Justin Mawdsley-Saniotis, Arthur. “Enchanted Landscapes: Sensuous Awareness as Mystical Practice among Sufis in North India.”

This article talks about the Sufis Indians (not native Americans) and their keen awareness of the land around them, as well as the sacredness they experience through their full body interactions with their surrounding landscape. The Sufis, according to the article, are depicted as a religious group that completely immerses themselves in their surrounding environment. They completely immerse themselves physically, and emotionally in order to meld the sensory body with the surrounding landscape. He describes their interactions with the world and talks about how their senses seem to be heightened more so than regular people when it comes to their interactions with their surrounding landscape, the author actually constructs the article so that it analyzes each of the five senses and how they relate to the Sufis’ spiritual journeys with nature how they try to integrate spirituality in everything they do by continuously praying and chanting wherever they go. This article is written from an outside perspective of a university graduate, it’s well organized, and presents us with a secondary sources interpretation of the Sufi culture. Some of the information presented is taken from other texts, while some is first hand observation from the author himself.