Abwoon Study Circle Annual Newsletters
Our annual newsletter lists an updated catalog of resources, next year's schedule of events, news about our listservs, details of the annual 10-day intensive in Scotland, and an article by Neil Douglas-Klotz on his current work. For the free software to view the newsletter in Adobe pdf (portable document format), see www.adobe.com.
Mainstream Articles
The 2005 Edinburgh International Festival
and Conference on Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace:“Missing Stories: Prophetic and Mystical Voices for Peace”
Report on the Festival to be held February 14- March 6 along the rationale for and philosophy behind it.
In the Shadow of War,
Peacemakers Visit to Edinburgh Raises Surprising Hopes (2003)
Article reporting on work by Israeli Jewish and Muslim peacemakers on a visit to Edinburgh, Scotland in March 2003, sponsored by the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning
(Neil Douglas-Klotz and Kamae Amrapali Mlller).
The Key in the Dark:
Self and Soul Transformation in the Sufi Tradition (2002)
(Published in in S.G. Mijares, ed. (2002). Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: An Anthology of Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions. New York: Haworth Press.)
Oil Fields of the Soul:
The Psychological Dimensions of Middle East Conflict and Culture (2001)
(The article is revised from a lecture given to the American Association of Humanistic Psychology annual conference in 1995. All translations are by the author.)
Desert Wisdom and the New Cosmology (1995)
An interview with Neil Douglas-Klotz about the bookDesert Wisdom: Native Middle Eastern Writing from the Goddess through the Sufis (1995)
Papers, Handouts and Brochures
Chinese Therapeutic Movements and Sufi Elemental Healing Breaths
These ancient Chinese folk exercises are selected from hundreds that were used therapeutically by those injured from the martial arts. I learned most of the exercises in 1976-78 from Nirtan Lim (who learned them from his teacher, Master Kwan Sai-Hung). I have edited and arranged them to provide a simple stretch and warm-up of about 10-15 minutes in the morning, which I normally lead on meditation retreats. The write-up is most useful after one has seen the exercises demonstrated and performed them oneself.
These are followed by a version of the elemental awareness and purification breaths originally taught by the Sufi Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan. The body awareness attunements were inspired by his paper on "Metaphysics" as well as my experience with various teachers in the somatic psychology and new cosmology fields. (ND-K)
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Abwoon Study Circles:
A Guide to Creating Local Groups
Brochure with suggestions for and resources supporting the creation of local study groups using the material in Prayers of the Cosmos, Desert Wisdom, The Hidden Gospel and The Genesis Meditations and associated recordings. To print out, use "landscape mode" on your printer:
Brochure
Art and Word
The Sura Fateha - A Prayer for Peace
Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz and Alana Lea:
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