About

With an M.A. in Creative Writing from Fort Hays State University, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, Don Eulert studied post-graduate at the CG Jung Institute, Zurich.  In the 1970’s he served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow in East Europe, and lectured for the State Department on U.S. culture at European embassy posts.

Although not a clinical psychologist, for 40 years Eulert served as Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego—where he urged candidates to fit psychology to the history of ideas, and to global and ethical concerns.   

Founder of the Center for Integrative Psychology in 1997, he has served as Director for 20 years. One of its projects was a U.S. Department of Education grant that afforded Native Americans the chance to become licensed mental health professionals.

His seven books of published poetry include American haiku and translations of modern Romanian poetry. His collection ‘Ritual and Healing:  Stories of Ordinary and Extraordinary Transformation’ won a 2014 San Diego Book Award.  

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Dear Reader, Greetings.

Born on a tenant farm in western Kansas, Paradise Township, dust bowl and depression time, I’d be the fifth sibling (two more to come). I go back to visit that little hewed limestone house (now occupied by barn swallows) and wonder how my parents did it.  All those kids in the dry years, and none of us remember being hungry or feeling poor.

I remember an irrigated garden, fish from the creek, the smell of workhorses Betty and Dutch, unharnessed by lantern light after a long day, my father’s supper waiting. Now, for 45 years I’ve been embedded in the back country of San Diego county on an old gem-mine claim, previously a campsite of the Matuwir clan of the Iipay.  In my eighties still digging in gardens. 

The poems memoir the way (“coyote was going along, and then . . .”):   Haiku for Ah-ha! moments; ecstasies and elegies and scenes from when I held a top secret clearance; translating Romanian poets with Stefan; Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley as players in an epic of unresolved national grief, 2017 centennial.                                                                  

Serious fun.   

Thank you for visiting. The intention of this website under construction is:  To offer public access to a “library” of workings, to clear the deck, and w/hope that you find something you can use.     

Warmbest, Don