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title: "Oriental Magic"
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# Oriental Magic

**Brand:** idries shah
**Price:** 9298 Ft
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- **What is this?** Oriental Magic by idries shah
- **How much does it cost?** 9298 Ft with free shipping
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Oriental Magic

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## Customer Reviews

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    Removing the Hocus-pocus while Deepening the Mystery of Magic
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2019*

First published over 60 years ago, Idries Shah’s Oriental Magic remains a classic. For five years Shah examined rare artifacts and obscure manuscripts, travelling to remote areas in a dozen regions where magic persists. Neither credulous or skeptical, he takes the hocus-pocus out of magical texts, beliefs & practices. Yet he deepens its mystery, maybe even its use, with some intriguing and fruitful questions. Could the startling similarity in magical belief, practice and terminology around the world hint at a single origin? Could it’s universality and persistence together with confirmed eye-witness reports point to under-recognized, extraordinary mental and physical processes worth investigating objectively? Loaded with illustrations this brand new edition is sure to intrigue a new generation of readers.

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    Writing Your Own Review
  

*by 3***8 on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2016*

One of the better comments on this book (and, I assume Shah’s The Secret Lore of Magic) is that provided by the publishers at their website[Idries Shah Foundation], presumably by Shah himself.“…..The main purpose of my books on magic was to make this material available to the general reader. For too long people believed that there were secret books, hidden places, and amazing things. They held onto this information as something to frighten themselves with. So the first purpose was information. This is the magic of East and West. That's all. There is no more. The second purpose of those books was to show that there do seem to be forces, some of which are either rationalized by this magic or may be developed from it, which do not come within customary physics or within the experience of ordinary people. I think this should be studied, that we should gather the data and analyze the phenomena. We need to separate the chemistry of magic from the alchemy, as it were.”The writer doing the reviewer’s job.  Good book

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    Fascinating early book by Idries Shah
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2016*

Oriental Magic is a relatively early work by the great Sufi writer, Idries Shah. It examines magical practices and beliefs across a wide range of cultures - Indian, Persian, Egyptian, etc  - identifying the ideas and beliefs that unite them. It's a fascinating book, especially when one considers the extraordinary variety of approaches to worship and the search for meaning by different people at different times. To me, the stand out chapter of the book is "The Fakirs and their Doctrines" which presents a very clear explanation of Sufic beliefs and practices. As always with Shah's work, the entire book leaves the reader with a lot to think about and to work with.

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