The Mind of the Universe, Professor Chris Bache

***This is a recorded session, with a live introduction from Colin Campbell and Rachel Fleming***

On retiring from academia, Chris Bache wrote his recent book, Diamonds From Heaven, about how he came to his profound understanding of the nature of the universe, of reality, of evolution, and the role of the human within it. Detailing his experiences with high level dosage of LSD over many years, he gives a vision for the future human that is animistic at the cosmological scale. Not to be missed.

Chris Bache is one of the contributors on our apprenticeship programme in Contemporary Animism

Chris Bache

Chris Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles – a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn – a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom – an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe – the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.