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So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation.The dervishes did it by twirling in a circle for an hour or so.
So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation.The dervishes felt ashamed for doubting her simply because she had no formal training.
I might do something like this.And then the Whirling Dervish, which has trouble delivering on promises because they overextend.
She saw flashes of pearly light, odd colorful forms she cannot identify, rainbow prisms, shards of moonlight.She felt This dervish who's teaching her-- he's her contemporary, there's a little bit of spark between them "--watching her closely in the dark.He kept the rhythm each night by whispering "hoos" so much that she started to call him owl by .
And in this relationship that she has with Rumi, he initiates her into this dance, into the Whirling Dervish dance.And the Whirling Dervishes, I don't know if anyone here has actually seen them.They come to the Bay Area quite frequently, I think once a year at least, and this is a dance that is all about turning inward.
So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation.When the other senior dervishes had stopped after one full hour of spinning, the girl continued to turn.
I might do something like this.And I worry about Whirling Dervish now because I'm overextended.
So it's a dance that goes on for at least an hour with these dancers that are literally turning in circles.So the idea of a dervish, you're wondering what is a dervish.I'm sure we've all felt like dervishes at some point, spinning and spinning.
And in terms of what the technology of this dance, the dervish is actually one that is standing on the threshold.That's the actual translation of a dervish and that threshold is meant to be the threshold of change and deep transformation.So this dance is an opportunity for these people to turn inward toward something.
And there's nine dancers that actually do the dance.When you actually see the whirling dervishes dance in a group, it's only nine dancers.So they're there to represent that turning of the universe.
I might do something like this.I think everyone just feels like a Whirling Dervish right now, period.
So the idea of a dervish, you're wondering what is a dervish.I'm sure we've all felt like dervishes at some point, spinning and spinning.And in terms of what the technology of this dance, the dervish is actually one that is standing on the threshold.
So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation.He watched over her hearing the chatter of dervishes who had come to pray over the girl hoping the dance had not killed her.
But he then, as he's teaching one day in Konya, he's sitting beside a well, and his students are asking him questions on Quranic exoduses, commentaryon hadith. And a wandering dervish from Persia called Shams from Tabriz, a city in Iran, comes along and pushes his book into the well.And Rumi jumps, saying, this is the only manuscript I have of this book.
Get rid of them.At that point, the wandering dervish jumps, bends down into the water, takes out the book, and passes it back to Rumi.
I might do something like this.There's a lot of people saying they feel like a Whirling Dervish.
in order to secure something.a phrase designed to make Orwell spin in his coffin like a dervish-- that these would become front page news
When I was-- many years ago I was doing research for my first novel, "The Virgin's Knot," and I ended up in Konya, Turkey doing researchwith a rug merchant and his family and I ended up here at the Whirling Dervish Lodge at the which is the monastery in Konya, Turkey.And I ended up at Rumi's tomb, having absolutely no idea who this person Rumi was.
So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation.Then after removing their black capes which represented the ego and receiving the senior dervish's blessing and attentive gaze, they spun off one by one,
I'm sure we've all felt like dervishes at some point, spinning and spinning.And in terms of what the technology of this dance, the dervish is actually one that is standing on the threshold.That's the actual translation of a dervish and that threshold is meant to be the threshold of change and deep transformation.
Get rid of them.And then there's a long story, and Rumi become the founder of the whirling dervishes.
Get rid of them.That most people in the world at least are familiar with the dance that comes out of the whirling dervishes.
So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation.And to me this turning inward, the dance itself of the dervishes is about getting into a deep conversation with yourself.
And so, for the first time-- by that point, we were six or seven years into the company of, literally, just around the clock-- around the clock.I warn him. He goes nuclear, unlike anything I've ever seen in my life-- freaking out, crying, fighting with other kids-- just like a whirling dervish.
I might do something like this.So the last one, and then we'll take a little break and we'll talk about some of these-- this is the Whirling Dervish.
She wants nothing to do with this gift, and she's sent on a mission to meet Rumi.And in this relationship that she has with Rumi, he initiates her into this dance, into the Whirling Dervish dance.And the Whirling Dervishes, I don't know if anyone here has actually seen them.
So Rollin McCraty was talking about when people are engaged in this deep conversation."With her head lowered, Damascena humbly entered the circle as the ninth dancer, completing the celestial formation, bowing to the dervishes and the
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