Article archive / December 2022
Originally published: . Volume 13, No. 12. Source pages: 13.
Judith Stewart, PhD Psychologist, Past President FL Psychological Assn Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Incredible Journey to the World of India’s Godmen by Tahir Shah
I have a fascinating, non-fiction, fun book by the author Tahir Shah. He is descended from Afghani royalty, lived in London and his dad, Idries Shah is a premier writer of books on Sufism.
Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Incredible Journey to the World of India’s Godmen is about his desire to learn illusion, which started when the guardian of his royal relative ‘s tomb came to London, uninvited, camped at his bedroom door and began teaching him magic.. When, as an adult, he wanted further training he went to his childhood trainer’s teacher in India. He lived and learned with a premier godman under very strange circumstances. Then he toured India looking for illusionists, of which there are many. On the way he picks up an unbidden sidekick he calls the trickster. To me the whole story is magical itself and I was left with the feeling that there is more in this world than we know.
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