[Audiobook]

I’ll be honest with you, this was a DNF – Did Not Finish. And I’ll be doubly honest with you – this is my first audiobook EVER because I’m not an auditory learner.

Here are notes I took in my journal as I listened which stood out to me:

• Spirituality in children is absolutely innate and therefore needs to be nurtured; athiesm or agnosicism actually does a disservice to the curiosity, philosophy, and wonder of children as they have an innate spiritual awareness that is actually in their genetic makeup
• There are many things that can derail this natural spirituality in children: avoidance, ignoring their awakenings, putting them down as childish, discouraging them, killing questions with “I don’t know”, and the confines of religious rules or laws
• Spiritual development is merely feeling a part of something larger with a transcendent universe and children are predisposed to this two-way spiritual dialogue with the universe
• Spirituality precedes all other types of childhood development and is fundamentally important to the success of all other developments – how you nurture it will be the determining factor on how it is developed in your child
• Spirituality is inborn in children and thrives on your attention and support; developmental gaps exist when spirituality isn’t nurtured
• People who are spiritual are happier, more connected, less sick, and less likely to make risky choices – and this applies to children
• Transcendence has biological markers – religion is taught and not in your genetic markup, but spirituality is in our genes
• Spirituality fills the “craving” part of the brain that aren’t fulfilled by external factors

I was obviously drawn to this book’s premise and the scientific evidence to back up the claims, but by Chapter Six, I couldn’t go on anymore. It became so repetitive. I’m sure you even notice it in the notes I posted here.

DNF ergo, a rating of 1 out of five.