Learning from Stories : A Lecture plus Teaching Stories and Narratives [Audio Cassette]

Octagon Press (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1996

A lecture by Idries Shah delivered before a live audience, plus teaching stories and narratives selected from Caravan of Dreams and the adventures of Mulla Nasrudin

In this recording Shah talks in detail and with many examples about the Sufi teaching story and its instrumental function. He emphasizes the way in which the reader might approach this vast and comprehensive body of literature to benefit best from it. Shah’s delivery is lively, witty, entertaining, and always instructive. This two-tape set includes selections from Shah’s Caravan of Dreams and from his Mulla Nasrudin corpus, read by members of The London College of Storytellers. It provides an ideal introduction to his work.

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About the Author

As the urgency of our global situation becomes apparent, more and more readers are turning to the books of Idries Shah (1924-1996) as a way to train new capacities and new ways of thinking. Shah has been described as "the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world." His lively, contemporary books have sold more than 15 million copies in 12 languages worldwide and have been awarded many prizes. They have been reviewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times, The Tribune, The Telegraph, and numerous other international journals and newspapers.

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The knowledge of the time-lag and the perception of it between the telling of a story, or the happening of an event: the realization of something and its integration into one’s own mind, and its digestion into one’s own psychology, has itself to be learnt. This is one thing which most people don’t realise. They either laugh at a gag and dispose of it, or they understand what it means: they take its moral application and, as it were, abolish it. They do not take any interest in general in this question of the digestion of the impact.
from Learning From Stories

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Hoopoe Books (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883536030
• ISBN-13: 978-1883536039
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,668,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Stories, July 23, 2001

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Brent B. Danninger (Austin TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learning from Stories : A Lecture plus Teaching Stories and Narratives (Audio Cassette)

I was fascinated by this collection of Sufi teaching stories eloquently told by the London College of Storytellers. The stories are short, entertaining and the perfect length for the car. The additional lecture by Idries Shah on the traditional use of these stories sent me back to listen to them again. The stories are not only delightfully entertaining, but much more sophisticated than they first appear. This is one of the very few books on tape that I have listened to more than once and look forward to listening to again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Genius of Higher Education, August 8, 2001

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Ben Fried (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learning from Stories : A Lecture plus Teaching Stories and Narratives (Audio Cassette)

Listening to the lectures and stories of Idries Shah is an "Acquired Taste". Once you have acquired it you will relish it till the end of your days. Penetrating psychological insights, sensitive observations, humor, fascination and above all Practical know-how in the "Science of Man" are all eloquently and humorously articulated in the lectures and the accompanying short stories. The best way to beneficially utilize your driving time.