Author: Brian
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Five of Cups: Sufi Tarot
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Every so often I find a useful practice of scrying a Tarot card. The deck I’ve been utilizing the past year is the Sufi Tarot and this morning I drew the Five of Cups. The card itself depicts a woman slumped over a table, as though sleeping. Two tea cups…
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Morality shouldn’t be dictated by the State
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We’re coming into another political year, where voting decisions are causing high tension for many of us. One thing I continue to see play out this year, as four years ago, is the right-wing decision to play morality as a votable choice. The right takes a so-called “moral high ground”…
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Dream: Returning to Source
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I call this a dream, but it felt more like a vision. This dream was so clear, so vivid it stands as one of the few moments I’ve experienced something so lucid. I had gone to sleep, and found myself in this very spiritual landscape. In the visual I was…
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Being Vulnerable: Surrendering Peacefully to the One
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It’s time I bow my heart, and tell the readers something vulnerable. This is the story of my spiritual path, and most of this I’ve kept locked away until now. It’s a story of depression, the search for God, and the culmination of the path. My story starts when I…
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Interfaith: A Sufi Perspective
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Having a front row seat to the inner workings of evangelical church system, I came to a conclusion early on, that power and control were the basic aspects at work. In my search for Truth, I found that many spiritual groups outside of Christianity, also had the same power struggle.…
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Spiritual Levels of Learning
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In many religious paths, there are different levels of knowledge. Some people require the rod of literalism, but this is never the heart of the faith. Others dig deeper into the universal understanding. In completion, one finds the unity of heart-based understanding. These are the levels of understanding. Base Level:…
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The Inner Pilgrimage
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Let us go on a journey. While we both take the journey, it is a path unique to each of us and it starts by closing off the external in order to tune into the doorway within us. There is a door, a path, and it leads to the Source…
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Saf – Gatha 1.1
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From Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings (Gathas), there is a quote towards the end of 1.1: When the mind takes the body in order to experience life it limits its experience, for the body is not sufficient; but if the mind were free, it would see further. But, as from childhood…
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Opening the Heart to the Environment
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While I’m all for protecting the world, my heart has been indifferent to the cares of the Earth. Up to now I had seen it as a transitionary location, a stepping stone. So I wasn’t concerned with how it appears, or the dangers happening to it. I suppose I’m influenced…