California Institute of Integral Studies

Faculty Member, Transformative Studies

Professor

About

Allan Combs is a Professor of Transformative Studies at the  California Institute of Integral Studies and director of the Integral Concentration of the doctoral program.

His background is in consciousness studies, neuropsychology, and systems science. He also holds appointments at the Saybrook Graduate School and the  Assisi Conferences, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville as well as Co-Director of the Integral Studies program leading to an MA in Conscious Evolution at the  Graduate Institute of Connecticut. Allan is author of over 100 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain, including The Radiance of Being (2ed): 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.

Professor Combs is a co-founder of the Integral Foundation and  The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, a member of  The General Evolution Research Group, the  Integral Institute, the  Forge Guild and the one-hundred member Club of Budapest. He is Co-Editor of the  Journal of Conscious Evolution, Associate Editor of Dynamical Psychology, and serves on the Editorial Board of Science & Consciousness Review.

Allan 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.

For a sample of his publications and connections to programs in which he teaches please visit his web site at:

http://www.sourceintegralis.org/
Allan@SourceIntegralis.org

Allan Combs, Ph.D.
Transformative Studies Program
CIIS
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA  94103

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