Talk:Jorge Ferrer

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Jorge Ferrer sent me an update of his bio for our own wiki, I think the updates should also be reflected here, see below, and thanks for helping out:

Jorge N Ferrer, Ph.D., is chair of the department of East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. Ferrer is the author of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (SUNY Press, 2002), and co-editor of The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies (SUNY Press, 2008).

He is also the author of many articles and book chapters on transpersonal studies, and edited a monographic issue of ReVision on “New Horizons in Contemporary Spirituality.” His writings have appeared in The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, The Journal of Transformative Education, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, ReVision: The Journal of Consciousness and Transformation, The Scientific and Medical Network Review, The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, The Salamander Review, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Kosmos: An Integral Approach to Global Awakening, and Tikkun: Politics, Spirituality, Culture, among other publications. He currently serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, ReVision, Spirituality and Health International, The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, The Journal of Transpersonal Research, and Journal of Men: Masculinites and Spirituality.

A leading scholar on Transformative Practices and Integral Epistemology at the Esalen Center for Theory and Research California, he also served as member of the Planning Committee of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship's BASE (Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement).

Ferrer teaches courses on transpersonal studies, embodied spiritual inquiry, comparative mysticism, integral development, theoretical research, and spiritual perspectives on sexuality and relationships, as well as offers workshops, seminars, and presentations on integral spirituality and education both nationally and internationally. Featured in The Journal of Transformative Education, Religion & Education, and Journal of Holistic Education, his participatory integral pedagogy is the focus is the focus of Yoshiharu Nakagawa and Yoshiko Matsuda’s Transformative Inquiry: An Integral Approach (Kyoto, Japan: Institute of Human Sciences, 2010), an anthology of writings based on Ferrer’s recent teaching at Ritsumekian University, Kyoto.

In 2000, Ferrer received the received the Fetzer Institute’s Presidential Award for his seminal work on consciousness studies. Since 2003 he is an advisor to the Salamander Fund for the Advanced Study of Consciousness, and in 2009 he became an advisor to the organization Religions for Peace at the United Nations on a research project aimed at solving global interreligious conflict., and than —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbauwens (talk • contribs) 03:43, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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needs reduction
Though the page is relatively brief, it has a number of strikes against it. Follows my rationale.

The content reads as about evenly divided between "Dr Ferrer is a god amongst men" (the peacocks are flocking) and "the participatory approach would save us all if we were only wise enough to listen."

Per the latter: If the info is significant to "participatory theory," then it belongs in Participatory theory and Ferrer's contributions can be summarized here. If not, it doesn't belong here at all.

The list of awards and honorifics has no particular place here — a 2010 convention panel that discussed a book he co-edited is of little interest to anyone (ask any author). The list is pretty much unsourced, so subject to removal. Really, though, if anyone cares, that stuff belongs on Ferrer's .edu page or APA entry, certainly not in a general-audience encyclopedia, and trying to sneak it in as "biographical" is a red flag to the editor's intent.

There are zero redirects to Jorge Ferrer. In the past 30 days, the page has had 363 views (including mine), compared to 2,197 for List of fictional felines.

It has taken huge leaps in size due to the efforts of two particular editors, the most recent indicating his level of objectivity by noting that
 * I updated Dr. Jorge N. Ferrer's page to better represent his tremendous contribution to the field of transpersonal psychology

Ferrer's various books are mentioned multiple times, with every word of every subtitle, which artificially inflates the size (and thus "importance") of the page. For instance, I see no reason that any title should receive full citation in both the bibliography AND as a reference note. Weeb Dingle (talk) 20:28, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Much of the page's content has been lifted word-for-word from Ferrer's faculty page at CIIS, lacking minimal effort to paraphrase. Weeb Dingle (talk) 21:18, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * AGREE. This page should be drastically reduced. It is pure marketing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blavisrat (talk • contribs) 15:20, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I corrected your formatting and added the signature. See WP:SIGN and WP:INDENT.
 * And I agree too. --Hob Gadling (talk) 15:34, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Unsourced material
Citation is needed for the 2010 AAR panel on The Participatory Turn. The AAR program cites this session on page 34 in the program, see https://pittsarchives.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rg057/web/programbooks/2010_ProgramBookAM_AAR.pdf Does this hold up as a reference or is too weak? --Hawol (talk) 19:29, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The Fetzer Institute's Presidential Award and the United Nations Religions for Peace Project is confirmed by the Contributors section to Parsons (2012). See the following link: https://books.google.no/books?id=WdtdDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%27%27Being+spiritual+but+not+religious.+Past,+Present,+Future%22&hl=no&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false --Hawol (talk) 15:15, 27 August 2022 (UTC)