by Aubrey Davis | Jul 10, 2020 | Book News, Human Nature, Nasrudin, Reviews
NASRUDIN’S upside down world is filled with fanatics, bigots, idiots, hypocrites, incompetents, innocents and thieves. It is a world of foible, folly and most importantly humour. It reveals the good sense and wisdom of Eastern cultures that we stereotype and assume we...
by Aubrey Davis | Jun 8, 2020 | Book News, Human Nature, Reviews
Knowing how to Know shines light on “eastern” traditional and “western” scientific concepts unfamiliar or misunderstood in our culture. Best read with an open mind, it’s loaded with clear thinking; common and uncommon sense. It presents a rare opportunity to observe...
by Aubrey Davis | Jan 8, 2016 | Human Nature, Nasrudin
Review: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin By Idries Shah As a child both the Bible and Mad Magazine shook me up. Both moved me to reflect on my life, my world and beyond. When I read Idries Shah’s The Sufis as an adult, I met an outlandish character...
by Aubrey Davis | Dec 16, 2015 | Human Nature
This book is filled with surprises for thoughtful, adventurous readers who value questioning their assumptions about people and society. It helped me begin to see the perfume and the scorpion: the overlay and reality; the hypocrisy and self-deception in ourselves and...
by Aubrey Davis | Oct 7, 2012 | Human Nature
THE HUMAN JOURNEY About 100,000 years ago modern humans appeared in East Africa and the Middle East. Research in genetics, evolutionary biology, anthropology, linguistics and history help us follow the major routes taken by modern humans in their expansion from these...
