The Unbalanced Reality of Sufism

Sufis Sufis would often think that they were basically just enmeshed in a visionary mystical reality it's just that it was unbalanced in their ability to communicate or engage and connect reconnect with the social world of of forms. The Sufi orders were sort of designed to do was to facilitate some way of achieving this with some sense of community with some spiritual direction so that if you found yourself in one of those black dark spaces like what you were talking about there were spiritual resources to make that productive rather than a dend.