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Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann recognizes Emily Dickinson’s calling as “as a poet of the Infinite.”* “Infinity” may be Emily’s favorite name for Divinity, she employs
Like shamans everywhere, Emily was very much in touch with animal spirits and named those who taught her the most, for example the hummingbird and
Meister Eckhart, upending centuries of neo-platonic tainted dualistic religious teaching, said simply, “nature is grace.” His brother Thomas Aquinas, said, “The greatness of the human
Dickinson is, like Eckhart, not pining for a goal or a “Why” but rather coming to realize that the journey, the Way, is eschatology enough.
We are recounting the life and work of Emily Dickinson in light of the shaman archetype. First, she underwent a kind of rupture that resulted
We have been discussing the shaman as understood by David Paladin and others.Is Emily Dickinson a shaman? In his book, Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman
David Paladin instructs us about “the three worlds of the shaman”—the Middle World, the Lower World, and the Upper World. We live our daily lives
We have been meditating on the shaman for a number of days in our daily meditations. I give credit to Thomas Berry for his insistence
I am grateful to Lynda Paladin’s for reminding me that I had written a Foreword to a second edition of David Paladin’s book, Painting the
We have been meditating on shamans and shamanhood, inspired by Thomas Berry’s challenging observation that what the world needs today is “fewer priests and fewer
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