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The Idries Shah Podcast | Practical Psychology for Today

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Sufism and the Sufi Tradition

The assertion by the sufi that he has not only travelled this way before, but therefore knows best is not negotiable. For students, almost by definition, display the tendencies of ignorance, obsession and lower level amusements in their attempts to analyze him. So although the present interest in sufi work of the past is welcome, the only thing which can be said in answer to the attempt to relate it to the present is: The tradition and methodology is alive well. Iii, taaiingiga tink.

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