In these essays and lectures, Karl Konig renews a viable basis for the recognition of childhood and traces its expression in detailed pictures of the phases from conception, pregnancy, and birth; the child's inner and outer world during childhood; and the three births of the human being on the way to so-called "adulthood."This book can only encourage the worthy task of being a parent, teacher, or truly caring person who deep within his or her soul longs to approach the pure essence of eternal childhood.
Karl König was an Austrian follower of the religion of Anthroposophy. He was a paediatrician and founded the Camphill Movement, an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs or disabilities, based on anthroposophic principles.