Allan Leslie Combs

November 6, 1942 – April 5, 2025

Founder of the Society for Consciousness Studies

Allan Combs, Ph.D., was the Emeritus Professor of Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He authored or coauthored of over 250 publications on consciousness, including The Radiance of Being: Understanding the Grand Integral Vision, sharing with Roger Penrose the 1989 best-book award of the British Scientific and Medical Network with his book, The Emperor’s New Mind; Consciousness Explained Better: An Integral Understanding of Consciousness, “The finest book on consciousness in modern times, bar none” (Ken Wilber); Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth, with Ervin Laszlo; Mind in Time, with Ben Goertzel; and Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster with Mark Holland.

Dr. Combs was President Emeritus The Society for Consciousness Studies and co-founder of The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, a member of The General Evolution Research Group, and the one-hundred member Club of Budapest. He edited CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty First Century; Co-Edited The Journal of Conscious Evolution; and served on a variety of Editorial Boards including World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Academia.edu Wikipedia