Welcome! This issue features some Sufi advice from Shamcher, to think about and contemplate. Also: a brief account of WWII foreshadowed during the early 1930s, when Shamcher had to leave a business he founded in Berlin, “an association of engineers and linguists with experience in the Orient.”
Sometimes folks can't find the way to post comments (maybe because I've set this as a free newsletter?) so I'm adding this one that came to me directly by email:
Orientalistengemeinschaft: Loved the first section and feel I have similar ideas and beliefs on religions, yoga and Sufis. Excellent! Also loved in the second part where Shamcher says NOT to go looking all over the world or anywhere for a teacher! They do indeed come knocking on your door....often invite themselves in.....and even move in if there is the slightest chance. They turn you upside down and whirl you round and round but always leave at just at the right moment. They come, give you everything you need and then depart. You then have to self-realize that the rest is up to you. They gave you the tools and then left you to do your own work. brilliant! You are not to worship them or go into the depths of despair that they are no longer there........you are still totally connected, it's just that you are both in two different rooms. Get over it and get on with it. I love each and every one of my own illuminated souls who came all this way to walk me to kindergarten. Loved Shamcher's word, jubilated.....that says it all.
Sometimes folks can't find the way to post comments (maybe because I've set this as a free newsletter?) so I'm adding this one that came to me directly by email:
Orientalistengemeinschaft: Loved the first section and feel I have similar ideas and beliefs on religions, yoga and Sufis. Excellent! Also loved in the second part where Shamcher says NOT to go looking all over the world or anywhere for a teacher! They do indeed come knocking on your door....often invite themselves in.....and even move in if there is the slightest chance. They turn you upside down and whirl you round and round but always leave at just at the right moment. They come, give you everything you need and then depart. You then have to self-realize that the rest is up to you. They gave you the tools and then left you to do your own work. brilliant! You are not to worship them or go into the depths of despair that they are no longer there........you are still totally connected, it's just that you are both in two different rooms. Get over it and get on with it. I love each and every one of my own illuminated souls who came all this way to walk me to kindergarten. Loved Shamcher's word, jubilated.....that says it all.
on the wings of love, Kuan yin
"Sufis are seekers after truth, whether they call themselves Sufis or not"
...as Atiya reiterated with each SUFIS SPEAK newsletter.