Dictionary Of The Occult Book

Robert Coles is a Child Psychiatrist and researcher. He has spent years interviewing children of may cultures about their spiritual lives. The wonderful thing about Coles is that, to the best of his ability, he does not impose his own cultural norms and values on the children. As you can imagine, a Harvard educated white man coming of age in the middle of the last century has quite a set of cultural norms and values. Yet, when he interviews Hopi children they come alive with the spirit of their people in his recording of the interviews. The same is true for the American, European, African and Middle Eastern children. They come from all socio-economic backgrounds and from many faith traditions. I was consistently astounded at the power and sophistication as well as at the simplicity (not simplistic) of these children's understanding of their spirits, their spiritual lives and their desire to BE the best that they can be which they understood, instinctively, as something other, more-than the obvious bits of their world. What a favor Coles did me by writing this book. He helped to bring me back to my self.