Crossing the Line
Alireza Doostdar
Princeton University Press eBooks March 20, 2018 DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691163772.003.0002 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
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| Population | Nafiseh, a twenty-nine-year-old divorcée and metaphysical practitioner |
| Key points | The chapter recounts how Nafiseh's unsettling meeting with a rammal, an occult specialist, drew her into sustained metaphysical exploration. She practiced lucid dreaming, claimed nonverbal communication during sleep, and reported encounters with jinn. According to Nafiseh, these spiritual journeys led her to accept certain notions and discard others, and brought new experiences, friendships, and insight. |
Abstract
This chapter narrates a woman's encounter with the rammal , an occult specialist, that took her into the world of the metaphysical. The woman, Nafiseh, was a twenty-nine-year-old divorcée and an avid enthusiast of metaphysical experimentation. Nafiseh had honed her skills at lucid dreaming and claimed that she could pick up nonverbal communications from other people while asleep. She had encountered jinn on more than one occasion. She read widely on all matters related to the metaphysical and the occult, and attributed the greater part of her dedication to metaphysical inquiry to an unsetling meeting with a rammal. The chapter shows how Nafiseh discovered a new world when she crossed the line, a world filled with novel experiences, friendships, and insight. According to Nafiseh, she had learned to accept certain notions and discard others in the course of her spiritual journeys.