Is Idries Shah "the trickster" you mention? Talk about a snarl! Trying to remind people of the deep connections between religions -- not just Christianity and Islam -- has to be the ultimate Sisyphian task since we so successfully use culturally-concocted differences to justify our human failure to be angels. To begin 2024 trying once again to understand why we have wars just loops us back to knowing each of us is at war within. I would rather remember reading Eliade early in life, pretending in my ignorance that his gentle message of transcendence was possible. I vote for the animals.
Is Idries Shah "the trickster" you mention? Talk about a snarl! Trying to remind people of the deep connections between religions -- not just Christianity and Islam -- has to be the ultimate Sisyphian task since we so successfully use culturally-concocted differences to justify our human failure to be angels. To begin 2024 trying once again to understand why we have wars just loops us back to knowing each of us is at war within. I would rather remember reading Eliade early in life, pretending in my ignorance that his gentle message of transcendence was possible. I vote for the animals.
Idries Shah is indeed he. And what his son has had to say about him since his death has only left me more puzzled than ever.