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Sufi Order International: Home page of the Order of which the Baraka Center is an official center. This order was founded by Hazrat Inayat Khan, who brought Sufism from India to the West in the early 1900's. Tracing its origins within the Chisti tradition, the Order emerges out of a living stream of Divine guidance, passed from teacher to student for over 1300 years.
The Sufi Healing Order offers a healing service and group prayer circles.
Dances of Universal Peace are simple, participatory dances that use simple music, lyrics, and movements to touch the spiritual essence within ourselves and others.
Kinship Activity: Sacred service is common to most traditions of Sufism, and the Kinship Activity is the vehicle through which the innate desire to be of service to humanity finds its expression. The Kinship Activity is comprised of four basic areas of responsibility that roughly correspond to the basic venues of human involvement. The first is relationship with self and intimate others (family, partners, close friends). The second focuses on immediate community and other forms of community such as the Sufi Order. The third focuses on regional or national concerns, while the fourth is concerned with global awareness and consciousness.
The Center offers special seminars focusing on the skills and attitudes of friendship and conscious relationship. The Center also engages in supportive activities to parts of the larger organization. The last few years, we hosted a series of particularly successful “Bike-a-thons”, in which members pledged to bike between five and fifty miles and collected donations. Over the years, we have raised over $4000 but more importantly had a wonderful time and managed to get in more than a little exercise. The money has been earmarked to support on going projects at the central location of the Sufi Order, The Abode of the Message outside of Albany, New York. Stay in touch with this site for news of more of these fun and useful events.
Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. Seven Pillars exists to support the advancement of
wisdom in the global culture. By wisdom is meant knowledge that is
rooted in the experience of the heart. This is knowledge that
recognizes the universe as the living expression of a sacred unity.
Searchable texts of Hazrat Inayat Khan, who
brought a timeless message of Love, Harmony and Beauty to
the Western world in the early 1900's, a message which helps
us to become acutely aware of the divinity within. One can also subscribe to the Bowl of Saki, which offers daily inspirational messages via email from the Inayat Khan's talks.
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