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About Shamsuddin Jim Norton

Shamsuddin Jim Norton: 62, Male
columbia, mo, United States

Relationship Status:: In a Relationship, It's Complicated

How did you find us?: Member of Another Ning Network

About Me:: Ordained Episcopal priest
Ordained Sufi cherag
Pastoral Counselor
Web Consultant

Welcome all, I created this site to further the work (and play) of adding love, harmony and beauty to our noosphere*.

Please visit (and join) the heart center of this growing network of lightworkers on the web at Noosphere Lights

Website:: noospherecommunications.com

Initiate of a Sufi path?: Yes, Want to learn more

Do You want to know more about Web Theology which I call 'Theology of the Noosphere': Yes, I want to contribute to this Unified World Vision Reality Shift, What are you talking about?

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Noosphere Part 1

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Noosphere From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, the noosphere (sometimes spelled noösphere) can be seen as... Read More »

Qaseeda Burda question about the author need info?

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Fayaz, Maybe start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasida_Burda Blessin Read More »

Making this a great site - some suggestions

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Thanks for the good suggestions. Hopefully, some will respond to your desire. We have become a bit Jaded about the Web for many good reasons. So far, there has been no abuse here. I do want member... Read More »

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The Noosphere of Light and Life Is Here - Part 1

In the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, the noosphere (sometimes spelled noösphere) can be seen as the "sphere of human thought" being derived from the…

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Posted by Shamsuddin Jim Norton on September 30th, 2008 at 9:48am — No Comments (Add)

Compassion

Allah is compassionate and loves compassion in all things.

-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by A'ishah bint Abu Bakr

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Posted by Shamsuddin Jim Norton on February 14th, 2008 at 5:25pm — 1 Comment (Add)

To see the invocation in many tongues Check out this link

Jahangir has collected his research on translations of the invocation here. http://www.dewonderbron.nl/invocation.html

Check it out!!!

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Now that I Am Old

When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When you pray

When you pray, remove from your heart all worldly concerns.
- Nahmanides, letter to his son Nahman, 1268

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At 9:53am on July 5th, 2008, sura gail tala said…: right back at you shams, Suban called yesterday, a Hi for the 4th and put me in that good ole sufi community mood. Just got back from a walk in my big woods surveying the changing creeks and revenes from our massive flood june 6.
namaste
sura

At 2:36pm on May 18th, 2008, Margo said…: Hello Shams~ It won't be long :)

At 10:27am on February 21st, 2008, Khaliqa and Noor Habib said…: Happy enough being the 99th or 100th or whatever, just good to see this site growing. It is big - so we'll need some time to find our way around.

Greetings,
Noor Habib.

At 6:05pm on February 20th, 2008, Dale Blindheim said…: One Hundred Beloveds in/on SufiLight !

~ Shirin Julie Purcell is member #100 of Ask a Sufi.

Congratulations Shamsuddin ! the NingFather !

you are THE BEST !

~dale

At 9:29am on February 16th, 2008, Stephen Smith said…: Shamssuddin, thanks for the welcome. It's nice to have a site like this to connect with sisters and brothers.

At 5:00pm on February 15th, 2008, Talat Halman said…: Thank you brother. I may run like a majzub in the spirit, but in technosphere I'm a slow salik. More to come.

At 10:49am on February 3rd, 2008, Mudita said…: Dear Love...
Thank you for your kind thoughts and feelings of closeness. You and I are birds that flock together.
Maybe we are both one of those birds in Faridadinn Attar's, Conference of the Birds?
I love you, my sweet beloved brother...
Mu
ps Did you come up to my neck of the woods a few weeks ago? Is so, how sad we missed having a cup of coffee together...xxox

At 10:01pm on January 28th, 2008, shams said…: Thanks, Jim, for doing this. I'm glad it finally came together and it looks real nice.
At first I was like, ok dad i'll check it out... since i'm a barely-evergoer to things like myspace,friendster, facebook etc...
Presumably there will be fewer anonymous scantily clad hoes sending PMs that link to their pronsite ;() yay!!!!!!!!!!!