Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers (Sufi research series)
IN THE WORLD, NOT OF ITThe members of all communities, including nations and whole civilizations, are infused with the prevailing ideologies of those communities. These, in turn, create attitudes of mind, which include certain capacities and equally positively exclude others.The ideologies may be so ancient, so deep-seated or so subtle that they are not identified as such by the people at large. In this case they are often discerned only through a method of challenging them, asking questions about them or by comparing them with other communities.Such challenge, description or questioning, often the questioning of assumptions, is what frequently enables a culture or a number of people from that culture to think in ways that have been closed to most of their fellows.Copyright © 1990.  Octagon Press.  All rights reserved