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David Ulansey is a Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University, and has taught at Princeton, Barnard College (Columbia University), Boston University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vermont, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. David is a historian of religion specializing in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean. He is particularly interested in the Mystery religions, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, ancient astronomy and cosmology, and the relationship between religion, myth, and the evolution of consciousness. He also teaches courses in Jungian thought, and has been a frequent lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of THE ORIGINS OF THE MITHRAIC MYSTERIES: COSMOLOGY AND SALVATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (Oxford University Press, 1989), as well as numerous articles in publications ranging from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN to the JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. David is also the creator and webmaster of MASSEXTINCTION.NET ( http://www.massextinction.net ), the Web's oldest and most comprehensive source of information on the current mass extinction crisis, and is the founder of the Species Alliance, a nonprofit environmental organization that is currently completing a major documentary film on the extinction crisis, CALL OF LIFE, scheduled for release in January 2009 ( http://www.speciesalliance.org ) . He is also the co-founder of the Planetwork Project on information technology and global change ( http://www.planetwork.net/background.html ). David can be found on Tribe.net at http://people.tribe.net/dreamlion.
