Caughey describes himself as a person who knew how to explore beliefs and culture through interviewing and observation, but not how to live life....
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Issue 86
Spiritual Yearning
Alireza Nurbakhsh
Alireza Nurbakhsh, current master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, offers an intriguing discourse on spiritual yearning (talab), a state of yearning for the truth that drives an individual toward self-discovery and spiritual perfection....
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