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SUFI MUSICIAN, HEALER, AND MYSTIC HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Kulreet Chaudhary • Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
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the technique of Islamic Sufâsm at least takes good care to forbid the use of music in worship, and to emphasize the necessity of daily congregational prayers in order to counteract the possible anti-social effects of solitary contemplation.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal • Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Pratibhā simultaneously means intuitive insight, embodied instinct, and spontaneous inspiration.
Christopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
Chanting, flute or drum playing, and dancing in demilitarized patterns are ideally natural forms of yoga-meditation, because they silence the hypnotic chattering of thought and give one a direct feeling of shabda—the basic energy or vibration of the universe. This is why Gregorian chant, for example, gives the sense of eternity so absent from
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual
... See moreSwami Shankarananda • Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism
Ali Akbar Khan, the sarod player,