This had a tremendous transformative effect on the lives of many of his students. In 2009 Everson's former student, Steven Herrmann, brought renewed attention to Everson as a shamanic teacher. As Everson's TA the year prior to Everson's retirement in 1981, Herrmann later compiled a series of interviews with the poet-shaman between 1991-1993 that were published as "William Everson: The Shaman's Call". Parkinson's disease had made it very difficult for Everson to write, so the interview format became the best means of oral communication while his facultues were still sharp and his intuitions deepened with the increased wisdom of advancing age. Herrmann's Introduction to this volume established not only Everson's depth and excellence as a teacher in his own time and place, but also, and of particular importance, demonstrates Everson's relevance to the 21st Century and its cultural milieu that Herrmann characterizes as post-Jungian. While Antoninus had not been called by vocation to the priesthood, Everson nevertheless maintained an adhesion to his Catholic faith until his final days. In 1982, by a meaningful coincidence, Everson was asked to write an "Introduction" to Victor White's book "God and the Unconscious," which was re-printed by Spring Publications. In his "Introduction," Everson kept a middle position regarding the controversy that had broken out between Jung and White over the question of the dark side of God and the Self. To solve this conflict between White and Jung, Everson turned, with a stroke of brilliance, to the writings of the great mystical preacher and theologian, Meister Eckhart. The result was a remarkable meditation on the mystery of the Self and the Godhead. In the final two years of his life, with the decline brought on by Parkinson's disease, Everson worked diligently on a final and unfinished autobiographical work, "Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food". Everson died peacefully at his home on June 2, 1994, near two towering redwood trees in the wooded hills of Davenport, a few miles east of the Pacific Ocean on Big Creek. Following a Memorial Mass and funeral service at St. Albert's Priory, his body was finally laid to rest at the Dominican Cemetery in Benicia, California. Two events celebrating the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth, "The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial," were recently observed; they were organized by Clifton Ross, Matthew Fox, and Steven Herrmann.