El pollo bobo es el sexto tItulo de esta serie premiada de historias para niNos, de Idries Shah. Este es un encantador cuento de un pollo que aprende a hablar como nosotros. Esta historia va a intrigar a los niNos pequeNos y, al mismo tiempo, va a alertarlos, de forma graciosa, sobre los peligros de ser demasiado ingenuos.
Este cuento es uno entre los centenares de cuentos Sufis de desarrollo interior recogidos por Idries Shah de fuentes orales y escritas en Asia Central y el Medio Oriente. Por mAs de mil aNos esta historia ha entretenido a los niNos y ayudado a fomentar en ellos la...

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 with Oriental Magic which appeared in the preceding year, it provided a complete survey of fundamental magical literature, and thus a comprehensive reference system for psychologists, ethnologists and others...

The 'perfuming of a scorpion', referred to by the great Sufi teacher Bahaudin, symbolizes hypocrisy and self-deception: both in the individual and in institutions.

In A Perfumed Scorpion, Idries Shah directs attention to both the perfume and the scorpion - the overlay and the reality - in psychology, human behavior and the learning process.

Crammed with illustrative anecdotes from contemporary life, the book is nevertheless rooted in the teaching patterns of Rumi, Hafiz, Jami, and many other great Oriental sages. It deals with the need for and the path to knowledge and...