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A generic name , sure , but definitely not a generic porn site. Porn.com is as simple of a name as it gets when it comes to looking for some adult content to consume. Just imagine the meeting when they came up with the name for this website. I can picture it now , "Alright people, we need a name for our porn website, what've we got so far? Jason.", "Uh, yeah, so I was just sort of thinking we could call it… Porn?", and then there would be a silence and then a slow clap that turns into an applause. Absolutely brilliant. Alright, so what is it that makes this website so special? Well , have you ever wanted a site that has literally everything you could ever need from a porn site? What if I told you that Porn.com has pretty much every feature you could ever have hoped for when it comes to a single site. It's pretty incredible the way they did it without making the place look like a cluttered mess. So, let 's go over all of it while trying not to cry too much for all the lost hours spent on all the other websites that don't have these features. Slick Design for a Very Slick Site. First of all, Porn.com looks clean. Not just clean but super slick. Usually , porn sites don't really put in a lot of effort when it comes to the look of it since they think that we're just mindless sex brains that can't wait to just click on a video and watch it, but that's not true. All of us can appreciate a little bit more aesthetics in our lives. Porn.com knows this and that's why they made everything look minimalistic and easy to look through and use. I mean just look at how organized this place is. I don't even think my elementary school teacher 's sex dungeon was more organized than this. Yeah, I had some fun with the English teacher , I was an early bloomer, she had a rockin' pair of titties, it had to happen. But anyway, back to the organization and layout of Porn.com. On the left-hand side you've got all of your main features and categories, and at the top you've got all of your tabs as you'd usually find them on other porn sites. Some of the tabs are drop-down menus and they are super quick and responsive. You hover over the 'Videos' tab and the menu drops down faster than a fat bitch drops to her knees when you offer her a hotdog at dick-level. Other interactive buttons also feature nice and smooth transitions. As smooth as a knife going through butter when that same fat bitch is making a sandwich. What is it with me and fat women comparisons today? I've gotta stop that. Features to Please Anyone and Any Taste. Anyway, the features are a great place to start when you're new to the site. You've got those left-hand side tabs such as Popular , which will fill you in on all of the trendy porn videos that are running amok on Porn.com. Then we've got HD and VR porn, two very important categories for many people. I totally get it too, HD just makes everything look so much more professional and VR just makes you want to stay at home all day without seeing the sun. And that's definitely good because you won't get skin cancer. Let 's look at the HD videos first. You can immediately notice that you've just got so many videos to choose from as soon as you click on that tab. This is just perfect , you can enjoy full HD quality porn for absolutely free , and you don't even have to make an account. What more could you possibly want from this section , they've even got a wide range of different porn stars starring in these sexy videos. Well there is one more thing , check this out. When you go to the HD video page , you can then click the plus icon next to the Category tabs on the left-hand side in order to combine them and get an HD video experience for every single category ! Alright, alright, that's pretty goddamn amazing , but are there any drawbacks? The only one is that there is one category which doesn't have any HD videos, and that's the Transsexual category. So, unfortunately for all of you tranny lovers out there, you won't be getting any lowkey gay action today. I just don't get how the Amateur category fits in here, but oh well. The VR section works the same way as the HD one where you can add other categories to it, mixing and matching until you've got the perfect video. The category selection with VR is a bit scarcer though , so you're going to have to excuse there not being any videos in some of these categories. I mean , did you really expect to see VR midget porn? I don't think something like that even exists still. Also, no cartoon VR, fair enough , can't have it all. No Turkish girl either, which kind of makes sense when you think about it, seeing as how they probably don't even know what VR is in Turkey. The rest of the features listed on the left are meant for members of the website. You can make an account for free and enjoy these, or you can skip over them and you'll be fine either way. The things you can do with an account are the same as with any other website, but you also have the recommended tab which uses an algorithm to find the perfect videos for your taste. You can also like, favorite the videos, and even go to your history to rewatch a video from whenever it is you last watched it. There's even an update feed so that you can get all the latest updates from channels and pornstars that you follow , just like on Twitter , or Facebook, or Porn.com. Not a Fan of Short Porn? Porn.com Has You Covered. Maybe you're not the type of guy to watch short porn videos. Maybe you're an old school kind of guy that likes those long-ass DVD sets. Well , guess what grandpa, Porn.com has got you covered with 14 000 DVDs of amazing porn content … Wait … 14 000? Holy shit that's a lot of DVDs. Well there are only 920 HD ones, but you can also sort them according to their popularity , rating, and how recent they are. You can use whichever parameter you want and add categories to the mix in order to find the perfect porn DVD for you. A Category for Every Possible Occasion. Let 's take a look at the categories really quick since they obviously play a big role in the site and when you browse videos. There's pretty much every category here that you can think of. Everything from ethnicity to position , to the number of people, to size , to midgets, it's all covered here. Some of the categories are even grouped nicely so that you can make a more specific pick. Let 's take the Asian category for example. You can use the drop-down menu for this category and specify whether you want some Japanese sushi, Thai trannies, or Korean… I don't know , Samsungs? But other than this you can see that there are some pretty specific categories on Porn.com that you won't really find on other websites. Categories like Balloon, Face Sitting, Uniform , Midget and so on. Yeah, they're pretty proud about that Midget category. They've even got a little midget pole dancer as the cover photo for that category which is hilarious and cute at the same time. Maybe it's hot for some people too, who knows. Some categories do have issues though such as the Anime category which doesn't seem to represent the videos that it holds that well. You can also check out the different Pornstars as well as Channels to expand your choices when it comes to browsing Porn.com. The pornstars come in all shapes and sizes, as do the channels so be sure to take your pick and enjoy them as much as possible. And, of course , if this doesn't suffice , you can turn to the Community tab and interact with the rest of the people who use Porn.com. Check out the Popular Profiles, or Active Members and start making new friends! If we scratch the surface , even more, you'll see some other interesting features such as Pictures, GIFs, Live Cams, and even real-life meetups in the Fuck Now section. The only problem is that the Fuck Now section takes you to a different website, which is kind of lame. A high-profile site like this has to partner up with other websites just to fill in that last bit of functionality that they were missing from the site. However when all is said and done, this is an amazing website that deserves my recommendation !
