{"product_id":"the-watching-words-peter-kingsley-9781919533209","title":"The Watching Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone tempted to read this book ought to be warned. It opens the door to reality -- and to the very essence of religion. But it takes everything away from the reader and leaves nothing behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Watching Words\u003c\/em\u003e is seemingly about many different things: the meaning of education, the dangers of imitation, the purpose of alchemy, the true roots of Sufism, the depths of eternity. It spans huge stretches of time and space, from the ancient Greeks to medieval Islam and down to the present day; from Asia to Europe and Africa, then back again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt honors the wise: Pythagoras and Socrates, Empedocles, Parmenides and Heraclitus, Aeschylus and Solon, Dhu'l-Nun and Suhrawardi. And it exposes those who think they are wiser than the wise for the fools they are -- whether famous philosophers and spiritual teachers or scholars and seekers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut beneath these themes, names, places is the one story of human unconsciousness in all its absurdity always trying to find a greater reality and never discovering how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor everybody wanting something to hold onto, inspiring ideas and reassuring guidance, even more knowledge to gobble up and even more wisdom to imagine is their own, this is a book to run as far away from as they can. But for everyone sick to death of their own superficiality and fakery, their constant compromises and cowardice, \u003cem\u003eThe Watching Words\u003c\/em\u003e may be all they need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Kingsley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919533206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919533209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catafalque Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Peter Kingsley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997879873791,"sku":"9781919533209","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-watching-words-peter-kingsley-9781919533209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}