Luminary: Peter Kingsley

Luminary: Peter Kingsley

Peter Kingsley, PhD, is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. Through his writings as well as talks he speaks straight to the heart and has helped to transform many people's understanding not only of the past, but of who they are.

He is the author of three books—Reality, In the Dark Places of Wisdom, and Ancient Philosophy, Mystery & Magic—which in the space of only a few years have exerted the profoundest and most far-reaching influence outside as well as inside academia. He lectures widely—speaking to Native American elders and physicists, followers of different spiritual traditions and professional scholars, healers and medical practitioners as well as people who very simply are aware of the need to wake up to a reality greater than the one we are used to.

In his workshops and seminars, which are attended by people from all over the world, he takes us back to the source of our existence and shows us the extraordinary riches hidden deep inside the dark spaces of our being—the same spaces out of which this western civilization was born. He shows us that unless we start to understand the sacred purpose of this world we live in, and allow that purpose to inform every aspect of our lives, our civilization has no future.

Peter Kingsley is a Research Associate at Emory University in Atlanta as well as an honorary Professor both at the University of New Mexico and at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

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