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Fall 2026 Edition
Extended Article
Gathered or Scattered
By: Victor Sinow
Victor Sinow explores a Sufi teaching connecting the stars in the night sky with the star experienced inwardly in the human heart. Reflecting on a prophetic saying, he considers their shared origin and the meaning of gathering and scattering in the journey of life, death, and return.
Spring 2026 Edition
Extended Article
Interview with Shaykha Muzeyyen Vargonen
In conversation with Ashley Werner, Shaykha Müzeyyen Vargonen explores science, love, and service in the Ansari Sufi Tariqa. She discusses scientific inquiry and observing nature as paths to understanding, cultivating divine love through spiritual practice, and serving others as an essential part of becoming a complete human being.
Extended Article
Submission as Science
By: Victor Sinow
What does submission mean in science and spiritual practice? Drawing on Dr. Nahid Angha’s teachings, Victor Sinow explores the commitment to understand and work within the laws governing each pursuit. Submission emerges as an active discipline through which knowledge deepens and new possibilities become accessible.
Extended Article
Reading Your Own Book:
The Magnetic Alignment of Divine Knowledge
By: Victor Sinow
Drawing on Dr. Ali Kianfar’s teachings, Victor Sinow examines the connection between magnetic alignment and spiritual development. The article presents inner alignment as a process through which the teacher-student relationship brings scattered capacities into coherence, enabling students to discover and read the knowledge inscribed within their own being.
Extended Article
Entangled Hearts: The Quantum Nature of Spiritual Lineage
By: Victor Sinow
Spring/Summer 2025 Edition
Extended Article
Interview with Dr. David Katz,
President, CA Branch of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship
Extended Article
Interview with Pir Shabda Kahn,
Spiritual Director of the Sufi Ruhaniat International
By: Ashley Werner & Victor Sinow
Extended Article
Sharing the Treasure of Hazreti Pir Mevlana Jelaleddin Rumi
By Karim Payton, Ser Tariq (Servant of the Order),
Mevlevi Order of America, Fakir ul Mevlevi
Spring 2023 Edition
Extended Article
“Interview with Shazada Seyed Mashuk Mainuddin,
Executive President of Mainia Youth Forum”
By Ashley Werner, Victor Sinow, and Neda Tejada
Winter 2023 Edition
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