Hello Again Everyone, The past few blogs as you can see have been kind of autobiographical.  Sharing  them with you has opened my eyes to many things. It is a strange phenomena indeed blogging.  Some friends of mine are always encouraging me to share my experiences with them and when I do I am met with blank stares or questions like tinged with great trepidation, ‘Can you do that [drink champagne], can you joke around like that [ another horrendous guys walks into a bar joke] etc but wi... Read Full Story

Hello Friends Hope you are all well. Lately as you can tell from my last post I have been having a difficult time  sort of integrating back into normal social habits such as  hanging out and the like. After a good number of months dealing and trying to recover from intense sickness, family deaths, and the consequence of some personal issues, and other things I feel like a stranger just walking about. I personally feel so different I could tell you who I was a year ago. This happens in cycles ... Read Full Story

Hello Friends, Again I find myself awake when I should have been already asleep. I am a little here and a little there, pondering deeply but not also at the same time. My thoughts, if they can be called such are gravitating towards the idea of living life like a traveler in this world. Take a look at these two quotes from Llewellyn Vaughan Lee 1. Sufis are known as “travelers” or “wayfarers on the mystical path,” following the saying of the Prophet, “Be in this world as if you are a traveler,... Read Full Story

When man goes beyond externals, he can see that all religious formulations, though they are apparently so numerous, have the same basis, and that at this level there is no place for rituals and dogma   It was recounted one day thatJjesus was wandering in the desert when a sudden storm blew up, so that he took shelter in a nearby cave, the lair of a caracal, until the storm should let up. A revelation came to him, whereby the Lord told him to quit the caracal’s den, because his presence was d... Read Full Story

Stop Being So Religious What Do sad people have in Common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past And often go there And do a strange wail and Worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being So religious Like That. Posted in Uncategorized Read Full Story

I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sat in a field.   A rabbit noticed my condition and came near.   It often does not take more than that to help at times–   to just be close to creatures who are so full of knowing, so full of love that they don’t –chat,   they just gaze with their marvelous understanding.   Posted in Uncategorized Read Full Story

One Who Knows One’s Self Knows One’s Lord by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh There is a Prophetic Tradition, in which the Prophet says, “One who knows one’s self knows one’s Lord.” Various interpretations of this tradition are possible, depending on whether we interpret ‘Lord’ to mean the one who commands, or God. If we mean the former, then the psychological interpretation of the tradition is as follows: We know that each person’s behavior is, by an... Read Full Story

The Mystical School       By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff             Introduction The goal of the mystical school is the completed person.  The completed person has added a degree of spiritual development to their other capacities.  This spiritual development is accomplished through an interaction between the Master, the student and Path. The school exists to help make the world a better place, one person at a time and is the original school/classroom without walls.  Learning takes place on many leve... Read Full Story

I received this today from Dr Stewart Bitkoff, enjoy Meditation Method After following indications of the theoretical dynamic behind traditionalistic meditation activity, it was when I was studying with Gulbaz Khan of Kalat (Baluchistant) that I came across what might be termed a developed theory of pupil-teacher meditation.  This is attributed to the remotest antiquity; though why it should be claimed that it was practiced by ‘Noah, Joseph, Jesus, Elias and Salman the Persian’ especially, I ... Read Full Story

Hey Friends, I remember many times reading that if a man wants truth like a drowning man wants air then he will get it instantly. It make me think a lot. I remember a quote from Hafez, it said [paraphrasing of course] Union with the Beloved is a gift, its cannot be got by one effort, it is only given. Nevertheless Strive strive strive O heart I read a similar quote today from Rumi and wanted to place it here for you all : You imagined you would accomplish this task through your own strength... Read Full Story