06.10.08
Sufism and the left
I posted a piece on Nasr from, of all places, Counterpunch. The odd conjunction of the left and Islam, occasionally sufism, is a phenomenon of the times, previously commented on here, along with some harsh words on ‘sufism’.
Nasr at Counterpunch?
I think the left should never indulge fantasies they have any friends in the sufi camp, and consider the reactionary schemes of Gurdjieff concealed behind just the type of sufi hype we see here. Snare a few liberals, or leftists, and keep the agenda hidden.
In all fairness, a figure such as Nasr is mouthing cliches and the claptrap about the ‘spiritual science’ behind ‘sufism’ is the usual propaganda.
Relax, you could reach enlightenment bumping your head on something. It’s more likely than the usual pious idiocy of entering the sufi path.
I am sorry to be so harsh about it, and wary of Islamophobic suggestibility, but it’s been three generations of this game, and the verdict in many quarters is a warning.
Use the search box here ‘sufi’, ‘sufism’, to review some of the material here.
Attracting liberals and leftists and getting them to turn (especially if they have social influence) is an invisible agenda of some of these creeps.
Nasr is a complete fool, who has picked up the lingo.
One thing is unlikely: a pious Muslim isn’t going to know much about sufis, whose bluff there is, however, usually good, in Islamic countries.
As with poker, fold. Don’t be tempted by the outer trappings hiding the creepy, and finally grosteque games of sufi operators.
Look at the legacy of Gurdjieff: tens of thousands of people have gotten hooked on that, the cleverest of the sufi hypes, and yet in a century, not a single exemplar has emerged. Why? It was never a teaching at all. The devious reactionary schemes behind it are deeply concealed. The popular movement is all for the discard pile.
The amount of time wasted following the wild goose chase…one could reach enlightenment using Buddhist methods over a few lives.
The Gurdjieff types, we are starting to see the derelicts in the ‘New Age’ movement, go nowhere, and finally come to, exiting the whole game empty-handed, disgusted at the time wasted on a cleverly designed game destined to freeze them in place.
By the way, Ouspensky, who did more than anyone to popularize sufism via his Gurdjieff stuff, quicked smelled a rat, and dissociated himself very quickly from the whole game. And yet he is used to promote the whole thing, against his will, in his succesion.
Moral: what you write will be used by others to exploit people. Don’t be tempted. Writers are at risk here, because the promoters are looking for that special kind of dupe who can be manipulated into producing high-class sufi propaganda/
» Rumi, sufism, poets, decoys, and how I outsmarted sufi hyenas said,
June 10, 2008 at 9:29 pm
[...] The last post reminds of the previous series, when Sillykitty was still around, about finding a box of old sonnets and, sonnets. The piece about ‘Unrequited love, and stray cats’, must have scared SK away. I got interrupted in my train of thought, and the question of my sonnets was merely the wind up for a tale, hardly able to be told. Actually I lucked out. I was ruminating about writing my memoirs, with an aside about how I outsmarted the sufis as I passed through that terrain. See, being a poet was only a decoy, and they fell for it, like a baited trap. Rumi and sufi poets. Give me a break. Sentimentality from many centuries ago. Sufism in its grotestque decline left the occult phonies wondering how they could manage it, putting hapless poets at risk, and the hyenas attempted some high culture trying to imitate what they didn’t understand. That happened to me, but I fooled them. That’s one way to say alibaba, and enter the world of sufi thieves. Poets beware. You’ll have to fill in the blanks here. I’m done. [...]
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