Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe -

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Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D.

225 Robinson Road New Smyrna Beach FL 32169- (904) 428-9609

September 17, 1994

Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D.

225 Robinson Road New Smyrna Beach FL 32169- (904)

428-9609

October 8, 1994

From WAKING UP by Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.

Institute of Noetic Sciences,

New Science Library SHAMBHALA (1986)

475 Gate Five Road, #300

Sausalito CA 94965

CC: Box 37, El Cerrito, CA 94530

(From G. I. Gurdjjeff)

also Oscar Ichazo, Arica Training

Idries Shah - Sufis

RE: SUFI and the Atlantic Center for the Arts - 1414 Art Center

New Smyrna Beach, Fl. 32168 904-427-6975

The Atlantic Center for the Arts provides Artist-in-Residence

programs where internationally prominent artist work with a few

selected Associates.

The facility is a beautiful set of houses

and studios in the woods. Creative interaction comes from the

relationships between various expressive forms and ideas. New

concepts grow from the contact between graphic, literature,

musical artists and actors.

Since 1982 the list of residence artist include; Edward Albee,

Herbert Laws, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg, James Dickey, Elizabeth

Swados, Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Lukas Foss, Howard Nemerov,

out of 100's of participants.

I am trying to put together a Sufi program - writers like Doris

Lessing, music like Harperin or Philip Glass, artist,

philosophers, Sufis. From your writing and your wide range of

information I thought you could help locate working artist who

have been influenced by Sufi thought and practice.

Other possible authors etc:

James Gleick, Chaos, Making a new Science

Robert Ornstein,

The Evolution of Consciousness

Ed Regic,

The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition

Merlin Donald,

The Orgins of the Modern Mind

Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood among

Ghosts

Jonathan Kozol, Andrew Hacker - Two Nations Toni Morrison -

James Burke

Edward T. Hall,

The Silent Language - Lewis Thomas -

The Fragile

Species,

Rene DuBos, Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches,

The

Riddle of Culture

The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, P.O. Box 176, Los

Altos CA 94023

MAKATAB TARIGHAT OVEYSSI SHAHMAGHSOUDI, P.O. Box 1135 San Rafael,

CA 94915 (4150 454-1555

Sounds to me like you're equating "Sufism" with

"Perennial Philosophy/Wisdom" or "Mysticism." Some Official

Orders of

Sufis may disapprove of that equation, but I don't mind... of

course, I don't mind if by "muslim" you mean "servant of GOD"

(that's what the non-capitalized word in Arabic means). That's

becuz I identify with ALL (or NO) "orders" or "denominations" (if

"mystic" or "sufi" is used in an exclusive way, it's not my way)!

My friend & mentor, Hasan Askari, is the "Sufi" (or even

"beyond-Sufism") Teacher/Author/Seer whom I would 1st

recommend to you. Would you like his address? (not on Internet)

You should be aware of Idries Shah (Is he still alive? Last I

knew he lived mostly in London-?).

The best-known Sufi in U.S.

is surely Pir Vilayat Khan, whom I heard speak at the Parliament

of W. Rs. Another order quite wide-spread is the Nimatullahi Sufi

Order, whose magazine, _Sufi - A Journal of Sufism_, I got a copy

of in 1991. It gives 9 U.S. Centers' addresses. 1= 306 West

11th Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. I myself am like Dr. Askari

in being one who "travels in the Wilderness between the Cities of

Religions." My book, _Seeking Communion_ is sufist, taoist,

Omaha Indian... ++---! Your Humble Servant, Steven ("Sufi")

Marsh