Neurosufism

The concept of "Neurosufism" appeared in a Telegram channel called "Trve Kvlt". It was a mixture of the esoteric views of the Russian philosopher Geydar Dzhemal and the Gnostic ideas of the American writer Philip K. Dick. In a now-lost article by Inkar Valdayev, it was written that neurosufism is a "schizoid magical policy" aimed at creating a new urban mythology for the inhabitants of the anthills (megalopolises) of Russia from a Post-Soviet cult, depressive black metal and enlightenment trips.

Neurosufism by Inkar Valdayev (Mr. Sh)

«The first iteration is known through a person I’ll designate as Sh. He is a mystic, scholar of oriental history and philosophy, and a very talented mathematician. In one sense, neurosufism is his personal psychotechnology. He revealed some aspects of it through an interconnected series of musical and poetic collaborations, hyperfiction, and media experiments. My attempt at piecing together this version can be summarized as such: at the core of neurosufi practice is applied metempsychosis: the transmutation of psyche through a series of fundamental changes. The main (or one of the main) tools to achieve this is languages, broadly understood. Languages include meanings, forms and rhythms. A new language leads to a new transmutation. The objective of metempsychosis is the accumulation of experience of transmutations and through them. The goal of this process, if there is one, is the creation of the language, whatever it might be (which can also be understood as leading/being the ultimate state of psyche, which can be compared with nirvana and fana). This process is called (personal) jihad, which has fourfold structure:

·jihad of knowledge, being the reading the Book of Allah (the world);

·jihad of creation, being the creation of a new Book;

·jihad with self, being the destruction of nafs, identified with personality and understood as ignorance;

·jihad of language, being the individual creation of the language and filling of the forms with meaning according to the individual understanding of the goals of jihad.

The philosophies most close to neurosufism, despite its name, are those of Nagarjuna, Plato, Maimonides, and William S. Burroughs; Rumi is also held in extremely high regard. Islamic language and imagery is used to construct the discourse of neurosufism as, in lemurian terms, hyperfiction. Possible hyperfictional origin of neurosufism is House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The methodology of neurosufi hyperfiction itself is close to one of Jorge Luis Borges. Because mathematics is a strong skill and loved subject of Sh., he often expressed neurosufism in mathematical terms, especially in terms of abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and topology. However, Sh. noted that this is just a way of expression suitable to him, and not the essence of neurosufism. Neurosufism, in itself, is just one of languages, and, accordingly, being neurosufi is just one of transmutations of the psyche. Neuro-, as far as I know, is almost meaningless jargon, as e.g. in neurofunk (not that neurofunk has anything to do with neurosufism).»