Learning from Stories : A Lecture plus Teaching Stories and Narratives

A lecture by Idries Shah delivered before a live audience, plus teaching stories and narratives selected from Caravan of Dreams and the adventures of Mulla Nasrudin

In this recording Shah talks in detail and with many examples about the Sufi teaching story and its instrumental function. He emphasizes the way in which the reader might approach this vast and comprehensive body of literature to benefit best from it. Shah’s delivery is lively, witty, entertaining, and always instructive. This two-tape set includes selections from Shah’s Caravan of Dreams and from his Mulla Nasrudin corpus, read by members of The London College of Storytellers. It provides an ideal introduction to his work.