Jorge Ferrer

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Jorge Ferrer is the author of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (SUNY Press 2002), a book that proposed new epistemological requirements for the development of an open and participative spirituality within the specific tradition of transpersonal psychology.

Ferrer is part of the core faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently co-editing (with Jacob Sherman) an anthology of original writings on participatory spirituality, The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies. He is also the editor of a monograph of the journal ReVision on "New Horizons in Contemporary Spirituality" (Fall 2001). In 2000 he received the Fetzer Institute’s Presidential Award for his work on consciousness studies. He is on the editorial board of The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation.

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  • review of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory by Richard Tarnas
  • [1], An introduction to Participatory Spirituality, http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61696
  • [2], Essay on "Integral Transformative Practice: A Participatory Perspective" (Journal of Transpersonal Psychology)
  • [3] Essay on "Embodied Participation in the Mystery: Implications for the Individual, Interpersonal Relationships, and Society" (ReVision)
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