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Kainat Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles Smith<\/strong>
Kainat Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles Smith are senior Sufi teachers, retreat guides, and interfaith ministers within the Inayati Sufi Order. Together they founded and facilitate the Light of Guidance Center for Sufi Studies in NYC (www.lightofguidance.org<\/a>). They have also facilitated the Ziraat activity, devoted to inner cultivation and sacred ecology, within the Inayati Order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles teaches leadership and sustainability studies at Hofstra University and Felicia teaches dance at the United Nations International School. They are married and live in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felicia has been touring the solo dance\/theatre piece ‘NOOR’<\/em>, depicting the life of Noor Inayat Khan, Sufi WW2 heroine, in London, Edinburgh, UK, and France, and NYC. Most recently she performed ‘NOOR’<\/em> at Sarah Lawrence College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together Felicia and Charles co-authored “An Emerald Earth”, describing basic practices, poetry, and wisdom teachings from the Sufi tradition. They travel and offer retreats and workshops throughout the US, Canada and in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OTHER ARTICLES AND TALKS by Felicia Norton and Charles Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Futures: Toward the Source of Thought: Insights from David Bohm on <\/em><\/strong>
a Sustainable Future<\/em><\/strong>, ISSN: 0260-4027 (Print) 1556-1844 (Online) Journal homepage:  https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02604027.2020.1730736<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche: <\/strong> Intimacy with The Earth\u2013Insights from the Su\ufb01 and Jungian Alchemical Traditions on Transforming our Relationship with Matter,<\/strong><\/em>, C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Volume 9, Number 4, pp. 58\u201375, 2015. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/19342039.2015.1086936<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Futures<\/strong>: Embodying Evolutionary Vision: An Action-Based Experiment in Non-Dual Perception<\/em><\/strong>, Vol. 67, pp. 201-212, 2011. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02604027.2010.532753<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resurgence & Ecologist<\/strong>: Fresh perception: cultivating intimacy with the radiant earth<\/strong>. <\/em> https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2018\/sep\/19\/fresh-perception-cultivating-intimacy-radiant-earth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organization of Nature Evolutionaries Teleseminar: Joining Inner Cultivation with Hope and Sacred Action<\/em><\/strong>, with Felicia Kainat Norton and Charles Muinuddin Smith, Ph.D., https:\/\/www.natureevolutionaries.com\/teleseminars-1\/2019\/2\/17\/joining-our-inner-cultivation-with-hope-and-sacred-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information and to purchase <\/span>An Emerald Earth:  Cultivating a Natural Spirituality, <\/em>please click <\/span>here<\/a>.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kainat Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles SmithKainat Felicia Norton and Muinuddin Charles Smith are senior Sufi teachers, retreat guides, and interfaith ministers within the Inayati Sufi Order. Together they founded and facilitate the Light of Guidance Center for Sufi Studies in NYC (www.lightofguidance.org). They have also facilitated the Ziraat activity, devoted to inner cultivation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anemeraldearth.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}