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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 Training
Idries 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-Residence
programs where internationally  prominent artist work with a few
selected Associates.  The facility is a beautiful set of houses
and studios in the woods. Creative interaction comes from the
relationships between various expressive forms and ideas. New
concepts 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, Elizabeth
Swados, Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, Lukas Foss, Howard Nemerov,
out of 100's of participants.

I am trying to put together a Sufi program - writers like Doris
Lessing, music like Harperin or Philip Glass, artist,
philosophers, Sufis. From your writing and your wide range of
information I thought you could help locate working artist who
have 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 among
Ghosts
 Jonathan Kozol, Andrew Hacker - Two Nations  Toni Morrison -
James Burke
 Edward T. Hall, The Silent Language - Lewis Thomas - The Fragile
Species, 
 Rene DuBos, Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches, The
Riddle of Culture

The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, P.O. Box 176, Los
Altos 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 Official
Orders of
Sufis may disapprove of that equation, but I don't mind... of
course, I don't mind if by "muslim" you mean "servant of GOD"
(that's what the non-capitalized word in Arabic means).  That's
becuz 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 1st
recommend to you.  Would you like his address? (not on Internet)

You should be aware of Idries Shah (Is he still alive?  Last I
knew he lived mostly in London-?).  The best-known Sufi in U.S.
is surely Pir Vilayat Khan, whom I heard speak at the Parliament
of W. Rs. Another order quite wide-spread is the Nimatullahi Sufi
Order, whose magazine, _Sufi - A Journal of Sufism_, I got a copy
of in 1991.  It gives 9 U.S. Centers' addresses. 1=  306 West
11th Street, New York, N.Y. 10014.  I myself am like Dr. Askari
in being one who "travels in the Wilderness between the Cities of
Religions."  My book, _Seeking Communion_ is sufist, taoist,
Omaha Indian... ++---!  Your Humble Servant,  Steven ("Sufi")
Marsh