The divine may be experienced through a variety of means. In various global spiritual traditions, these include prayer, meditation on sacred texts, participation in religious ceremonies and going on pilgrimages. There are other means of achieving a religious experience that are perhaps not so common in the Western world. One of these is through the medium of dance, the most famous of which may be the incredible whirling dance practiced by the Sufi dervishes of the Mevlevi Order.
Other interesting links:
International Mevlana Foundation, 2010. Mevlevi Order & Sema. [Online]
Available at: http://mevlanafoundation.com/mevlevi_order_en.html
Sansal, B., 2014. Whirling Dervishes. [Online]
Available at: http://www.allaboutturkey.com/dervis.htm
The Çelebi Family, 2015. Whirling Dervishes, Sema. [Online]
Available at: http://mevlana.net/sema.html
UNESCO, 2012. Mevlevi Sema ceremony. [Online]
Available at: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/RL/00100
www.whirling-dervish.org, 2015. History of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes. [Online]
Available at: http://www.whirling-dervish.org/history.htm
www.whirlingdervishes.org, 2015. Sufism and Dervishes. [Online]
Available at: http://www.whirlingdervishes.org/whirlingdervishes.htm
