Jorge N. Ferrer, PhD, is an internationally recognized scholar, psychologist, and author best known for developing the participatory approach to spirituality and consciousness studies. He is a member of the research faculty at the California Institute for Human Science and served for more than two decades as a professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he also chaired the Department of East-West Psychology. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Revisioning Transpersonal Theory, Participation and the Mystery, and Love and Freedom. A former advisor to Religions for Peace at the United Nations and a former leading scholar at the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research, Ferrer received the Fetzer Institute’s Presidential Award for his pioneering contributions to the study of human consciousness. Learn more at jorgenferrer.com. http://www.jorgenferrer.com