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I am Azim Looker, an Englishman living in
Turkey, an artist and trained facilitator of Beshara courses here,
with my wife Ba'itha. These courses have been phenomenally popular and
answer a real need for a unifying perspective in the contemporary
world...the chaos of which is especially evident in Turkey with a war
next door and 3 million Syrian refugees...some of whom are in this
musical group, and whom we have enormous sympathy for.
Beshara
could be briefly described as a '21st century university', giving a
spiritually orientated education which is neither overtly religious or
'Sufi', though it uses many Sufi texts and other world wisdom like Lao
Tze, The Bhagavad Gita and other classics. It bridges secular and
religious divides in a way that the people of Anatolia it seems need
very much. It is not 'Guru' or 'teacher' orientated at all, but uses a
model of dialogue and friendship. The founder of Beshara was Bulent
Rauf, a Turkish gentleman - who emphatically rejected the idea of
being a 'teacher' himself...he self-described as being a 'Student of
the Real' like us, if more experienced.
For some time now a
musical group has formed naturally from my wife's interest in singing
and the musicians who attended Beshara Discovering Unity courses here
in Turkish / English, and we are beginning to record many classic
Turkish songs and songs in English too.
It is important and
necessary that besides the 7 week Discovering Unity courses there are
on-going forms of work to keep us all in touch and actively working
together and learning together, and this is working very well. There
are over a hundred graduates of the D.U. courses and without such
projects they would lose contact and the chance to evolve
together...
It seems from the reactions of people so far to the
music that it can be very successful and serve also as a nucleus of
attention for Beshara's work in Turkey. The Beshara Ensemble includes
Ba'itha Looker, Tugce Gul vocals and Sona Kala Ji poetry reading;
Erdem Guleler and Moh'd Kafina guitar, Ali Bakir percussion. The
recordings made so far are professional and exciting...but not up to
modern standards of studio recordings which need some specialist
equipment, good microphones, good sound equipment...sound mixing
capabilities. Ba'itha, Erdem, Moh'd, Ali, and Tugce have all worked
before as semi - professional musician / singers and have experience.
So we feel from people's enthusiastic reactions that this group
can be successful and serve as a means of Beshara D.U. people working
together 'for real'.
We need money for specialist equipment, good
microphones, good sound equipment and sound mixing capabilities. We
calculate that 10,000 Turkish Lira (approx 2,500 pounds sterling)
would enable professional recordings to be made.
Please consider
joining us and supporting us in this endeavour. Please contribute
money and share this campaign as much as possible.
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