Jorge N. Ferrer, Ph.D, program director of East-West Psychology, also holds a degree of Lic. Psicologia Clinica (1991) from the University of Barcelona (Spain). Formerly a fellow of "la Caixa" Foundation, a research fellow of the Catalonian Council, and an ERASMUS scholar at the University of Wales (U.K.), Jorge is also adjunct faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California.
Jorge is the author of Revisioning Transpersonal
Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human
Spirituality (SUNY Press, 2002), and
co-editor of The Participatory Turn:
Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies (SUNY Press, 2008). He is also the author
of many articles, translations, and book-chapters
on transpersonal studies, and edited a monographic
issue of ReVision on "New Horizons
in Contemporary Spirituality."
His
writings have appeared in The Journal
of Transpersonal Psychology, The Journal
of Transformative Education, World Futures:
The Journal of General Evolution, ReVision:
The Journal of Consciousness and Transformation,
The Scientific and Medical Network Review,
The International Journal of Transpersonal
Studies, The Salamander Review, Tricycle:
The Buddhist Review, Kosmos: An Integral Approach to Global Awakening, and Tikkun: Politics, Spirituality, Culture, among other publications.
Jorge serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, ReVision, Spirituality and Health International, The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, and Journal of Men: Masculinities and Spirituality, and as an advisor to the Salamander Fund for the Advanced Study of Consciousness. He has served as member of the Planning Committee of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship's BASE (Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement).
He is a leading scholar on transformative practices and integral epistemology at the Esalen Center for Theory & Research, and has offered supportive counseling to marginalized Latino women at the Arriba Juntos Center in San Francisco's Mission District.
Jorge teaches courses on transpersonal studies, embodied spiritual inquiry, comparative mysticism, integral development, theoretical research, East-West studies, and spiritual perspectives on sexuality and relationships. He co-facilitates workshops and intensive retreats on holistic sexuality/holistic integration at CIIS, ITP, and the Esalen Institute, Big Sur; and also offers workshops and presentations on integral spirituality and education nationally and internationally.
In 2000, Jorge received the "Presidential Award" from the Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo (Michigan) for his seminal work on consciousness studies.
Selected Publications and Articles:
The Integral Creative Cycle: A Participatory Approach to Integral Education. Kosmos: An Integral Approach to Global Awakening, 2007 (Fall/Winter).
Embodied Spirituality, Now and Then. Tikkun: Culture, Spirituality, Politics, 2006 (May/June).
Integral Transformative Education: A Participatory Proposal. The Journal of Transformative Education, 2005, Volume 3(4).
Integral Transformative Practice: A Participatory Perspective. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2003, Volume 35(1).
Spirituality and Intimate Relationships: Monogamy, Polyamory, and Beyond. Tikkun: Culture, Spirituality, Politics, 2007 (Jan/Feb).
Spiritual Knowing: A Participatory Understanding. In C. Clarke (Ed.), Ways of Knowing: Science and Mysticism Today (Imprint Academic, 2005).
A Secret Poem for You. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2004, Volume 23.
Richard Tarnas, Foreword to Jorge Ferrer’s Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (SUNY Press, 2002).
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