The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca

[cakebelly]

The beginning of the end of Islamic dogma? Probably not but it is interesting to contemplate, is it not? http://www.realitysandwich.com/fatimiya_sufi_ayahuasca

Some of the text:

"The Fatimiya Sufi Order stands unique in its place as a Sufi order with Ayahuasca as a central sacrament. This may be the first Sufi order to utilize the medicine in its rituals, as well as the first mystery school that utilizes Ayhausca in accordance with Islamic and pre-Islamic religious metaphors. The order's founder plans on taking the medicine back to his homeland, Iran.   

Originated by Iranian-born N. Wahid Azal in 2005, the Fatimiyas utilize Ayahuasca as their central sacrament, in a syncretic esoteric order that glorifies the archetypes of Islam, as the Santo Daime does Christianity. However, this is only the shell, says Azal. What is most important is the message inside (something I think Padrinho Sebastio may have agreed with). Or in Azal's words, ?the exoteric aspect of Islam is merely a symbol to be contemplated rather than simply to be followed for its own sake, since for me behind this symbol there is a deeper esoteric truth that is necessarily beyond all creeds.?

Azal was initiated into Sufism in his twenties, after leaving the Bahai faith he was raised in. Azal professes to follow his own ?personal gnostic religion of salvation? which he terms NUR, meaning ?light.? I had the opportunity to ask him a few questions. "

[DigitalBuddha]

Cool shit, mang. I always find it interesting when people branch off a major religion to explore other possibilities. One thing is for sure; as in Christianity in the US, the nylists that run institutionalized religion have a shit when their "authority" is challenged and some new shit comes to light.

Ideas, man; the most powerful threat to the status quo. Fuck em'!