Abstract: The article analyzes the diaries in the form of a letter to a mentor, presents the results of a survey of the authors of the diaries, reflecting their subjective assessment of the influence of the diary on their mental state. The spread of such diary forms as a diary in the form of a letter to a mentor reflects a communicative turn in science, psychology, art, mass consciousness, when the focus shifts from I to You. The postmodern aesthetics of modern diary forms is revealed. It is shown that writing letters to mentors is not a classical ritual Sufi psychotechnics. At the same time, Sufism is a communicative model and all Sufi rituals are rituals of communication. Therefore, writing letters is a written expression of such classical Sufi techniques as istighasa, istiana (asking for help), tawassul (search for means of approaching God), rabita (imagining meeting and being near a mentor).
Sufi returns to the ultimate truth about himself: about his boundaries, about his vulnerability and weakness, about the need for You, about the impossibility of living without a dialogue with You. Through embedding himself in a hierarchical relationship with a mentor, the Sufi comes to the ultimate dependence on God. Dependence on God is not chemical or behavioral, it is getting rid of psychic defenses and illusions about the strength of one’s control, influence and power and stating one’s slavish position with God, when the only thing that controls the heart of a Sufi is choice-to-you.

Abstract: This article describes the concept of the Sufi communication studies as a new interdisciplinary direction, emerged at the intersection of philosophy, theology and theory of communication. The theory of meaning develops within the framework of Sufi communication studies. The author defines the information leaning on the term of Claude Shannon “anti-entropy” through the Sufi category of “nizam”. Further, meaning is defines as achievement of such resonance in a uniform order that leads to Encounter. The article introduces the following philosophical metaphors: “You-are” boundary, manifestation of “You-are-being”, theological autism, game field, and encounter space. Communicative methodology is applied as an alternative to logical-conceptual and cultural-historical methods in researching mystical literature and medieval sources. The author structures the theory of meaning, where meaning is described through the following attributes: 1) communicativeness, since decoding of a symbol and derivation of meaning is only between the two; 2) dynamism, since meaning is always the result of movement towards the Other, “efforts-towards-You”, vector, path where meaning will signify the “You-Are” boundary, and ending of the path; 3) supra-rationality, when meaning is obtained as love, aesthetic and spiritual experi3ences, aletheia, clarity and light; 4) meaning as an Encounter in understanding of Buber and Bollnow, where the game suddenly ends and encounter is attained, the “You-are” boundary is being reached.