Any serious pornoholic has definitely at least heard of the tube site known as xHamster.com. Most of you, I'm willing to wager, have fapped to it on more than one occasion. For some of you, it might even be your go-to porn tube site. And, if that is the case , you are certainly not alone. In fact , there are 10 million others who fap to xHamster frequently enough to be registered users. After Xvideos and Porn Hub , it is the third most popular pornographic site on the internet today. Headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, xHamster was founded in 2007 by Alex Hawkings. The minds behind the site wanted to do something different from what they were seeing most porno sites doing at the time. Coming off of the peak popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter , xHamsters founders set out to create a site that was equal parts porn tube and xxx social media site. A spokesperson for the site said of xHamster's intentions that the site was meant for people who wanted to chat , exchange erotic pics and share amateur videos ... to find mutual friends online and maybe discover partners interested in intimate relationships." I think it is fair to say that x Hamster has done a bang-up job of providing the platform that they set out to provide , as it has become a cornucopia of amateur and homemade user-uploaded content. As far as the " discover partners interested in intimate relationships" part is concerned , though , I cannot speak to. I have never felt the need to resort to a porn site to find my " intimate relationships," but I am very curious to know if anyone's ever had any luck with that aspect of the site. The People's Porn Network Along with so much user-uploaded content , though , controversy is bound to come sooner or later. With the number of people out there in the world who are sick fucks—not sick fucks who spend all day fapping in their mothers' basements the way you are a sick fuck, I'm talking real , clinically ill sick fucks—a site like xHamster that allows its users to upload basically whatever they want was bound to become inundated with illegal and fucked up content. xHamster has not struggled in keeping up with the shifting social tides and establishing a sense of moral duty , though. In April of 2016, for example , North Carolina enacted laws that said its counties and cities were allowed to openly discriminate against members of the LGBT community. In response to this, xHamster blocked their site from any users with an IP address based in North Carolina. You might also recall hearing about the People V. Turner sexual assault case. To help combat the growing prominence of rape culture in America, xHamster banned all videos involving rape , including those which featured the fucking of unconscious partners. Their social and political involvements don't stop there, though. One of my personal favorite political statements that they made came in response to the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak , when they offered Debbie Wasserman Shultz $50,000 to star in a porno opposite a Bernie Sanders lookalike. You know , since she already fucked him out of the election. Ah, if that isn't fucking gold, I don't know what is. The Site Itself Obviously , xHamster has made quite a name for themselves in their relatively short period of time as a xxx social media/porn tube. But does the site itself hold up to all the hype? Well , let 's take a look. From the moment you arrive at xHamster's home page , it is hard not to be impressed by how clean and easy to navigate the web design is. With videos broken into two simple and distinct categories: hot porn videos and newest porn videos. You can also easily filter by best instead of newest and by length (which is a great feature , considering homemade videos, for some reason , tend to be significantly shorter in length ). To your left , you can easily filter search results by category , channel , or porn star by simply clicking on it. You can also combine tags together with one click—a great feature that, somehow , is glaringly missing from a lot of tube sites that I've browsed. Their professional studio content appears right alongside their teeming archive of homemade content , unless you specify otherwise. You can also conveniently filter the videos so that you only see straight , gay, or shemale videos. If you don't discriminate at all in your hedonism, however , you can always activate all three. The most annoying thing that they added was a hardcoded watermark on top of the videos. It sometimes really messes with your fap experience , when you're about to see a guy jizz on a chick's face and then...BOOM! That damn watermark "this video has been uploaded to xHamster" appears on the chick's face like a motherfucking cockblocker! Seriously , whoever thought it was a good idea deserves a kick in the balls! As far as xHamster's social media components are concerned , you have all the usual community-oriented features that you'd be used to on other similar sites (such as Porn Hub )—you can comment on/rate videos, add videos to your favorites, upload videos/pictures, and message users directly. One thing that really sets xHamster apart from the others, though , is that, when you click on their tab labeled "dating," you are not brought to some sketchy third-party scam " get laid tonight" , right? From here, you can If you're looking for a massive (and I mean massive ) archive of porn videos, Video-One.com might be the place for you. I'm talking nearly 54,000 pages (yes, I said "pages") of videos, each page containing around 360 videos. Now math was never my strong suit but I think that adds up to a grand total of nearly 20 million videos! Considering the fact that Video-one is adding new content every day even the loneliest, horniest fappers among us would never run out of material on this tube site. From the moment you arrive to video-one.com ( make sure you don't forget the hyphen; Video-One is a video chatting client ), you are immediately in the thick of all that the site has to offer. At the top of the page find 50 or so suggested categories to choose from (" brother " " extra small " "caught stealing ," and " amateur compilation" to name a few ). Lots of Raw Hardcore Content These tags probably give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from Video One. Another way to get an idea of the sort of content they offer is to take a look at what sites they link to: xHamster, Beeg, TXXX, and DTVideo are a few. What this should tell you is that a majority of the content will be homemade, or at least amateur-inspired. You might label a lot of it Gonzo. I tend to use the term "raw." We're talking productions akin to Casting Couch Fake Taxi and Asian Street Meat. Granted, Video-One does have the occasional HD studio video thrown in here and there, the majority of their content if not full-on homemade, is from one of these studios that specializes in raw content. Be Careful What You Click On Video-One also seems to cater to the demographic of pornophiles who fancy the more taboo type stuff —daddy/daughter, brother/sister incest roleplay. Well at least I hope it's all roleplay. Some of the videos in these sections are from easily recognized, reputable studios, but a good portion of them look to be very homemade and are tagged with things like " Real Sister." I have no way of verifying whether or not these videos are actually illegal or not. I sure as hell ain't clicking on that shit. I wish that you sick incestuous fucks would get the fuck away from the legal web. Stick to the dark web for nasty shit like that. Furthermore, I really think tube sites like Video-One should draw a hard line in the sand against illegal content like this. Even if these aren't true incest videos, why even entertain that they might be? Anything tagged with something like " Real Sister" should be immediately removed from your site. This kind of shit, unfortunately, spoils what could have been a great tube site for me. It should not be on the viewer's discretion to view illegal or potentially abusive content. That becomes your responsibility the moment you decide to make a porn site. How the fuck is this a thing that I can't even skim through a tube site without worrying about whether or not doing so will get me put on some FBI list that I have no business being on? Come on, Video-One, get your fucking shit together. Having said that, be careful what you click on if you decide to visit this site. If you're okay with sifting through potentially illegal content there is a lot of legit, above-board material here to enjoy. And, again, a fucking massive amount of it. Just to illustrate I was on the site for 10 minutes before refreshing the homepage. In that 10 minutes, 15 new videos had been uploaded. That's crazy. You'll never run out of videos to choose from on Video-One. A Labyrinth of Pornography The site itself is designed pretty Either As far as ads