In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Jungian Analyst Steven Herrmann about his book Spiritual Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward. Amongst other things we talk about Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville, free verse, Whitman as the ancestor and archaic voice of the Shaman/Poet. Non-denominational spirituality, Jung and the experience of the religious, the varieties of religious experience and the many colors of the soul.
Steven Herrmann PhD is a Jungian Analyst in Oakland. CA. He is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and an internationally recognized educator and author of ten books. Some of which include William Everson: The Shaman’s Call, Expanded Edition (2016), William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self (2020) Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for Our Times (2018), and Spiritual Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward (2015).
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