AB and MA General Experimental Psychology and Asian Studies, Southern Methodist Univ;
Asian languages(Hindi/Urdu), University of Rochester; Resident Graduate, Harvard Divinity School; PhD in the History and Philosophy of Psychology, University Professors Program, Boston University. Also, 1983 Lowell Lecturer for the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Boston Medical Library; 1984 Lecturer on The Varieties of Religious Experience, Harvard Divinity School; 1986 Gardner Murphy Memorial Lecturer for the American Society for Psychical Research. 1993-present, Wilfred Gould Rice Lecturer on Psychology and Religion, for the Swedenborg Society at Harvard University; Author of <William James on Exceptional Mental States>(1982); w/ B. White, R Wolfe, <Stanley Cobb: Builder of the Modern Neurosciences>(1984); w/ Robert Wozniak (eds); <Pure Experience: The Response to William James> (1996); <William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin>(1996);(1997), <Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America>; (1999); <The Mystery of Personality: A History of Dynamic Theories> (2009); <William James and the Spiritual Roots of American Pragmatism> (Forthcoming). Currently, Executive Faculty, Saybrook Graduate School; Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Senior Psychologist on the Psychiatry Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Founder/Director of the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Religion.

Recent Publications:

Taylor, E.I. (2008). James’s pure experience and Samadhi of Samkhya-Yoga. In Rao, R.(ed). Handbook of Indian Psychology. New Delhi: Cambridge Univ. Press/India.

Taylor, EI & Sugg, J. (2008). The dependence of yoga psychology on the Samkhya metaphysic. In Rao, R.(ed). Handbook of Indian Psychology. New Delhi: Cambridge Univ. Press/India.

Taylor, E.I. (2008).Review of Carl von Essen’s The Hunter’s Trance: Nature, Spirit, and Ecology. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books. The Swedenborg Messenger, January 2008.

Taylor, E. I. (2008). Review of Joseph J. Pear’s (2007). A Historical and Contemporary Look at Psychological Systems. Lawrence Erlbaum Pub: Mahwah, NJ. 425 pp. PsyCritiques, on-line for the American Psychological Assn..

Taylor, E.I. (2008). Review of Jeffrey Kripal’s Esalen: The religion of no-religion. PsyCritiques, on-line for the American Psychological Assn.

Taylor, E.I. (2009). The mystery of personality: A history of dynamic theories. New Your: Springer. In press (June release).

Taylor, E. I. (2009) The Zen Doctrine of No-Method. Accepted for publication in The Humanistic Psychologist, Journal of the Society for Humanistic Psychology in the American Psychological Association. In press. Fall ‘09.

Taylor, E.I. (2009). Review of Francesco Bourdogna’s William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, science, and boundaries of knowledge. (2008). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. In press.