Idries Shah
Paperback | Pages: 346 pages Rating: 4.59 | 44 Users | 9 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Darkest England |
| ISBN: | 0863040756 (ISBN13: 9780863040757) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Baffled at first, then a farthing or two dropped. More to Darkest England than explaining the English to themselves or explaining how we might become English; an art we seem to have forgotten.Chapter Thirty Page 281. Heisenberg Wasn't so Original... Quotes from page 287.
'This supposed madness is never more in evidence than when the English are imparting information by the method-without-a-system-which to outsiders- is positively oriental, even metaphysical, in texture.'
'.......Perhaps to describe this Shakespeare uses the word multipotent: Having the power to do many things. To get closer to the truth we would have to invoke another English word, omniform, a sort of opposite of uniform, and signifying 'capable of every form.'
Reading between the lines is fun in this book. Some of the lines seem to refer to how 'Men of Wisdom' may operate.
Something for England to emulate.
Can't wait to re-read the other two books in the Trilogy. The Natives Are Restless and The Englishman's Handbook. Read as a whole, one suspects pointers to the future that is now the present, and how to deal with that future.
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| Title | : | Darkest England |
| Author | : | Idries Shah |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 346 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1999 by Octagon Press, Limited (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Religion. Islam |
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Idries Shah (Persian: ادریس شاه), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي), was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.Born in India, the descendant of a family of Afghan nobles, Shah grew up mainly in England. HisOutsiders view of English people and the land.
The first of Shah's anthropological trilogy regarding the English. In it he addresses our strengths and our faults, as individuals and as a culture, but in such a humorous way that it's easy to forget that it underlines a number of salient and significant points that are worth noting. For me it was unusual to hear a 'foreigner' explain that while the English can appear to be 'humorously harsh' toward outsiders, it's actually a meme that we mercilessly practice on each other.
Shah gives England the Occidental analysis its disciplines of sociology, cultural anthropology, and psychology hang on the east, the Orientals. Hence the name, Darkest England to describe the strange practices of the Angles and what's left of the Brits.
Very funny
Baffled at first, then a farthing or two dropped. More to Darkest England than explaining the English to themselves or explaining how we might become English; an art we seem to have forgotten.Chapter Thirty Page 281. Heisenberg Wasn't so Original... Quotes from page 287. 'This supposed madness is never more in evidence than when the English are imparting information by the method-without-a-system-which to outsiders- is positively oriental, even metaphysical, in texture.''.......Perhaps to
An absorbing book that certainly comes through on its promise to consider England in the way it suggests the English mind works: "To understand the problem, let alone any of the answers, you have to let your mind run free, range over the whole of the horizon, seek and find hints and glimpses here, there, and everywhere", then sift the grains of evidence you collect before testing them out.It was also interesting to see how much has changed since the book was first published in 1987 - I can't
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