Anthony de Mello, S.J. Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

The Song of the Bird is a manifestation of the hunger for the spiritual spreading around the world. It is a hunger with very special characteristics. People aren't buying set formulas any more, pius platitudes redolent of an area gone by; beaten tracks that did not succeed in brining people to a spiritual awakening. There is an anguished search, sometimes confused in its direction, for a more liberal outlook. Modern man mired in pre-found cultural change first wants to know who he is, what imprisons his soul, what stands in the way of spiritual progress. He wants to rediscover the od beyond all that has been identified through the years with the name of God: laws, norms, doctrines not made flesh, words estranged from life.