Biography: Chris M. Bache, Ph.D.

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 religions. 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.

Upcoming Events

Chris Bache will be featured in the new WIE Voices from the Edge Speaker Series, "Unleashing the Power of Collective Intelligence," Boston, MA June 25 and in Lenox MA on June 26. For more information: http://www.wie.org/voices.

Selected Books

Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind (State University of New York Press, 2000)
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Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life (Paragon House, 1991)
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Selected Articles

“Stepping into the Fire,” IONS Review, Issue 59, March-May 2002
Discusses transformation at the collective level and the importance of the emergence of a new consciousness to cope with today's crises.
http://www.noetic.org/ions/publications/recent_articles.htm#Issue59/

“The Noetic Core of Sustainability,” IONS Review, Issue 57, September-November 2001
Illuminates the world crisis as being a crisis of consciousness.
http://www.noetic.org/ions/publications/r57Bache.htm/

Websites

http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/files_people/Bache_Chris.htm/