The Book Store Is Open

<div><figure><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a><div><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a><source type="image/webp"><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png" width="816" height="1056" alt=""></a></source><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a><div><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a><div><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a></div><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a></div><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a></div><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!nqdf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F279a05db-86c4-4abe-b411-28fb58323dc1_816x1056.png"></a></figure></div><p>For a while now the same question has arrived, in the comments and the inbox: *where do I begin?* So I've made the answer something you can hold onto. A reading list, the tradition laid out as a map, free to everyone. The foundational texts and the early manuals. The Persian and Arabic poets. The biographies, the saints' lives, and the modern studies. And the Sufi orders, set out one by one with their own teachings, from the Mevlevi and Naqshbandi to the Shadhili, the Bektashi, and the Mouridiyya. It asks nothing of you. Read it, keep it, return to it. </p><p><a href="https://spiritualrelief.substack.com/p/reading-list"><span>Download the reading list</span></a></p><p> There is another beginning to mark as well. The book store is now open. The work this channel exists for, the primary sources, read closely and left to carry their own weight, is now also something you can keep on your own shelf. </p><p><em>Divine Self-Disclosure: Essays on Sufi Mysticism</em> is the first title. </p><p>Fourteen essays that move from the first stirring of consciousness, through the stations and states and the science of illumination, to the barzakh, the path of blame, and al-Insan al-Kamil, the Perfect Human, carried throughout in the words of those who walked the path: Bistami, al-Junayd, Ibn Arabi, al-Ghazali. </p><p><em>"At the end of this time, I realized that it was God who was seeking me, while I was running from the very one I thought I was seeking."</em></p><p><em> Bayazid Bastami</em></p><p>That reversal is the book. </p><p><a href="https://spiritualrelief.substack.com/p/book-store"><span>Visit the Book Store</span></a></p><p>More titles and translations will follow onto the shelf in the coming months. For now: the reading list is the door, and it costs nothing. Start there.</p><p>Thank you and welcome,</p><p>James</p><div><div><div><p>Spiritualrelief's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div> <p><a href="https://spiritualrelief.substack.com/p/the-book-store-is-open" target="_blank">- Enlace a artículo -</a></p> <p>Más info en https://ift.tt/MHkdUpy / Tfno. & WA 607725547 Centro MENADEL (Frasco Martín) Psicología Clínica y Tradicional en Mijas. #Menadel #Psicología #Clínica #Tradicional #MijasPueblo</p> <p>*No suscribimos necesariamente las opiniones o artículos aquí compartidos. No todo es lo que parece.</p>