To a Different Drumbeat
A Practical Guide to Parenting Children with Special Needs

P. Clarke, H. Kofsky, J. Lauruol

$16.95

To a Different Drumbeat is written by parents, for parents, and based on personal experience In an age dominated by illusions of perfection, the underlining theme is a bold one: "Look what we can do. See how life and society are richer through diversity, and how much we can learn from our children." The authors address the specific challenges facing parents whose children have handicaps or special needs. How do we deal with grief or guilt, or unrealized expectations? Where can we find the help we need? This book is relevant to those whose children have conditions ranging from autism to cerebral palsy, undiagnosed learning difficulties, degrees of deafness or visual handicap. There is a lot of wisdom and love between these covers.

Helping Children to Overcome Fear
The Healing Power of Play

Russell Evans

$19.95

Helping Children to Overcome Fear is one of those books that is itself a legacy, reaching out beyond the threshhold of death to those of us still working with others on this teeming planet of ours. Jean Evans was a hospital play leader whose life work was with sick children. Her husband, Russell, has gathered together her stories and pictures that illustrate and teach so beautifully how the healing power of play can help children suffering illness to give voice to their feelings and find security.

Actually, I feel strongly that almost all children can benefit from Jean's wisdom and creativity. In my experience, almost all the young children I meet - and many, many I have known in the past - come into the world afraid. Or perhaps I should say, they come into the world acutely aware that the adults who love them are anxious about . . . well, the children don't know just what the adults are anxious about [you and I do, though], but they feel it and live it. And this is where Jean Evan's shining legacy can do so very much good. As we learn how to heal children's fears through play, we can find ourselves healing; as we also heal from our fears, the world our children live in shines ever more brightly.

This is a powerful, graceful book. I hope it reaches millions of hearts. It is a reminder of what is true, what is everlasting - and it is a pathway toward learning to live within that glorious truth.

Star Children
Understanding children who set us special tasks and challenges

Georg Kühlewind

Softbound

$25.00

While working on this book the following happened to me: As I checked in at the airport in Hamburg a young couple was in front of me, and the mother had a three-to-four-month old baby in her arms. All of a sudden the baby turned round, looked me straight in the eye, and I was deeply shaken; for that was not the look of a baby but of a very self-aware adult, a wise one, and he appeared to see right through me.

- Georg Kühlewind

Who are the star children? In recent years, much has been written about “gifted” children with special abilities, sometimes called “indigo children” or “crystal children.” It is said that these children are coming to earth to help humanity in its development. Based on extensive research, Georg Kühlewind confirms that this new generation has been incarnating among us for the past couple of decades. This event, he states, is one of the most important of our age.

Kühlewind gives us the necessary background to follow experientially what he has to say. He takes us consciously and scientifically into the realm from which we all enter the world as babies, “trailing clouds of glory.” We all possess the tools he describes for taking this path: our thoughts, our heart forces, and our willpower. By using these faculties with full attention—by focusing our attentiveness and eliminating everything else—we can enter the realm of the spirit where the prevailing laws are different from those on Earth. The author helps us by closing each chapter with themes for contemplation and meditation.

Star Children is a compelling addition to the literature on the theme of “special children,” offering a unique perspective based on spiritual science and research.