• Visions of Innocence

  • Spiritual and Inspirational Experiences of Childhood
  • By: Edward Hoffman
  • Narrated by: Ali Astin
  • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

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Visions of Innocence

By: Edward Hoffman
Narrated by: Ali Astin
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Publisher's summary

As a psychologist, biographer, and parent, I have long been interested in children's spirituality. My book Visions of Innocence is based on reports of childhood mystical or spiritual experiences provided by more than 200 men and women in North America and abroad. It was widely reviewed when it appeared and excerpted in many different periodicals devoted to religion and spirituality, both mainstream and unconventional, throughout North America and Europe. It remains a classic for those interested in children's spiritual experiences - whether clergy, teachers, psychologists, parents, or anyone who has experienced a powerful sense of the transcendent.

The author Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, said: "What a wonderful affirmation Edward Hoffman's Visions of Innocence will be for people who have had spiritual experiences he describes and have been laughed at or disbelieved. Surely these case histories should make all readers more tender in their responses to the numinous insights so common in childhood and so often denigrated. Indeed, they are real!"

The influential theologian Andrew M. Greeley commented, "The most beautiful and most powerful collection of accounts of ecstatic experiences that it has ever been my pleasure to read."

The audio version of this book should be hugely popular today, reaching many thirsting for spiritual inspiration in a dark time.

©1992 Edward Hoffman (P)2021 Edward Hoffman

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