The healing power of love is beyond comprehension. Yet love is also one of the most complex experiences in life, yielding pleasure and pain in equal measure. Join Smith Center Co-Founder Michael Lerner to explore love in poetry, sacred texts, and archetypal psychology, drawing on Rumi, Hafiz, Jung, Hillman and others.
Michael Lerner is president and co-founder of Commonweal and president emeritus and co-founder of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts.
At Commonweal, he is co-founder or founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles, Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies, The New School, and the Resilience Project. He taught at Yale before founding Commonweal in 1976. He received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1983.