Could our collective potential for learning be almost unlimited? This religious studies professor describes his discovery that the courses he taught had a “mind” of their own. Not only did a group field develop between himself and his students in each class, but every year, students would enter the class at a higher level. Bache explores how our recognition that the mind is collective radically changes the way we think of ourselves as individuals—and could be the foundation for a new human society.
BIO
Chris Bache has been a professor of religious studies at Youngstown State University for over two decades. He teaches in transpersonal studies, comparative spirituality, consciousness research, and Eastern religion. An award-winning teacher, his work explores the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is also an adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and for two years was the Director of Transformative Learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Chris has written one of the groundbreaking books in the growing field of collective consciousness, Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind, which was published by SUNY Press in 2000. In addition, he has written Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life (Paragon House, 1990).
For over twenty years, he has worked with sacred medicines, and has been a Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner for six years. He is also the proud father of three children.
