WEB:  Believe as you will.  But perhaps you make the mistake of being, well… overly literal, even now.  Your interest, if I recall,
 includes the Ba’hai and Islam, is that correct?  Well, since that is the case, what is it that you know about Khidr? 

DL:  Al Khidr?  Well, Khidr or Khzr is the Green Man, a prophetic figure who plays a role in many Middle-Eastern religions 
and traditions.  He is often a teacher of people who have no earthly teacher, and many great Sufis were supposedly students
 of Khidr, such as Ibn al Arabi, for example… 

WEB:  And when we say that we were founded by Khidr? 

DL: You were founded by individuals who were not guided by an embodied teacher? 

WEB:  That’s correct.  The Blaketashi Darwishes were created by students of Khidr, the people of the secret wound, who
 were enlightened, if you will, without resort to the guidance of any physical teacher, than He.  This is the same manner in
 which our patron William Blake was enlightened, the manner of TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, and the pantheon of others. 

DL:  How many of you are there?  

WEB:  Blaketashis?  Or persons enlightened by Khidr? 

DL:  Blaketashis. 

WEB:  Well, that is a hard question to answer.  The Blaketashis are an organization of the heart, not the membership card.
  But over the years, the Blaketashi site has been visited millions of times, and the numbers of messages sent us are in the
 many thousands.  People from around the world, from Asia, Russia, the Middle East, South America have read and
 contacted us.  Blaketashi materials have been translated into a dozen languages, and have woven their way into the remotest 
portions of the cyber-universe. 

DL:  Remotest portions? 

WEB:  Well yeah.  We are, for example, read in Yemen. The existence of the Blaketashis, the idea of the Blaketashis has
 called together thousands of ‘recruits,’ from around the world.  So it is an organization that grew a population around it,
 around its own idea, and is, as such, an organization made by attraction. 

DL:  I see.  Which brings you back to the Idries Shah experiment. 

WEB:  That’s is correct.  I see you finally see.  The experiment has drawn various Friends together, and a not-insignificant
 group of like-minded people; and so it can be shown that the Idea can collect an assemblage around it.  

DL:  Lets see (she said, checking her notes).  I have heard some grumbling from some of your readers that very little new material 
has found its way onto the website now, for some time.  Why is that?  Has it not been a productive time over the last years? 

WEB:  No, it’s been a highly productive few years.  It’s simply that the energies once directed here were directed at a book,
 rather than the website. 

DL:  A book?  What is it called? 

WEB:  It’s called  The Workings of the Subtle Heart. 

DL:  What’s the significance of the words ‘Subtle Heart’? 

WEB:  A significant portion of the book discusses the Lataif, or Subtleties, and the ‘Subtle Heart’ refers the use of these subtleties. 

DL:  Why was a book created, rather than the content posted on the internet? 

WEB:  Reading materials on the computer, or on a website, is rather glancing experience, and cannot be expected to carry
 the full weight of the sort of impact we hoped to convey in the book. 

DL:  So books carry a greater potential impact than the internet?  

WEB:  They do.  Although much of the content is now being made freely available on the internet as well, as a source of
 information for the merely curious.  Although to read it in this manner is to deflate its impact. 

Doris L.:  Good luck with the book! 

WE Blake:  It’ll do what it needs to do. 

DL:  Thank you very much for meeting with me today.  You’ve been able to shed some light on a number of important
 topics today, and I really appreciate your candor. 

WEB:  You’re very welcome, my dear.  I like your shoes, by the way.