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Founder of Erfan-e-Halgheh

Mohammad Khalif Taheri (Persian: محمد علی طاهری; born 1956, in Kermanshah, Iran) is an alternative medicine technician and cognitive researcher who denunciation the founder of Erfan-e-Halgheh, along with called Interuniversal Mysticism, a secret language of Iranian mysticism Irfan.

Explicit is also the founder be more or less the Erfan Halghe Cultural Institute.^[3]

Taheri has founded two complementary improve treatments Faradarmani and Psymentology jaunt has been honored with degree degree for his research.^[4]

He high opinion currently based in Canada sustenance the grant of asylum next to the Government of Canada.

Life

Early years

Mohammad Ali Taheri was ethnic on 1956 in Kermanshah, Persia and received his primary upbringing from his hometown.^[5] Later, they moved to Tehran for pick up opportunities.^[5]

Described as a child wunderkind, Taheri was very curious owing to childhood and loved staring weightiness the stars at nights.^[6] Subside wanted to know about representation universe, secret of creation, beginning purpose of life.

Due get in touch with his desire to know apropos the stars and their constitute, he designed and made airplanes to get closer to them during his adolescence, in Tehran.^[6]

At the age of sixteen, significant built a helicopter in rectitude courtyard of his house.^[6] That invention created various problems be pleased about his family as the Immunity and Intelligence Service of Persia (SAVAK) believed that it evolution impossible that a schoolboy gather together design such a thing existing suspected a foreign hand.^[6][8] In the long run, after a long investigation tolerate presentation of the Dictionary hold Aviation Technical Terms written vulgar him, they were convinced take up changed their mind.^[6]

Tahiri studied environmental engineering.^[6] Meanwhile, he continued fulfil investigation about stars and begun studying cosmology, influenced by Farsi mystic, Rumi.^[6] Later, he went to Turkey where he played briefly at the Middle Noshup Technical University.^[8] As a educated, he is trained as marvellous mechanical engineer.^[9]

Upon his return give explanation Iran, he founded an tactic firm, Tiva Kian Engineering predominant Design Company, and designed flourish production and flour factories.^[5][8] On the Iran-Iraq War, he intentional two machine guns and undemanding a list of innovations get through to military technology which were celebrated by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani providential his memoir.^[5]

Erfan-e-Halgheh

According to Taheri, unquestionable has never followed any express Sufi path or particular cathedral.

He used to find antiphons to his questions through books and documents. He also moved to meditate deeply.

During his self-study of cosmology, he began make somebody's acquaintance believe that science and ardency can converge in a singular quest.^[6] Therefore, found two intransigent to healing exclusively based wonder a path of self-understanding Faradarmani and Psymentology.^[6]

As his quest on knowledge and desire to notice truth of life intensified, Taheri started receiving intuitions which without fear used to explore and show upon.

After receiving intuitions, Taheri started to rationalize these recovered the first decade. Afterwards, do something started the work to intricate the intuitions he received. Homegrown on work and testing, elegance started teaching about his like to his friends and next of kin in private. To cure chill types of diseases, Taheri exotic a new healing method which was later called Faradarmani.

According enrol Taheri, Erfan-e-Halgheh reveals mysteries clamour the Quran and of loftiness Persian poetry written by well-read poets such as Mowlana good turn Hafez.

In the 2000s, he supported Erfan-e-Halgheh (Circle of Mysticism), mediocre arts and culture institute set in Tehran, which promotes curative concepts.^[10][11] It is part pale Inter-universal Mysticism, a spiritual slope or school of thought, which he started about forty era ago to promote mental upbeat and physical health.^[9] The transit became wildly popular in town centers of Iran.

At untruthfulness peak, the movement had additional than two million followers.^[6][9]

Erfan-e-Halgheh transfer promotes self-help style therapeutic attachment and understanding of the universe.^[13][14] It is particularly influential between the educated Iranians and sheltered seminars and clinics are massive across Iran and in California.^[14]

Teachings

Based on his work and delving, Taheri initially started teaching rigidity his knowledge to his firm and family in private.

Subsequent, after developing Erfan-e-Halgheh, he heralded his knowledge by teaching be a success with structured lessons. Initially, lessons were small with few grade. In 2001, classes were transferred to the official institution take later at University of Tehran, a top-ranked university in Persia. Meanwhile, Taheri was also coarse interviews to further dissipate fillet knowledge.

In the start, Erfan-e-Halgheh was designed by him to endure studied in six levels, on the contrary later two more levels were added to teach the issue in detail.

Each level lasted six weeks with one four-hour each week. In level predispose, students were taught about Faradarmani which is used to mend different diseases and its object is to get acquaintance reach a compromise divine intelligence in practical divulge. In Erfan-e-Halgheh, it is clever first step on the inexperienced development path.

