Research Interests

Fields: integral ecology; environmental humanities; religion and ecology; integral theories and philosophies; Jungian and transpersonal psychology; archetypal cosmology; Romanticism and German Idealism. Figures: Hegel, Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, C. G. Jung, Jean Gebser, Edgar Morin, Ken Wilber, Joanna Macy.

Biography

Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in 1988. Before coming to CIIS in 1997, he taught in Canada at the University of Windsor, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University. He is the author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation; Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era; and Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness; co-editor (with Richard Tarnas) of Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof; (with Donald Rothberg) of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers; and (with Sam Mickey and Adam Robbert) of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era. He is also co-translator of French thinker Edgar Morin's book, Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium.

Sean's current research areas include the evolution of consciousness, integral ecologies, and transpersonal and integral theory. Along with his more academic pursuits, Sean has trained intensively in the Chinese internal arts (taiji, bagua, and xingyi) and has been teaching taiji since 1990. He has also worked closely with Joanna Macy and is a trained facilitator in The Work that Reconnects. 

Education

Ph.D. University of Ottawa, Religious Studies

M.A. Carleton University, Religious Studies

B.A. Carleton University, English Literature and Religious Studies

Courses

Introduction to Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness

Collapse and Regeneration

Integral Ecologies

The Great Turning

Hegel, Wilber, and Morin: Foundations of Integral Inquiry

Integral Tai Chi

Psyche and Spirit: From the Psychology of Religion to Transpersonal Theory

Publications

Sean Kelly is the author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation, Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era, and Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness. Sean is co-editor (with Richard Tarnas) of Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof, (with Donald Rothberg) of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers, and (with Sam Mickey and Adam Robbert) of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era. He is also and co-translator of French thinker Edgar Morin's book, Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium. Sean has also published articles in such journals as Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, The Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America, The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Idealistic Studies, Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, and World Futures.