The people

Here are links to Web pages of some of the people featured in my story, and some others I've met in my wanderings, and some others associated with the dialogue/Talisman chronicles. There will be links to some of our discussions in an appendix.

Suggestions for content and presentation are welcome. Write to jimhabegger@gmail.com.

People featured in this story

Wahid Azal (formerly Nima Hazini)

Article: Neoplatonism: Framework for a Bahá'í Metaphysics

Karen Bacquet

Home page: http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/Bacquet.html

Education: Resources for Teachers
"I've just completed a teaching credential program, and I have been armed with loads of teaching URLs, some of which appear below."

Juan Cole

Home page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/

Fred Glaysher
"A poet now whose work and dedication to a demanding and difficult art I admire; a man who has the gift of inner grace." --Robert Hayden

Home page: http://www.fglaysher.com/

Susan Maneck

Home page: http://www.bahaistudies.net/susanmaneck/
"When I discovered the Baha'i Faith in my early teens and declared at the age of fifteen I developed a new appreciation for religious law, which was quite different from the attitudes with which I had been raised . . ."

Alison Marshall

Home page: http://www.whoisbahaullah.com/Alison/index.html
"Dear, sweet, Baha'u'llah
faithful companion of my heart
so great is the bliss
with which you have surrounded me
that I am moved to tell the world
about you."

Steve Marshall

Bahais Online
"This website aggregates Baha'i-related content from the Internet—blogs, podcasts, websites, documents, videos and the like. It's also a repository for material that doesn't have a home on the web. Think of it as an online Baha'i magazine or newspaper."

Michael McKenny

No page available yet

Dermod Ryder

No page available yet

Others I've met

Some people who are not featured in this story have been a big part of my life at Beliefnet and on the talk.religion.bahai list.

FirestormInitiative

This is the Balance

Serpent Wisdom, the long Story

Pat Kohli

No page available yet

Rod Wicks

Autobiography
"Through craft practice I was drawn into work in Youth Detention Centers, Prisons and work with psychiatricly disabled adolescents. Welfare and teaching remain my primary occupations and the only fields in which I hold any formal qualifications."

Multi Media Artist (Polymer Clay Central)
"Discovered clay in the embankment behind dad's garage. Fell in love with the stuff. "

Some participants at the 1996 mysticism conference

The 1996 mysticism conference at Bosch Baha'i School is the best illustration I've seen of what I think of as the spirit of the Talisman liberal movement at its best.

Wahid Azal

See above

Amin Banani

Books at Amazon.com
- Tahirih the Pure
- The Modernization of Iran, 1921-1941
- The Epic of Kings or Shah-Nama: the national epic of Persia
- Modernization of Iran
- Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rumi

Erika Batdorf
dance/mime, Canada

Page at Baha'i Association for the Arts:
http://bahai-library.com/bafa/b/batdorf.htm
"Erika Batdorf has been called an avant garde performance artist, a comic actress and a dancer. Her background in disciplined movement training, traditional acting and her experience as a writer come together in highly moving solo shows."

Derek Cockshut

No page available yet

Juan Cole

See above

Terry Culhane

Books at Amazon.co.uk
- Russian Language and People
- I Beheld a Maiden...: The Baha'i Faith and the Life of the Spirit

Sandra Fotos

The Two Donkeys: A Peace Education Activity
Draw What You Hear—A Sharing Activity

Amir Haghighi

MySpace Page
"At every concert, some audience members are literally in tears, saying that even though they don't understand the farsi language, Amir has communicated something so emotionally powerful that it drives right to the centre of their being."

LuAnne Hightower

Home page: http://www.lisahightower.com/luanne.html
"In addition to her day job, she is a certified massage therapist, she teaches yoga, and she sings jazz and new age music with a middle eastern influence. She has regularly performed at venues around southern Vermont and New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. She has also performed at festivals around the country, including the Rumi Festival in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in September 2001. LuAnne has recorded two CDs, which can be purchased online by following the "Read More" links below. "

David Langness

Excerpt from his book The Seeker's Path: Myth, Maturity and the Baha'I Teachings

Teresa Langness

Home page: http://www.teresalangness.com/
"Teresa Henkle Langness is the founding board chair of the non-profit organization Children’s Enrichment Program (CEP), whose mission is to help children embrace their role as helpers, healers and meaningful contributors to society. CEP is the birthplace of the Full-Circle Learning approach to education, captured in a series of Full-Circle Learning lesson plan manuals and music CDs. "

Lora McCall

No page available yet

Sen McGlinn
poet, reviewer, editor, visual artist, The Netherlands.

Page at Baha'i Association for the Arts:
http://www.bahai-library.com/bafa/m/mcglinn.htm
"I like the art of poetic suggestion, of the found object, and of the minimum intervention that helps the viewer to read ‘with the grain’ of the found. "

Steve Scholl

Imagine Adventures
"Imagine Adventures invites you to experience journeys with spiritual intention. Our tours blend authentic cross-cultural encounters with educational programs, recreational activities and life-changing adventure. We aim to take you into the hearts of cultures and to provide unique opportunities for learning, inspiration and personal discovery."

Other people associated with the dialogue/Talisman chronicles

Sonja van Kerkhoff

Home page: http://www.sonjavank.com/kerkhoff.htm
This page discusses her art in relation to the Baha'i Faith.

Linda Walbridge

No page available yet

John Walbridge

Books at Amazon.com
- The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart
- The Philosophy of Illumination
- The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems
- The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks
- The Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism
- Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World
- Sacred Acts, Sacred Space, Sacred Time

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