Peter Wilson

as some Yezidis maintain, we are all angels enjoying a temporary existence as men and women, we need no rulers, regulations, or exoteric religions

brief, their origins are mysterious.

“folk religion” structurally similar to other isolated Eurasian cults such as the Druse, the Dünmeh, the Alevis, the Asheks, the Mandaeans, the Ahl-i Haqq. (In past times such cults persisted even in Europe—witch covens, for instance, or the Baltic pagans, or, later, the Frankists.)

which I identify under the rubric of the re-paganization of monotheism.

Wahid Azal’s call for a post-Islamic Sufism (based on classical neo-Shiite Babism, heterodox Sufism, and ayahuasca shamanism).