Heresy and Hafiz

A little while ago I wrote a post about my own heresy, in which by heresy I mean a rejection of that which I find untruthful in various institutional religions.

As a family we are reading Hafiz, and this afternoon, while my husband hunts down some items to support my wellbeing, my son and I impromptu wrote a song about Hafiz.

According to Rassouli, the translator we most appreciate of Persian poetry into English, Hafiz lived in a time of censorship, atrocity and incursion of dark spirited pseudo Sufis who paraded around and essentially were the originators of the extremism of Islam that we see in Iran (formerly Persia, the homeland of Hafiz) today. Every Iranian I have met here on Turtle Island is a lovely human being, and I in no way demonize the Iranian people for eventually falling to these dark influences, any more than I demonize Catholic people for falling to the influence of the Papal bulls that led to slavery, racism and genocide of Indigenous Peoples, the Pope himself, who continues to enable horrid things, or the Tibetan people who were influenced by the Bon, nor Jewish people for falling under the Influences of darker agendas masquerading as mystic liberators in form the of a pseudo Messiah and his wife who later converted to Islam, or in its modern forms, those who are part of the tribes various influencers, influenced themselves themselves by negative forces, such as Netanyahu, or the dibbuk Lesley Wexner admits to influencing him, instead of by the knowing of Oneness, the Shema. You can learn more about that stuff on Unlimited Hangout by Whitney Webb. Time also did a piece on him, quoting Epstein in Vanity Fairs 2003 piece as saying, “Epstein told Vanity Fair that he shared a special bond with Wexner: “People have said it’s like we have one brain between two of us: each has a side.” https://time.com/6197975/victorias-secret-angels-and-demons-hulu-true-story/

The following quote is from a pair of evangelical scholars who are profound prophetic voices in the Wilderness of Christianity in its conservative, Protestant form. One author is East Asian and grew up with a hard working single mother who still relied on welfare in spite of working three jobs. The other is a man of Indigenous and Dutch Descent. It’s an incredible book and actually healing for me, as I can deeply feel the honoring spirit in their written words that allows me to ingest the pure intentions even as I do not feel evangelicalism’s doctrinal statements to align with my free will discernment as as sovereign image bearer of Sophia Mother of All Life.

I highly recommend the book to anyone of a Christian background, whether currently Christian in an evangelical or Catholic sense, or recovering from either one, or on a journey to see where you land in the space of your openness to Divine Love blessing your Way Home, whatever is for you. Hafiz calls the many paths to Divine Love the curls of the beloved. May you find your curl and follow it home to the face of Love, unadulturated by beliefs that separate people into worthy or beautiful or intelligent based on appearances or ethnicity or country of origin or any identity. We are all image bearers, divine fractals of Source, who is LOVE.

“The heretical positions that buttress the categorization and the subsequent gradation of the races as possessing differing levels of humanity and spiritual capacity stem from a catastrophic theological failure.”

Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

By Mark Charles and Soon-Chan Rah

Poem By Alicia Kwon

Hafiz Hafiz Hafiz

In the Winehouse of your Soul

The Love from Above

Infuses Every Flower

Every blade of Grass

Every Kiss

And Every Dew Drop

Beyond all Rules and Regulations

It’s a Holy Jubiliation

Shalom Salaam Pacem Mir Friedan

It takes time to Inner Stand

Beyond the Laws of Form

Under Which We All Were Born

Hafiz Hafiz Hafz

Invites you to the Winehouse

Be drunk not on booze or bamboozling

Be Drunk on the Holy Spirit

That infuses all life

Love from above

Surrender

To a Love that’s higher

That’s deeper

That’s Truer

There are many curls on the head of the Beloved

Open up your mouth and Kiss

The grace

Of unending NOW moments

With Hafiz

Grab hold of a curl

And follow Your Bliss

To the Face of the Beloved

Hafiz Hafiz Hafz

Calls you Home

Beyond All Rules and Regulations

Find Your Heaven’s Jubilitation

In the Arms of the Love

Beyond Religion

Beyond Politics

Beyond Family or even Planet

Of Origin

The Shema is What Unites Us

In The Light of Christ

That lives in You and Me and Everyone

Birth the Seed

And Water the Soil

Beyond all the Roils

We are not here for Spoils

End Plunder and Perdition

End the Superstition

Let LOVE lead the way

To Peaceful Freedom

Beyond All Rules and Regulations

In the Arms of the Beloved

No more racism or genocide or viruses that rule that collective’s mind

Time to remind

The One in us to bekind

End the plunder

Of Indigenous Peoples for Lithium, for Land, for a heresy of Manifest Destiny

And put asunder

That keeps us from loving one another

Unwind Unwind Unwind

From the curls that betrayed us all

And FIND

Your way

Your Way

YOUR WAY

Into the arms of the BELOVED
WHO LOVES

You for Eternity

Hafiz Hafiz Hafiz