Biography

Professor Emeritus Allan Leslie Combs, PhD, is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist at The California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of over 200 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain, and is the Founder and Past President of the International Society for Consciousness Studies, as well as the recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award for advances in consciousness studies. He is Editor of the journals, CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century, and The Journal of Conscious Evolution. He was also the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies.

Professor Combs’ most widely read books include Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness; Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster (with Mark Holland); and Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth (with Ervin Laszlo).