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Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University,
former Visiting Professor at Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership in
Monterrey, Mexico, and former Director of the Center for the study of New
Religions at The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He was
educated in philosophy at Harvard, Yale and the University of Freiburg, Germany.
He has also served as Research Associate at the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, as a Research Fellow at Union Theological Seminary, as Adjunct
Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of California Medical School and
as guest Professor of Religious Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris (1992).
He is the author of
The New Religions,
a pioneering study of the new American spirituality,
The Wisdom of Love,
Money and the Meaning of Life,
A Sense of the Cosmos,
Lost Christianity,
The Heart of Philosophy,
The Way of the Physician,
Time and the Soul,
Sorcerers, a novel,
The American Soul ,
Why Can't We Be Good? and
The Essential Marcus Aurelius.
He was also General Editor of the Penguin Metaphysical Library, a highly
acclaimed selection of sixteen reprinted texts dealing with the contemporary
search for spiritual ideas and practice. In addition, he has been general
editor of the Element Books series, The Spirit of Philosophy-aimed at
re-positioning the teachings of the great philosophers of the West to show
their relevance to the modern spiritual quest. Among the other books he has
authored or edited:
The Tao Te Ching (Introductory Essay),
Consciousness and Tradition,
Real Philosophy,
Modern Esoteric Spirituality and many
others.
In addition to his teaching and writing, he serves as a consultant in the fields
of business, psychology, education, medical ethics and philanthropy, and is
increasingly well known as an organizer and moderator of conferences in these
fields. He has also been featured on Bill Moyers' acclaimed PBS series,
"A World of Ideas."
His most recent book
What Is God?,
was published by Tarcher/Putnam in December of 2009.
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