Overview: Historically, children’s inexplicable experiences -- from telepathy and conversing with deceased relatives to out-of-body- or near-death experiences, and more -- have been theorized through traditional scientific lenses that may not have the explanatory power to account for such experiences.

In Children’s Unexplained Experiences in a Post Materialist World, author Donna Maria Thomas shares research that she and other scholars, past and present, have conducted with children and young people across the world. By placing children’s unexplained experiences and views about reality in the contexts of culture, consciousness and the nature of self, this book offers a middleway for explaining these childhood experiences within post-materialist science and philosophy.

Furthermore, Thomas suggests that children’s experiences could greatly contribute to a new paradigm for understanding the mystery of being human and the nature of reality.

In what is a enjoyably engrossing, in-depth, personal and highly researched new book, author Thomas brings forth an engaging study - and one told from the viewpoint of the child - about the children who have experienced the near-death phenomenon and its aftereffects.

Noting that the child who returns from a near-death experience is not the same child as before, but is a, for want of a better description, “remodeled, rewired, reconfigured, and a wholly refined version of the original,” it is also thought that these very same children have thus experienced structural, chemical, and functional changes in the brain, which then shows up in their greater empathic abilities; as well as dramatically higher intelligence.

A veritable slew of enhanced abilities that cannot be tied to simple genetics, we must first understand the near-death experiences of children ourselves so that we can help them to prepare for a quantum leap in not only their very own evolution, but the evolution of humanity overall.

In closing, Children’s Unexplained Experiences in a Post Materialist World is a smartly written, non-biased, and generously prose adorned read that whilst shedding light into this phenomenon also goes a long way to show extreme, and thorough professionalism throughout.

Simply put, fair and honest at all times, this book is a neverending fountain of wisdom, one where the author provides a most glorious informational platform for the children, in a way that de-stigmatizes and normalizes these exceptional experiences; whilst at the same time explores how these experiences affected the children (then and now) and the meanings they themselves adhere to them and their own changes within.

And, as Thomas herself freely admits, As a child experiencer, I write this book in the spirit of reflexivity. Making sure that my own experiences shared do not impinge on the experiences of the children I research with. It is hoped that my own experiences bring an element of understanding and open-mindedness that is distinctly lacking for unexplained experiences in childhood.

About the Author: Donna Maria Thomas has researched with children for 18 years and has a special interest in the nature of self and anomalous experiences in childhood. She lives in Blackburn, UK.

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