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  1. Always great working together, Filip. Thanks for all you do!
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  2. "That one family aunt that everyone thinks is kind of weird"... That'd be me šŸ˜…
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  3. Absolutely incredible thinking from Meister Eckhart, perhaps the greatest of the Christian mystics. I fear most Christians generally do have a very shallow understanding of Christianity themselves and Eckhart and Marguerite Porete offer a dimension of Christian experience most churches would shun. Richard Smoley's book "Inner Christianity" is a great read on Christian mysticism. Indeed a lot of similarities to Śūnyatā and Vedānta, my Buddhism professor wrote his dissertation on Meister Eckhart! Thank you for this video Filip as we celebrate the birth of the Word in us. Merry Christmas!
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  4. I am Algerian. I am very happy that you made a video about the most important and greatest Sufi figures, our Sufi hero Amir Abdul Qadir
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  5. I love how Ramanuja is depicted hugging a little Vishnu statue to show his devotion. It's not often you see philosophers being depicted hugging things.
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  6. Fun etymological sidenote: the modern dutch word for heretic "ketter" is directly related to "cathar"
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  7. Terrific work on a touchy subject. You really take the discourse to a whole new level. Thank you Filip.
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  8. Its amazing how a video from a YT channel with 2.2k subscribers teaches me better than a college level course on the same subjuct. Cheers bro, subbed
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  9. Man , Iā€™m a 18 year old girl from Romania and watching your videos on Sufism brightens my day especially because Iā€™m currently struggling a lot. I love these so much. For the past few months Iā€™ve fallen in love with sufi mysticism and I was even considering becoming a sufi. Thank you so much for making those and letting us explore the culture. Turkey is also very beautiful, I plan to visit like I also visited many other places. Sufism is so warn, loving and metaphysical. So fascinating and beautiful, almost sends you into a tranceā€¦
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  10. ''Love never fails, Not even in Death."-St. Gregory of Nyssa
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  11. Even within Mutasawwuf circles and Tasawwuf literature, the Qalandariyya order is at best almost forgotten, at worst declared heretical and, overall, holds a very obscure place. So Iā€™m kinda surprised to see this video on this channel and really excited to watch it. Thank you, since this video might be the most comprehensive work on the Qalandariyya on the entirety of YouTube.
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  12. I was always interested in Sufism. As a Muslim myself, I had many misinformation about Sufism, Your video helped to know more truth about Sufism, Tnx dude!
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  13. As a Persian, Ive read about him from many sources. This is the best bio of him Ive heard. Thank you
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  14. never saw you as an orientalist. On the contrary, I have always seen you speaking of all religions with a sense of respect. It can be such a controversial subject but you handle it with grace and poise. From all I watched of this channel, I get a feeling there is huge impact of Islamic monotheism especially sufi philosophies on you but you want to stay neutral to be more objective and fair in treating other religions.
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  15. you are doing the world a great service and you are an excellent teacher. may you prosper.
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  16. Alright, I'm a Comparative Religion student and I'm only discovering this channel now!? Mate, your work is fantastic, definitely some of the best content I have seen. I'm back-watching some videos and your videos on Ibn Arabi and Taoism is great! Please make more 'Introduction to' traditions and maybe something on Perennialism/Traditionalism and Hindusm! I'm glad You Tube is bringing people with our particular interests together like this, although I'm late to discovering you.
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  17. In Nepal, Hinduism is totally based on Tantric veda since most hindus are devoted Shiavas.
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  18. I actually became a Muslim after I met Sheikh Amadou Bamba's followers in Europe.I made a journey to Touba in Senegal where I was previlaged to learn the Fatiha under the tutelage of The Sheikh's Great grandson, Sheikh Adullazeez Majalis... Dierejef Serigne Touba!
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  19. As a Hindu, not born into the religion, thanks. Please make more videos on hinduism! They are splendid!
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  20. Iā€™m pretty sure most historians believe Muhammad and Jesus existed while David and Solomon are semi historical and the others are pretty iffy. Great video as always
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  21. As a Tunisian, this video fills my heart with joy. Thank you so much for your work.
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  22. Religion can be such an emotionally charged topic to discuss and I have come to really appreciate your epistemological integrity. I think you're doing a great job. One of the best talking heads I subscribe to.
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  23. As a yoga teacher (with Indian origins) living in Senegal who loves Sufi teachings and has learned so much from them, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video. The amount of work, dedication, and authenticity you put into each subject you bring to us is ASTOUNDING, and I cannot thank you enough. Sending you much love and well wishes for your continued success.
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  24. I am a Muslim and your content helps me understand other religions and focus on similarities rather than differences. You have changed my world view in the best way possible! Thank You!šŸ™ŒšŸ¼ Keep doing what you do!!
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  25. I am Persian from Iran living in Canada. I thank God, and I am very happy that my mother tongue language is Persian. It's absolutely a blessing from God. Farsi is the language of love.
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  26. You just made me happy for providing 44min of Ancient Mesopotamia's religion in this episode. Thanks!
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  27. This video came at a particularly difficult period of my life. My beautiful 32yo son had died of a fentanyl overdose. We adopted him at 6yo from an orphange in Hungary charged with physical and many other kinds of abuse. He was the protector of his two siblings, taking beatings for them and abuse. He fathered them; the trauma was very deep. He used drugs to dull the pain. Abused kids too commonly take this easy way out. He was exceptionally bright. He studied in jail deeply the works of Idries Shah and Plato. He really understood them. I loved this kid deeply; we had an almost telepathic connection. This video on Ibn Arabi filled in a missing piece for me. Loving Greg was a process of looking deeply and finding that Divine spark inside him that he had begun polishing. I looked and found that spark and saw my own reflection. Existence is at its core the Divine love. From the despair of loss this lecture helped me find the core of love from the Source. This post is unlike most others. You may delete it. I wanted to communicate the peace that your work provided me, Thank you g please no "sorry for your loss" wrong forum. I realized there is no loss, I know the source of my love now, it radiated through him.
