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Dr. Allan Leslie Combs
Professor of Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies
Society for Consciousness Studies 2021 Conference Presentation Title:
Collective Consciousness: An Evolutionary Future
Abstract: The phrase collective consciousness is taken here in the strong sense of a shared feeling of being together with others in a single or unified field of experience. Instances of collective consciousness have long been reported in spiritual traditions such as the Hindu Kecak chanters of Indonesia, “gathered” meetings of the American Quakers, and advanced states of group meditation, as well as in oral traditions of many indigenous cultures. A number of strong incidences of innersubjectivy are growing today in frequency and may represent a significant vector in the future evolution of consciousness. These ideas are presented in the visual context of cosmic evolution and quantum phenomena such as entanglement.
Bio: Dr. Combs is a neuropsychologist, system theorist, and consciousness researcher at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he directs the Center for Consciousness Studies. He is also Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Combs is the author of over 200 publications on consciousness and the brain. His books include “Consciousness Explained Better,” “The Radiance of Being,” and “Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness” with Ben Goertzel and Mark Germine. He was also the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Graduate Liberal Studies Association. Allan is the Doshi Professor of Consciousness Studies; CIIS Director: Center for Consciousness Studies.
http://sourceintegralis .org/
http://ciis.edu/About_CIIS/Center_for_Consciousness_Studies.html.
Dr. Allan Leslie Combs
Professor of Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies
Society for Consciousness Studies 2021 Conference Presentation Title:
Collective Consciousness: An Evolutionary Future
Abstract: The phrase collective consciousness is taken here in the strong sense of a shared feeling of being together with others in a single or unified field of experience. Instances of collective consciousness have long been reported in spiritual traditions such as the Hindu Kecak chanters of Indonesia, “gathered” meetings of the American Quakers, and advanced states of group meditation, as well as in oral traditions of many indigenous cultures. A number of strong incidences of innersubjectivy are growing today in frequency and may represent a significant vector in the future evolution of consciousness. These ideas are presented in the visual context of cosmic evolution and quantum phenomena such as entanglement.
Bio: Dr. Combs is a neuropsychologist, system theorist, and consciousness researcher at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he directs the Center for Consciousness Studies. He is also Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Combs is the author of over 200 publications on consciousness and the brain. His books include “Consciousness Explained Better,” “The Radiance of Being,” and “Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness” with Ben Goertzel and Mark Germine. He was also the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Graduate Liberal Studies Association. Allan is the Doshi Professor of Consciousness Studies; CIIS Director: Center for Consciousness Studies.
http://sourceintegralis .org/
http://ciis.edu/About_CIIS/Center_for_Consciousness_Studies.html.
