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I've been a Christian most of my life, having grown up in a land where Christianity is widely revered, though I've also had some dabblings and dunkings in darker spirituality or also atheism. I still consider myself to be fairly ignorant of gnosticism, having read but little of the holier books, though I've had a few glimpses of revelations. Recently I met a puzzle maker who I became friends with. He is a sufi, and he initiated me with the Naqshbandi sufis. I didn't understand much about what sufism is and still don't, but felt a potent shift in my spiritual life just being around the drink of the sufi zikrs, and signed up. Then, just a few weeks later I discovered the Baha'is, which is a spiritual branch of sufism that came straight out of the Naqshbandis in the 1800s. I wound up signing up, and being an active Baha'i for about 9 months. After that I stepped back because I started feeling weird about it, though I still have some interest in the Baha'i secrets. I've also been still in remembrance and practice of the sufi ways, sometimes. I've been studying more about it, and might visit the order more deeply sooner or later, with my gung-ho sufi friend. Someday I could also still be a shaman or a wizard, since I still have an undercurrent of mystical proclivity in that bent, though probably not until I'm older and wizer about those kinds of things, inshallah. I expect to just be studying from the whole prism of faith mostly, as time permits. I'm eclectic those ways. Hope I'm welcome. See ya around.
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Howdy!
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Hello and welcome!
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Greetings!
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Welcome to the boards. I am not a massive fan for Mysticism and the sort but I have to admit there is something fascinating about Sufism.
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Welcome to the forum!
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You are indeed welcome to the forum.
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Welcome to the RF,look forward to your posts.
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Hello and Welcome!
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