Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Friends of ISF will be sorry to hear of Dr. Jay Einhorn's death on 16th January in Chicago. As a tribute, we are reposting a piece Dr. Einhorn wrote for ISF in 2017. Someone asked me about how I became interested in the Sufi writing of Idries Shah, back in the 1970s. Here’s what [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to talk [...]
Post by Tahir Shah As children, my father would coax us to sleep at night with stories of magical kingdoms, princesses, ghouls and jinn. Seeping in through our ears, they became part of us, inspiring our own sense of imagination. I loved those tales conjured by fantasy like nothing else… well, almost nothing. For, [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to talk [...]
By Tahir Shah Do a Google search on Robert Ornstein and you’ll see right away that, as an eminent psychologist, he was a pioneering researcher into the two halves of the brain. You’ll also find that he authored and co-authored dozens of books with a wide gamut of intellectuals, and that he founded and [...]
The following is a translation into English of an article which appeared in the Culturas supplement of the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia on 20 October 2018. You can read the article in Spanish here. ‘I am a writer who is not writing. I am not sure why.’ It’s 26 January 1972. An american author [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
