Ebook: From Magical Child to Magical Teen

PARENTING/ EDUCATION

Praiseworthy. . . . Going far beyond his earlier "Magical Child" to explore the dysfunctions of culture, the promise of meditation, and the paradoxes of sexuality.--("Library Journal") He has pointed the way to an acceptance of the adolescent discovery of spirit as the normal start of a developmental path.--("San Francisco Chronicle") Something is supposed to happen during the adolescent years--something greater than MTV, video games, and the Internet. Joseph Chilton Pearce describes this something as the natural mandate for post-biological development--the development of the sexual and spiritual senses and expansion of our growth process outside of our bodies and into the world that surrounds us. Though first written in the mid 1980s, the message of "From Magical Child to Magical Teen" is even more compelling and helpful today--especially for those who live with and work with adolescents. Drawing on the stages of development outlined by Swiss...