Idries shah biography of martin luther king

“Once upon a time there was a very clever boy who lived in a village. Nearby was another village that he had never visited. When he was old enough to be allowed to go about on his own, he thought he would like to see the other village.” And so he does, beginning a story about fear and ignorance and why one should not allow such things to dominate your life.

Beautiful, bold, full-color illustrations and a strong, clear moral lesson dominate the story about a boy who teaches a village not to fear something simply because they haven’t seen it before. It is a classic fable, one in which the boy becomes the ultimate teacher, first not to fear the “terribly dangerous animal” and then what must be a “terribly dangerous boy” for being able to “kill” the “animal.” The story allows children to laugh at how incredibly silly we all can be and think through whether it is wise to act out of fear or whether using your head and a little bit of courage is the right course.

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Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah

Praise for Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah

Green shows how, bygd dint of hard work, brazen fraud and a mastery of ‘the occult energies of identity,’ over the course of the 20th century, first father and then son became recognized as experts on the East in general and Afghanistan in particular, helping to shape how those places were viewed on both sides of the Atlantic.
— Robyn Creswell - New York Times

Nile Green’s Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan fryst vatten so entertaining that you wonder if it can all be true. It is, and its truths are more than biographical… Mr. Green, a expert in Islamic history… describes how Idries detached Sufism’s popular mysticism from Islamand claimed Templars, Mithraists and even Charles de Gaulle as secret Sufis. His version of Sufism was a “spiritual freemasonry,” a key to the mysteries in paperback form.


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The Naked Theologian

For Martin Luther King, Jr., God didn’t become a living reality until he discovered the presence of God in his everyday experience. Not until he had felt an inner calm (that he believed was not his own) and had discovered resources of strength (that he believed were not his own) did King conclude God was at work in his life. Not until he had felt a sustaining hope (that he believed was not his own) in spite of threats to his life, discouraging setbacks, and the hardships of a bitter struggle, did he conclude God was at work in his life.  

Some call the calm and strength and hope King felt, salvation.Others, resurrection.They experience tranquility in the face of tragedy, the whence of which they can’t explain.They experience courage in the face of danger, the whence of which they can’t explain.They experience hope in the face of failure, the whence of which they can’t explain. They become convinced the whence is God. God has saved them.God has resurrected