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  28. The Holy fool is a fascinating concept. In Greek Orthodoxy there has been holy men who were " fools for christ " were they gave the impression at times to not really knowing what's going on when they actually do. I remember reading about a monk from Georgia who always played dumb to certain things, especially when woman were embarrassed or ashamed about something they done. He would pretend to be oblivious to it when really he was just making them feel better.
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  29. Watched your content for the first time. Didn't know there was a channel that discussed islamic theology and philosophy in such an unbiased manner. Usually, it's either entirely neglected or viewed negatively. Thanks for this amazing channel!
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  30. I really appreciated you addressing how belief has become overemphasized as the currency of religious participation by monotheism.
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  31. Wonderful to work together, Filip - these collaboration episodes are just the best!
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  32. Thank you for this, I appreciate the video as an Orthodox Christian - I have long been interested in the mysticism in my faith but itā€™s hard to tackle as youā€™ve said.
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  33. Thank you for this great collab Filip. It's a pleasure being part of the creator community with you. Looking forward to more great work together. Much love, Zevi.
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  34. been asking for this for a long time. Thank you for posting it on Meskel. Happy Meskel phlip
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  35. Peace. I am a student of Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where we've been spending the past few years learning about the Philosophies and Religions- since in many of the world's traditions, like Vedanta, are inseparable. I wanted to express my gratitude for your very well informed, clear and insightful videos, which always freshen up my knowledge of topics that I haven't had the chance to study in my courses for a while. Many Thanks! You also take me into some alleys of the world's philosophies that I haven't explored in class. Keep doing your great work man! Also, I am part of a group which includes people from different religious and philosophical interests and confessions of faith, which is devoted to interreligious dialogue and the discussion of topics like Psychology, Metaphysics, Philosophy and Theology. Your videos often find mention in our group and are very much appreciated. I would appreciate it, if once you could devote a video to the comparison between Sufism and the Vedanta, since both traditions seem to share many fascinating parallels as well as nuanced differences. Blessings be with you.
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  36. As always, great video! Thank you for the collaboration. Looking forward to the video on Dara Shikoh.
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  37. Casually dropped a gem
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  38. I spent the morning going through your channel. Thank you for blessing us with your knowledge and keep up the good work. āœŒ
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  39. I also like Ramanujan mathematician who was inspired by Deity Namagiri. He once said, "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."
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  40. Great video on an important topic. Essentializing is so common, but it is difficult to address succinctly in the moment.
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  41. Sad to hear people calling you an orientalist. I have learned a tonne from you and never felt it was negative or biased.
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  42. One of the best YouTube channels out thereā€”historically speaking as well, YouTube being almost 20 years old. God bless.
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  43. Edward Said writes in his book 'Culture and Imperialism': "No one is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliotā€™s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the ā€œother echoes [that] inhabit the garden.ā€ It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about ā€œus.ā€ But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how ā€œourā€ culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter)"
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  44. As a practitioner of internal alchemy I would like to provide some insight to the poem at 18:00. To those also behind the door, please forgive my candor but I believe these things should be put bluntly. This poem is basically a teaching of a basic mental/breath technique to develop focus and vitality. While doing the meditation the student holds their body in certain postures to activate different parts of the fascia so you can be working your whole body and mind while seemingly sitting still. As far as the poem itself is concerned I'll just summarize the main take aways from each paragraph: 1. Harmonizing mercury and lead essentially refers to developing a healthy mind and body. The body practices are a kind of yoga that works and strengthens the fascia, giving one a gentle strength that to the untrained eye can appear as magic or superhuman skill. The mind practices are meditations and focusing exercises to awaken the awareness that there is a space between thoughts and emotions the one experiencing the thoughts and emotions. 2. In the beginning of training do not rush to become a monk or an extreme training program. Consistency is key so just have a small practice and just make sure to do it everyday. 3. If you stop practicing just start up again. Do not try to add to the practice with additional elements to "spice " it up. Do it as it was taught and struggle through the process of maintaining the habit. 4.When you have developed your mind and body (represented by the tiger and dragon) you will create the proper environment in yourself for inner peace/harmony. This is seen as the true base nature of all humans and everything you do in life should come from this space. 5 &6. This is an esoteric explanation for the exercise called the microcosmic orbit. Where you focus the mind on the breath and feel it flow from your tailbone up your back to your brain and down the front of your body This is a fundamental practice almost all daoist schools teach in some form. While not the exact same, it operates in a similar fashion to Kundalini yoga/meditation. The "fetus" referred to is the awareness of yourself as a non physical being. It's first manifests as attention or Yi but through practice it develops into a full awareness that extends outside of your body. This is not theoretical, you can and will experience this if you stick to your practice. This is why I like daoism, they dint ask you to believe in anything, just do the practices and you'll see for yourself.
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  45. just don't stop making these videos ever
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  46. I'm here because of Useful Charts
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  47. Really glad I found this channel. It's fascinating to learn about these beliefs from a respectful and secular perspective.
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  48. Wonderful working together again, Filip - I'm so blessed to call you both colleague and friend!
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  49. I am a devout Christian and love watching all your content. It is very enjoyable to hear you break down each aspect of Abrahamic faiths, history, culture and lore as. I find every topic to be interesting and appreciate that you credit sources where applicable. I really enjoy other religions covered on this channel as well. Thanks for your hard work!
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  50. Holy cow, this collaboration is like a masterclass on Neoplatonism
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