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Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D.


225 Robinson Road New Smyrna Beach FL 32169- (904) 428-9609


September 17, 1994


Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D.


225 Robinson Road New Smyrna Beach FL 32169- (904)428-9609


October 8, 1994


From WAKING UP by Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. Institute of Noetic Sciences, New Science Library SHAMBHALA (1986) 475 Gate Five Road, #300 Sausalito CA 94965


CC: Box 37, El Cerrito, CA 94530


(From G. I. Gurdjjeff)also Oscar Ichazo, Arica TrainingIdries Shah - Sufis


RE: SUFI and the Atlantic Center for the Arts - 1414 Art Center New Smyrna Beach, Fl. 32168 904-427-6975


The Atlantic Center for the Arts provides Artist-in-Residenceprograms where internationally prominent artist work with a fewselected Associates.

The facility is a beautiful set of housesand studios in the woods. Creative interaction comes from therelationships between various expressive forms and ideas. Newconcepts grow from the contact between graphic, literature,musical artists and actors.


Since 1982 the list of residence artist include; Edward Albee,Herbert Laws, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg, James Dickey, ElizabethSwados, Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Lukas Foss, Howard Nemerov,out of 100's of participants.


I am trying to put together a Sufi program - writers like DorisLessing, music like Harperin or Philip Glass, artist,philosophers, Sufis. From your writing and your wide range ofinformation I thought you could help locate working artist whohave been influenced by Sufi thought and practice.


Other possible authors etc: James Gleick, Chaos, Making a new Science Robert Ornstein,

The Evolution of Consciousness Ed Regic,

The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition Merlin Donald,

The Orgins of the Modern Mind Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood amongGhosts Jonathan Kozol, Andrew Hacker - Two Nations Toni Morrison -James Burke Edward T. Hall,

The Silent Language - Lewis THING1 -

The FragileSpecies, Rene DuBos, Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches,

TheRiddle of Culture


The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, P.O. Box 176, LosAltos CA 94023


MAKATAB TARIGHAT OVEYSSI SHAHMAGHSOUDI, P.O. Box 1135 San Rafael,CA 94915 (4150 454-1555 Sounds to me like you're equating "Sufism" with"Perennial Philosophy/Wisdom" or "Mysticism." Some OfficialOrders ofSufis may disapprove of that equation, but I don't mind... ofcourse, I don't mind if by "muslim" you mean "servant of GOD"(that's what the non-capitalized word in Arabic means). That'sbecuz I identify with ALL (or NO) "orders" or "denominations" (if"mystic" or "sufi" is used in an exclusive way, it's not my way)! My friend & mentor, Hasan Askari, is the "Sufi" (or even"beyond-Sufism") Teacher/Author/Seer whom I would 1strecommend to you. Would you like his address? (not on Internet)


You should be aware of Idries Shah (Is he still alive? Last Iknew he lived mostly in London-?).

The best-known Sufi in U.S.is surely Pir Vilayat Khan, whom I heard speak at the Parliamentof W. Rs. Another order quite wide-spread is the Nimatullahi SufiOrder, whose magazine, _Sufi - A Journal of Sufism_, I got a copyof in 1991. It gives 9 U.S. Centers' addresses. 1= 306 West11th Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. I myself am like Dr. Askariin being one who "travels in the Wilderness between the Cities ofReligions." My book, _Seeking Communion_ is sufist, taoist,Omaha Indian... ++---! Your Humble Servant, Steven ("Sufi")Marsh


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