are concerned there are some, but most are thoughtfully kept to the bottom of pages. Which, given the number of videos that appear on each page , you'd have to do a hell of a lot of scrolling to ever find them. I do appreciate that aspect. However , once you do get to them, there are shit load. No ads before videos, though. You will run into the occasional pop-up, new tab ad when you click on a video, but at least it's not every fucking time you click on something like it is on a lot of other sites. I would obviously prefer none , but if I have to search for them, then I guess these ads are somewhat excusable. Besides the majority of the on-page ads are for other tube sites (which is very convenient if you want to get the fuck away from the incest bullshit), and the new tab pop-ups were often pages that were unable to load in private mode. I'm not sure exactly what this means, but if I can't see the ad, I'm happy. A Brief Call to Action Before You Get Back to Fappin' To be honest I am really turned off by the potentially illegal content to be found on Video-One. It's a shame too, because Video-One has so much potential to be a great porn site with a shit ton of content to choose from. Even if they removed all of their potentially illicit videos, they would still have a massive archive to explore. All of us porn addicts need to come together and just stomp this kind of shit out of our community. Flag shit that looks sketchy. If you can. Video-One, unfortunately, doesn't offer that feature. Step up and take on the fucking responsibilities that come with having a porn site or don't have one. It's as simple as that. All hail the almighty Porn Hub ! The king of porn sites! Founded in 2007 by Matt Keezer, who sold it to Fabian Thylmann in 2010, because the fucker probably cared more about the money than the website itself! (Would you refuse of the Manwin branch which is now known as 'Mindgeek'. Other giants in the network include sites like YouPorn and Redtube. Although Porn Hub is currently not the most popular porn site in the world it does hold more pornographic content than any other website out in the romantic comedy movie 'Don John' of 2013? It's about a fap addict that can't stop masturbating on porn sites, even though he has a very active sex life. I wonder why the fuck they asked that closet faggot Joseph Gordon-Levitt the your cumshot with the stars in the video. It can be so annoying that the guy and the video is already done! I assume if a video got you off or not. By registering an account, which is 100 free by the way you encounter , you can also easily can remove up your hairy ass with Bubba in jail ! From innocent looking teens showing their naked bodies to spazzed out crack whores being choked, spit on and having every hole violated by a hockey team , this site has it all. Do you like pornstars like Mia Khalifa, Chyna and Stormy Daniels? No problem , click on the pornstars' menu tab how she's able to offer off on Porn Hub ( often misspelled as 'pron hub ", "pirnhub", "prnhub", "poenhub", "hubporn", "phub" or "potnhub"), then you cant get off anywhere! In case the ads annoy you, you want to download or watch for a friend 's birthday! Imagine the look on his face , when he opens your present. 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Jet Airways flight 9W 576 will depart Kochi at 1755 hrs (Local Time), arrive Abu Dhabi 2030 hrs (LT), depart at 2120 hrs (LT) and arrive Kuwait at 2205 hrs (LT). On the return direction, flight 9W 575 will depart Kuwait at 2305 hrs LT; arrive Abu Dhabi at 0150 hrs (LT); depart at 0240 hrs and arrive in Kochi at 0810 hrs LT the following day, providing early morning connections to metro and non-metro destinations on Jet Airways network.
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Art of Living Course or Curse?
My first introduction to the convoluted world of the Art of Living was through a very benign-looking "basic course" I took many years ago. There I was, surrounded by wide-eyed, innocent students like myself, each of us looking for something different. Some were there for stress-management techniques, others were there to improve their grades or become more productive at work, and still others were there to find the purpose and true meaning of their lives. There we all were, looking for different things in that same place. And by the end of the course, somehow the teacher had us all convinced that AoL and SK were the magical answer to all our problems in life and the only key to happiness. We were told we were among a select chosen few to come across this "knowledge", and I somehow believed what I was told. I have to admit, I felt blessed, and from that space of love and gratitude, I devoted the next several years of my life, every ounce of my free time, and every penny of my savings to AoL courses—to attend them, organize them, and teach them. And in hindsight, that first course I took, which lead to all the others, turned out to be a curse that had brought so much misery, and lead me down a path that nearly destroyed my life.
Over the years that followed that first part 1, I had attended many other courses. There seemed to be a lot of pressure in my local group to attend advanced courses (part 2s, DSNs, blessings etc.). The common conception was that these courses were a "true vacation", an opportunity for growth, or a path to enlightenment, and not to be missed, whatever the cost, especially when given in the presence of ravi shankar. If you didn't have money for the course, borrow it. If you didn't have time to take off work, make up an excuse or just go anyway. These were things people did to get to courses. Our local teachers encouraged us all to go, taking advantage of our weekly kriya gathering as an opportunity to spread the word about these "amazing opportunities". There was an unspoken competition among peers to get all the requirements done to become a teacher. Somewhere along the way, I got swept up into the mania and dragged myself to course after course all over North America (and even in India). Somewhere deep down inside, I must have known the truth about AoL because often I would get overtaken by a sense of revulsion and anxiety as the course date approached. I truly did not want to go, and often would come close to cancelling. When I asked my teachers about these feelings, they would encourage me to go, like zombie cheerleaders, and attribute all the "negative" feelings I had to "pre-course karma". After coming home from such courses, I would usually fall ill, and inevitably be applauded by the group for going through such "purification" and "cleansing". It was something to almost be envied for. Once after an extended course in the Montreal ashram, held in the dead of winter, I returned home with such severe bronchitis that I needed immediate medical attention and was at risk of developing pneumonia. It took me over a month to fully recover. Only in AoL could becoming so ill be regarded as a sign of something so positive.
I was always attracted to this idea of doing "seva", or selfless service in my community. But somewhere along the way, tens of AoL courses later, the idea got twisted, the wires in my brain got shorted, and I got convinced that the highest seva and the only one worth doing is to organize more AoL courses and recruit more people to spread the "knowledge". And like a good little "seva warrior", I did just that. Organizing courses and "outreach" are the true dirty-works of the organization. Any salesman would tell you that the hardest thing to do is "cold-calling," where one introduces a product for the first time and meets with rejection most of the time. But I was trained well in DSN and TTC1 to "overcome my inhibitions", and accept rejection, criticism, and emotional abuse. I was primed and ready to be a seva warrior and organize successful events, "come what may". I would set the course dates, put my own money down for a venue, and then invite teachers from out-of-town. In return, I would receive their "support" and "encouragement" in the form of pressure to meet certain numbers of paid participants by certain made-up deadlines, or else they would threaten to not come at all. I did not want to lose my credibility with the people I had managed to sign up for the course, and I certainly did not want to lose the money I had to invest from my own pocket. Desperate to recruit enough people for these courses, I would make frequent announcements about the "amazing" upcoming event in our weekly satsangs, and I quickly exhausted my supply of friends (many of whom I'd lost due to my involvement with aol), and alienated myself from co-workers by attempting to recruit them and neglecting my work. I nearly lost my job for this "seva" and found justification for my actions in ravi shankar's words "if you do my work, I'll do yours." Inevitably, I was stuck with both our work, and I was the only one left accountable if things failed.
