Sufism, Psychic experiences & Parapsychology

Salam Alaykum

I want volunteers to read and possibly briefly comment on my very first book on mystical sciences :) Below is a brief overview . I prefer to have the essay read for a short feedback/rating or critique before publishing. I'll be uploading a softcopy of the entire manuscript soon. Please inbox me your email id if interested.

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Safwan

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What this book covers :

 A huge collection of literature exists on Mysticism¹, Islamic Mysticism⁵ (known as Sufism⁵), Pantheism², Panentheism³ and Transcendentalist⁴ nature of mystic spiritual experience, its varieties and the ideas surrounding it. The rivals, too, have a wide variety of material claiming to prove it contrary to their supposed hard-line “true Islam” and labeling it as an innovation in the Islamic code of life.

This controversy has caused serious damage to the modern Muslim mind and is leading young educated Muslims all over the world away from religion. They are confused and blatantly question the intellectual validity and logical well-being of Islamic thought.

Most Muslim scholars engaging in this unfortunate controversy severely lack in modern knowledge and are unaware of the ‘phenomena’ of modern scientific mind. They lack the knowledge to satisfy the modern scientific mind on the question of Sufism⁵ (Islamic Spiritualism), it’s nature and significance: the Sufis⁶, Saints⁷, (Awliya)⁷ their role and on the phenomenology of mystical experiences.

This work takes the Qur'an as the basic source of logic and attempts to clarify spirituality in the light of modern science. An easy and logical style has been adopted to communicate the basic ideas behind sufism with the help of parables. This is exactly how the Qur’an describes divine principles and the spiritual realities of life. Throughout, similitude from modern scientific themes such as ‘magnetism’ and ‘electric charge’ is used.

Concepts such as ‘Spiritual Magnetism’ and ‘spiritual charge’ which enable Sufis to tune into the ‘spiritual channel’ which originates from the Prophet Muhammad  صلى الله عليه وسلم   are explored.

Besides spiritualism, ventures of modern science are also dealt with, especially in the field of parapsychology. An account of scientific research into finding the underlying reality of psychic experiences, providing interpretations for Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP), telepathy and out-of-body-experience (OBE) is given.

FROM glimpses of the spiritual ascent of Sufi masters, their mystical experiences in comparison to ESPs, OBEs TO the concept of an infinite power within man, this work highlights the real significance of Islamic Spiritualism and invites the scientific mind to struggle and belie, if it can, the Spiritual Reality.

 [1] Mysticism: The knowledge & personal experience of alternate states of consciousness beyond normal human perception, including direct experience with the divine

[2] Pantheism: A doctrine that identifies God equal to universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God

[3] Panentheism: Doctrine which teaches that God interpenetrates every part of nature and also timelessly extends beyond it.

[4] State of being that has overcome the limitations of physical existence and also become independent of it

[5] Sufism: The mystic path of Islam; Not a sect within islam but the spiritual & mystical dimension of Islamic philosophy

[6] A muslim mystic or ascetic

[7] a Muslim saint or holy person; Wali is a is a spiritually privileged Muslim , technically, the person who has attained the station of Wilayah