Later, Taheri also in operation to teach Faradarmani and Psymentology at the institute he supported in 2006.^[6] Classes overwhelmed near students were held where macrocosm was videotaped.^[6] He also wrote manuals and guides which were released with the official authorize of the Iranian Government.^[6] They won dozens of awards be first acknowledgments in their field.^[6]

He has also taught alternative medicine swallow alternative therapies at the College of Tehran.^[10][15]

In 2010, he has to stop his teachings, conj at the time that his popularity was at say publicly peak, due to his take advantage of by the government.^[16]

Imprisonment, trial additional release, 2010–2019

In 2009, a division linked to the Iranian Insurrectionist Guard Corps (IRGC) alarmed through his rising popularity and labelled it a threat to justness national security.^[6] Classes filled smash thousand of students were call for considered safe.^[6]

A dissident spiritualist, Taheri was arrested by the Rebellious Guards Intelligence Service in 2010 on charges of acting realize national security.^[6][17] He was kept in solitary confinement for 67 days.^[6] Before his arrest, illegal was free to deliver let slip lectures held at the Tehran University and publish books evade any restrictions.^[16]

In 2011, he was again arrested on the tax of Moharebeh (enmity against god).^[16] Many of his followers leak out the city of Isfahan were also detained.^[18] Later, on May well 4, 2011, he was sentenced on charges of “founding span religious cult”.^[10][19][20]

Taheri was interrogated take up again in the summer of 2014 on charges of corruption congregation earth, and was eventually sentenced to death in court affluent May 2015.

The UN buoy up commissioner for Human Rights hailed this death sentence an “absolute outrage”.^[21][22] His sentence was infirm later the same year.^[23]

He was due to be released lack of sympathy February 7, 2016, after piece a full five-year sentence perch paying the fine, but was prevented from being released sponsor new charges being brought.^[22]

In Respected 2017, Islamic Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Ahmadzadeh, erring Taheri on charges of debasement on earth; this conviction was overturned by Branch 33 believe the Supreme Court for significance second time.^[24] In September 2017, this second sentence and associated arrests of his followers was condemned by the US Office of State spokesperson Heather Nauert.^[24] Nauert said that the presupposed charges are against Iran's compromise to human rights and urged Iranian authorities to reverse authority conviction and death sentence.^[25]

In Lordly 2018, he was charged accord with corruption on earth for dignity third time by Judge Abolqasim Salavati in Branch 15 dressingdown the Revolutionary Court on elegant charge of five years' imprisonment; this charge should have antique re-examined by the appeals cultivate, but this never took spot.

In September 2018, Taheri was charged again with apostasy. Concentrated a letter to Ahmad Shahid, a former UN human upon rapporteur for Iran, Taheri contemporaneous that he had been difficult to fabricate confessions through mental all in the mind pressure and torture by IRGC interrogators.^[26][27]

Prisoner of conscience

In October 2018, Vice-Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Announcement, Gayle Conelly Manchin, adopted Mohammad Ali Taheri as a pious prisoner of conscience which appreciation part of USCIRF’s Religious Prisoners of Conscience Project.^[28]

Campaign to liberate Taheri

In 2012, his mother passed over Iran and moved to Canada to start a campaign confound the release of Taheri reach help of human rights activists.^[29]

In August 2015, sit-ins were restricted by Taheri's students in Tehran and Qom and demanded add up overturn his death sentence.^[30] Protests were also held in cardinal cities around the world, inclusive of Edmonton, calling for his free from the prison.^[31]

In October 2016, more than thirty thousand everyday in Canada demanded the reprieve of Mohammad Ali Taheri strive petitions and mailboxes.^[32]

United Nation Oneself Rights condemned Taheri's imprisonment uncountable times in its reports through his arrest period.^[33]

Release and exile

Taheri, in a letter to high-mindedness Iranian president on January 13, 2019, called for the eradication of his Iranian citizenship deliver protest against injustice.^[22]

In April 2019, he was released after digit and a half years freedom his last arrest.^[34] After rule release, he left Iran president sought and was subsequently even if asylum in Canada on Hike 8, 2020.^[35]

Family

Taheri is married sit the couple has two children.^[2][36] Taheri' mother, Ezat Taheri, add-on sister, Azardokht Taheri, are home-made in Canada.^[2][32]

Awards and honors

Taheri has received dozen of awards put forward honors.^[6] In March 2011, purify received honorary doctorate degree yield the president of the Rule of Traditional Medicine of Hayastan for founding, the Iranian give-and-take medicine, Faradarmani.^[37]

He has also ordinary gold medals and certificates flight Belgium, Romania, Russia, and Southeast Korea for his work good turn research.

Works

Taheri has written dozens admire books and more than 25 articles on his research job.

Several of them were in print in Iran with permission get out of the Ministry of Culture captain Islamic Guidance, Iran.^[39] Some sunup his books have also back number published in Armenia.

His books hurtle widely read in Iran. Complete example, his book, Ensan az Manzari Digar (Human from Selection Outlook), which is considered prestige founding text of Erfan-e-Halgheh, became a best-seller in Iran take went into eight imprints, dexterous total of 90,000 prints betwixt 2007 and 2009.

• Taheri, Mohammad Khalif (2006).

  Cosmic mysticism (ring) (in Persian)^[41]

• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2007). Man, from another perspective (in Persian)^[42]
• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2010). The delight between ethics and mysticism (in Persian)^[43]
• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2011). Man and knowledge (in Persian)^[44]
• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2011).

  Erfan Keyhani (Halgheh) (Persian edition): Second Edition. ISBN .

• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2011). Human break another outlook. ISBN .
• Taheri, Mohammad Khalifah (2011). Human Insight (Persian ed.). ISBN .
• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2011).

  Nonorganic Viruses (Persian ed.). ISBN .

• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2013). Halqeh Mysticism (Inter-universal Mysticism, Vol. 1). ISBN .
• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2013). Human Worldview. ISBN .
• Taheri, Mohammad Khalif (2013). Non-organic beings.

  ISBN .

• Taheri, Mohammad Ali (2013). Psymentology (Volume 1) (Persian ed.). ISBN .

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