"Neither as Christians or Jews, nor simply as intellectually responsible individuals," says Hixon, "have members of Western civilization been sensitively educated or even accurately informed about Islam." As tensions between America and the Middle East grow, we should promote cross-cultural understanding, not violence. This new edition, with a new foreword and commentary by Neil Douglas-Klotz, allows the reader to drink from the illuminating fountain of the Holy Qur'an--the foundation of Islamic culture. First published in 1988, Hixon's poetic meditations on over nine-hundred passages from...
"Neither as Christians or Jews, nor simply as intellectually responsible individuals," says Hixon, "have members of Western civilization been sensitiv...
Part oracle, part meditation book, and part Aladdin's cave of Middle Eastern myth and sacred story, Desert Wisdom offers a fresh way to hear the ancient visionary voices of the Middle East that generated three (or more) of the world's great religions. Renowned Sufi scholar and teacher Neil Douglas-Klotz, author of The Sufi Book of Life and Prayers of the Cosmos, has revisioned his acclaimed 1995 classic for the 21st century. Praised by scientists, poets and mystics alike for its ecological approach to "hearing" the native wisdom of the Middle East on its own terms, Desert Wisdom takes...
Part oracle, part meditation book, and part Aladdin's cave of Middle Eastern myth and sacred story, Desert Wisdom offers a fresh way to hear the an...
Illuminating the Shadow collects the Sufi writings of Moineddin Carl Jablonski (1942-2001), the spiritual successor of Samuel L. Lewis, founder of the Dances of Universal Peace and originator of a branch of the Chishtia Sufi lineage currently called the Sufi Ruhaniat International. The book weaves autobiography, letters, poems, articles and interviews to provide a unique glimpse of an illuminated Western-born mystic. Jablonski faced enormous inner and outer challenges as he sought to establish an authentic, living Sufi tradition in the West. "A book of subtle messages...
Illuminating the Shadow collects the Sufi writings of Moineddin Carl Jablonski (1942-2001), the spiritual successor of Samuel L. Lewis, founder...
Heute beherrschen apokalyptischer Bilder alles -vom popularen Film bis zur fundamentalistischen Religion. Aber das menschliche Bewusstsein wurde wahrend des groten Teils seiner Geschichte von der Ausrichtung auf den Anfang, nicht auf das Ende, bestimmt. Die Themen der Schopfungsgeschichte und die damit einhergehenden lebendigen Praktiken durchziehen sowohl die hebraische Bibel als auch die Evangelien. In der spateren christlichen Tradition blieb die Praxis, die Schopfungsgeschichte in sich selbst nachzuvollziehen, in den Schriften keltischer und europaischer christlicher Mystiker wie...
Heute beherrschen apokalyptischer Bilder alles -vom popularen Film bis zur fundamentalistischen Religion. Aber das menschliche Bewusstsein wurde wahre...
"What you cannot learn in your own body, you can learn nowhere else." --the Upanishads A Book of Self Re-Education is a treasure house for all who wish to explore the creative essence of life in the substances of their bodily form. Raden Ayou Jodjana (1888-1981), beloved student of the Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan and devoted wife of Prince Raden Mas Jodjana, the great Javanese dancer, here expresses the inexpressible teaching of these two great masters in moving prose poems that are a step-by-step guide to waking up fully inside our human bodies. "To give attention. It is the simplest and...
"What you cannot learn in your own body, you can learn nowhere else." --the Upanishads A Book of Self Re-Education is a treasure house for all who wis...
