{"product_id":"9781583948347","title":"Spiritual Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward","description":"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 oneness of humanity with the universe and all its forces\"—in these early American writers, showing the influence the groundbreaking work of the geologist and thinker Alexander Von Humboldt had on Whitman and others. Writing that every member of the global community regardless of color, gender, or sexual orientation can realize these freedoms, the author explores how one can tap into the vitalizing source of equalizing, vocational energy to bring a sense of purpose and peace. Although the book shines as a work of literary criticism, the author's insights as a Jungian psychotherapist take the reader ever deeper into the creative impulses of Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, and other poets in their crafting of the seminal notion of Spiritual Democracy. In addition, Herrmann offers practical methodologies for personal and global transformation in the section, \"Ten Ways to Practice Spiritual Democracy.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Visions of Spiritual Democracy - Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e 2. Spiritual Democracy as a Science of God\u003cbr\u003e 3. From Humboldt to Jung\u003cbr\u003e 4. Jung on Spiritual Democracy\u003cbr\u003e 5. Healing the National Complex\u003cbr\u003e 6. Whitman's \"New Bible\": The Foundation of a Religious Vision   \u003cbr\u003e 7. Walt Whitman's Global Vision\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Bi-Erotic as Transcendent Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e 9. Shamanism and Spiritual Democracy: A Post-Humboldtian Notion of the Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e 10. Whitman as a Preserver of the Psychic Integrity of the Community\u003cbr\u003e 11. \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick:\u003c\/i\u003e The Evolution of a New Myth for our Times\u003cbr\u003e 12. Herman Melville: The Quest for Yillah\u003cbr\u003e 13. Towards a Hypothesis of the Bi-erotic\u003cbr\u003e 14. \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and the Trickster\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Marriage of Sames: \"A Bosom Friend\"\u003cbr\u003e 16. \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick:\u003c\/i\u003e The Characters Behind the Names\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Fall of the Dictatorships as Portrayed in \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. Metamorphosis of the Gods\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Re-emergence of the Feminine\u003cbr\u003e 20. Afterward: A Bi-Erotic Model for The Way Forward\u003cbr\u003e a) Ten Ways to Practice Spiritual Democracy\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150733754608,"sku":"9781583948347","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781583948347_p0.jpg?v=1763804564","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781583948347","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}