User:Esowteric

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TL;DR: EricT (who sometimes writes under the nom de plumes Etienne de L'Amour and H. M. Forester) should have followed his heart and definitely not studied corporate administration at college.

A sadly misguided rebel and hippie in his youth, and late developer who fell through the cracks, EricT was interested in environmentalism, pacifism, vegetarianism, Buddhism, Zen, meditation and various esoteric traditions prior to his involvement in the Sufi Way. He has been studying the works of the thinker, writer and Sufi teacher Idries Shah since 1986. He is also interested in both traditional and contemporary Western depth psychology. More recent interests include philosopher Henry Corbin's mundus imaginalis (imaginal world) and Western esotericism.

Since around 1999 he has hosted and maintained online discussion groups, latterly The Caravanserai and the ishraqi institute, and hosts and maintains a writing-related web server at sherpoint.uk ("sherpoint" being an anagram of "the prison").

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It saddens me that all-too-often, wonderful people are not found to be "wikiworthy" until obituaries are published in the press, and their notable – and often remarkable – qualities, not just their worldly attainments, are finally revealed to the public.


 * Afghanistan Relief Organization — the humanitarian aid agency
 * Arif Ali-Shah — contemporary film and screenwriter, Naqshbandi Sufi teacher
 * Gregory Berns — neuroeconomist author of Iconoclast
 * Mark Blagrove — psychologist, researching sleep and dreaming
 * Books With Wings — a Canadian registered charity
 * Captain SKA — a politically-active UK band
 * Robert Cecil — British diplomat and writer
 * The Chinese State in Ming Society
 * The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
 * Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
 * John Cutting (psychiatrist)
 * Dar Khalifa — author Tahir Shah's home in Casablanca.
 * David McNeill (Chicago psychologist)
 * Death by a Thousand Cuts (book)
 * The Elephant in the Dark – Christianity, Islam and the Sufis — with much help from CJM
 * Eleven Naqshbandi principles
 * The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
 * The Idries Shah Foundation — UK educational charity and publisher
 * If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods — a book by Holly Worton
 * The Institute for Cross-cultural Exchange
 * Institute for Cultural Research – the London-based educational charity founded by Idries Shah
 * Institute of Ecotechnics
 * Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge — Robert E. Ornstein's educational charity
 * International Association of Sufism
 * James Hollis — Jungian analyst and writer
 * Jan-Fishan Khan — 19th century Afghan warlord, noble and Sufi teacher
 * Journey to Mecca (2009 film)
 * Fredoon Kabraji — poet, writer, journalist, and artist
 * Kara Kush:The Gold of Ahmad Shah
 * Aquila Berlas Kiani — daughter of Ikbal Ali Shah's sister, professor of sociology
 * Amina Lahbabi-Peters — interpreter, translator and marketer
 * The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
 * Leonard Lewin (telecommunications engineer)
 * Liar Liar GE2017 — anti-austerity song
 * Julia Lockheart — artist and academic (writing in art and design)
 * The Lost Bookshop — a novel by Evie Woods (Evie Gaughan)
 * The Master and His Emissary — a book on hemispheric brain function by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist
 * The Matter with Things — a book by psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist
 * Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties by Robert Irwin
 * Micromastery — a book by author Robert Twigger (stub)
 * Mimi Hirsh (novelist)
 * Mobilize Earth — environmental organization
 * Octagon Press — with much help from User:Jayen466
 * PitchYaGame — an indie game showcase at Twitter
 * The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin — a book by Idries Shah, with much help from CJM
 * Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China
 * Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
 * The Rochdale Pioneers (2012 film)
 * Safia Shah — Idries Shah's daughter
 * Sahl al-Tustari — the early Sufi
 * The Scheherazade Foundation — cultural education and cross-cultural bridge-building
 * Selby and District DIAL — regional charity offering help and advice to people with disabilities
 * Shattari — Sufi order and technique ("The Rapidness"). Rewritten after someone else's suspected copyvio
 * Timothy Brook — historian
 * Tobermory Cat — Isle of Mull artist, Angus Stewart's creation
 * The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (stub)
 * Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
 * Walkaway — 2017 science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow
 * When Rivers Meet — British blues/rock band

Articles with major work on

 * Aliza Ayaz — (previously draftified), climate activist and UN Goodwill Ambassador
 * Debi Gliori — children's author and illustrator
 * Iain McGilchrist — psychiatrist, philosopher, scholar and writer
 * Robert E. Ornstein — the psychologist, researcher and writer
 * Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah — Idries Shah's mother, with a lot of help and thanks to Jayen466
 * Sarmoung Brotherhood — the esoteric group brought to light in G. I. Gurdjieff's writings

Articles wikified and copyedited

 * Bijan Omrani‎ — scholar, teacher and writer
 * Caravan of Dreams (book) — re-written thanks to CJM, wikified by me

Categories created

 * Book designers‎
 * Books by Timothy Brook
 * Books by Idries Shah
 * Books by Tahir Shah, Films by Tahir Shah and Works by Tahir Shah
 * Books by Evie Woods
 * Integrative psychotherapy
 * One More Chapter books
 * People associated with The Institute for Cultural Research (deleted: not defining)
 * Plant physiologists
 * Redlinking Wikipedians‎
 * Spiritual practice
 * Sufi psychology

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 * Timothy Brook
 * External links for Timothy Brook (historian)

Never say never, yet pigs might fly ;)

 * Etienne de L'Amour and H. M. Forester (yes, they're red links)

Etienne's hugely unsuccessful e-novels include: Thank You, I Understand; The Lost Treasure of Roth Nagor; The Insiders: Exploring the higher realms of possibility; Escape from the Shadowlands; In Search of Destiny; The Lucian Uprising; Time and Time again; The Gift; The Host and the Guests, and Whisperings of Love.

H. M. Forester's paltry offerings include The Dissidents; Game of Aeons; Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul, The Imaginal Veil, and The Scent of Reality.

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