Whirling Dervishes: The whirling dervishes ceremony, otherwise known as the Sema, represents a mystical journey of man's spiritual ascent through love, finding the truth and arriving to the "Perfect". He returns from this spiritual journeys as a man who has reached maturity and a greater perfection, so as to love and to be of service to the whole creation, to all creatures without discriminating in regard to belief, class, or race.