Irving Karchmar

MA Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago

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Irving Karchmar Quick Facts

Main Areas: Sufism
Career Focus: Author
Affiliation: darvish of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order for 17 years.

I have been a writer, editor and poet for many years, and a darvish of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order since 1992. I am also the author of Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel, and write the popular Darvish blog.

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Healing Through Compassion

My wife grew up on a farm, and has an unerring affinity with nature in its most organic forms, with plants and animals and humans. Last summer, for instance, when she noticed that the bittersweet vines were extending its tendrils and choking off the rose bushes, she devoted many hours to cutting ...

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My Out of Body Experience

This is a true story! A few months after my 40th birthday, on January 14th 1986, I was rushed to the Emergency Room due to the devastating effects of a misdiagnosed illness. Had my sister not been visiting to see my condition and insist I go to the hospital immediately, the doctors said I would not have lived through the night.r

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