The Mirror That Contains the World
The Lost Wisdom of Baba Afzal — The Persian Philosopher Who Found God Inside the Human SoulBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 11m
About this audiobook
You have been a stranger to yourself your entire life. This book is the way home.
Eight hundred years ago in central Persia, philosopher Baba Afzal Kashani wrote a revolutionary truth: the self you search for was never lost. Working in Persian rather than Arabic, he rejected royal courts for a mountain village, writing philosophy as poetry to answer one question: Who are you, really?
The Mirror That Contains the World is a narrative biography of his life and astonishing philosophy of the self.
• Discover why medieval philosophers saw the self as a doorway, not a problem
• Meet the four-fold human architecture—beast, demon, angel, and human
• Find an answer to the question you have carried since you were old enough to ask
This is a book for anyone who has studied themselves and remained a stranger.
The mirror is in your hands. Turn to the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Psychology
Length9 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Prologue
41. The City of Artisans
52. The Age of Giants
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63. The Question That Ate Everything
74. The Village at the Edge of the Desert
85. Writing in the Mother Tongue
96. The Quatrain as Weapon
107. The Sorcerer
118. The Mirror
129. The Aristotle Problem
1310. You Are the Universe Knowing Itself
1411. Demon, Beast, Angel, Human
1512. The Lower Self
1613. The Neoplatonist in the Desert
1714. When I Awake, All That Remains Is He
1815. The Students
1916. The Last Teachings
2017. The Death of a Philosopher
2118. Eight Hundred Years of Forgetting
2219. The Mirror in the Modern World
2320. Return to Maraq
24Epilogue
2521. Author's Note
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