Bahman A.K. Shirazi is former director of graduate studies at California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies is a private institution of higher education founded in 1968 and based in San Francisco, California. It currently operates in three locations just south of the Civic Center district...

(CIIS). He has been actively affiliated with that organisation since 1983. His doctoral dissertation, "Self in Integral Psychology" was the first of its kind in the field of integral psychology

Integral psychology

Integral psychology is psychology that presents an all-encompassing holistic rather than an exclusivist or reductive approach. It includes both lower, ordinary, and spiritual or transcendent states of consciousness. Important writers in the field of integral psychology are Sri Aurobindo, Indra...

. His work draws from the approach of Haridas Chaudhuri

Haridas Chaudhuri

Haridas Chaudhuri , Bengali integral philosopher, was a correspondent with Sri Aurobindo and the founder of the California Institute of Integral Studies . He was born in Kolkata. He studied at the Scottish Church College and later at the University of Calcutta from where he earned his doctorate in...

, focusing on an integrative approach to psychology, with the goal of developing insights into the nature of human psychospiritual development and integral self-realization. He has taught at several San francisco Bay Area Universities: Californian Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), and formelry at John F. Kennedy University(JFKU), and Domincan University of California.

Partial bibliography

• Shirazi, Bahman (2011) Integral Education: Founding Vision and Principles. Integral Review, 7 (1), June 2011.

http://integral-review.org/current_issue/index.asp

• Shirazi, Bahman (2010) Wholeness, Integration of personality, and Conscious Evolution in Integral Psychology. ReVision Journal, 32 (1), Spring 2010.

• Shirazi, Bahman (2010) The Sufi Path of Self-transformation. in Cornelissen, Matthijs, Mishra, Girishwar, and Varma, Suneet (Eds.) Foundations of Indian Psychology, volume one. New Delhi: Pearson Publications.

• Shirazi, Bahman (2005). Integral Psychology: Psychology of the Whole Being. In Consciousness & Healing: An Anthology of Integral Medicine Editors: Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., Tina Amorok, MA, Psy.D cand. & Marc Micozzi, MD, Ph.D, 2005).

• Shirazi, Bahman (2004). Transformation of Consciousness in Sufism. Psychology: Traditional, Spiritual, contemporary Vol.1, No. 3, Spring 2004.

• Shirazi, Bahman (2004). Dimensions of Integral Psychology. In Unity in Diversity: Fifty years of cultural integration and more. San Francisco, CA: Cultural Integration Fellowship, 2004.

• Shirazi, Bahman (2001) "Integral psychology, metaphors and processes of personal integration", Cornelissen, Matthijs (Ed.) Consciousness and Its Transformation, Pondicherry: http://ipi.org.in/texts/ip2/ip2-1.2-.htm

Journal Special Issue Editing

Editor: Special Issue of Integral Review, Vol. 7 (#1), June 2011

Editor: Special Issue of ReVision Journal, Vol. 32 (#1), Spring 2010

Audiovisual Media

Associate Producer: Integral Consciousness. Documentary Film. Director, Mark Kitchell. Alan Baiss (producer) ©2008

External links

• AUM Presenter: Bahman Shirazi