Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), Last week I drew your attention to one of many, ‘Teaching Stories’. This week I bring to your attention yet another teaching story which is extracted from an interesting and thought provoking work, ‘The Idries Shah Anthology.’ The Happiest Man in the World A Man who was living →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), Last week I drew your attention to, ‘Teaching Stories’, what they are and what is their utility. This week let me bring to your attention a teaching story which is extracted from an interesting and thought provoking work, by Idries Shah, ‘The Idries Shah Anthology.’ The High Cost →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking & an important work, by Dr. Robert Ornstein & Sally Ornstein. Robert Ornstein was a noted psychologist and a leading expert on the brain. Founder and president of the Institute for the Study →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) today we look at yet another aspect of our personalities commanding self, highlighted through this tale. “The Commanding Self” here points to the “mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding”. Written in response to requests for “clarification, interviews, →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week let me bring to your attention a story from a series of illustrated books for young people, ‘The Boy without A Name’ by Idries Shah. Among the many insights that this story introduces to children is the idea that it takes patience and resolve to achieve →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking & an important work, by Dr. Robert Ornstein & Sally Ornstein. Robert Ornstein was a noted psychologist and a leading expert on the brain. Founder and president of the Institute for the Study →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking & an important work, by Dr. Robert Ornstein & Sally Ornstein. Robert Ornstein was a noted psychologist and a leading expert on the brain. Founder and president of the Institute for the Study →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) today we look at one of the aspects of our personalities commanding self, highlighted via this fact pointed by the author, Idries Shah. “The Commanding Self” here points to the “mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding”. Written →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week again let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking work, ‘The Psychology of Consciousness’, by Dr. Robert Ornstein. Excerpt We Are, Literally, in a Race with Ourselves We are now biologically obsolete, as we evolved to suit the conditions of a →
Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week again let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking work, ‘Knowing How to Know’, by Idries Shah. In this work the author draws our attention to concealed patterns, normally invisible to our customary modes of thought. Excerpt: The Wise Man ‘Wise’ →