Questions
In the spiritual stew, questions and answers comprise an important part. Within each traveler, there is a burning or ‘great yearning’ to uncover and define the missing piece. As life unfolds, answers to inner questions are realized and the ‘great yearning’ is filled through personal experience, the Light, a spiritual path and a teacher’s guidance.
Remember, both the question and answer are already inside of you. What you require is a conduit to help you realize this. Let me assist, as the Light Wills, providing information and answering some of your basic questions concerning life, the spiritual journey, death and religion. Please complete the contact form to offer a question. Dr. Bitkoff may answer your question directly, or he may use it as inspiration for a blog post, poem or other writing to answer you, and many others with simlar inquiries. Be sure to check back regularly – your questions, and answer, will likely appear in some form on Dr. Bitkoff’s site in the future.
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I’d like to order Servant of God.
This book has been out of print for many years and at the time about a 100 were printed. Material from SOG was used in Sufism for Western Seekers. Thank you for your interest; sorry cannot be more of a help.
Thanks. I put a note in the commentary section.
Dear Dr. Stewart Bitkoff,
I’m very eager to study Sufism and learn how to walk the path. I read in the link below that you studied 18 or so books of Idries Shah. Could you please post the names of the books and maybe the first 5 books that would be good to start with? There are around 24 books under the subtitle Sufism on his wiki page, I’m wondering if these are the books you referred to in article. Could you please also point to any other structured sources one can follow to learn and develop their own sufi practice and way of being? Thank you kindly.
https://www.techofheart.com/2008/08/commuters-guide-to-enlightenment.html
Hi Cansu:
I have sent you an e-mail with an attachment.
Stewart
Hi Cansu:
Did you receive my replies? Were they useful. Thank you. Stewart
Hi Cansu:
To continue answering your inquiry. As interested, contact the Institute of Human Knowledge, Los Altos, CA and/or the Idries Shah Foundation, London, England; both have websites and are in the business of promoting the Sufi Work. These Organization are connected to the Sufi Stream and ISHK was set-up by Shah and (Robert Ornstein) and the Shah Foundation came about after his death to disseminate his work. Upon his death Shah, named as successor his body of written material some of which you have on the list authored by the Society for Sufi Studies (no longer in existence); the work of the foundation is being carried out by members of Shah’s family. ISHK is currently being led by Sally Malam, Ornstein’s widow.
Let me know if you have further questions via my e-mail:goldpath@ptd.net. Be well. Stewart