Talk:Wisdom of the Idiots

"Have an impact on" -> "Influence"

In Wisdom of the Idiots, Ewen changed:

-- Wisdom of the Idiots is a book of Sufi teaching stories designed to have an impact on the reader using traditional Sufi psychology to

-- Wisdom of the Idiots is a book of Sufi teaching stories designed to influence the reader using traditional Sufi psychology.

If you read Shah's books on Sufi mysticism, you will see that the word "impact", "strike", or even "a constellation of impacts" is deliberately and advisedly used on numerous occasions. This is not an intellectual thing, it is provocative, a psychic "shock" to the system, and is not at all the same as the much blunter and less accurate word "influence". This is a technical subject with its own vocabulary, and these are said to be books that are not merely read, but which provoke deep psychological and other change.

I see the editor reverted me, so I'll have to leave it that. Esowteric+Talk 22:00, 18 July 2016 (UTC)