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"When the heart acts, it touches everything in the universe."
-- Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti)
See video online from the Drum
Circle on Saturday evening

click here



A few Mendocino camp photos. Enjoy!



Photos in this slide show: Rachel, Ben, Elisheva, Khushi and Shaffee

Dynamic Camp Kitchen action photos
by Rahim & Habib

More photos by Khushi and Shaffee

Share YOUR camp photos: click here

Hear the sound track of our Sufi Rave!
Name of God in Arabic

Sufi Zikr Circles led by Pir Shabda Kahn

New Autumn - Winter schedule
In Fairfax at the Semahane, once a month
Sept 17th, Oct 22nd, Nov 19th, Dec 10th, Jan 14th    flyer here


NEW ADDITION: A variety of great recorded talks by PIR SHABDA KAHN
are now available to download from his web site !!    GO

More Bay Area Sufi Camps

SANTA CRUZ / SOUTH BAY CAMP

Aug 22nd-24th. Dancesof Universal Peace, Zikr, Music, Meditation, Practices. Nature Trails, Redwoods, Swimming Pool, Volleyball. Children's and Teen's Camps. Six meals, including Vegetarian & Vegan options    GO

EAST BAY CAMP-OUT

Sept 12th-14th with Perry Wali, Fazl "Funny Frank" Olivier, Yaqin Brian Rohsenow, and focalized by Gayatri. Located in the Oakland hills. Cost $40.    GO

Northwest Sufi Camp 2008
"The Sacred Cauldron"

August 10-17, Camp Adams, Oregon    GO

20th Annual Garden of the Heart
Humboldt Labor Day
Sufi Camp-out

Friday, Aug 29 - Monday, Sept 1 at Pamplin Grove, south of Eureka
Spiritual Co-Directors: Mary Flowers and Jonathan Weber 707.444.9517   GO

The Sufi Conference, Oct 16-19 at Asilomar   go

Featuring Lewelleyn Vaughan-Lee, Pir Zia, Pir Shabda, Imam Bilal, Peter Kingsley and more

"This energy of divine love cannot be brought into life by any single Sufi order or teacher, but only when different orders and lovers of God are gathered together for the sake of the One, for the sake of the whole."    -- Lewelleyn Vaughan-Lee

2009 Sufi Sesshin

January 2nd - 11th: 10 days of meditation, dances and zikr to start the New Year! GO

Mexico Sufi Camp 2009

... with Asha Greer and Atum O'Kane, Jan 3-10. Save the dates! GO
Picture of a camera Got pictures -- from camp or other Sufi events? If you'd like to share them via this web site ...
just get a free account on Webshots.com or Flickr.com or Photobucket.com or Shutterfly.com etc, upload your best photos (a few dozen photos is perfect). Then send me the e-mail link they'll give you for sharing your photos, at photos@sufipaths.net

Drum Circle at Mendocino Sufi Camp 2008
led by Gayan Gregory Long

Pir Shabda Kahn writes: Dear Family,

At the Mendocino Sufi Camp this year, as in previous years, we had a late night Dance/Cosmic Rave after Thursday night Zikr. This event allows our youth community to feel like part of camp is theirs and in their rhythm, that we can all join in, while for the rest of the week much of what they do is join us in our rhythm.

This years dj was my son Solomon, who is a professional dj, and we all thoroughly enjoyed the 2 1/2 hours of continuous dance music. He recorded it as he played for us, and we have posted it for any of you to download and enjoy. Here is the link to the MP3 file

ABOUT GETTING THIS FILE: Different web browsers have different behaviors when you click on a filename like the above. Someday I hope to write out a "how-to" for all the browsers there are, on at least the current versions of Windows and Mac-OS. Meanwhile, here's a plan: when you click on the link above, hopefully you will get a choice to open or save it. Choose 'open' -- but you may have to wait for the whole, very large file to land on your computer before it starts to play. Other tricks to try include right-clicking or ctrl-clicking on the link (the underlined word/s) and try the choices in the resulting menu. Nothing bad will happen.     -- Shaffee

NEW Sufi community web site for 2008: "SufiPaths.net ... serving California's Bay Area, Sonoma County, and the region"
(formerly SufiSonoma.org)

Local Events Schedules: Santa Cruz: GO    Sacramento: GO    Pir Shabda's Schedule: GO    Murshid Wali Ali's Schedule: GO

Southwest Sufi Community news GO
Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan GO
About Hazrat Inayat Khan / original lecture texts available GO


EVERY SOUL HAS A DEFINITE TASK, AND THE FULFILLMENT OF EACH
INDIVIDUAL PURPOSE CAN ALONE LEAD ONE ARIGHT; ILLUMINATION COMES TO
ONE THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ONE'S OWN TALENT.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

It is not necessary to turn the merchant into a musician nor compel
the artist to be a mechanic. Perfection of any task leads to
perfection of quality and perfection of quality leads to realization
of perfection in essence. This is the task of every soul together
with the need to praise God every step of the way. All the
metaphysics and theology are but the forms -- higher or lower -- with
which teachings are clothed, but the teachings are Life itself.