Mora Fields

Called the Mark Twain of spiritual literature by Joel, our own Mora Fields has written a book of teaching tales called Peculiar Stories. Both plain spoken, absorbing, and layered with depth, these stories delve into such topics as where do thoughts come from, how do we deal with things like emotions, fear and peer pressure, how to experience spaciousness, and the meaning of life. Here are a few bits from a story called Thought Machine .

[eating eggplant]...Which Uncle E knows, so I was a little upset that he cooked it when he knew I was coming over.
What don't you like about it? He wanted to know.
Nothing, except it tastes really horrible and terrible, I said.
No it doesn't, it tastes delicious.
That's just your opinion, I told him, real huffy.
And I guess it's just your opinion, too. Just an idea.

Like a conversation at any dinner table with a youngster (or picky eater), so begins a discussion of how the thoughts we collect form our opinions, which leads our heroine along with Uncle E and some classmates on an adventure to build a thought machine. In a few short pages this story touches on where thoughts come from, how to gain some detachment from them, building confidence, making friends, and ends with a completed science project.
Always engaging and never preachy, I highly recommend this book to any age reader.… (mehr)