Top Highlights

• Sufism provides a truly holistic approach to spiritual psychology in which the soul avoids the dangers of the linear and hierarchical models found in many spiritual systems,
• The physical aspect of our lives is sustained by the age-old wisdom of the mineral, vegetable, and animal souls. Our psychological functioning is rooted in the personal soul, which is located in the brain and is the seat of ego and intelligence.
• “I was a hidden treasure. I longed to be known, and so I created Creation.
• human beings are located between the angels and the animals. We share both natures and have the potential to rise higher than the angels or to sink lower than the animals.
• rational, waking state. Sufi psychologists point out that, for most people, this is actually a state of “waking sleep.”