American Gurus

Know about the book -

American Gurus is written by Arthur Versluis and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190201959 (ISBN 10) and 9780190201951 (ISBN 13).

From Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman to the twentieth century, the Beat movement, the psychedelic revolution, Timothy Leary, the influence of Hindu gurus to the New Age movement, Versluis tells the enthralling saga of how contemporary American immediatism came into being. Versluis shows how the confluence of Asian religions and Western mysticism come together to produce the continuing and fascinating saga that culminates in the phenomenon of contemporary 'spontaneously enlightened' American gurus.