Christopher Bache

Christopher M. Bache is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. As an award-winning teacher, Chris explores the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states in his work. Chris has written three books: Lifecycles – a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn – a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy; and The Living Classroom, an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness. His forthcoming book is LSD and the Mind of the Universe (Dec, 2019).