Thank you for getting to the heart of the matter!

In our mystic poetry tradition a Higher Power is referred to as a lover. Poet mystics would go to great lengths to seek communion and were often ridiculed.

Wine is another leitmotif of mystic poetry ( ‘Omar Khayyam’)

Intoxication is not necessarily being drunk as we know it! It’s communion with a higher power. Sufi Islam walks a razors edge — fundamentalists barely tolerate it.

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