Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way (Arkana)
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way (Arkana)
by Idries Shah
Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way (Arkana)
By Idries Shah
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Pages: 302
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0140195130
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780140195132
Binding: Paperback
“Learning How to Learn” contains the authentic material from the Sufi standpoint, written in response to more than 70,000 questions prompted by Shah’s books, his university lectures and radio and television programs. He answers government leaders, housewives, philosophy professors and factory workers around the world, on the subjects of how traditional psychology can illuminate current human, social and spiritual problems.
The lively question-answer format provides readers a direct experience of a Sufi learning situation. More than a hundred tales and extracts - ranging from Eastern parables of Jesus, the ancient Sufi classics such as Omar Khayyam, the Mulla Nasrudin teaching-figure, to today’s newspapers and contemporary encounters with teachers and students - are woven into Shah’s narratives of how and why the Sufis learn, what they learn, and how spiritual understanding develops and deteriorates in all societies.
Many of the concepts which Shah has introduced - including the vital role of the right time, place and company of higher studies, the very concept of ‘learning how to learn’ and the instrumental, specialized function of ordinarily automatically performed exercises and rituals - have recently been widely copied by serious psychologists and gurus alike. This book contains the authentic material, however, on these and dozens of other subjects.
Summary: very reccomended !! open your mind
Rating: 5
this book was reccomended to me by a good freind and as he said it contains a new point of view of life and how we sould look as it.
a truely must have book
Summary: Looking to form a critic review group on Idries Shah’s and related works?
Rating: 5
Although it’s been nearly 4 years since having read this book, I cannot get it out of my mind & heart. I am looking for the opportunity to network with people - mainly with regard to Idries Shah’s works and possibly other related interests. (…)
Nathan
Summary: Let’s face it
Rating: 1
How long are we going to delude ourselves with that kind of message ? From the very beginning of the book a doubtful story about rabbis let us in the tune with what we’ll have to accept if we are to get the “master”’s approval. Of course each and every of our suffering is supposed to be a proof of our “foolishness”. So if you follow this reasoning : every one who’s suffering does deserve it. Killed children deserve it ? Raped women deserved it ? Humiliated, exploited, tortured men DESERVE IT ? The answer is yours.
Summary: compassionate conspiracy of awakening for somnambulists
Rating: 5
no need to repeat other reviewers…and no need to listen to the nay-sayers who cry charlatan…(?)(how odd)…(what would they think of bob dobbs?)…anyways, i suggest someone read and or take further the thesis whispered in the Octagon Press release (early 1980’s) of The People of the Secret. one last note: sufism, like wicca, does no missionary work exactly: it works by deed, action. watch. then watch yourself. sufism transcends and weaves. it is wonderful within Islam. and it is just as bright if not brighter outside of the hadith-fundamentalist limitations of Islam…i dare suggest one can read Shah along with Hakim Bey/Peter L. Wilson as well as Starhawk…various, creative “Directorate” bubblings on the surface of current poly-culture.
Summary: Revealing much about our ’self’
Rating: 5
“If you are uninterested in what I say, there’s an end to it.
If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it.
If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why.
If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?” - The Late Idries Shah.
IMO, genuine seekers after Truth needn’t be swayed by these (negative/positive) appeals to colorization of the Shah Corpus. Sometimes the glowing reviews of Shah’s work are as completely off the mark as the dimming ones.
According to an old saying “Those who taste know.” I’d really suggest you read this title to find out for yourself, and should you find the need, please reserve your judgements until you’ve managed to discuss your assesments with a living, authentic Sufi teacher.
As for my own assesment: This title kindly exemplifies how unexamined assumptions, and unbalanced interpretations, lead toward unhealthy attitudes and cognitive disabilities that so many people are actually “self-inflicting”. And, as with many of Sufi writings, I discovered many topics making better sense at later times, when the notions “get unpacked” under different circumstances.
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