Idries Shah
21) 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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First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated. The book's title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before. Together with Oriental Magic which appeared in the preceding year, it provided a complete...
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Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe them. The material in Tales of the Dervishes is the result of a thousand...
24) Destino La Meca
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Publicado por primera vez en 1957, Destino La Meca es tanto un ambicioso diario de viaje como también un trabajo de investigación etnográfica y cultural. Shah documenta un amplio rango de viajes fascinantes: su expedición tras las minas de oro del Rey Salomón en las costas del mar Rojo en Sudán, sus encuentros en caravasares del desierto y estadías con contrabandistas del Mediterráneo, y el tiempo que pasó como invitado personal del anciano...
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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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A 'Veiled Gazelle', as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ of higher perception. Sufi experientialists refer to the activation of these centres of awareness as the awakening of real knowledge of Truth beyond form.
A Veiled Gazelle considers the symbolic and instrumental employment of its literature in Sufi studies. Seldom didactic, and never meant only as entertainment, such works are regarded...
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Anteriormente publicados solo como ensayos separados, Pensamiento y acción Sufi - recopilado y prologado por Idries Shah - cubre una extraordinaria diversidad de ideas y actividades Sufis en muchos países y culturas.
En el volumen se incluyen documentos sobre principios y métodos de aprendizaje Sufis; ritual, iniciación y secretos en círculos Sufis; y conceptos clave en la comprensión Sufi.
El libro se presenta como un manual claro y simple...
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A treasure house of teaching materials, assembled in the Sufi manner.
Seeker after Truth contains both traditional tales and stories gleaned from contemporary sources, and snippets of table talk, discussions and teachings, letters and lectures by Idries Shah.
Taken together, it constitutes a handbook of materials designed to provoke a different kind of thought.
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Many countries claim Nasrudin as a native, although few have gone so far as Turkey in exhibiting a 'grave' of the wisest fool who ever lived, and holding an annual Nasrudin Festival. He is the greatest, most intriguing, character of folklore found in any Eastern land. Versions of his back-to-front thinking can be found in Morocco, Egypt and Russia, in Turkey, Greece, Albania and Afghanistan. Since Idries Shah made Nasrudin's genius available to mainstream...
30) Reflexiones
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PequeÃo pero impactante, Reflexiones de Idries Shah es una colecciÃn de fábulas, aforismos y afirmaciones que desafìan a la mente condicionada.
El libro confronta al lector con perspectivas e ideas inusuales, en un intento de liberar la mente para ver las cosas como realmente son.
El prefacio dice: "¿Imaginas que las fábulas existen solamente para divertir o instruir, y que están basadas en ficciones? Las mejores son trazos de lo...
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Utilizado durante más de setecientos años como cuento-enseñante, El libro del libro es uno de los textos más asombrosos y fascinantes que jamás hayan emergido de Oriente. Su premisa central es la simple frase: "Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento".
Cuando el libro apareció por primera vez en ingls hace treinta y cinco años, sus editores cuestionaron cómo eso podía ser un libro,...
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Traditionally known as The Hundred Tales of Wisdom, this collection comprises excerpts from the life, teachings and miracles of the Sufi teacher Jalaluddin Rumi, together with certain important stories from his works.
As well as being part of the bedrock of classical Persian literature, these tales, anecdotes and narratives are believed, by Sufis, to aid in the development of insights beyond ordinary perceptions. Here, they are translated and presented...
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Un grupo de hombres intenta examinar un elefante en una habitacià³n oscura.
Agarrando diferentes partes – una oreja, una pierna, la cola – cada uno de ellos confunde la parte que està¡ tocando con la totalidad... y se convence de que el elefante es un abanico o una cuerda o un pilar, etcà©tera.
Con esta fà¡bula del gigante Sufi Jalaluddin Rumi, la cual tiene mà¡s de setecientos aà±os de antigà¼edad, Idries Shah presenta el punto...
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The Commanding Self, in Sufic terminology, is that mixture of the primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding.
This book was described by Shah as the key to understanding his entire corpus of work. While complete in itself as an anthology of hitherto unpublished work, it serves to illustrate and amplify Idries Shah's preceding books on the Sufi Way.
In its introduction, he...
35) Los Sufis
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Cuando apareció por primera vez en 1964, Los Sufis fue acogido como la obra decisiva sobre la materia. Rico en su alcance, explica por primera vez a un público occidental las tradiciones y la filosofía de los Sufis de un modo claro y didáctico.
Durante las cinco décadas posteriores a su lanzamiento, el libro fue traducido a una docena de idiomas y ha encontrado una amplia variedad de lectores tanto en Oriente como Occidente. Es utilizado como...
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Special Illumination is a term used by the great poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi to stress the importance of humor in metaphysical experience.
Of it, Idries Shah says, Rumi directly contradicts such numerous sour-faced religionists as, in all persuasions, find that humor disturbs the indoctrination which is all that they usually have to offer.
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Caravana de sueños condensa la esencia del pensamiento oriental a través de un banquete de cuentos, dichos, poemas y alegorías, recopilado por uno de los más destacados expertos en filosofía oriental. Idries Shah construye una imagen completa de una consciencia única, relacionando la mitología con la realidad, iluminando patrones y diseños históricos, y presentando leyendas filosóficas en esta antología excepcional.
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First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural research. Shah documents a wide range of fascinating journeys, from his quest for the gold mines of King Solomon on Sudan's Red Sea Coast, to encounters in desert caravanserais and sojourns with Mediterranean contraband smugglers, to his time as a personal guest of the elderly King Ibn Saud. As readable now as it was when first published,...
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Special Illumination is a term used by the great poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi to stress the importance of humor in metaphysical experience.
Of it, Idries Shah says, 'Rumi directly contradicts such numerous sour-faced religionists as, in all persuasions, find that humor disturbs the indoctrination which is all that they usually have to offer.'
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Contemporary esoteric systems almost always play on the desire of mankind to seek or acquire knowledge. All but universally neglected in such systems are the - often unrecognized - barriers which prevent knowledge and understanding.
Before learning can take place, certain conditions and basic factors must be in place; in the individual or the group.
Building on the foundations laid in Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self, Idries Shah...