If the numbers fell short, it would be my fault for not "moving with the grace", not having enough faith, not having strong enough "sankalpa", or not being fully open to HIS divine guidance. No matter the reason, a failure was my fault, if people didn't sign up, the problem was always "in my mind", and I'd be the only one left to foot the bill in case the event fell through. But when things were pulled off successfully, of course the credit would go to ravi shankar, the supreme master of the universe, our divine leader, GOD HIMSELF. I don't know which was worse—when an attempt failed and the course had to be "postponed" (mind-you, never cancelled to let you off the hook), or when a course was "successful" and proceeded as planned. By the end of the course, inevitably, one or a few of the course participants would be "inspired" to organize the next course, and me, being the "experienced team-leader" would be asked to oversee the whole operation. On too many occasions, I felt compelled, or rather dragged into course organizing for that very reason. And yet again, I'd be the one responsible for the outcome (but only if it wasn't successful).
Even though AoL had become an increasing drain on my time, energy, and personal and financial resources, I still aspired to become an AoL teacher. To this day, I'm not exactly sure why. Was it because I longed to make a difference in the world, convinced that sk was the answer? Was it because I wanted to be among the "chosen few" (or so I thought at the time) to spread "HIS knowledge"? Was it because so many others with whom I associated aspired to become teachers and I got swept up in the mania? The only thing I know for sure was that I was driven, and somewhere along the way, I stopped asking questions and became unaware of my own reasons for doing the things that I did. I had all those words of encouragement told to me by various AoL teachers ringing in my head. "You would make a great teacher," they'd say, or "you should become a teacher." When ravi shankar himself told me to become a teacher, I felt honored, and became the envy of my satsang group. And like a good little zombie, I followed through and took all the required courses.
Once I became a teacher, only one thing had changed. I still had to do all the organizing, but this time, I had no choice if I wanted to remain true to my words. I had to say "YES!" to everything, no matter how absurd the request, no matter how much energy, time, and finances it would require. I had to be in the "yes mind"—after all, I was a teacher, and preaching that very concept to my students. If an inexperienced or mentally-unstable member of the group wanted to organize a 108-person part 1 course, my answer would be "YES!", or if he/she wanted to organize a 1,008-person event with food and music, and turn it into an intro-talk, my answer would be "YES!", or if they wanted to invite "guruji" to our city with the promise of a stadium full of 10,008 people, the answer would be "YES!" My answer was always "YES!", but I'd be thinking "no, No, PLEASE NOOOO!" People in the group would go off to part 2 courses and DSNs and come back with their head full of all these ill-conceived notions that they are superheroes and can do anything, and they'd have all these ambitions and plans for "growth of AoL in our city". And being the only local teacher, inevitably, I would have to get involved in some way or other. Every course (even those that others wanted to plan or take) was truly a curse that brought more misery, and sucked me dry. AoL had become another full-time job, and the irony was that I myself, who needed most a "true vacation" (which at that time translated into a part 2 course) could not afford to take one due to lack of money or time. I lived in this sad state for years. My productivity at work declined, my relationships with friends and family became nearly non-existent, and AoL had taken over my life.
To help get me through those times, I had successfully learned the art of manipulation as an AoL teacher, and I'm ashamed to admit that I applied all the same tactics that were used to pull me into the organization to recruit others for courses and to encourage them to become teachers themselves. I held "free" events (such as weekly satsangs and "introductory workshops") and used those as opportunities to sell courses to members in the group or members of the unsuspecting public; I'd always have students share their wonderful course experiences in front of the group to compel others to take courses, and I'd always share my own exaggerated "wonderful" and "awesome" experiences with the techniques or courses; I'd always recruit a number of "repeaters" in any part 1 course who were convinced of the value of the course to help to convince the newcomers of its value and keep the group together; I'd praise those in the group who would make "good" teachers on their skillful delivery of "the knowledge" and encourage them to become teachers themselves. The list could go on and on. Needless to say, the sum total of all these subtle manipulations were used successfully to convince myself and others to further ravi shankar's pursuit of money, power, and god knows what else.
I recognize that at every juncture I had a choice. No one twisted my arm, and I was never forced to do anything for AoL. But it is in my nature to be agreeable, to want to do the "right thing", to have a positive impact on those around me, to practice what I preach, to follow through with my commitments, and to take full responsibility for the impact of my words and actions on others. Normally, in real life, having these qualities might be regarded as a positive thing. But in the twisted world of AoL, they make one vulnerable the subtle manipulations, and were the very qualities that kept me slaving for the organization for many years. It was the initial realizations that many of the teachers are hypocrites, that the "trauma relief efforts" are a sham, and that sk, the "gem" of the part 1 course, is downright harmful, that helped me to see aol and rs for the fraud they truly are. And reading all of the experiences and insights that have been graciously posted on this forum have helped me to understand many of the other things that went on in the org. that seemed "not quite right".
I have been free from AoL for several months now, and with the AoL curse behind me, I have never felt more alive, more invigorated, or more full of honest-to-god joy (not the fake-it-till-you-make-it kind)!
28 comments:
- Prairie Princess said...
I am impressed with your honesty and wish you continued recovery. The world is waiting for Seva from everyone. There are homeless to care for, food pantries that need staff, schools that need volunteers, environmental groups that could use a hand, big brother, big sister organizations that need volunteers to work with kids who need help, community organizations that need volunteers, hospital patients that could use a visitor, foster children to take in, and trash in the street to pick up. This is true Seva and all that is asked of a person is that they show up and participate. This is true Seva and has nothing to do with shilling for AOL or helping ravi ravi acquire more cash. I met some of the same sick "senior teachers" who said they would come to a city if only certain numbers were reached for their courses and threatened the course organizers with their absence from the event if the numbers were not met. Pray for their recovery and reconnection with the divine--because, as long as they hang with ravi baby, they are lost and disconnected. In what kind of sick system is abuse seen as motivation? Is that some kind of Indian thing..because it doesn't fly in the west unless it is used against someone who is very ill.
- March 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM
"In what kind of sick system is abuse seen as motivation? Is that some kind of Indian thing.because it doesn't fly in the west unless it is used against someone who is very ill."
Stick to the precise point here. Dont use these words against India. Americans have created Jihadis and world is sufferring because of your stupid mindless greed. Learn to be human first then judge. Speaking about seva doesnt suit you americans. Moreover Your students do shootouts at schools and abuse drugs. There is problem with pornography and mindless sex and mental illness.
You americana have made the world very sick.
If you dare raise your voice against jihadis , islamic fndamentalists, abuse in the church, waste culture created by americans, lously greedy american corporations and american contribution to greenhouse effect. The list is endless.
Surely you americans feel very proud to hear this. Such must be very normal feeling for you
- March 21, 2010 at 12:23 AM
it looks like my life story. I have been in and out of the same hell.
Now only I am able to give time to my family .
Earlier I always excused myself to do some some AOL work on every family occasion.
- March 21, 2010 at 1:47 AM
- manjula said...
You are absolutely right in your decision, KLIM.
