Issue 88 Featured Poet

CONTRIBS_john_wolf lowresJOHN WOLF

writes and photographs from the western suburbs of Chicago. Since his initiation by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj in 1971, he has practiced meditation and spirituality in the Sant Mat tradition. www.johnwolf.net

 

I Thought I Could Follow

In my innocence and naiveté
I thought I could follow
your flashing footsteps
over oceans and past moons.

I had many loves before
and a heart strong with trials
so when your face appeared
I was sure I could follow.

But you turned out to be a god
and your standard of faith so high.
Watching from the shore of eternity
I knew I could not follow.

Still, I am alive in your sea;
your love swims in my heart.
What can I do but want you.
What can I do but follow.

JOHN WOLF

 

 

Archives 87 – Summer Issue 2014

Editors' Note MapFROM THE EDITORS

It is too easy to forget the importance of nature to our spiritual nourishment, to forget our commitment to serve all living things—not just other human beings. However, as this issue of SUFI attests, there are remarkable people whose connection to nature translates to active engagement, who seek to adapt to nature’s creative ebb and flow, and for whom service to all of creation is at the heart of spiritual practice.

Sufi Summer Issue #87 Editors’ Note

 

HIGHLIGHTS – SUMMER 2014 – ENVIRONMENT

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DISCOURSE

CLIMATE CHANGE
by Alireza Nurbakhsh

Discourse-monk with dogs

 

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

SEEKING THE KOGI
by Maria Gutierrez with Sholeh Johnston Kogi

SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY The New Revolution in Consciousness
by Les Sponsel

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY Photo Essay: Shaking Hands with Nature
introduction by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

EVERYTHING THAT I LOVE IS FREE
by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne

IN PRAISE OF SABI: A LETTER FROM EARTH
by Dani Kopoulos Sabi[/one_third] [one_third]
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INTERVIEW
SATISH KUMAR’S New Ecological Paradigm
interviewed by Llewellyn Smith and Annie Stopford Wetlands Musings

 

CULTUREWATCH

PLANETARY Towards a Cosmic World View: an interview with Planetary Collective
interviewed by Sholeh Johnston SpaceStationNASA

 

BOOK REVIEWS

SILENT SPRING
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
by Rachel Carson
Review by Peter Valentyne
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THE ANIMALS’ LAWSUIT AGAINST HUMANITY
review by Terry Graham

DREAMING A NEW EARTH
review by Terry Graham
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POETRY

THE BROKEN-WINGED BIRD
by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

ESHQ
by Roger Loff

ECOLOGY
by Jeni Couzyn

A PERFECT DAY
by Chris Hoffman APerfectDay

THE MACHINE ENDANGERS ALL WE HAVE MADE
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

WHEN GOD WAKES UP INSIDE YOU
by Michael Sowder

WGWUIY

 

FEATURED POET
MICHAEL SOWDER

FEATURED ARTIST
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
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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

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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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