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Extraction Summary
10
People
4
Organizations
5
Locations
2
Events
1
Relationships
4
Quotes
Document Information
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Manuscript / memoir page
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Summary
This document page (149) appears to be from a memoir or manuscript. It begins with a philosophical discussion of Sufism, citing Rumi and Bawa Muhaiyaddeen regarding diverse paths to truth and the dangers of rigid spiritual systems. The text then shifts to an autobiographical narrative describing the author's Jewish childhood in Kansas City, detailing a violent confrontation with a bully on Troost Avenue and subsequent experiences with anti-Semitism at local country clubs after moving to a wealthier neighborhood.
People (10)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Dervish Murad Shami | Sufi Teacher |
Attributed to the 18th Century story 'What Befell the Three'.
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| Yak | Sufi Dervish |
Character in a teaching story (name means 'one').
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| Do | Sufi Dervish |
Character in a teaching story (name means 'two').
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| Se | Sufi Dervish |
Character in a teaching story (name means 'three').
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| Jalaludin Rumi | Sufi Saint |
Quoted instructing a petitioner to ask forgiveness from a Christian.
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| Cole Barks | Author |
Co-author of 'The Illuminated Prayer' (2000).
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| Michael Green | Author |
Co-author of 'The Illuminated Prayer' (2000).
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| Bawa Muhaiyaddeen | Modern Sufi Guru |
Mentioned regarding spiritual entheogenic systems.
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| The Narrator | Author/Subject |
Describes a childhood incident in Kansas City involving a fight and anti-Semitism.
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| Lutheran boy | Bully |
A 12-year-old boy hit by the narrator with a snow shovel.
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Organizations (4)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Mevlevi Islam dervishes |
Mentioned in relation to historical narratives.
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| Blue Hills |
Golf course/Country club where the narrator was excluded.
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| Kansas City Country Club |
Golf course where the narrator was excluded due to Jewishness.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (2 events)
Childhood of Narrator
Narrator was chased by a bully on Troost, hit the bully with a snow shovel, and the bully was hospitalized briefly.
Kansas City (Troost)
Narrator
Lutheran boy
Several months after the fight
Narrator's family moved to a Southside neighborhood near Rockhill Road.
Kansas City (Rockhill Road)
Narrator
Narrator's family
Locations (5)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
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Street/area in Kansas City where the narrator was chased.
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City where the narrative takes place.
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Location of the narrator's new home in a Southside neighborhood.
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State mentioned in relation to the border.
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State mentioned in relation to the border.
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Relationships (1)
Narrator hit the boy with a snow shovel after being chased.
Key Quotes (4)
"There are as many ways to the Deep Truth as there hearts of man."Source
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"...whether a ruby or a pebble, there is a place on His hill, there is a place for all..."Source
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Quote #2
"...develop rigid marching orders ...which turn into a dumb obsession with other people’s behavior..."Source
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Quote #3
"persecution for my Jewishness took more subtle forms such as not being permitted to play teen-age golf with my friends"Source
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Quote #4
Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (2,496 characters)
speaks of the multiplicity of valid Ways to Deep Truth. The acceptability of many
ways is supported in the tales from the millennial oral tradition of the Sufi Masters in
their Teaching Stories. One of them, What Befell the Three, is attributed to the early
18th Century Sufi teacher, the Dervish Murad Shami. In it, an apparition is mobilized
by the concentrated Truth seeking efforts of three Sufi Dervishes named Yak, one,
Do, two and Se, three. When this "...white smoke head of the very old man..." was
asked what he was, he answered "...I am what you think me to be...have you never
heard the saying 'There are as many ways to the Deep Truth as there hearts of
man.'" In the narratives about the lives of the Mevlevi Islam dervishes called
Munaquib el-Arafin (1353), Jalaludin Rumi, the Sufi saint, instructs his ill and
troubled petitioner to ask forgiveness from the Christian he recently spat on saying
"...whether a ruby or a pebble, there is a place on His hill, there is a place for all..."
Cole Barks and Michael Green's The Illuminated Prayer (2000) notes that the Rumi
follower, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a modern Sufi guru, was said to be keenly aware
how quickly spiritual entheogenic systems can become amphetamine-like and
"...develop rigid marching orders ...which turn into a dumb obsession with other
people's behavior..."
It appears that entheogenic and amphetamine spiritualities can coexist
contemporaneously, in Islam as well as in all the other of the world's great religions.
One day, sneaking home from school, taking the long way around via Troost,
I was spotted and chased up some stairs into an apartment building's dark hall.
Terrified, I swung hard and hit the leading angry and noisy head with a propitiously
found snow shovel that had been left near the apartment's entrance. An ambulance
was called to tend to the twelve-year-old, transiently unconscious, Lutheran boy. He
recovered completely within a day and the chases after school and my desperate
escapes stopped suddenly, never to reappear. After several months, our family
crossed the socioeconomic divide in Kansas City to a more tolerant, upper middle
class, Southside neighborhood near Rockhill Road, to a suburban home, one block
from Missouri's border with Kansas. There, persecution for my Jewishness took
more subtle forms such as not being permitted to play teen-age golf with my friends,
though invited, on their Blue Hills and Kansas City Country Club's golf courses. It
ways is supported in the tales from the millennial oral tradition of the Sufi Masters in
their Teaching Stories. One of them, What Befell the Three, is attributed to the early
18th Century Sufi teacher, the Dervish Murad Shami. In it, an apparition is mobilized
by the concentrated Truth seeking efforts of three Sufi Dervishes named Yak, one,
Do, two and Se, three. When this "...white smoke head of the very old man..." was
asked what he was, he answered "...I am what you think me to be...have you never
heard the saying 'There are as many ways to the Deep Truth as there hearts of
man.'" In the narratives about the lives of the Mevlevi Islam dervishes called
Munaquib el-Arafin (1353), Jalaludin Rumi, the Sufi saint, instructs his ill and
troubled petitioner to ask forgiveness from the Christian he recently spat on saying
"...whether a ruby or a pebble, there is a place on His hill, there is a place for all..."
Cole Barks and Michael Green's The Illuminated Prayer (2000) notes that the Rumi
follower, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a modern Sufi guru, was said to be keenly aware
how quickly spiritual entheogenic systems can become amphetamine-like and
"...develop rigid marching orders ...which turn into a dumb obsession with other
people's behavior..."
It appears that entheogenic and amphetamine spiritualities can coexist
contemporaneously, in Islam as well as in all the other of the world's great religions.
One day, sneaking home from school, taking the long way around via Troost,
I was spotted and chased up some stairs into an apartment building's dark hall.
Terrified, I swung hard and hit the leading angry and noisy head with a propitiously
found snow shovel that had been left near the apartment's entrance. An ambulance
was called to tend to the twelve-year-old, transiently unconscious, Lutheran boy. He
recovered completely within a day and the chases after school and my desperate
escapes stopped suddenly, never to reappear. After several months, our family
crossed the socioeconomic divide in Kansas City to a more tolerant, upper middle
class, Southside neighborhood near Rockhill Road, to a suburban home, one block
from Missouri's border with Kansas. There, persecution for my Jewishness took
more subtle forms such as not being permitted to play teen-age golf with my friends,
though invited, on their Blue Hills and Kansas City Country Club's golf courses. It
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