I had the great opportunity today to talk to an old friend who first met me when I was a bit lost and rough around the edges. The aphorism still holds true about a decade later, that the more things change the more they stay the same. I was a relentless jokester back then, a…
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Sufism and the Way of Blame featured on the Ibn Arabi Society book Notices for 2011
I have had the chance to talk to Dr Toussulis and very rarely have I met someone as knowledgeable about Sufism His book has so much to offer please if you haven’t read it yet please pick it up. Yannis Toussulis, Quest Books, Wheaton, USA, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8356-0864-0 Yannis Toussulis writes, “Over the last several…
A Piece of Ginger: A Thanksgiving Tale by Michael Greenstein
I was standing at the checkout counter in the supermarket packing my bags while keeping one eye on my Thanksgiving food items getting rung up on the register. The numbers crept dangerously close to $200, then like water hugging the rim of a glass, the numbers exploded over – $205, $211, $218. I sucked it…
Serious Work to be Done: New Approaches to Spirituality 1
There is a point past where approaching a certain way becomes outdated. As time goes on societies change people change, means of expression change as well. More importantly the science of the day changes. As as a scientist (junior scientist as I only have a masters) I feel that the science of the day should…
Reflection on Blogging about Sufism and my experiences with it
We’re prisoners in the shackles of an immense passion Afflicted and tormented with manacles on our ankles we are the miserable ones in the deserts o love skilled in the field of riot and revolution. Sometimes were thunder sometimes a bolt of lightening sometimes were clouds sometimes the sea. Sometimes were intellectuals sometimes were crazy…
Is Sufism or Islam “The Answer?” by Dr. Yannis Toussulis
Often enough, people look for a spiritual “final solution” to all of life’s ills. This results in numerous forms of fundamentalism: Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist in flavoring. Secular ideologues have also promised utopian solutions to all of our problems. All of these approaches tend to one or another form of absolutism, and all…
