
Ecstasy, Dying, and Resurrecting in Dickinson’s Shamanic Worldview
The experience of the Divine is at the heart of spirituality and any effort to renew religion itself. Mystics undergo such experiences and attempt to
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The experience of the Divine is at the heart of spirituality and any effort to renew religion itself. Mystics undergo such experiences and attempt to
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
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.
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