Allan Combs: Featured guest

Allan Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist. He holds appointments at the Saybrook Graduate School, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Assisi Conferences, and the Graduate Institute of Connecticut, where he is the director of the Integral Studies program leading to an M.A. in conscious evolution. He is also professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Allan is author of over 50 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain, including The Radiance of Being: Understanding the Grand Integral Vision; Living the Integral Life, winner of the best-book award of the Scientific and Medical Network of the UK, with a foreword by Ken Wilber; Changing Visions: Human Cognitive Maps Past, Present, and Future, with Ervin Laszlo, Vilmos Csanyi, and Robert Artigiani; Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, edited with Robin Robertson; Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behavior, edited with William Sulis; Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster with Mark Holland; and Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness, with Mark Germine and Ben Geortzel.

Allan is a director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the Integral University and co-founder of the Integral Foundation and the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences. He is also a member of the General Evolution Research Group, the Integral Institute, the Forge Guild, and the 100-member Club of Budapest.

He is associate editor of Dynamical Psychology and serves on the editorial board of Science & Consciousness Review. He was the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and in the same year the held the UNCA Honorary Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship.