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(0)Idries Shah
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El camino del Sufi presenta una incomparable variedad de materiales enseñantes y escritos clásicos provenientes de las principales Órdenes Sufis, los cuales conforman un curso básico de estudio Sufi.
El autor comienza con los aspectos externos de la enseñanza que probablemente resulten desconcertantes para el estudiante que recién se adentra en el tema.
Entre otras cuestiones, Idries Shah considera las diversas actitudes históricas y del...
42) Reflections
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Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. As the book's foreword states, 'Do you imagine that fables exist only to amuse or to instruct, and are based upon fiction? The best ones are delineations of...
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Assembled by Idries Shah, The World of the Sufi is a comprehensive collection of learned essays and papers on the subject of Sufi thought. One of the book's attractions is the way that it considers central questions and areas of study from different angles. Sufi literature, the use of humour, and Sufi communities in various cultural settings, are some of the many subjects discussed. In addition, experts in their fields comment on areas such as Sufism...
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Based on university lectures at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of California, San Francisco, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study deals with many of the problems of Sufic methods of study and those which militate against its effective progress in the modern world; notably the unrecognised assumptions which we make about ourselves and about learning and its process.
45) Darkest England
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In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called 'Hathaby', but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors, the English fled westward, bringing with them epic tales, traditions, and an Oriental way of thought.
Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and adapting 'almost anything spiritual, moral or material'...
46) Observations
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According to the Sufis, human faculties, although perceptive, are limited: like a radio set, which can receive only certain electromagnetic waves and no other parts of this band. The inability to transcend the barrier of limited senses explains human subjectivity. The Sufis assert that through familiarization with concepts, patterns of thought, and ideas that form part of their contemporary literature, one can learn to penetrate beyond this apparent...
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En La sabiduría de los idiotas, los "idiotas" son los Sufis, llamados asଠdebido a que su sabiduría penetra a una profundidad que la transforma en inaccesible para el conocedor meramente acadà mico o inteligente. Los cuentos-ejercicios de los Sufis son herramientas preparadas para propà³sitos especà-ficos.
En este nivel, los movimientos de los personajes que forman parte de los cuentos retratan procesos psicolà³gicos internos, transformà¡ndose...
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A remarkable conspectus of philosophical contacts between East and West through the ages. This important monograph constitutes the whole text of Idries Shah's Seminar at Sussex University, fully annotated, indexed and with a bibliography and notes. It knits together the available knowledge about Sufi thought and literature in its passage through many deforming influences, such as the development of cults, the misinterpretation by literalist scholars,...
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Una mirada seria — pero al mismo tiempo entretenida — a los obstáculos presentes en el pensamiento actual que impiden el desarrollo de ciertas formas de comprensión entre las personas. El cuento que da título al libro fue convertido en un galardonado film con guión de Idries Shah, el cual fue elegido como Film Destacado del Año ( Outstanding Film of the Year). La exploración dérmica consta de una colección de extractos tomados tanto de...