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But Then . . .

But Then . . .

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Feb 14, 2020 | Animals and the Earth, Conversations on Spirituality

Perhaps one day this will all be over. I will travel the world in a light-powered plane, light as a glider, sun-powered. Light and light, light upon light, and visit the animals. So many dark and probable dreams, why not one light, sweet, crazy dream of hope? I will...
Committee Meeting: Chain Reactions

Committee Meeting: Chain Reactions

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Sep 9, 2019 | Conversations on Spirituality, Quick Fiction, Truth and Funny Stuff

Warning: The following does not claim to be an accurate representation of the Higher Planes or the Way Everything Works if We Only Knew. The idea came to the author while changing a cat box at 4:00 a.m. It is what is is, baby. The Muslim Council overseeing its...
A Sip from the Fatiha

A Sip from the Fatiha

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Dec 4, 2018 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

Al-Fatiha – The Opening Door, the Opening Chapter, the Door to All That Is, to All Mysteries and Subtleties (With apologies for the necessary but breathless italics, exclamation points, parentheses and multiple question marks. The whole multiverse is breathless,...
Love Remains:  Response to Sufi Mosque Massacre in Egypt

Love Remains: Response to Sufi Mosque Massacre in Egypt

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

Over three hundred Sufis dead in Egypt, killed while praying in their mosque or trying to escape. I thought a while about how to respond, besides the same old, “This is not Islam, this is not what Islam teaches.” Suddenly I wrote — and it stayed in...
Cowboys and Indians

Cowboys and Indians

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Conversations on Spirituality, Truth and Funny Stuff

“You know, when (we) played cowboys and Indians with our friends, I always wanted to be a cowboy. I was in junior high when I realized a guy could be a cowboy and an Indian at the same time.” – an Indian character in Anne Hillerman’s Rock with...
Bridging a Gap

Bridging a Gap

by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Ask A Sufi, Conversations on Spirituality

In the 1970’s, there was a seemingly unbridgeable canyon between the religion of Islam and western universalist Sufism: the successors of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and the Dances of Universal Peace. As an early convert to Islam from that generation of seekers, I...
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