As an aside ... I stumbled across another Sufi organisation today .... strange but true, I am tempted to coin a new acronym, YAST! Whats a YAST, I hear you Yask? Yet Another Sufi Teacher. Or perhaps that should be a YASO, Yet Another Sufi Organisation? Or perhaps an HWGA ... Here We Go Again .... The interesting thing about this school is that some of the students speak of lataif the subtitles and how they have had a transmission from the teacher, or have been given a mediation to open various lataif. A few examples tickled me, one said one that he had received a transmission without even asking for it. For whatever reasons, I was reminded of the alms for an ex leper scene from Monty Pythons Life Of Brian: youtube/watch?v=U74s8nFE7No BRIAN: Who cured you? EX-LEPER: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business. All of a sudden, up he comes. Cures me. One minute Im a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihoods gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Youre cured mate..... Bloody do-gooder. Another student said that on his second visit, yes thats right, his second meeting with his teacher, his heart lataif had been activated. Of course, unlike Almaas, these students do not discuss the nature of those openings or transmissions, or any physical manifestations, or anything at all actually. Allah forbid! No their inner experiences are different for different people, which on one hand ensures that anybody can say whatever the hell they like, and, on the other, makes a mockery of the documented stages of development, states and stations. No doubt these dervishes pay for this service somewhere along the line. I was reminded of a time a few years ago, when I was offered the e-mail address of a Sufi residing somewhere in the mysterious East. He would, via e-mail, give me exercises and whatever else I needed to activate my lataif within a few weeks. I declined the offer, but when Christmas came around I suddenly realized the error of my ways ... for with all that lataif action going on, I could have been lit up like a Christmas tree and saved a fortune on Christmas lights and decorations! Another interesting thing here is that some of these students have read Shah, and Gurdjieff and a few of the other usual suspects, and they are all born into one of the major religions e.g. Catholicism, Islam etc etc and they describe their feelings, their conversion etc etc and how it feels to be with the teacher and this and that and peace and tranquility, transformation and conscience ... none of them were happy, they were all searching for something.... and, the common theme almost jumped out of the pages at me. On one level, I was reminded of many people I knew who were drawn into what eventually became the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh fiasco. For the people involved in that movement expressed **exactly** the same sentiments, longings, urges, almost verbatim in many cases, about him, and talk of meditations, and feelings of peace and tranquility and this and that and, the common theme almost jumped out of memory at me. You should see some of them now :-) As an aside, and this is a little closer to home, in that it is actually associated with the Shah stable, I stumbled across another group and teacher recently. You cant leave the house for fear of tripping over them these days. The thing that caught my attention here though, having perused the site and the various teachings and documents and testimonies etc etc, was the offer of Sufi healing! Never a bad thing if you can get some of that thrown in! However, there is a catch ... you send this gentleman details of your ailments, along with some personal information, and he arranges to send you healing at **exactly** such and such an hour the next day, a time which you need to convert to your local time frame, of course. Talk about priming. Now the first session is free, but the next sessions, should you not be miraculously cured in the first free session - and I doubt very much that you will be, require some level of recompense. I kid you not! I cannot help but think, even if the gentleman in question is sincere, that we have all the makings of virtual healing junkies! I thought to ask for a free session, but was worried that Id find something really wrong with me during or shortly after the event, and would spend the rest of my days paying to have him put me back to normal :-) I also wondered if I could get a life time of free healing by creating numerous e-mail accounts and changing the symptoms ever so slightly from day-to-day. I could call myself Nasrudin and perhaps instead of a general pain down my right hand side, I could turn it into a twinge down half of it one day, and a twitch up the other half the day after! Things like that ....
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:54:15 +0000
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