Spiritual Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visiona...
Herrmann, Steven B. / Beebe, John 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...