Jim Garrison is an American Author

Author

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, Theologian and founder of the State of the World Forum. He is President of Wisdom University.

Biography

Jim Garrison serves as President of Wisdom University, a graduate school providing Masters and Doctoral degrees in the world wisdom traditions. The university has a refined pedagogy that combines deep intellectual work with creative artistic expression. University courses are offered worldwide and are designed to catalyze what Plato called the “enlargement of the soul.”

Garrison also serves as President of the State of the World Forum, a San Francisco based non-profit institution created to establish a global network of leaders dedicated to creating a more sustainable global civilization. With President Gorbachev as its Convening Chairman, the Forum convenes leaders from around the world and a spectrum of disciplines to its annual and regional conferences; creates action-oriented strategic initiatives, and has catalyzed the creation of several independent organizations.

Garrison was born in China of Baptist missionary parents and grew up in Taiwan. After returning to the US, he began college at Pepperdine University (1969-70), attended the University of Tel Aviv in 1972, and received a B.A. magna cum laude in World History from the Santa Clara University (1973). He then received a double M.T.S. in Christology and History of Religion from Harvard Divinity School (1975); and a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University (1982).

Garrison was the founder of the Radiation and Health Information Service in 1978; founder of East West Reach in 1980; and he served as Executive Director of the Esalen Institute Soviet American Exchange Program from 1985-1990. In 1991, he founded the International Foreign Policy Institute with Eduard Shevardnadze. He founded and served as President of the Gorbachev Foundation/ USA in 1992, at the request of Mr. Gorbachev, and which set the stage for the establishment in 1995 of the State of the World Forum. He joined Wisdom University in 2005.

Garrison published his first book in 1980 on The Plutonium Culture (SCM). This was followed by The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima (SCM/1982); The Russian Threat: Myths and Realities (Gateway Books/ 1983); The New Diplomats (Resurgence Press/1984); Civilization and the Transformation of Power (Paraview Press/2000); and America As Empire (Barrett Koehler/2004). His current book, not yet published, is entitled "Return of Gaia: Climate Turbulence and the Primordial Mind."

Works

Articles

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/its-the-weather-not-the-d_b_973922.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/osama-bin-laden-as-the-fi_b_859293.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/the-perfect-ecotechnical-_b_837475.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/obama-the-feckless_b_828136.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/clinton-the-perfect-repub_b_720250.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/from-climate-change-to-cl_b_701126.html

Books

• America As Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? - 2004
• Civilization and the Transformation of Power -2000
• The New Diplomats - 1984
• The Russian Threat: Myths and Realities - 1983
• Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima - 1982
• The Plutonium Culture - 1980

External links

• https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/index.html
• http://www.worldforum.org