Sufismo e terapia

This is not a kind of mystical cookbook containing various recipes designed to provide a Sufic cure for earache, nosebleed or piles. Such books do exist, and their degree of usefulness is doubtful, to say the least, even if there is a perfect equation in such literature between the greed of the reader and the intention of the author. What is involved here is something simple: a way of dealing with what can be called a "common intent to cure" even if its application can be highly sophisticated.As Omar Ali-Shah says in this book: "The Sufi Tradition contains techniques, energies and applications of therapy, but the Tradition itself is not a therapy." Since the aim of the Sufi Tradition is to provide an individual with the means to effect a transformation of the self at the highest possible level of the spirit, its objective cannot be limited to the relief of suffering and illness, even if many of the actions, exercises and concepts of the Tradition can be mobilized towards such applications. In this book we see a kind of dialogue working itself out between a contemporary Sufi teacher and a number of professional therapists who are seeking to reinforce their fragile time-based scientific disciplines with away of knowledge and wisdom that has existed in many different guises from the dawn of man. Omar Ali-Shah's words here are concrete, practical and also analogical; even repetitions in this book throw light on the way a preconceived attitude or conditioning can lead people into imbalance and illness. But the author puts it very clearly: illness is a distortion, not an inevitable state; every person secretes some form of self-improvement and the job of the therapist is to connect the patient's own energy to his science. The enemy can be overcome.Of Afghan and Scots descent, the Said Omar Ali-Shah comes from a family that has been engaged in making the Sufi Tradition available to man- kind for many generations. A descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, he has chosen to work and teach in the West. He was born in 1922, is the son of theSufi author the Sirdar Ikbal Au-Shah and the elder brother of the writer and Sufi, Idries Shah. He resides in Britain. Read more