The Commanding Self - Softcover

Shah, Idries

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784791652 ISBN 13: 9781784791650

Verlag: ISF Publishing, 2020

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AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION

‘The Commanding Self’ is the Sufi technical term for the false personality, that mixture of survival reflexes and conditioned responses, common to all of us, which inhibit and distort human progress and understanding.

Idries Shah’s The Commanding Self is a collection of tales, anecdotes, letters, lectures, and question-and-answer sessions that highlight one of the fundamental barriers in the Sufi developmental process: the false self. 

Upon the book’s publication, Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing described this false personality as also “made up of what a culture puts into a person--parents, schools, the zeitgeist.”

Shah states that in genuine mystical traditions there is no intention of destroying or undermining the Commanding Self. Instead, would-be students are encouraged to “divert vanity from the spiritual arena ... to channel the Commanding Self’s activities to any worldly ambition: while continuing to study the Sufi Way in a modest and non-self-promoting manner”.

The Commanding Self enables readers to observe the functioning of their own emotional and conditioned responses. The book was described by Shah as the key to understanding his entire corpus of work.

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Idries Shah spent much of his life collecting and publishing Sufi classical narratives and teaching stories from oral and written sources in the Middle East and Central Asia. The tales he retold especially for children are published by Hoopoe Books in beautifully illustrated editions and have been widely commended - by Western educators and psychologists, the U.S. Library of Congress, National Public Radio and other media - for their unique ability to foster social-emotional development, thinking skills and perception in children and adults alike. Told for centuries, these stories express universal themes from the cultures that produced them, showing how much we have in common and can learn from each other. As noted by reviewers, such stories are more than just entertaining; familiarity with them provokes flexibility of thought, since each one contains levels of meaning that unfold in accordance with an individual's experience and understanding.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ISF Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784791652
• ISBN 13: 9781784791650
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398
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