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ISBN 10: 1784791628 ISBN 13: 9781784791629
Editorial: ISF Publishing, 2019

Sinopsis

‘The Commanding Self’ is the Sufi technical term for the false personality, that mixture of survival reflexes and conditioned responses, common to all of us, which inhibit and distort human progress and understanding.

Idries Shah’s The Commanding Self is a collection of tales, anecdotes, letters, lectures, and question-and-answer sessions that highlight one of the fundamental barriers in the Sufi developmental process: the false self. 

Upon the book’s publication, Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing described this false personality as also “made up of what a culture puts into a person--parents, schools, the zeitgeist.”

Shah states that in genuine mystical traditions there is no intention of destroying or undermining the Commanding Self. Instead, would-be students are encouraged to “divert vanity from the spiritual arena ... to channel the Commanding Self’s activities to any worldly ambition: while continuing to study the Sufi Way in a modest and non-self-promoting manner”.

The Commanding Self enables readers to observe the functioning of their own emotional and conditioned responses. The book was described by Shah as the key to understanding his entire corpus of work.

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ISF Publishing
Año de publicación
2019
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1784791628
ISBN 13 
9781784791629
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9780863040702: The Commanding Self

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ISBN 10:  0863040705 ISBN 13:  9780863040702
Editorial: Octagon Press Ltd, 1997
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