SacraMusica is a space for music, poetry, imagery and new media reflecting the connection between creativity and spirituality. In particular it offers expressions of contemporary Western Sufism — often called Universal Sufism. This work is based on three simple principles.

• The purpose of art/music/poetry etc. be it sufi, mystical, sacred, or profane is transport; it succeeds to the extent that it take the viewer-listener somewhere. Ideally it brings the viewer-listener to some sort of awakening, re-envisioning, even exhilarating relocation to a world sensed yet not, before this encounter, seen.
  

• Sufi music, Sufi Poetry, Sufi Stories and other creative expressions serve to transport the viewer –listener to a dimension of wisdom, mysticism, and realization whose effect is to entrance while it transforms the way we see, the way we feel, the way we respond to the world around us. The works of Shakespeare (pir of sheiks?!) is a great example of this.
  

• Creativity as part of personal spiritual practice is all but essential if we are to deepen our insight, compassion, and heart beyond the limitations of intellect. In other words there are levels of perception, understanding and awareness which are best achieved through work in what the great Suif Ibn al Arabi called the Imaginal Realm.

 

copyright 2006 Puran Lucas Perez