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Un grupo de hombres intenta examinar un elefante en una habitación oscura.
Agarrando diferentes partes - una oreja, una pierna, la cola - cada uno de ellos confunde la parte que está tocando con la totalidad… y se convence de que el elefante es un abanico o una cuerda o un pilar, etcétera.
Con esta fábula del gigante Sufi Jalaluddin Rumi, la cual tiene más de setecientos años de antigüedad, Idries Shah presenta el punto de vista Sufi de que la cristianismo y el islam surgen a partir de un mismo origen esencial.
Basado en sus famosas charlas en la Universidad de Ginebra, este libro deslumbra por la amplitud de su erudición y la profundidad de sus ideas.
En un mundo dividido por las diferencias culturales y religiosas, El elefante en la oscuridad nos ofrece nuevas ideas, esperanza y la habilidad para mirar de un modo novedoso aquello que ya creemos saber.
About the author
Idries Shah spent much of his life collecting and publishing Sufi classical narratives and teaching stories from oral and written sources in the Middle East and Central Asia. The tales he retold especially for children are published by Hoopoe Books in beautifully illustrated editions and have been widely commended - by Western educators and psychologists, the U.S. Library of Congress, National Public Radio and other media - for their unique ability to foster social-emotional development, thinking skills and perception in children and adults alike. Told for centuries, these stories express universal themes from the cultures that produced them, showing how much we have in common and can learn from each other. As noted by reviewers, such stories are more than just entertaining; familiarity with them provokes flexibility of thought, since each one contains levels of meaning that unfold in accordance with an individual's experience and understanding.
