In search of PD Ouspensky

A few years back like so many others since its posthumous publication over 60 years ago, I fell under the spell of Peter Demian Ouspensky’s ‘In Search of the Miraculous’, the author’s meticulous, yet captivating account of his years of training under the mystical tutelage of the enigmatic, slightly sinister Mr G — Ouspensky’s way [...]

True Faith is never blind belief?

In William Chittick’s Science of the Soul, he claims that the Islamic mystical philosophers of yore held to the position that True Faith could never be blind belief — as much as dogmatic fundamentalists would like it to be;that it was possible to verify and realize Reality for yourself. Indeed according to Chittick this was [...]