Živoucí přítomnost - Súfijská cesta k bdělosti a bytostnému já – Helminski Kabir Edmund (2024)

The Living Presence is one of the most well-known books by American Muslim convert and mystic Kabir Edmund Helminski. In it, the author confesses his affinity for many of the boundless ocean of thoughts that merge into one of the significant currents of both classical and contemporary Islamic religion – namely Islamic mysticism, also known in scholarly literature as Sufism. ***** Kabir Helminski has dedicated his life story to one of the layers of Islam, whose expressions and arguments he not only shares but also actively participates in cultivating. At a certain moment, he chose precisely the mystical current of Islamic thought and lifestyle – not, for example, the sphere of conformist legalistic doctrine, which is reluctant to tolerate when believers direct their spiritual lives through transcending into the realm of alternative experiences of God's message. He did not embark on a path of fundamentalist and preemptively rejecting perceptions of the world other than in the interest of a literal and stark interpretation of sacred texts in the name of the strictly demanded 'our truth.' ***** Helminski is convinced that neither the barren conformism of the 'mainstream' nor the ownership of a single truth as presented by religious fundamentalists provide sensitive and perceptive individuals with satisfactory answers to the questions they ask...