I thought you might enjoy an excerpt from an email that I sent to a fellow blogger today named Stacey. I referenced you in my email…
I was talking about you and a couple of other bloggers today to a couple of friends of mine. I said, “I have been seeing something that is really surprising me. I have a few blogger friends, two who I have just recently met. One is Sadiq in Singapore, Segovius in Barcelona, and Stacey in the US. I think they are all in their mid-20’s and just ferocious in their passion relative to the things I post on my blog.”
http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/ - Sadiq (we have become good friends)
http://www.anulios.org/ - Segovius
The thing that is fascinating to me is that most people who study directly with Sensei don’t have a 1/10 of your passion. So, I have deeper respect for you, Sadiq, Segovius (and a few others) than I am communicating. And clearly, your own drive and passion (at least from what is coming across) has been with you since you were very young.
I have a strong sense regarding the direction and purpose of these “spiritual” blogs - particularly in regards to people who have open minds and hearts and are driven by passion. I deeply believe we can change the world - as screwed up as we are… that’s part of what qualifies us 
To me, “change the world” is not some Miss America cliche… I remember planning it before coming into this life. It’s a real deal going on.
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Posted by Mark Walter on 09/08 at 05:15 AM
The Aniza tribe have a long-lasting influence into Western forms of Witchcraft, as revived/revised by Gerald Gardner in the late 50s, early 60s.
Yet who is this Louis Palmer, who wrote about the Aniza in ‘Adventures in Afganistan’? You might find an odd coincidence that the biographer of Gerald Gardner - J.C. Bracelin - had very much to do with Louis Palmer - they were very, very close…
Posted by Kingsley on 09/08 at 02:22 PM
Yes, I think Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon goes into great depth about the issue of Gardnerian magic and the role of ‘Bracelin’ in various guises.
Louis Palmer also features in Shah’s novel Kara Kush but he is mysteriously killed off (or more correctly ‘dies’) reasonably early on.
Posted by on 09/08 at 02:53 PM
Fugara Shamans
Courtesy of a discussion on the wonderful Cabinet of Wonders Fortean forums, I found an amazing site on the Fugara - the Bedouin Shamans of Jordan.
The deeper one digs into this site the more amazing information one finds. There is much about the Shamanic conception of the jinn, particularly from the point of view of the tribes of the Jordan Valley.
Also of great interest is some rare and not generally known historical info about the nomadic bedouins of Southern Jordan - particularly the little-researched Shamanic al-Sulaba tribe as well as the more well-known Aniza.
This last tribe are interesting for their ‘water of life’ legends (which hark back to the Sufic Khidr motifs) which featured in a much discussed passage relating to Idries Shah which featured in Louis Palmer’s Adventures in Afghanistan
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The Aniza are also widely regarded as providing the original framework of the European Witch Cult through the person of Abu el-Atahiyya whose teachings passed into Europe when the Aniza migrated to medieval Islamic Spain.