In the organization (any spiritual org?) Gurus/teachers ask you to 'leave your mind' behind and to unquestioningly do the Guru's work, whatever it is.
I went through the same motions that you did. But when I rebelled, I was labeled as being too 'in the head' questioning things.
But the Holy Scriptures say that you have to be convinced to follow a 'goal'.
I left aol before I became judgemental because 'something didnt feel right'. And guess what?
It was not my 'chattering mind' telling me that. I believe it was my 'Self' or soul speaking.
Any Seva, even of the smallest kind, is a Blessing. Feed the poor, Help the needy. Say a kind word, and smile from the heart...
I do not attend AOL satsangs, but when I sit with good people around me, and listen to soothing knowledge sessions with my husband, I feel that I am in the BEST satsang in the world...
- March 21, 2010 at 1:55 AM
- KLIM and CO. said...
- March 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM
- KLIM and CO. said...
Prairie Princess and Very Indian, PLEASE let's not turn this into West vs. Indian because it is not. "Very Indian", I read and re read Prairie's Princess' comments, and though you may have understandably taken it personally, I think she meant it from an innocent space. Sadly, Ravishankar is not a good representation of his culture. Please people, let's NOT turn this into Indian vs. Western. Comments bashing anyone's cultures will not be posted hereafter. Thank you.
- March 21, 2010 at 7:35 AM
Many Spiritual Organizations are turning out to be commercial enterprises and they are not shy of admitting the same .But unfortunately many people get trapped in these institutions giving "free service" in the name of "seva"/"karma yoga" and later regret that their lives are wasted . My advice to everyone is that life is in front of you and there is no point in escaping from it . Do go to ashrams / retreat centres to learn yoga / pranayama or meditation to keep your body and mind fit but do not surrender yourself to them expecting them to take care of you or your life .
- March 21, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Prairie Princess said...
There was no intention to bash Indians but was an inquiry into the mind set of a culture and its relationship to authority. If it is inculcated into members of a certain culture that those in any type authority can do no wrong, then any behavior from an authority figure is all right, whether it is abusive, makes sense, or follows human decency. Cultural values can make it problematic to discriminate when one is being abused and used. I point out here the treatment of minorities in the west as an example. I do believe ravi ravi is Indian as are many,many of his followers. If Very Indian has a problem with inquiry it speaks to how much his/her mind has been captured by a cult. So sad. What happened to the so-called belief in One World in aol?? Practice what your cult preaches please.
- March 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM
aol cashes in on big sounding stuff like "iit" and all that
they use this for marketing...
I used to think the guy below is charming: this is what one of AOL's many minions is doing: spreading misinformation/propaganda to the youth.
europe only accepted that the earth was round once they saw apollo
space pictures. - what hogwash
and he is using a picture drawn in the 21st century to prove that
10,000 years ago we knew that the earth was round. Didn't it ever
occur to him that the picture was drawn AFTER knowing that the earth
was round!!!
in part 2, he says kollur receives 750 cm of rainfall a year!!!
I googled it, it looks more like 450cm of rainfall
- March 21, 2010 at 12:37 PM
check this out http://www.youtube.com/user/GuruSwamiG#p/u/0/MGft7XEAcJQ
This is on nithyananda there is a part-I as well.
People, focus on your jobs, careers, family first and sewa and all after that there is nothing to feel great working or guilty not working for non-profit orgs it helps in purification by doing selfless service, however not at the cost of your family, careers and jobs.
Also as the author mentions do these courses with in your financial means, trust me nobody is going to come and give you money, you have to earn and figure it our yourselves , otherwise need to live in food to mouth situation under these orgs.
- March 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM
@ Prairie Princess: No, it is not an "Indian thing". Abuse seen as motivation is something prevalent practically everywhere in the world - witness fraternities, hazing, corporate culture, the US military, whatever. In any of these and indeed, in all authoritarian systems, the person in a position of power has the freedom to abuse - and then justify this abuse to the victim as being for "his own good".
Please, this is the oldest trick in the book, and certainly not limited to AoL.
I am an avid reader of this blog and am in general agreement with what you say but your statement seems to imply that the "Indian System" is sick because therein abuse is seen as motivation. As I have just shown, abuse is seen as motivation everywhere there are abusers. What's more, the concept of a uniquely defined "Indian system" is erroneous because there isn't any such thing. And thirdly there is no reason or logic in connecting "abuse as motivation" with "Indian system" unless you wanted to be deliberately inflammatory or you chose your words rather poorly.
To the non-Indians reading this: India brought the world things such as Mathematics, Logic, Medicine, Language and a whole lot more in terms of what is recognized today as hard "science" or "engineering". So please, don't derive your ideas about India from bogus gurus such as Ravi Shankar or Nithyananda who espouse fake cultish pseudo-spirituality in the name of enlightenment.
And to the Indians who read this, you couldn't do worse than remaining in ignorance about your true culture and heritage.
For instance, let me ask you this: Why is the Bhagavadgita 18 chapters long? After all, Krishna is God himself, and Arjuna is the perfect student - veritably, the perfect Guru-Shishya pair. Then why does it take Krishna 18 chapters of lecturing - a la "Aham EvAkshaya Kalo DhatAham VishvatoMukhah" to convince Arjuna to fight?
I mean, for the perfect Guru, it should have been merely a matter of issuing a command "Arjuna, Fight!", and that should have been the length of the Gita.
Nuh uh. The reason the Bhagavadgita is so long is that our perfect student looks God Himself in the eye and says "Umm, I don't believe you. Show me proof that you are God."
Not only that, our model Shishya does not back down from that request until Krishna actually shows Arjuna his Vishvarupa - physical proof.
Frankly, I don't care whether the Gita is literally true or not; but it displays in spades that a mere mortal, even when faced with the word of the Almighty Himself, refuses to put his logical mind on the back burner and take his "Guru's" word for granted.
Now that is the true heritage of India - the relentless pursuit of the truth - of Satyam - whatever that may be, not obeisance to some con artist who wants others to believe that he is God.
- March 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM
i am so sure KLIM you wrote this one.
- March 21, 2010 at 3:45 PM
- KLIM and CO. said...
"i am so sure KLIM you wrote this one."
Nah, I did not write this one. Your siddhi powers are a bit rusty.
- March 21, 2010 at 5:46 PM
To Prairie Princess & KLIM
There goes 'the princess' again.
what gives you right to say taking abuse from authorities is a cultural thing for India? Haven't you read about freedom fight of India in the last century?! Or it is not part of your cult's history books? What do you know about culture of this ancient tolerent country existing for last several thousand years? What givers you quthority to bash our culture?
Can't you see so many Indian hindus are contributing here?
Just for you well informed lady, I don't belong to AoL. Because I was pressured to take an AoL basic course one of my ex-AoL friends told me to refer this blog and then decide for myself.
