Sufism, mysticism, consciousness, forgotten books and the strange edges of reality.
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One Breath
Tombs of the Khalifs, Cairo. Lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848. The tombs are Mamluk; the name is a nineteenth-century mistake. Wellcome Collection.
We open with two Europeans who went looking for the border between the l...
AFTER DARK · NO. 2
Things found, translated, recorded and left on the desk.
FIG. 01 · Osman Hamdi Bey, Dervish in the Children’s Tomb (1908). Oil painting. Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul.
The Fish Who Asked for Water
Jonah after his release from the fish. Painting probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh, Iran, about 1400. The Persian written on Jonah’s arms says the sun’s disk went into darkness when Jonah went into the fish.
We open with two Europeans who c...
Five Candles
Townspeople examine an elephant in the dark. Folio from a Masnavi of Rumi, India, 1663. Walters Art Museum, W.626.
We open with two Europeans in Iraq a year apart: an Englishwoman with a camera in 1909, and a French scholar who met Hallaj...
Six Ways of Getting Stuck
Secret saints. The anatomy of the human face. A Persian book of yoga. And the strange things Sufis discovered about the person trying to become spiritual.
SPIRITUAL RELIEF JOURNAL · NO. 5 · OCTOBER 2026
Portrait of a Dervish. Bukhara, six...
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Mysticism, consciousness, forgotten books and the strange edges of reality. Films, essays and discoveries from the archive. James Fleming.
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