Chris Largent has taught university-level philosophy and comparative religion for thirty-five years. He is an advisor for interfaith studies and graduate degrees on mysticism, and has given seminars at the New York Open Center, the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, the School for Practical Philosophy in New York, Chicago's Crossroads Center for Faith and Work, the World Business Academy, the Global Structures Convocation in Washington DC, the American Academy of Religion, the Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto, the Wainwright House in New York, the Global Renaissance Alliance in Seattle, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the American Society for Quality Management, and the famed treatment center in Wickenburg, Arizona, the Meadows.
He has given lectures on mysticism and the interface of science and religion in Chicago and on political activism in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, where he taught the historical background and structure of the Constitution for Marianne Williamson's Global Renaissance Alliance, training citizen lobbyists for Representative Dennis Kucinich's proposed Cabinet-level Peace Department.
Chris has been a member of many professional and activist organizations, including the American Philosophical Association, the American Academy of Religion, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Committee for the International Year of Tibet, the Institute for the Arts of Democracy, the Living Economy Network, Message to the Media, and the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology.
Chris has also been a bank manager, a marketing manager, co-owner of a publishing house, consulting editor for Prentice-Hall, Berrett-Koehler, Chrysalis Books, and Quest Books, a radio talk-show host on alternative healing, a hypnotherapist, and a student of symbol systems
He has also been an advisor/trainer to businesses on diversity, communication, conflict resolution, time management, stress management, problem-solving, and team building. Early in the 21st Century, he worked as a workforce development consultant, having had contracts with the Delaware Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Labor, and Public/Private Ventures, a social-policy-research nonprofit headquartered in Philadelphia. He currently does consulting on the future of community leadership.
Author of many magazine articles and poems, he is also co-author (with Denise Breton) of The Soul of Economies: Spiritual Evolution Goes to the Marketplace (Idea House, 1991), The Paradigm Conspiracy: Why Our Social Systems Violate Our Human Potential and How We Can Change Them (Hazelden, 1996), and Love, Soul, and Freedom: Dancing with Rumi on the Mystic Path (Hazelden, 1998) — books praised by many thinkers, including the Dalai Lama, Stephen Covey, Marianne Williamson, Paul Kivel, Barbara Brennan, Amitai Etzioni, Willis Harman, Ravi Batra, Charles Tart, Anatoly Ivanov (perestroika leader and professor at Moscow University), and famed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He was a contributor to the Georg and Trisha Feuerstein’s Voices on the Threshold of Tomorrow and to Marianne Williamson’s Imagine. He was also chosen, along with world religious leaders, to contribute to From the Ashes: A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America (Rodale, 2001), the profits from the book going to disaster relief funds.
Chris may be contacted at: ideahse@aol.com.
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