Dennis Merritt

Dennis Merritt

Dennis Merritt, PhD, LCSW, grew up on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin where he established a deep connection with the animals and the land, a connection he sees reflected in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. He obtained a master’s degree from Sonoma State in Humanistic psychology and a PhD from Berkeley in insect pathology (microbial control of insect pests) before training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. His Zurich thesis was titled “Synchronicity Experiments with the I Ching and their Relevance to the Theory of Evolution”. He has been using the I Ching for 50 years and employs it in his analytic practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of four volumes of The Dairy Farmer’s Guide to the Universe: Jung, Hermes, and Ecopsychology with volume three presenting Hermes as the god of synchronicity, dreams, and complexity theory. Hermes is the link between the 10,000 things and the Tao as that which points to the source of the 10,000 things, including dreams. <JungianEcopsychology.com> has articles on dreams and the I Ching, Jung and the environment, “Hunger Games”, and “Guns and the American Psyche”.