This book was one of my first introductions to the idea of following an unconventional spiritual path.  Rereading it recently, I found the story of how Max Demian guided the young Emil Sinclair away from his familiar world and into the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment just as engrossing as I had the first time. 

I was also struck by how similar Demian’s message was to so many modern spiritual teachers today.  The idea that he and Sinclair were among a select few with the courage to break free of societal limitations and help humanity leap forward into a new stage of evolution sounded exactly like something I might have heard yesterday from the local guru-du-jour.  I found myself wondering just what it says about human evolution that this book was first published in 1919—does that mean humanity made a quantum leap back then, and is now working on a new one?  Or are we still trying at that first one almost a hundred years later?  Hmmm…..

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