Frank Poletti, M.A., is both the coordinator for Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research (CTR) and an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy graduate school in California, where he teaches courses on evolutionary psychology and consciousness studies.

Poletti is also a Ph.D. student at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he studies how archetypal astrology (as taught by Richard Tarnas) can be used to look at specific historical and evolutionary developments in humanity's collective psyche. He has published several scholarly articles in World Futures and is a periodic presenter at academic conferences.