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David Ulansey

David Ulansey received his Ph.D. (1984) in Religion from Princeton University. He has taught at Boston University, the University of California at Berkeley, Barnard College (Columbia University), Princeton University, and the University of Vermont. David is a historian of religion specializing in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean. He is particularly interested in the mystery religions, gnosticism, Hermeticism, ancient cosmology, and the relationship between religion, myth, and the evolution of consciousness. He is author of The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World (Oxford University Press, 1989), as well as numerous articles in publications ranging from Scientific American to the Journal of Biblical Literature. David is a frequent lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.



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