It doesn't matter to me that the authors here are american whites / blacks /browns. They have served more than a decade with AoL. They did selfless spiritual, social service to humanity. their views matter to me. I value their perspective. I dont judge whether it is wrong or right.
What have you done with AoL and for how many years? what authority do you have to speak about AoL and most importantly about India? That is my question
I walk alone and don't belong to any cult but surely your cult has taught you racism ans selfish judgements. I can see.
- March 21, 2010 at 11:51 PM
- a humble witness said...
Dear Anon of March 21 @ 3:45PM
"i am so sure KLIM you wrote this one."
I am quite flattered you think I am KLIM. I think he/she has great communication/writing skills and a wealth of information to share about the inner-circle workings of AoL. I was never part of the "inner-circle", and I was never a full-time teacher for the org., although at one point I did consider it. I was a "part-time" teacher for the org. and continued to slave for AoL a few years too many before realizing the error of my ways. In any case, I do not understand how my identity has any bearing on anything, as I am simply sharing my experiences as part of my own recovery (to help process what I went through) as well as the recovery of anyone else who might find reading these experiences helpful.
I wish you all the best.
- March 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM
Klim ,
I don't find anything wrong with what Prairie Princess has written.
It was the same uber touchy reaction of Indians that demotivated me from commenting here. Too many taboos & political correctness.
Since you don't want to have any (perceived actually))anti indian comment please don't post these allegations of racism by Indians.
I am sick of hearing a lot about this hyperbolised racism , Christian conspiracy yadayada.
So this is the impact of years of pursuit of Vedantam on fellow Indians :-((
- March 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM
anon March 22, 2010 9:38 AM
mate be less materialistic less judgemental then you will be able write your own vedanta. nobody in the world is omniscient to attack any country's culture. so chillax
- March 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Answer to Very Indian.
I also did not find anything wrong with what Prairie Princess said, but your comments sound extremely agressive, as if you went through AOL DSN course several times.
Every country has something unique and beautiful to share with the world, and there are dark sides as well.For example, India is famous for its spiritual traditions of the past. It's true, you can learn a lot from these old teachings. At the same time, there are so many so called Gurus now-a-days (most of them are from India) that pollute all these teachings and spread it in the world. As a result, a lot of people are hurt physically, emotionally and spiritually. My own experience with AOL and SS is - STAY AWAY, it's DANGEROUS!
The very Guru idea seem not to work at all in present times.Did it work in the past? I don't know. All those wonderful books about Gurus! But there was no Internet in the past for people to share their experiences.
Thank you KLIM for exposing this scam to the world.
- March 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM
It is said that the "area under the glow of the candle is the darkest" and so it is with India, her ancient knowledge and the presence of S3 Ravi Ravi Ravi and other nutjobs (dark area under the candle)
- March 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- desi dude said...
I'm new t all this. Though a DESI(slan for India) I never attended any course for spirituality(AOL or otherwise).
I landed here while looking for cults , after nithy video broke out.
I want to know, once you learn SK, can you teach others with out going through the AOL system?
From what I read here, AOL appear to be like AMway MLM, excpt the participanat have an opportunity to attein moksha and SSRS collects cash. is that right?
otherwise why would one work full-time for AOL?
- March 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM
@desi dude:
I'm no AoL insider, so I don't know if it's like Amway. But I was telling a co-worker about it and she said 'oh, that sounds just like Amway'. It took her about one second to see through it. Suffice it to say, I don't think she'll ever end up in a cult.
I was asked to sign an agreement that I would not teach SK after learning it in the Basic Course. (dropped out after re-reading that and got my $ back without taking the course) So, yes I guess you have to go through the "system" and become a teacher to teach it.
- March 24, 2010 at 8:29 PM
- a humble witness said...
Dear "desi dude",
You do in fact have to put a lot of time and money into the org before getting a precious-beyond-value SK tape, which is a recording of ravi shankar's voice chanting "so-hum" in different rhythms. Possessing the tape is regarded as one of the highest honors among devotees, and is a requirement if one is to teach for the organization. And right before receiving the tape (after jumping through all the hoops), one has to sign an agreement to only teach for AoL and under no circumstances is one to teach for one's own profit. It is made very clear that the tape does not belong to you, but rather, it belongs to the foundation, and you are merely a "custodian" of it. Its very cleaver when you think about it--its hard to copyright a class, but a tape-recording is something physical that can be copyrighted and controlled and used for profit. This has been a very lucrative business for ravi.
- March 24, 2010 at 11:20 PM
It's possible that KLIM and his/her ilk are covering up their stupidity and naivete in believing this SK thing by writing these sob stories.
- March 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM
- desi dude said...
Thank you "a Humble Witness" and Jivani
After this nithayananda episode, during discussion with few friends of mine the question that came up was " how come all these professional gurus exploit the free knowledge available through ageless tradition, not only make money, also exploit people"
In that connection we were discussing a story of Ramanuja.
he is agreat acharya in vaishnava tradition in 11 century india.
he got a maha mantra upadesha from his guru and was told that he will get his mukti by chanting that and he was not to share it with others.
His question was , if that mantra was to give mukti , how come we dont make it available for ALL.
he calls all the villagers, goes to the top of the village temple and loudly chants the mantra and asks every one to chant.
he gets cursed by his guru for that, however he goes on to become a great scholar and is identified as originator of sri vainshnava tradition.
Such was the exaple infront of us !
- March 25, 2010 at 11:31 AM
infinity says: what is not a cult? Even christianity (or as osho calls crossianity) is also a cult. many of the techniques that are described here to be used by AOL seem to be used in a understated manner by christian missionary. Jesus was also a Guru. Ony thing he lived two thousand years back. budha was also a Guru. Only hing he lived two thousand five hundred years back. We are comfortable worshipping long dead gurus.
By the way jody (of guruphilac) sounds similar of Judas, the intimate disciple of Jesus who betrayed him.
The ways of the masters are mysterious. Those who are not into serious spirituality will miss it even though they are under a true guru. Those who serious seekers of truth will get it even though occasionally they may be under a false guru.
- April 15, 2010 at 4:10 AM
i believe if u do ur meditation and do ur part 2 courses regularly...u won't pile such enormous amount of garbage in ur mind...don't blame H.H Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji for u behaving foolish...being a teacher u could organise courses for urself...numbers r not that important...nor money...what matters is ur balance between the all...also the knowledge given by guruji will help u...specially asthavakra....
- April 18, 2010 at 2:37 PM
@ Anon, April 18, 2:37PM
Could you, please, translate your message into proper English.
Did this kind of gibberish happen to you after doing part 2 courses regularly? Does it happen to everyone?
- April 19, 2010 at 3:18 PM
I am an Indian living in the US.
I read some of the comments here and wanted to comment on this thread even though its dead for some time.
