Sean Kelly

Metatheory Team; Complex Thought Advisor Sean Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, having received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in 1988. Before coming to CIIS in 1997, he taught in Canada at the University of Windsor, the University of Ottawa, and Carleton University. He is the author of Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation; Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era; and Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness; co-editor (with Richard Tarnas) of Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof; (with Donald Rothberg) of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers; and (with Sam Mickey and Adam Robbert) of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era. He is also co-translator of French thinker Edgar Morin’s book, Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium. Sean’s current research areas include the evolution of consciousness, integral ecologies, and transpersonal and integral theory. Along with his more academic pursuits, Sean has trained intensively in the Chinese internal arts (taiji, bagua, and xingyi) and has been teaching taiji since 1990. He has also worked closely with Joanna Macy and is a trained facilitator in The Work that Reconnects.