Table of Contents
January 2022
This issue explores how the tangible world and the unseen meet—how attention, story, and practice open us to the immediacy of the Divine. In his discourse, Alireza Nurbakhsh considers intimacy with God, tracing correspondences between human and divine love and the “price” of intimacy: accepting the world in both its beauty and its hardship. Essays and narratives range from Stefan Sencerz on trying to “catch the ocean in a net,” Nezam Manouchehri’s quiet vignette, a Nasruddin tale, and Faiz Ahmad on ethics as a mirror of metaphysics, alongside interviews with Jeni Couzyn and Robert Rozehnal. The issue closes with brief memorial tributes to Robert Bly (1926–2021), Sajidah Maryam Abdus Sattar (1943–2021), Suliman Feldthouse (1940–2021), and Ron Harris (1949–2021).
Discourse
- Intimacy with God — Alireza Nurbakhsh
Interviews
- Jeni Couzyn — On Poetry, Spirituality and Her Work with the Bushman People of South Africa (Interviewed by Rob Sternau)
- Robert Rozehnal — On Cyber Sufis (Interviewed by Jawid Mojaddedi)
Essays & Narratives
- Catching the Ocean in a Net — Stefan Sencerz
- Don’t Say Anything — Nezam Manouchehri
- Mullah Nasruddin at Court
- Ethics as a Mirror on Metaphysics — Faiz Ahmad
Poetry
- Love’s Journey — Alireza Nurbakhsh
- The Great Waters — Mark Nepo
- Cargo — Chris Ellery
- Spiritual Landscape — Chris Hoffman
In Memoriam
- Robert Bly (1926–2021); Sajidah Maryam Abdus Sattar (1943–2021); Suliman Feldthouse (1940–2021); Ron Harris (1949–2021)