Catherine the Great and Islam

became a pillar of a conservative imperial order, ie her government even endorsed Islamic laws in relation to marriage, family and public morality. This was of interest in that Islam has always been a part of Russian history.

I am at my best, Freudian

and somehow that translates in my being Islamic... Everything seems smart about it.  It is intellectual, practice is ongoing and Abraham is all relevance to the practice.  The beauty story tells us how to make decisions, not unlike Freud, encompassing the psychological!

I was 45

When I was diagnosed and that means struck down.  Just had a dream about a tornado hitting a prophetic group I was with, in their temple.

There were many correlations!

Yet the worst is how one is looked at, wearing a scarf.  American isn't like that.  Is it the beast, the darkness, Jung talks the shadow self.  In theory to speculate about is fascinating.

The Koran

The only important reference for,
Islamic law and the reading is music, how music moves is a way to think.  I think like now, just the practice alone, one then loses the need to, think at all.  Something replaces such mechanics, one
can't describe, beyond description.  Scribes may know, prophets also.  A musician who goes beyond playing,
an instrument or a singer already the notes there, pre-hearsed.

Ramadan

This is the most prevalent, the idea

the making of a month long fast for

the Koran says to do so, to fast and

Why?

There is much to a fast.

Purity...of the body and mind,

mindfulness as practical tool and to

celebrate existence, a Sufi drama

in dance or of the universal motion.

And of an order in or of the Spirit.

I was 20

Reading a Sufi poet and college dorm, my what a not your mothers,
Bag o tea...the English in India!

Western boots and saddle

the differences of Eastern And Western ideology is evident almost everyday as a Muslim...