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Article: A fellow pilgrim: Jerry May, 64.(APPRECIATION)
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- May 6, 2005
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Psychiatrist and author Dr. Gerald "Jerry" May died April 8 at age 64. He came from an interesting family: His half-brother was Rollo May, a pioneer in the holistic approach to psychology, and their father a Methodist minister. Rollo May's The Courage to Create was one of the formative books in my adult life. Implicit in all Rollo May's works was a recognition and respect for the spiritual life. He was just what the doctor ordered.
Imagine my wonderment, then, when, later, his half-brother Jerry became a fellow pilgrim in one of the early Shalem Institute meditation groups. Thirty years younger than Rollo, who died in 1994, Jerry too worked in the area of the ...