"It is as if I hear the wind bringing up behind me the voice of Mantis, the infinite in the small, calling from the stone age to an age of men with hearts of stone, commanding us with the authentic voice of eternal renewal: 'You must henceforth be the moon. You must shine at night. By your shining shall you lighten the darkness until the sun rises again to light up all things for men.'"
Laurens van der Post,
The Heart of The Hunter
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contributors' biographies
Bessel van der Kolk
To people who roll up their sleeves in the villages of the world to help
victims of flood or famine or war, to workers who eye-witness the
ravages of nature and man at ground zero, the idea that a new era of
peace and security is at hand may well strike them as odd if not a cruel
illusion. Bessel van der Kolk, the Dutch-born director of the Trauma
Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a case in point. As a
psychiatrist and as president of the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies, he divides his time between "ordinary people who have
experienced terrible things" and colleges and policy makers who try to
find solutions to the causes of systematic human suffering.
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