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Sufi Practice
Sufis don’t have a single set of practices that apply to all disciples, thus the absolute need of the teacher. The Sufi master is the only one in their view who has the insight to help a disciple pursue the practices in a way that would have any merit. Otherwise, it’s believed that rather than bringing…
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Gods Insights
In Sufi psychology, they refer to humanity as having three parts: physical being spiritual heart transcendent godlike soul The dervish dancing was a way of exhausting the body to open awareness of the heart, because only by the devotions of the heart can there be knowledge of the soul. It is believed that people are…
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Islamic Mysticism
The Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. Sufism is Islamic mysticism, and though having been influenced by Sikhism, it isn’t Sikhism. Have you noted that Islam seemed to be far more scientifically tolerant than Christianity? It’s sort of ingrained into the original native culture of Islam. They were even the ones who preserved the c-section, astrological charts,…
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You Are What You Eat
Getting stuck on eating the same foods can get our lives in a rut. The same with music. You eat color. You eat texture/touch, and you eat sound. Tell me what you eat habitually. I will tell you about your personality. Green tea. Thinking, and like the outdoors. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Earthy and…
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Food Relationship
Maybe an illustrative exercise. Someone want to pick a food? Carrots. Ok, good pick. To the Native Americans carrots were a person, and so was corn. If carrots were a person, what kind of person would carrots be? Upper body strength. Rooted, Bright. Ok, earthy and bright? They are hard, and break when they are…
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Food Energies
Is color a primary way to identify foods and purpose? Color and smell. This was how alchemists worked too actually, and how many of our modern chemicals got a lot of their descriptive terms assigned. Some rather poisonous fluids smell like water. But yes, as I compared them earlier to shamanism, anything in your cooking…
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Food Magic
Food magic is not unlike many other disciplines, and it can both be tied to healing magic and self transformation. “What you put in” is perhaps one of the core principles of all magic. But the term sorcery, literally means putting in and taking out. There is a lot to consider with that, and dark…
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Live Life
In seeing the illusion you can see the reality behind it, but many stop there. They see how they, and their teaching, was mistaken, and that attachment is the source of suffering. Then they become detached, and stop there. They bring a spirit of detachment to the world, and when confronted with attachments they won’t…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…