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Please contribute money and share this campaign as widely as
possible. Beshara brings a New & Unifying Perspective in the
Contemporary World, for the 21st Century.
Beshara is something
new in the world. Beshara (meaning in Arabic "Good News"
...the words of Gabriel to Mary at the annunciation) is not a Sufi
Order or an Islamist or even a religious group, and is not a school of
Mevlana or Ibn Arabi though it extensively uses their writings. It is
an international, global, initiative, addressed to helping people find
their own intrinsic self-knowledge and benefit from it in a 21st
Century context.
We are Colin Azim Looker and my wife Baitha
Bahar Aykac Looker, both trained as facilittors for Beshara
Discovering Unity courses at the Beshara School in Scotland. I (Azim)
have been an associate of the school for more than 40 years and have
completed the two long six-month intensive courses of the School. In
Turkey we have faciliated fourteen Beshara 'Discovering Unity' courses
so far, in Istanbul and Bursa, and also 'Way of Oneness' week-end
courses.
The 'initiative' called Beshara can best be described
as a School of Self-Knowledge, on the principle that essential
knowledge is intrinsic and innate in human beings. From our point of
view we 'recognise' truths in sacred texts because we essentially
already know them...thats why there is a shock of recognition
sometimes. So we use many means to help develop the access to that
inner knowingness.
It happens that there is a very great demand
for our courses in Turkey, as society is polarised between 'old
fashioned' religious orthodoxy, and secularism. We can show an
alternative that people are desperate for...that resolves this
conflict, that is not sectarian or even religious, but retains the
essential insights. Many people have completed our courses here, and
some have travelled with us to the Beshara School in Scotland to
deepen their understanding...they help us very much and are a growing
community.
Money that is donated is used for many emergency
expenses, printing costs, translation costs and especially to enable
students who very much want to do these courses but can't afford our
minimal non-profit fees to do them free of any charge. We would
without the help of those who decided to join us and help us 'hold
hands with Beshara Turkiye' been able to do very little. It's your
project as much as ours.
We have been working in Istanbul and
Bursa for five years to establish Beshara in Turkey through many
initiatives and meetings, including Study Groups of Ibn Arabi, Mevlana
and Yunus Emre, extensive translations (@ 50 papers from English to
Turkish, including Bulent Rauf's writings), and meditation classes,
slide shows, and introductory meetings. To expand this global esoteric
perspective, not bound by any limits of belief, a "University of
the Future" for all humanity regardless of religious background,
an integrative, non-divisive and coherent 21st century human and felt
opening of a new spirituality 'of this time', to Turkey (there are
many such Beshara groups all over the world) we need the help of the
friends...your help.
Our Fundrazr campaign is to extend and promote Beshara's introduction
into Turkey and as trained facilitators for the new Discovering
Unity" evening courses, one evening a week for 7 weeks operating
in both English and Turkish, defray costs of printing and cd
production for these courses, and pay the rent for suitable premises,
which reflect the beauty of the vision of Beshara. We also hope to
extend our present work into Summer Camps where the group can be
together for week-end and longer periods for intensive and immersive
practice. Beshara.org is a non-profit organisation running for 40
years which has a 'Sufi' background but emphasis is on the building up
of an 'esoteric Global platform' outside religious or any other
barriers and not 'Sufi' either, as this would imply an Islamist
perspective which could be limiting. Our subject matter is what it is
to be a human being, and we are approaching this question through both
theory and practice. We are considering here a perspective on reality
that is founded in Oneness of Being, but which includes all the many
aspects of existence, including our own subjective experience of being
here.
Beshara is a charity; secretary@beshara.org and has
British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher
Education: awarded April 2009; Charity Registered No. SC008147.
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