Ebook: The Station of No Station: Open Secrets of the Sufis

For many years, Henry Bayman has been in close contact with the Sufi masters of Central Anatolia. Now, out of that heartland, he brings us a message of faith and hope, startlingly relevant to our times. He shows us how the teachings of Islamic Sufism, which constitute a body of knowledge that starts with accepted science and extends beyond it, are not only applicable to our modern and postmodern world, but also offer a unique path to a future Earth. This Sufi teaching shows how to begin to break the bind posed by a commoditized and consumer-oriented civilization which now opposes its fantasy of Islam in a confrontation mirroring the Cold War—two hegemonies are polarized against each other on the consequences of globalism and the future of humanity.

In this book true Islam is distinguished from both paranoid and romantic fantasies. The stages of the Self and the anatomy of the Subtle Body are followed by practical methods employed by the Sufis. Bayman does not shrink from the shadow side of Islam, discussing Jihad, the Taliban, and Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence on Salman Rushdie. The final chapter deals with the most sublime states of consciousness that are the ultimate goal of Sufism.

'The Station of No Station: Open Secrets of the Sufis' is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and crosscultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of the arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature.