AN ADVANCED PSYCHOLOGY OF THE EAST
A lecture delivered before a live audience, plus teaching-stories and narratives selected from two of Shah's works: The Way of the Sufi and The Magic Monastery

Idries Shah, selections read by The London College of Storytellers

ISHK Audiobooks, 1996

This two-tape set contains one of the only available live lectures by Shah given before an audience in the mid-1970s. Shah talks about the correct approach the student needs to take in order to learn, as well as the characteristics that aid the student in his study of Sufism and those which are detrimental to it. He also outlines the duties, qualities, and attributes of the Sufi teacher and describes the 'Five Subtleties,' or centers of spiritual perception, the student has to experience in his development.

This set includes a recording of teaching-stories and narratives from Shah's best-selling works The Way of the Sufi and The Magic Monastery, selected and read by members of The London College of Storytellers.

People read stories and they ransack books for Sufi exercises and psychological or spiritual techniques and, then, remarkably often to our way of thinking, they set about trying to employ these things. Well, of course, it does surprise us because if I were to find a textbook on surgery, I wouldn't try to take out my own appendix, just because I'd read it and there were diagrams.
--From An Advanced Psychology of the East © 1977, 1982 by The Estate of Idries Shah

2 cassettes.