THE COMMANDING SELF
Idries Shah
Octagon Press, 1994
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand the Sufi concept of the 'commanding self,' that mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding
• Learn why Sufism is considered a traditional psychology
• Learn the Sufi technique of self-observation
• Compare this technique to the behavioral technique of self-monitoring
• Learn the Sufi approach to conscious development
Idries Shah's contributions to psychology have been called 'a blueprint for the human mind' by PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. He spent 12 years studying the Eastern heritage of Sufi philosophy from original sources and contemporary Sufis and spent 12 years studying Western ideas and journeying throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and Africa. He has lectured on the relationships between scientific psychology and Eastern thought at the University of California and Geneva University, among many other educational institutions. He has authored over 27 books including KNOWING HOW TO KNOW.
13 CE credits; 332 pages
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