Edwin Steinmann

Edwin Steinmann has worked as a prosecutor, public defender, and assistant attorney general in the state of Missouri, among other positions. In 1984 he read a book about dreams, "Healing and Wholeness," in which John Sanford, an Episcopal priest and Jungian analyst, maintained that dreams were spiritually meaningful. He didn't believe it and put the book aside.

Several weeks later, still skeptical but curious, he paid attention to a dream for the first time. He wrote the dream down and began to understand, in part, what the dream meant. “So this is what religion is REALLY all about!” he said to himself.

The dream changed him. He shares that dream along with thirteen others and an extraordinary inner vision (mystical experience) in "Grace in a Wintry Season." Paying attention to the dream/vision-creating mind/entity he calls "Vita" (veeta) filled the void left in him by faith’s “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.”