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Yoga in the West, as taught by Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung, is a spiritual path of vocation, practiced with an attitude of non-attachment to the ego. At the same time, the Self shines through in all of one's works, and one lives in the joy and peace of the higher man or woman within. The vocation of Yoga in the West urges forward the spiritualization of world culture. Each person has a special calling, which he or she must follow, and thro...

Yoga in the West, as taught by Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung, is a spiritual path of vocation, practiced with an attitude of non-attachment to the ego. At the same time, the Self shines through in all of one's works, and one lives in the joy and peace of the higher man or woman within. The vocation of Yoga in the West urges forward the spiritualization of world culture. Each person has a special calling, which he or she must follow, and thro...

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Among the 19th century poets, Emily Dickinson is by far the most scientifically minded. Science is the voice that summoned Dickinson at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and gave her unique distinction as a poetess of botanical and entomological and astronomical classifications. Like no other 19th century poet she forms an integration between science and spirituality. She studied at Holyoake at the exact historical moment of the first Seneca Falls...

This volume proposes the 'poetics of politics' as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a 'gr...

Exploring what the author calls the "shaman-poets"-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson-this book demonstrates how far ahead of their times these writers were in forecasting developments of our current time. It was Whitman who first wrote of "Spiritual Democracy" as a vision of transformation and global equality. Steven Herrmann delves deep into the visionary expressions of this idea of Spiritual Democracy-"the realization of the...

In 1991, author and Jungian psychotherapist Steven Herrmann was "called" by the poet-shaman William Everson to collaborate on writing a book. It is from that event that the subtitle of this book emerged, The Shaman's Call. Its aim is to instill in readers that if one follows one's calling from the shamanic archetype with the right attitude, it could culminate in true cosmic awareness. And, it would interconnect the psyche with nature, or what ...

Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul begins with a dream that sent the author, Steven B. Herrmann, on a journey to analyze the "shamanic structures" of the collective unconscious that are present in the poetry and prose of America's greatest bard, Walt Whitman. From a contemporary, analytical psychological point of view, Herrmann demonstrates how Whitman speaks to age-old sociopolitical and religious questions that ...