Jacob Sherman is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness and chair of the department at CIIS. He taught previously at King’s College London and the University of Cambridge. By training a philosopher, theologian, and religious studies scholar, he is the author of Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy, and editor, with Jorge Ferrer, of The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies. His writings have appeared in publications such as the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Modern Theology, and Theology and Science. He writes and lectures frequently on topics related to contemplative traditions, metaphysics, disenchantment and re-enchantment, philosophy and poetics, and nonreductive approaches to understanding our relation to nature. He is currently writing on a new manuscript entitled The Book of Nature: From Contemplative Antiquity to Integral Ecology.