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  • The Way and Its Power
    Lao Tzu / Laozi / Arthur Waley
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    15,69 €

  • The Secret Lore of Magic
    Idries Shah
    First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated.The book's title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before. Together wit...
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    11,43 €

  • The Secret Lore of Magic
    Idries Shah
    First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated.The book's title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before. Together wit...
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    12,46 €

  • Thinkers of the East
    Idries Shah
    Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and ‘parables in action’ illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers.Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, this material stresses the experimental rather than the theoretical – and it is that characteristic of Sufi study which provides its impact ...
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    12,16 €

  • Thinkers of the East
    Idries Shah
    Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and 'parables in action' illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers. Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, this material stresses the experimental rather than the theoretical - and it is that characteristic of Sufi study which provides it...
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    12,16 €

  • The Origins of Religious Violence
    Nicholas F. Gier / Nicholas FGier
    A scholar of world religions investigates religiously motivated violence that occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan, as well as in modern India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Japan. The fusion of religious and national identity in high lamas and divine kings has caused just as much violence in Asia as it did in Europe and the Middle East. ...
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    66,49 €

  • Cosmic Quintuplications
    Babaji Bob Kindler
    The Cosmic Quintuplication system, or Panchakarana, describes the unique process by which manifesting consciousness takes on form or, put another way, how the embodying soul takes on matter by inserting itself into forms or vehicles of its choosing. Cosmic Quintuplication, a system of cosmology revealed to India’s ancient seers, offers a cogent explanation of how the soul reac...
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    12,20 €

  • Destination Mecca
    Idries Shah
    ‘What was I? ‘A writer, a traveller – and an outlaw in a sense.’Idries Shah wrote this book before he became Idries Shah. It’s an adventure within an adventure.On one level it’s an immensely engaging collection of traveller’s tales. Whether stowing away on a smugglers’ ship or having an audience with a king, it’s a pleasure to spend time with Shah. On another level, you’ll see ...
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    12,00 €

  • The Flying Phoenix
    Daniel L. Overmyer / Daniel LOvermyer / David K. Jordan / David KJordan
    Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix' writing implement.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand tec...
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    200,36 €

  • Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276
    Valerie Hansen
    In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the economy rapidly developed, the gods,...
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    149,58 €

  • Destination Mecca
    Idries Shah
    ‘What was I? ‘A writer, a traveller – and an outlaw in a sense.’Idries Shah wrote this book before he became Idries Shah. It’s an adventure within an adventure.On one level it’s an immensely engaging collection of traveller’s tales. Whether stowing away on a smugglers’ ship or having an audience with a king, it’s a pleasure to spend time with Shah. On another level, you’ll see ...
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    12,00 €

  • Facets of Qing Daoism
    Monica Esposito
    As China is rapidly reemerging as the world’s dominant economic powerhouse that it had been until the mid-eighteenth century, interest in its religions and philosophies is on the rise. Just as the history and culture of Western civilizations can hardly be grasped without a measure of knowledge about Christianity, an understanding of Chinese civilization and its history seems im...
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    38,63 €

  • The Anthropology of Eastern Religions
    Murray J. Leaf / Murray JLeaf
    Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building i...
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    60,01 €

  • The Elephant in the Dark
    Idries Shah
    In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant. Taking hold of a different part - an ear, a leg, the tail - each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness, each of the men became convinced that the elephant was the object he himself had felt - a fan, a rope, a pillar - and so on. With this ancient fable, first described by the Sufi Mas...
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    6,01 €

  • The Elephant in the Dark
    Idries Shah
    In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant. Taking hold of a different part - an ear, a leg, the tail - each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness, each of the men became convinced that the elephant was the object he himself had felt - a fan, a rope, a pillar - and so on. With this ancient fable, first described by the Sufi Mas...
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    6,01 €

  • Nectar of Non-Dual Truth #31
    Babaji Bob Kindler / Bruno Barnhart / Rami Shapiro
    Nectar of Non-Dual Truth, A Journal of Universal Religious and Philosophical Teachings is an annual publication that contains articles on the philosophy and spirituality of Vedanta and other religious traditions by authentic practitioners. This issue contains articles on Advaita Vedanta, Nondual Christianity, Zen Buddhism, Physics & Vedanta, and selected spiritual practices of ...
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    12,70 €

  • The Dermis Probe
    Idries Shah
    A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers. In his prefa...
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    8,21 €

  • The Dermis Probe
    Idries Shah
    A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers. In his prefa...
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    8,21 €

  • Oriental Magic
    Idries Shah
    Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan. Profusely illustrated, the book is the product of years of research and field-work in a dozen different cultural regions. Its scholarly accuracy and genuine contribution to cultural understanding have made it a key text for anyone interested ...
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    10,70 €

  • Oriental Magic
    Idries Shah
    Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan. Profusely illustrated, the book is the product of years of research and field-work in a dozen different cultural regions. Its scholarly accuracy and genuine contribution to cultural understanding have made it a key text for anyone interested ...
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    10,70 €

  • Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
    Roel Sterckx
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    38,22 €

  • Wisdom of the Idiots
    Idries Shah
    In Idries Shah's Wisdom of the Idiots, the 'idiots' are Sufis, called this because their wisdom penetrates to a depth which renders it inaccessible to the merely intelligent or academically-knowledgeable. The exercise-stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose. On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological process...
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    8,13 €

  • Wisdom of the Idiots
    Idries Shah
    In Idries Shah's Wisdom of the Idiots, the 'idiots' are Sufis, called this because their wisdom penetrates to a depth which renders it inaccessible to the merely intelligent or academically-knowledgeable. The exercise-stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose. On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological process...
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    7,46 €

  • The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
    Idries Shah
    The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read by children, by scientists and scholars, and by followers of philosophy. Idries Shah assembled this collection of Nasrudin's trials and tribulations from ancient manuscripts and oral literature, from sources in North Africa and Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Man...
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    8,22 €

  • The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin
    Idries Shah
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    8,22 €

  • The Way of the Sufi
    Idries Shah
    The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study.The author begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject.He considers various attitudes to Sufi ideas, and evidence of their absorption into medieval Christiani...
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    13,57 €

  • The Way of the Sufi
    Idries Shah
    The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study. The author begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject. He considers various attitudes to Sufi ideas, and evidence of their absorption into medieval Christia...
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    13,57 €

  • Pure Devotion
    The Mindful Word
    Hanuman, the monkey deity known as the embodiment of pure devotion in Hinduism, is shown on the cover along with Rama and Sita.This journal features:108 lined pages (54 sheets)6 x 9 inches60 pound (90 gsm) white-colored paperPerfect bound matte softcover (10 pt stock)Ten percent of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes towards enabling youth in developing countries to ac...
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    7,32 €

  • The Sufis
    Idries Shah
    What is Sufism?The book follows the Sufi principle of ‘scatter’ in answering this unanswerable question.It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition.Instead, it throws out ideas.Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.Neither emotionalist nor academic, this book offers the closest thing a written work can to an ...
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    14,94 €

  • Reflections
    Idries Shah
    Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. As the book's foreword states, 'Do you imagine that fables exist only to...
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    6,76 €


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