Idries Shah, "Wisdom of the Idiots"
English | ISBN: 1784799599 | 2018 | 178 pages | EPUB | 357 KB
English | ISBN: 1784799599 | 2018 | 178 pages | EPUB | 357 KB
In Idries Shah’s Wisdom of the Idiots, the ‘idiots’ are Sufis, called this because their wisdom penetrates to a depth which renders it inaccessible to the merely intelligent or academically-knowledgeable. The exercise-stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose.
On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological processes, and the story becomes a working blueprint of those processes.
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