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Title: Not as objective as I though it would be
Review: I was interested in reading a book about children spirituality that approaches the topic from a scientific (or at least analytic) point of view so I could make my own opinion. Tart's book is biased from the beginning: his goal is to convince the reader that child spiritual experiences are indeed similar to experiences of great mystics (Christ...). Though I have nothing personally about this hypothesis, Tart does not attempt to build his claim on well chosen details of child experiences. In contrast, child experiences are presented in a non-ordered way (or at least an order non explicit to the reader) so it is hard to make anything out of them. Also, Tart rarely quotes children. Instead he rephrases what he though they were saying.The topic and the material (raw child experiences) is good, the writing and the organization of the book is horrible.
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