#5 Children and Their Angels, and Other Mystical Experiences with Dr. Tobin Hart
Today on Interviews With Innocence we have a very special guest on the show, Dr. Tobin Hart. I was able to go to Georgia to interview him and spend time in his beautiful home there, and I'm so excited to share this special conversation.
Dr. Tobin Hart serves as Professor at the University of West Georgia’s Humanistic, Transpersonal and Critical psychology program. He is co-founder of the ChildSpirit Institute, a nonprofit educational and research hub exploring and nurturing the spirituality of children and adults. His work explores human consciousness especially at the nexus of spirituality, psychology, and education. The center point for this inquiry is about how we know, especially that knowing what happens when the world opens more deeply to us, and we to it. He teaches, researches and writes on topics such as Deep Empathy, PsychoSpiritual Development, Inspiration, Transformative Education, Contemplative Knowing, Music, and the Mind, Psychotherapy Spirituality Integration, Mind-Body Unity. He has served as a leader in several emerging fields including Children’s Spirituality, Contemplative Teaching and Learning, and PsychoSpiritual Development.
Today, we'll be focusing on the work Dr. Tobin Hart has featured in his book, The Secret Spiritual World of Children. In this episode, Dr. Tobin Hart goes over his early experiences with children and spirituality, what we can learn from children and the power of the contemplative mind.
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"These childhood moments of wonder are not merely passing reveries. They shape the way a child sees and understands the world." - Dr. Tobin Hart
Show Notes:
How an experience with his daughter led him to pursue the spiritual world of children
The different research Tobin has done working with children
How different children have different spiritual styles
What can be learned from children and their well of wisdom
The reciprocal nature of children learning from us and us from them
What Tobin calls "the contemplative mind" and the role it can have in the lives of people today
What we can learn from past civilizations about the relationship between knowledge and spirituality
"While children require and benefit from our guidance, they still are big souls already." - Dr. Tobin Hart
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Learn more about Dr. Tobin Hart on ChildSpirit.org