The book presents a set of portraits of some of the century's most influential thinkers, all participants at Eranos: Carl Jung, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, Martin Buber, Walter Otto, Paul Tillich, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Read, Joseph Campbell, Erwin Schrodinger, Karl Kereyni, D.T. Suzuki, and Adolph Portmann.

Foreword

Introduction: How this Book Emerged

1. The Significance Of Eranos

2. An Esoteric Prelude To Eranos

3. Yearning for the East: Monte Verita and the School of Wisdom

4. Toward Eranos

5. The First Eranos Meeting: An Idea Comes to Life

6. Eranos and National Socialism

7. The Years 1934-1937

8. Eranos 1938: The United States Shows Interest

9. The War Years

10. New Prospects after The World Conflict

11. The Heyday Begins

12. The Early 1950s

13. Polytheism Versus Monotheism

14. An End, Some New Beginnings And Repeated Turbulence

15. Delicate Questions and Attempts to Answer Them

16. Eranos as a Prototype

17. The End of a Cycle ... or Perhaps Not?

Index

Hans Thomas Hakl is co-editor of Gnostika and foreign correspondent of Politica Hermetica