{"product_id":"how-like-an-angel-came-i-down-9780940262386","title":"How Like an Angel Came I Down","description":"\"We have yet to learn that Wisdom and Holiness are of no Age; that they preexist, separate from time, and are the possession of Childhood, not less than of later years.\" --\u003cb\u003eA. Bronson Alcott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The unconscious psyche of the child is truly limitless in extent and of incalculable age.\" --\u003cb\u003eCarl Gustav Jung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery now and then the past yields up one of its lost treasures. This book is just such a gem. Bronson Alcott, friend and sometimes mentor to Emerson and Thoreau in Concord, was also a visionary educator who believed that the psyche of a child already carries within it the imprint of spirit and wisdom. At his school in Boston in the 1830s, he held this extraordinary series of conversations on such themes as spirit, consciousness, conscience, love, humility, the Holy Ghost, and the knower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Bronson Alcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindisfarne Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.02w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780940262386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlcott, A. Bronson:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAmos Bronson Alcott\u003c\/b\u003e (1799-1888) was born to an illiterate flax farmer in Wolcott, Connecticut. Profoundly influenced by John Bunyan's book \u003ci\u003ePilgrim's Progress, \u003c\/i\u003e he left home at seventeen to become a peddler in Virginia and the Carolinas. After five years, he returned to Connecticut, determined to become an educator. Attracted to Pestalozzi's innovative child-centered educational ideas, he began a long and varied career as a teacher. Bronson Alcott was singular among the Transcendentalists in boldly embodying his ideals. In his schools he introduced art, music, nature study, field trips, and physical education into the curriculum, while banishing corporal punishment. He encouraged children to ask questions and taught through dialogue and example. When Ralph Waldo Emerson met Alcott in Boston in the late 1830s, he was so impressed with his intellect and innovative ideas that he convinced Alcott to move to Concord and join his circle of friends. Alcott outlived his closest transcendentalist friends, dying on March 4, 1888, just two days before his famous daughter Louisa succumbed to the effects of mercury poisoning. The Concord School of Philosophy closed in July of that year after holding a memorial service honoring Alcott.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowell, Alice O.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAlice O. Howell\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1922. From an early age, she lived abroad in hotels and boarding schools, never more than three months in one place. By eighteen, she had lived in or traveled to thirty-seven countries and undertaken a lifelong study of comparative religion and mythology. She graduated from the Buser Institut in Switzerland before returning with her parents to the U.S. During World War II, she studied under the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones as his youngest student. She got married, had four children, and taught English and history in private schools on Long Island for eighteen years, progressing to the university level. Howell continued to study Jungian depth psychology and astrology for thirty years. At the advice of the Jungian analyst Dr. Edward F. Edinger, she attempted to prove astrology a useful diagnostic aid in the practice of Jungian psychology and devoted her time to patients sent by psychiatrists and analysts. Howell taught at the Jung Foundation in New York City and later at the C.G. Jung institutes in Chicago and L.A. and became an international lecturer. She is the primary pioneer in linking psychology and astrology. Encouraged by her second husband, Walter Andersen, she has written seven books, including \u003ci\u003eJungian Symbolism in Astrology\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); \u003ci\u003eThe Dove in the Stone\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); and \u003ci\u003eThe Web in the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e (1933); as well as three books for SteinerBooks and Lindisfarne Books: \u003ci\u003eHow Like an Angel Came I Down\u003c\/i\u003e (1991); \u003ci\u003eThe Beejum Book\u003c\/i\u003e (2002); \u003ci\u003eLara's First Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e (2004); and \u003ci\u003eFrom the Archives of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). Now widowed and a great-grandmother, Alice O. Howell lives in the Massachusetts Berkshires and continues her practice and moderates an online Jungian group.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lindisfarne Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43128185028723,"sku":"9.78094E+12","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_dc7d06ee-1159-4e0a-a616-06204c29dcc4.jpg?v=1749733363","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/how-like-an-angel-came-i-down-9780940262386","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}