http://darwiniana.com/2008/06/10/sufism-and-the-left/ History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://darwiniana.com/2008/06/10/sufism-and-the-left/comment-page-1/#comment-159173 The Gurdjieff Con » Sufism and the left Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:52:58 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/2008/06/10/sufism-and-the-left/#comment-159173 [...] 06.10.08 Sufism and the left [...] [...] 06.10.08 Sufism and the left [...]

]]> http://darwiniana.com/2008/06/10/sufism-and-the-left/comment-page-1/#comment-127008 » Rumi, sufism, poets, decoys, and how I outsmarted sufi hyenas Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:29:58 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/2008/06/10/sufism-and-the-left/#comment-127008 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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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