Ammuna Al-Shatoura:
This story is one of a series of stories and letters by the author. It is an educational story that is sufficient to make the child’s imagination fertile and help him think, deduce, and analyze. It is accompanied by a set of exercises that help expand the child’s understanding.
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Man in general, and throughout his history, old and new, has always needed to believe in religious, mental, and cultural beliefs and convictions, and at the same time he does not imagine himself outside of these beliefs and convictions or detached from them, as they provide him with psychological and emotional reassurance, and also provide him with protection from himself, which may behave in... Sometimes there are bumpy paths, sharp switchbacks, potential uncertainties, or unknown areas.
Therefore, we cannot strip others of their religious beliefs, whether divine or man-made, because interests have converged between states and peoples in many aspects of life and because freedom of religious belief must remain a private matter for the individual alone, and one of his most sacred human, civil and religious rights in general. Therefore, in my research, I tried to list or present the religious beliefs of the peoples of the world and their laws as they are in their concepts, without fanaticism or bias.
There are few writers who have chronicled with such honest clarity and such bold honesty the development of the soul through the stages of life. Peter Kamintsend (1904), Damian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), The Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), and The Journey to the East (1932) are different versions of a spiritual autobiography, and different depictions of the path of Joan. Each new step refines the image of all previous steps, and each experience opens new worlds of exploration in a continuous effort to communicate the vision.
Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, was closely connected to the Indian world. He was influenced by Eastern philosophies. When he was once asked about the most important influences in his life, he said that they were “the Christian and never nationalistic spirit of my parents’ house,” “reading Chinese masterpieces,” and “the personality of the historian Jacob Burckhardt.”
