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Robin Robertson, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Magician, Writer, Professor  

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Robin Robertson has spent a life-time bridging the worlds of psychology, science, business and the arts. He's a clinical psychologist, university professor and writer who has published sixteen books and more than a hundred articles in either psychology or his hobby field of magic. He teaches psychology on-line to graduate level students as an Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before becoming a psychologist, he was a vice-president of software development for a large insurance company, and for the last twenty years, he's been a consultant to a multi-employer pension plan. He has separate undergraduate degrees in mathematics and English literature, as well as an M.A. in counseling psychology, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

Robin's books, often on Jungian psychology or the relationship between psychology and science, have gone through multiple printings, new editions, and foreign translations. Since 1986, he's been a writer, editor, columnist and editorial board member of the Jungian journal Psychological Perspectives (a beautiful journal that speaks not merely to specialists, but to everyone who loves Jung.)

He was heavily involved with the applications of chaos theory in psychology as a writer, editor, speaker, and officer of the "Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences." And, in more recent years, he's been a consulting editor and contributor for the cybernetics journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing (a journal that looks at deep issues about the nature of reality).

He is a life-time amateur magician, and a member of the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, who has published or co-published six magic books and many original effects.

Click here: Robin's bibliography

Aeon Byte Interview with Robin

Heart of Wellness Interview with Robin.mp3


Psychology, Math & Science

Want to purchase some of Robin's books from Amazon.com? Just click on a picture below.

 

New 2011:

The Shadow's Gift: Find Out Who You Really Are

At the End of Time: Prophesy & Revelation - A Spiritual Revelation

 

All Robin's Earlier Books and Translations

 


Sample chapter from Beginner's Guide to Jungian Psychology

Chapter 3 - Dreams


Sample chapter from At the End of Time

Chapter 1 - Visions of the Millennium (illustrations omitted)


Sample chapters from Mining the Soul: From the Inside Out

Chapter 2 - Dreams

Chapter 4 - Synchronicity


Sample chapters from The Shadow's Gift

Introduction (illustrations omitted)

Chapter 5 - The Dark Side (no illustrations)


Sample chapters from Jungian Archetypes

Chapter 9 - Logic's Tower of Babel

Chapter 12 - Background for Goedel's Proof


Sample chapter from Indra's Net

Introduction


A selection of other works

"Stairway to Heaven: Jung & Neoplatonism" (Psychological Perspectives #44)

"Computer Viruses and the Human Mind" (on Dynapsych - see link to full site on paper)

"Number as Archetype" (on Dynapsych)

"Evolution of Jung's Archetypal Reality: Psychology & G. Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form" (Psychological Perspectives #41)

"One, Two, Three . . . Continuity: C. S. Peirce & the Nature of the Continuum" (C&HK, 8:1-2)

"After the Phoenix: Perspectives after 9/11" (Psychological Perspectives #43)


Important Links

Psychological Perspectives (Jungian journal)

I've been associated with Psychological Perspectives in several capacities for many years. Many of my best articles have been published here, including a serialization of my book Frodo's Quest: Seven Paths of the Hero in Lord of the Rings (which ran from issues 50-1 through 52-3). Pdf's of the series can be downloaded at Academia.edu, along with many other of my articles.

California Institute of Integral Studies

CIIS attracts students with a wide variety of deep spiritual beliefs who want their degree to mean something more than just a way to make more money. I teach on-line masters and doctoral level courses in the Transformative Inquiry Department.

Cybernetics & Human Knowing (journal)

A journal of second-order cybernetics, autopoiesis, and semiotics. Many issues feature Louis Kauffman's column "Virtual Logic," which deals with G. Spencer-Brown's "Laws of Form," Kurt Godel's Proof, and many other interrelated issues. I'm a consulting editor and have published several papers here.


Magic Tricks

Magic Books:

Robertson: Handle With Care (1964)

Robertson: Card Modes (1983)

Duffie/Robertson: Card Conspiracy, Vol. 1 (2003)

Duffie/Robertson: Card Conspiracy, Vol. 2 (2003)

Duffie/Robertson: Diamonds from Coal (2004)

       eBook versions of all 3 vols. available at PeterDuffie.com or Lybrary.com

Duffie/Colombini/Robertson: Killer Koncepts (2004)

Magic Videos of Robin Available On-Line


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