The Dance of Created Lights: A Sufi Tale

By Jay Bremyer

Tells a tale of romance, adventure, political intrigue and spiritual awakening. It celebrates tolerance while respecting the strengths, beauties, and revelations of all religions, climaxing in an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156184084X
• ISBN13: 9781561840847
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: New Falcon Pubns
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

This book is a feast, an unending cornucopia of wisdom.

THE DANCE OF CREATED LIGHTS, A Sufi Tale, by Jay Bremyer (New Falcon Publications, 1996) Jay Bremyer, attorney, sacred journeyor, mystic, and writer, explores, in The Dance of Created lights, A Sufi Tale, events and circumstances during the 10th century in Spain, in a region known as Andalusia. He writes, in this novel, of a historically accurate time when "many of the greatest Islamic, Jewish, and Christian philosophers, physicians, scientists, theologians, and mystics which the world has ever known lived and worked in al-Andalus." To say this is an action novel would be true. To say it involves delicious eroticism and exotic, lush poetry would be correct. To say it describes in highly evocative prose the nature of the mysteries behind every major Western religion would be accurate. Likewise, it is correct to say the book teaches of the riches of cooperative collaboration between religions and philosophies and the dangers of fundamentalism, not to mention the absurd risks incurred when politics gets involved in the mix. But none of these truths can in part or in their sum adequately get around the transformative work this book becomes in the experiencing and reading of it. I expected a good read, but came away from the book so stunned at the complex truths present within, I was unable to begin this review for many days, until my thoughts became more coherent. The tale is simple enough--a serious philosophical student is paired with a beautiful priestess to perform a magical celebration dance. His journey in the preparation of this initiatory dance, set against a backdrop of religious and political intrigue, trails through multiple esoteric trainings to a heart-smile deep-breathing finish. But for those with any knowledge or taste for the Western mysteries, be they alchemical, Celtic, Egyptian, Kabbalah, Gnostic, Sufi, or many others, this book is a feast, an unending cornucopia of wisdom, laid out for any with right eyes to see. There are few pages which do not shout for a second read, for more savoring and more study. --By Jan Thatcher Adams Whole Health Editor of The Edge, Exploring the Evolution of Consciousness (Excerpted from "Transformation is quite likely in Bremyer's `The Dance of Created Lights,'" which appeared in the November, 1996 issue of The Edge.)