User:Esowteric

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Esowteric en This user is a native speaker of English. B.B. This user comes from the Baby boomer Generation. S This user is spiritual but not religious. This editor is here at the behest of the Secret Chiefs. This user enjoys writing. This writer uses FreeMind and WikidPad to generate and organize ideas. This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is. This user loves Yorkshire pudding. bbc This user cut his teeth on the BBC Micro. This user is a Webmaster, runs an Apache Web server and writes in PHP using MySQL databases. This user writes in Visual Basic .NET, C#, JavaScript, PHP and SQL. This user uses OpenOffice.org rather than Microsoft Office This user uses free software wherever and whenever possible.

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EricT (who sometimes writes under the nom de plume Etienne de L'Amour) has been studying the works of the thinker, writer and Sufi teacher Idries Shah since 1986. And, no, that definitely does not mean that "he converted to Islamic Sufism" nor to "Sufi Islam"; he describes himself as spiritual but not religious. A sadly misguided rebel and hippie in his youth, and late developer who fell through the cracks, EricT was interested in environmentalism, pacifism, vegetarianism, Buddhism, Zen, meditation and various esoteric traditions prior to his involvement in the Sufi Way. He is also interested in both traditional and contemporary Western psychology.

For many years he ran a Sufi, development, psychology, humanitarian and environment-related website at sarmouni.dyndns.org, which has now been taken off-line. Details of the novels and many other Sufi-related pdfs are now available at the Dropbox.

Pages created

• Afghanistan Relief Organization - the humanitarian aid agency
• Arif Ali-Shah - contemporary film and screenwriter, Naqshbandi Sufi teacher
• The Chinese State in Ming Society (stub article)
• The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
• Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
• David McNeill (Chicago psychologist)
• Death by a Thousand Cuts (book)
• Eleven Naqshbandi principles
• Gregory Berns - neuroeconomist author of Iconoclast
• Institute for Cultural Research - the London-based educational charity founded by Idries Shah
• Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge‎ - Robert E. Ornstein's educational charity
• International Association of Sufism
• Jan-Fishan Khan - 19th century Afghan warlord, noble and Sufi teacher
• John Cutting (psychiatrist)
• Journey to Mecca (2009 film)
• The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco (stub)
• The Master and His Emissary - a book on hemispheric brain function by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist
• Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties by Robert Irwin (stub)
• Octagon Press - with much help from User:Jayen466
• Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
• Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
• Safia Shah - Idries Shah's daughter
• Sahl al-Tustari - the early Sufi
• Shattari - Sufi order and technique ("The Rapidness"). Rewritten after someone else's suspected copyvio
• Timothy Brook - historian
• Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World‎

Pages with major work on

• Robert E. Ornstein - the psychologist, researcher and writer
• Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah - Idries Shah's mother, with a lot of help and thanks to Jayen466
• Sarmoung Brotherhood - the esoteric group brought to light in G. I. Gurdjieff's writings

Pages with major clean up

• Foundation for International Spiritual Unfoldment - still has issues and needs work

Categories created

• Books by Timothy Brook (historian)
• Books by Idries Shah and Works by Idries Shah
• Books by Tahir Shah and Works by Tahir Shah
• Integrative psychotherapy
• Non-governmental organizations based in Afghanistan
• Redlinking Wikipedians‎
• Spiritual practice
• Sufi psychology

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• Template:Books by Timothy Brook (historian)
• Template:External links for Timothy Brook (historian)

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Never say never, yet pigs might fly ;)

• Etienne de L'Amour (yes, it's a red link)

Etienne's e-novels include: Sher Point: Escape from the Shadowlands; Thank You, I Understand; In Search of Destiny; The Lucian Uprising; Time and Time again; The Gift; The Host and the Guests and Whisperings of Love.

Awards

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		For taking the time out to save an article endangered by copyright infringement. Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For your efforts in resolving issues on Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi and all the related pages, and for your helpful edits. You deserve some recognition :). Omirocksthisworld(Drop a line) 09:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Thanks for your help. You've really cleared the issue on the articles I was stuck on quite a lot. Your work encourages me to learn more. :) Thanks again. --  Nasir | ناصر یونس  have a chat  00:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

		CopyEditor's BarnStar
		I award you this CopyEditor's BarnStar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. Your efforts have made this article verifiable and reliable. The community can read this article and safely know that it definitely may include facts rather than bias opinions.— Nasir | ناصر یونس  have a chat  22:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

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