Table of Contents
Winter 2020
This issue turns to the unknown as both a challenge and an opening to compassion, reminding us that stepping beyond our familiar boundaries reveals new paths of love and unity. In his discourse, Alireza Nurbakhsh examines the roots of tribalism and the Sufi response of transcending division through the experience of oneness. His poem “I Am Drunk from Head to Toe” celebrates the ecstatic surrender of love, echoing the timeless intoxication of the Beloved. Essays, interviews, and poetry on pilgrimage, visionary inquiry, dialogue between traditions, and the healing power of art invite readers to discover illumination in unexpected places.
Discourse
- Beyond Us Versus Them — Alireza Nurbakhsh
Articles
- When a Sufi Chooses to Travel: Two South Asian Pilgrimages — John L. Caughey
- The World Is as You See It — Igor Kufayev
- The Costly Transgression: Woman as Lover in Sufi Discourse — Safoura Nourbakhsh
- Ayurveda: A Spiritually Rich Education — Acharya Shunya
- Communion of Saints: The Christian Mystical Tradition in Dialogue with Sufism — Dorothy C. Buck
Interview
- Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau — Interview with Trachung Kunchok Palsang by Tracy Burnett & Tsering Dorje
Essays
- Nudge — John Backman
- Enchantment on the Freeway — Grace Harwood
CultureWatch
- The Psychomagique of Alejandro Jodorowsky — Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky by Reid Pierce
- The Aphorist: In Conversation with Yahia Lababidi — Sholeh Johnston
Poetry
- I Am Drunk from Head to Toe — Alireza Nurbakhsh
- The Bees of the Invisible — Wally Swist
- Depths — A. G. Parker
- Unless — Roger Loff
- Shaggy Dog — Eve Powers