The Sufi Way

Sam speaks with author and spiritual teacher Elias Amidon. They discuss Elias’s atheistic upbringing; his activism; his “extremely formative experience” on LSD; nonduality in Sufism; mystical vs. psychological levels of spiritual training; strategies for dissolving bodily tension; our interdependence with ecological systems; the relationship between mental freedom and free will; Sufism’s isolation across the Muslim world; Elias’s three-part “subtle opening” practice, a version of which he guides; and other topics.