"Reflecting American culture through literature and art."
Contents
Introduction / Jean Houston -- A nation of seekers / Mark Robert Waldman -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse -- There's no place like home / L. Frank Baum -- A city of churches / Donald Barthelme -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Jonathan Edwards -- Brother Jake and the Preacher / Lorraine Johnson-Coleman -- The problem of Old Harjo / John M. Oskison -- I don't write to God no more / Alice Walker -- The love that is hereafter / Walt Whitman -- Mystery / Rachel Naomi Remen -- Skinhead to Godhead / Dan Millman -- Catholic dreams / Richard Russo -- Father Mapple's hymn / Herman Melville -- Forever young / Ronald Steel -- Making your life meaningful / The Dalai Lama -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Free at last / Martin Luther King -- The soul of an Indian / Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) -- Homeless / Doris Colmes -- Meeting Helen Keller / Jean Houston -- The Bridge / Edwin Friedman -- The man who did not wish to die / Allan B. Chinen -- Riding the elevator into the sky / Anne Sexton -- The cliff / Charles Baxter -- Cosmic consciousness / Richard Bucke -- Ten miles west of Venus / Judy Troy -- Cabdriver / Foster Furcolo -- Bathing Jesus / Aliki Barnstone -- The reluctant Messiah / Richard Bach.