AUM 2005: The Promise of the Future

Matthijs Cornelissen: Presenter

Matthijs CornelissenMatthijs Cornelissen is a member of the editorial team overseeing the publication of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, and teaches integral psychology at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry.

A qualified physician, he came to India in 1976 to study the confluence of yoga and psychotherapy. Together with Neeltje Huppes he founded in 1981 Mirambika, an experimental teacher training college in New Delhi. More recently he organized together with Neeltje three major conferences on Indian Psychology.

Publications include several papers on Indian psychology and two edited volumes, Consciousness and Its Transformation and Indian Psychology, Consciousness and Yoga, the latter together with Kireet Joshi.