Firstly, respect foreigners studying Indian culture. Indian culture is not superior over any other culture. Fellow indians should realise that and also spend some time into thinking that we might have been conditioned into thinking we have an elaborate and dense culture. Question the foreigner too. Why would someone give up so much of their own culture to study yours?
Secondly, In my mind after constant debating I can conclude that it is indeed an issue that abuse is motivation. True that the west gave us a number of problems but that doesn't justify what AOL/Nithyananda is doing.
Finally, if you want to evolve - question everything.
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�Understanding cultural nuances is really important,� Chew said. �This is not about trying to convert somebody to Islam. It is to help students explore ideas, expand people�s knowledge. I hope you can respect that our mission is to expand people�s minds and exposure.�
Coalition members questioned whether the titles in the collection were properly vetted and Mattocks said, �they were screened very carefully. The librarian is very careful about the resources they get and they came from the National Endowment for the Humanities.�
Chew said they were also vetted by different, reputable universities before selection by the Endowment.
Carol Leake said, �My concern is not how many books but if religion is taught at all and from what perspective.�
Chew said no course on Islam is planned other than what is imbedded in humanities courses or part of survey courses.
Ralph Scott, who said he had long studied Islam, said the books being provided to universities are part of a long and patient �Islamic jihad, a war being waged in America for decades. I think the material should not be in the library.�
Craven County Board of Education member David Hale said, �Our young people have to become educated because of or in spite of such a movement.�
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The Children of Abraham (nonfiction) � by F. E. Peters
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious traditions has taken on a new and critical urgency.
He began writing about all three faiths in the 1970s, long before it was fashionable to treat Islam in the context of Judaism and Christianity, or to align all three for a family portrait. In this updated edition, he lays out the similarities and differences of the three religious siblings with great clarity and succinctness and with that same remarkable objectivity that is the hallmark of all the author's work.
Peters traces the three faiths from the sixth century B.C., when the Jews returned to Palestine from exile in Babylonia, to the time in the Middle Ages when they approached their present form. He points out that all three faith groups, whom the Muslims themselves refer to as "People of the Book," share much common ground. Most notably, each embraces the practice of worshipping a God who intervenes in history on behalf of His people.
The book's text is direct and accessible with thorough and nuanced discussions of each of the three religions. Updated footnotes provide the reader with expert guidance into the highly complex issues that lie between every line of this stunning and timely new edition of The Children of Abraham.
The Story of the Qur�an : it�s history and place in Muslim life (nonfiction) � Ingrid Mattson
An essential introductory text for the study of the Qur�an, its content, and its place in Muslim society.
An insightful and authoritative introduction to the book at the heart of Muslim life, written by a well-known Islamic scholar
Examines the doctrines contained in the Qur�an, providing a comprehensive explanation of their significance to individual Muslims and the societies in which they live
Surveys the key themes of the Qur�an, its most significant historical interpretations, and some of the most significant figures who transmitted and taught the sacred scripture over the centuries
Considers the influence of the Qur�an on all major aspects of Muslim society, including personal relationships, popular culture, law, art and architecture, political movements, science, and literature
Helps the reader to understand the Qur�an, while throwing a much-needed light on what it means to be a Muslim.
The Butterfly Mosque : a young American woman�s journey to love and Islam (memoir) � G. Willow Wilson
The extraordinary story of an all-American girl�s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world.
When G. Willow Wilson�already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just twenty-seven�leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future.
She settles in Cairo where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a �third culture� that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.
Snow (novel) � Orhan Pamuk
The Nobel Prize�winner�s second novel is a spellbinding story of a poet seeking his lost love in a remote Turkish town riven by religious conflict and cut off from the world by a blizzard.
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced �pek, a friend of Ka�s youth whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends on Kars, violence between the military and local Islamic radicals begins to explode, and Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected and dramatic directions.
The Arabian Nights (literature)
Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date�the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago.
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
In an Antique Land : history in the guise of a traveler�s tale (part history, part travel, part memoir) � Amitav Ghosh
In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveler's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.
Minaret : a novel � Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela's American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman -- once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London -- gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces the young woman and her family into political exile in London. Soon orphaned, she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim community. Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer. They find a common bond in faith and slowly, silently, begin to fall in love. Written with directness and force, Minaret is a lyric and insightful novel about Islam and an alluring glimpse into a culture Westerners are only just beginning to understand.
Islamic Arts (nonfiction) � Jonathan Bloom
In the years following the revelations of the Prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century AD, the new religion of Islam spread rapidly through Arabia to North Africa and Spain in the west and Cental Asia and India in the east. Through the following 1000 years, artists and craftsmen in the areas influenced by Islam produced some of the world's most beautiful works of art: from the Albrahmra to the Taj Mahal, from illuminated copies of the Koran to exquisite decorative arts: ceramics, textiles and metalwork. This work highlights the characteristics of Islamic Art and focuses on the differences between the various arts of the Islamic lands. Dividing the era into three periods (600-900, 900-1500, and 1500-1800) the artistic development is set within historical context. In each period the book describes developments in architecture, the arts of the book, the loom and the fire - metalwork, ceramics and glassware. In every medium the examples are chosen to illuminate the sources, characteristics and achievements of Islamic art.
The Conference of the Birds (literature) � Farid Attar
Composed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Farid Attar�s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvelous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism, it describes the pilgrimage of the world�s birds in search of their ideal king, the Simorgh bird, and the arduous journey they take to reach him. This masterly translation preserves the poem�s rhymed couplet form and nuances of language.
The Ornament of the World : How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain (nonfiction) � Maria Rosa Menocal
Widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, this history brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and literature, science, and the arts flourished. of photos. 3 maps.
Acts of Faith : The story of an American Muslim, the struggles for the soul of a generation (biography) � Eboo Patel
Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel�s story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people�and of the world-changing potential of an interfaith youth movement.
Rumi : Poet and Mystic (1207-1273) : selections from his writings translated from the Persian with introduction and notes (literature) � Reynold A. Nicholson
Jalalu'l-Din Rumi was one of the greatest of the Persian mystical poets. In his writings he explored the profound themes of the nature of truth, of beauty, and of our spiritual relationship with God. Professor Nicholson translated this collection of mystical poems shortly before his death. It contains versions of over 100 short passages from Rumi's greatest works, together with brief explanatory notes.
When Asia was the World : traveling merchants, scholars, wariors, and monks who created the �riches of the east� (nonfiction) � Stewart Gordon
While European civilization stagnated in the �Dark Ages,� Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia�s vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a compelling and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500�a time when Asia was the world�by relating the personal journeys of Asia�s many travelers.
Broken Verses (novel) � Kamila Shamsie
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter that could only have been written recently.
Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had assumed that her mother's disappearance was simply another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan's first independent TV station, Aasmaani runs into an old friend of Samina's who gives her the first letter, then many more. Where could the letters have come from? And will they lead her to her mother?
Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a sharp, thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan, a carefully coded mystery, and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how we forgive a mother who leaves.
Leo Africanus (novel) � Amin Maalouf
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages."
Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus.
The House of Wisdom : How Arabic science saved ancient knowledge and gave us the Renaissance (nonfiction) - Jim Al-Khalili
A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling flowering?
Persepolis : The story of a childhood (memoir) - Marjane Satrapi
A New York Times Notable Book
A Time Magazine �Best Comix of the Year�
A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi�s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah�s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran�s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane�s child�s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.
A Quiet Revolution : The veil�s resurgence, from the Middle East to America (nonfiction) � Leila Ahmed
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West? When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic. Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam.
Dreams of Trespass : Tales of a harem girlhood (memoir) � Fatima Mernissi
�I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...� So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth�women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. Dreams of Trespass is the provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world.
House of Stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East (memoir) � Anthony Shadid
In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family�s ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather�s once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake.
So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist�s wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house�s renewal alongside the history of his family�s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East.
The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (nonfiction) � Edward E. Curtis (editor)
Since September 11, 2001, Muslims in the United States have become the subject of genuine curiosity and compassion as well as increased government surveillance and harassment. Who are these Muslims? What is their history, and where do they come from? Do they share a common culture? Do they vary in their beliefs?
Bringing together an unusually personal collection of essays and documents from an incredibly diverse group of Americans who call themselves Muslims, Edward E. Curtis "finds Islam" in the American experience from colonial times to the present. Sampling from speeches, interviews, editorials, stories, song lyrics, articles, autobiographies, blogs, and other sources, Curtis presents a patchwork narrative of Muslims from different ethnic and class backgrounds, religious orientations, and political affiliations. He begins with a history of Muslims in the United States, featuring the voices of an enslaved African Muslim, a Syrian Muslim sodbuster, and a South Asian mystic-musician, along with the words of such well-known Muslims as Malcolm X. Then he follows with an examination of such contemporary issues as Islam and gender, the involvement of Muslims in American politics, and emerging forms of Islamic spirituality.
In constructing his history, Curtis draws on the work of Muslim feminists, social conservatives, interfaith activists, missionaries, and politicians, as well as Muslim rappers and legal experts. He also includes records from the large-scale migrations of the 1880s; racial, ethnic, and religious trends of the 1960s; writings from second-generation and African American Muslims; and discussions of Islam in the public square. With this highly informed, real-life portrait, Curtis provides a crucial corrective to the rhetoric of suspicion and fear surrounding current discussions of Muslims in the United States and emphasizes Muslims' continuing impact on American society and culture.
Prince Among Slaves (nonfiction) � Terry Alford
In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier. "The Prince," as he had become known to local Natchez, Mississippi residents, had been captured in war when he was 26 years old, sold to slave traders, and shipped to America. Slave though he was, Ibrahima was an educated, aristocratic man, and he was made overseer of the large cotton and tobacco plantation of his master, who refused to sell him to the doctor for any price. After years of petitioning by Dr. Cox and others, Ibrahima finally gained freedom in 1828 through the intercession of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay. Sixty-six years old, Ibrahima sailed for Africa the following year, with his wife, and died there of fever just five months after his arrival. The year 2007 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Prince Among Slaves, the only full account of Ibrahima's life, pieced together from first-person accounts and historical documents gathered on three continents. It is not only a remarkable story, but also the story of a remarkable man, who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or his hope for freedom. This thirtieth anniversary edition, which will be released to coincide with a major documentary being aired on Ibrahima's life, has been updated to include material discovered since the original printing, a fuller presentation and appreciation of other African Muslims in American slavery-Ibrahima's contemporaries-and a review of new and important literature and developments in the field.
The Art of Hajj (nonfiction) � Venetia Porter
It is laid down in the Qur�an that at least once in their lives Muslims should undertake the annual spiritual pilgrimage�the Hajj�to the holy city of Mecca. There, within a sanctuary, lies the Ka�ba�a cube of black granite that is the literal center of a Muslim�s world and the compass point towards which daily prayers are made. This striking little book not only takes the reader on a journey, but celebrates the skill and creativity of artists, craftspeople, and the pilgrims themselves who have responded to the call of Hajj over the centuries. � Encompasses a striking array of objects and images, from the seventh to the 21st centuries. � Features illuminated manuscripts, wall paintings and photographs, calligraphy, textiles, scientific instruments, decorative tiles, maps, ceramics, metalwork, and powerful works by contemporary artists.
In the Country of Men (novel) � Hisham Matar
Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman�s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father�s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother�s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn�t he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that strange building with the green shutters? Why did he lie?
Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand�where the sound of the telephone ringing becomes a portent of grave danger; where his mother frantically burns his father�s cherished books; where a stranger full of sinister questions sits outside in a parked car all day; where his best friend�s father can disappear overnight, next to be seen publicly interrogated on state television.
In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.
Muhammad : a very short introduction (nonfiction) � Jonathan A. C. Brown
As the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers, Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures in world history. But learning about his life and understanding his importance has always proven difficult, as our only source of knowledge comes from the biography of him written by his followers, the reliability of which has been questioned by Western scholars. This Very Short Introduction provides a superb introduction to the major aspects of Muhammad's life and its importance, providing both Muslim and Western historical perspectives. It explains the prominent roles that Muhammad's persona has played in the Islamic world throughout history, from the medieval to the modern period. The book also sheds light on modern controversies such as the Satanic Verses, for which author Salman Rushdie was condemned for blasphemy, and the uproar over Danish cartoons of Muhammad, which triggered violent protests around the world. As these recent events show, whatever the truth about Muhammad's life, his persona still plays a crucial role in Muslim life and civilization.
Koran by Heart
HBO documentary - In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world's most famous competitions, a test of memory and recitation known as The International Holy Koran Competition. As the competition reaches its climax, Koran By Heart offers a compelling and nuanced glimpse into some of the pressures faced by the next generation of Muslims.
Prince Among Slaves
PBS documentary based on book of same title. The true story of Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori, a West African prince who was sold into slavery in 1788, eventually ending up in Natchez, Mississippi.
Islamic Art : Mirror of the Invisible World
Unity Productions Foundation "Documentary of stunning breadth and beauty, transports viewers over nine countries and across 1,400 years of cultural history to reveal the astonishing riches of Muslim arts, crafts, and architecture. Exploring distant locations and many rare pieces of art, the film illuminates the history of a global culture, reflecting the Islamic world as it developed over centuries and as it is today....
All descriptions taken from Amazon.com
Electronic Database
Oxford Islamic Studies Online Oxford University Press
This authoritative, dynamic resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Password is needed for off-campus access. Located on library electronic resources page.
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