This is as close as we can get to sitting down to a Sufi Dinner Meeting, a unique educational event that’s part performance and part interaction. Shocking, often funny, peppered with uncommon common sense, this far-reaching little book can actually prepare you to learn faster and more surely. Topics include Eastern cults, what is missing, what prevents learning, unknown capacities and much more. Highly recommended.
It would be easy to dismiss this short book as a mere pamphlet, but it is concentrated, seminal Shah – an integral part of his work and very relevant to today's world.
There is a notable explanation of how telepathy is a constant human experience and why it appears to be entirely absent or manifests in an insignificant way in this brief yet comprehensive work.
'Two Sufis were agreeing that almost the whole of human life was a struggle between nature and discipline, and how there had to be a third course, directed study, which avoided either while allowing both to operate.' Opening sentence of Nature and Discipline. ALL the accounts/narratives in this booklet punch holes in our assumptions: show something that helps us to become more aware. There is a new edition. See Idries Shah Foundation.
'Two Sufis were agreeing that almost the whole of human life was a struggle between nature and discipline, and how there had to be a third course, directed study, which avoided either while allowing both to operate.' Opening sentence of Nature and Discipline. ALL the accounts/narratives in this booklet punch holes in our assumptions; show us something that might help us to become more aware.
Their simply is no other book like "Evenings with Idries Shah". You would have to read it for yourself to see why it is a 5 star book, you will not regret it.