by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Dec 4, 2018 | 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,...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | Conversations on Spirituality
“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.” – Anne Hillerman, Rock with Wings Okay, cut from Navaho...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 29, 2017 | 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...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Nov 18, 2017 | Conversations on Spirituality
This central statement of Islam, the primary tenet which forms half the shahada, can be taken in two ways which are opposite and can lead to diametrically opposed behaviors. I’m writing here to defend one interpretation and cast doubt upon the other. Literally,...
by Karima Vargas Bushnell | Sep 20, 2016 | Conversations on Spirituality
Excerpts from the Operating Manual for Human Beings CONDUITS We, all of us, are designed to be conduits of Divine Energy, which is always available, and which flows through us as creativity, insight, energy, and inspiration to be poured out into the world. But the...
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