Before Swami Vivekananda left his homeland in India, at the age of twenty-nine, he had a powerful dream. He saw his Master, Sri Ramakrishna, calling him. His Guru was summoning him in the dream to “Go!” to Chicago and deliver his message of non-dual Vedanta at the Parliament of World Religions, which was to begin September 11th that year.
The seminal speeches for which Vivekananda has become most well-known in the West were given at the “World’s Parliament of Religions” in Chicago beginning on September 11 in 1893.
Come celebrate the 129th anniversary of this historic event with a public presentation following the publication of Steven’s new book, “Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung: Yoga in the West.”
From the Preface of Steven’s new book:
“Swami Vivekananda’s words awakened me. He transported me to new vistas of Oneness. There was an electrical force-field that I sensed in his words, which had been devotedly preserved by his students in the West. What he had to say deeply resonated. He seemed to speak directly out of the superconscious, or the Higher Self, in a way that formed a complementary teaching to the works of C. G. Jung, a new way of uniting East and West, without any unnecessary dualisms between psychology and religion, radical empiricism and transcendentalism. His teachings are non-dual, focused on finding unity, consciousness, strength, healing, and inner peace through Yoga… His Yoga is a psychology of sacred work and a breath of fresh air.”
