Heart Self and Soul: The Sufi Psychology of Growth Balance and Harmony Paperback – 1 January 2006

This is a modern, liberal, transformative Sufi book that fully understands and connects with historic Sufism. Brilliant. Fully recommended to all potential readers.

Enjoying reading this book.

Robert Frager describes the relations between our hearts, self and soul from a sufi perspective

This book counters the assumption that if God cannot be proven from empirical data, there can be no God. Robert Frager shows that if one follows the thought of Ibn Arabi, one can readily affirm the unity of reality in God, and that the empirical world whole and entire is one with God as a set of manifestations of God. The objects and events of our lived experience and our very selves can be named with the "ninety nine most beautiful names." This turns the rationalism of Western thought on its head centering knowing in the heart not the brain. When knowing is understood as a constant process rather than a set of abstractions called "knowledge", the heart leads reason and uses reason as a support to attention and compassion with the natural world and human community. I am not an Islamic scholar, and the debates among scholars about Ibn Arabi are unknown to me, so I cannot say much about them, but this book has awakened me to the possibility of a world in God, rather than below God. It is moderately challenging to read, but its attempts to connect Ibn Arabi's teachings to the contemporary world are worth the effort.

OK. But more for beginners. Still worth reading because the writer has experience of what he talks about.