marifat and real life, writing the truth, elite spaces

[mysticactive]

Well, bismillah, my last post is perhaps a good intro here. Yes I had been drawn of late more and more to the earth in many senses, on my spiritual path. In a way, I have moments where my path takes me closer to the apparently non-spiritual and material, in a paradoxical way. The ideal of Marifat is that after tasting and realising truth (and it

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[khalid_hussain]

This is, I think, quite an important journal entry

[mysticactive]

Thank you for this comment and yes I do think that what I shared here was a kind of turning point for me in my approach to not only the project that you and I are both engaged in, but also my sense of being and fitting (or not) in the world. I am discovering some really deep underlying complexes and unquestioned ideas. Its really something.

I think that I am more and more seeing that yes, as you said, certain credentials or accomplishments are 'portable'. I am so struck by that explanation. It has really stuck with me.

About Lex Hixon, as far as I know he also had inherited wealth and yet, as you say, he spent a lot of his life in a kind of academic preparation for what he went on to do. I also have the feeling at times that if I were to leave academia, I would only be going on to apply these valuable skills somewhere else!

Of course I never feel good enough, but then many people don't! So, next I will write about this existential stuff about belonging nowhere in the universe. we will see how that unfolds.

thanks again for your