Evolution of a Mystic: A Memoir

By Herb D Long

At seventeen Herb Long made his first solo flight in a Piper J-3. That afternoon, flying north along the Susquehanna River at three thousand feet, he lost all sense of time and place and felt himself as "utterly and fully present ... one with all." That experience confirmed his yearning for Oneness, and his life centered on a quest for a fuller union with the One, the Beloved, the Ground of Being. As a student at Stanford University, he met Martin Buber, who gave Long an intellectual opening to the mystical. Later, Long sought "the intrinsic connection between the mystical path and work in this world for social justice." That took him both to Harvard, where he became dean of students of the Divinity School, and to Hawaii, where he was director of the Institute for Student Interchange. In 1989 he moved to Portland to work in process oriented psychology, which searches for the meaning embedded in the experience. Now retired and living in Ashland, Oregon, he continues to deepen his experience of the mystery, which he shares in his essays and poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1075073081
• ISBN13: 9781075073083
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"