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Don't forget the Whirling Dervishes - the man on stage who does not move is the Master:

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Those Dervishes were spooky, and oddly serene and at peace like corpses.

Peter

Mr. Taylor:

You got the serenity right.

To achieve the "pleasing of God by working to restore within themselves the primordial state of fitra,[20"

"...the seeker may be led to abandon all notions of dualism or multiplicity, including a conception of an individual self, and to realize the Divine Unity."

"The seeker is, in a sense, to become a broken person, stripped of all habits through the practice of (in the words of Imam Al-Ghazali words) solitude, silence, sleeplessness, and hunger.[56] "

"A great influence was exercised by Sufism upon the ethical writings of Jews in the Middle Ages. In the first writing of this kind, we see "Kitab al-Hidayah ila Fara'iḍ al-Ḳulub", Duties of the Heart, of Bahya ibn Pakuda. This book was translated by Judah ibn Tibbon into Hebrew under the title "Ḥovot ha-Levavot".[76]

The precepts prescribed by the
Torah
number 613 only; those dictated by the intellect are innumerable."

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This is an extremely complicated belief system. I just took some snippets to whet your appetite.

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Don't forget the Whirling Dervishes - the man on stage who does not move is the Master:

Doesn't that make them dizzy?

Ba'al Chatzaf

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Don't forget the Whirling Dervishes - the man on stage who does not move is the Master:

Doesn't that make them dizzy?

Ba'al Chatzaf

Not if they were dizzy to start with.

--Brant

I think the trick is the tilt of the hat and keeping their heads on their side. That must help compensate for the inner ear confusion--all that plus a lot of training.

--Brant

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