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TL;DR: EricT (who sometimes writes under the nom de plumes Etienne de L'Amour and H. M. Forester) should have followed his heart and definitely not studied corporate administration at college.
A sadly misguided rebel and hippie in his youth, and late developer who fell through the cracks, EricT was interested in environmentalism, pacifism, vegetarianism, Buddhism, Zen, meditation and various esoteric traditions prior to his involvement in the Sufi Way. He has been studying the works of the thinker, writer and Sufi teacher Idries Shah since 1986. He is also interested in both traditional and contemporary Western depth psychology. More recent interests include philosopher Henry Corbin's mundus imaginalis (imaginal world) and Western esotericism.
Since around 1999 he has hosted and maintained online discussion groups, latterly The Caravanserai and the ishraqi institute, and hosts and maintains a writing-related web server at sherpoint.uk ("sherpoint" being an anagram of "the prison").
It saddens me that all-too-often, wonderful people are not found to be "wikiworthy" until obituaries are published in the press, and their notable – and often remarkable – qualities, not just their worldly attainments, are finally revealed to the public.
Etienne's hugely unsuccessful e-novels include: Thank You, I Understand; The Lost Treasure of Roth Nagor; The Insiders: Exploring the higher realms of possibility; Escape from the Shadowlands; In Search of Destiny; The Lucian Uprising; Time and Time again; The Gift; The Host and the Guests, and Whisperings of Love.
H. M. Forester's paltry offerings include The Dissidents; Game of Aeons; Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul, The Imaginal Veil; The Scent of Reality, and Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, and the daemonic.
For taking the time out to save an article endangered by copyright infringement. Moonriddengirl(talk) 15:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
The Invisible Barnstar
For your efforts in resolving issues on Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi and all the related pages, and for your helpful edits. You deserve some recognition :). Omirocksthisworld(Drop a line) 09:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for your help. You've really cleared the issue on the articles I was stuck on quite a lot. Your work encourages me to learn more. :) Thanks again. -- Nasir | ناصر یونس have a chat 00:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
CopyEditor's BarnStar
I award you this CopyEditor's BarnStar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. Your efforts have made this article verifiable and reliable. The community can read this article and safely know that it definitely may include facts rather than bias opinions.—Nasir | ناصر یونس have a chat 22:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I felt this was a particularly gracious and polite way to bow out of an AfD discussion; would that all participants were so thoughtful. Yunshui雲水 09:09, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Ada Lovelace Award
Thank you for all of your work on articles that were created for the Ada Lovelace Day edit-a-thon. Your contributions are very appreciated. Cheers, Gobōnobō+c 09:22, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your 14 years of contributions on Wikipedia. :) AngusMEOW (chatter • paw trail) 07:42, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
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