
Transcendence Sincerity
A heart-based sufi mindfulness Spiritual practice Employing self-journeying
Faruk Arslan(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 3. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-3-659-55548-0 (ISBN)
Description
Spiritual Psychology is the study and practice of the art and science of the human evolution of consciousness. The heart occupies an important place in Sufism and is considered to contain the divine spark that leads to spiritual realization. Fethullah Gülen's action-oriented Sufi methods described in his book series "The Emerald Hills of the Heart" provides the basis for a heart-based therapeutic intervention through self-journeying, which is the objective of this work. These self-purification and mindfulness-related transpersonal methods generate a form of treatment that is culturally sensitive. Through my reflections in this research, I transformed my personal experiences into a transpersonal narrative by writing 80 poems in 80 days, and this output, along with Gülen's teaching methods, techniques and spiritual practices formed the source of my intellectually generated data, and the basis for the new therapy model. This work presents my journey in Fethullah Gülen's Sufi path and an emerging model for a heart-based Sufi mindfulness spiritual practice. In this research, I propose a faith/spirituality-based model of heart-centred psychotherapy rooted in the spiritual philosophy.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-659-55548-0 (9783659555480)
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Faruk Arslan is a Turkish-Canadian columnist, academic, social activist, sociologist, journalist-writer, broadcaster, program co-producer and the author of 25 books. Currently, he is a TA at the Faculty of Religion and Culture in Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Arslan offers a heart-based Sufi Therapy Mindfulness counseling as a MSW and RSW.