Steven Herrmann's Books
Jun.23.2010
This insightful book begins with the author’s dream, one that urged him to analyze the “shamanic structures” present in the poetry and prose of America’s greatest bard, Walt Whitman. From a contemporary, analytical psychological viewpoint, Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul demonstrates how Whitman speaks to the age-old sociopolitical and religious...
Jun.23.2010
This insightful book begins with the author’s dream, one that urged him to analyze the “shamanic structures” present in the poetry and prose of America’s greatest bard, Walt Whitman. From a contemporary, analytical psychological viewpoint, Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul demonstrates how Whitman speaks to the age-old sociopolitical and religious...
Jul.30.2009
William Everson was the first American poet to explore the living link between shamanism and poetry, between the shaman’s call and the vocational archetype in the dreams of contemporary students. The book builds upon Everson’s contributions to the field of American poetry as an emergent field and augments his research into dreams of destiny when I was his teaching assistant in “...
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems”
—Walt Whitman
About Steven
Steven B. Herrmann, PhD, MFT began his writing career in 1991 with an essay on the Santa Cruz poet William Everson. In 1997 he wrote his first paper for the C. G. Jung Institute Library Journal "The Visionary Artist." He has written many reviews on...
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Causes Steven Herrmann Supports
American Rights at Work
Sierra Club
Steven’s Favorite Books
Moby-Dick Leaves of Grass Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Memories, Dreams, Reflections The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Transformation: Emergence of the...