Literary Review wrote that Seeker After Truth was ‘food for many different kinds of study – a book unlike anything our own society has produced until recently, in its richness, its unexpectedness, its capacity to shock us into seeing ourselves as others see us, both personally and as a society.’

Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, in their book New World New Mind, recommend Seeker After Truth and other books by Idries Shah ‘... for the beginnings of a short course on changing your mind’.