Lessons in Love: Essays and Spiritual Exercises for Modern Life
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These spiritual exercises and essays offer real Lessons in Love for anyone following a spiritual path. Based on the Sufi Path of Love, they enhance the journey, and offer a new idea of spiritual evolution
Irving Karchmar
Irving Karchmar has been a writer and editor for many years, and a darvish of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order since 1992. He lives near New York City.
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Lessons in Love - Irving Karchmar
Lessons in Love
Spiritual exercises for modern life
by
Irving Karchmar
Smashwords Editions
Copyright © 2015 by Irving Karchmar. All rights reserved.
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Cover photo by Jim Kosinski
Cover design by Elana Spieth
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Dedicated to Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh
Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 My Out of Body Experience
Chapter 2 Origin of the Spiritual Species
Chapter 3 God First
Chapter 4 What Love Demands
Chapter 5 The Intention of Service
Chapter 6 Waiting for God
Chapter 7 Being Thought Full of God
Chapter 8 Generosity of Spirit
Chapter 9 The Upward Glance and the Lowest Bow
Chapter 10 Practicing Love
Chapter 11 Loving Quietly
Chapter 12 Healing Through Compassion
Chapter 13 The I
Experiment
Chapter 14 Meditation on Death
Chapter 15 Last Word
Chapter One
My Out of Body Experience
This is a true story.
A few months after my 40th birthday, on January 14th 1986, I was rushed to the Emergency Room due to the devastating effects of a misdiagnosed illness. Had my sister not been visiting and seen my condition and insist I go to the hospital immediately, the doctors said I would not have lived through the night.
In the emergency room my heart stopped and the ER doctors had to revive it with those electric paddles you see in the movies. I remember it only vaguely, though I did have burn marks on my chest for a few days. Eventually they discovered that I had Cushing’s Disease, a benign tumor on the pituitary gland (which is in the middle of the forehead) that caused the hormones levels in my body to run wild. The natural steroid hormone ACTH, for example, has a normal level of 200. Mine was 6000.
And since the pituitary gland controls other glands and body