Ana Perez-Chisti, Ph.D.
- Ph.D., Religion and Philosophy, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. 1998
- M.A., Psychology and Spirituality, Holy Names College, Oakland, CA. 1991
- B.A., Music, Mills College for Women, Oakland, CA. 1984
- M.H., Herbal Medicine, Dominican College, Vancouver, British Columbia. 1974
Ana is a core Faculty member. She is also a Professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, teaching in the Distant Learning Program in the Department of Religion and Philosophy. She specializes in subjects such as Comparative World Religions, the Mystical Traditions, Ethics, Eastern and Western Philosophy, Women Saints and Prophets-East and West, Jungian Psychology, Psycho-spiritual Synthesis, Culture and Consciousness and Contemporary and Wisdom Psychologies.
Ana has worked as a counselor in the field of homeless shelter support, hospice care, prison reform and emergency food distribution in areas of the world where extreme conditions of natural disaster, war, and political upheaval have occurred. She is an ordained minister, lineage teacher (Murshida), and National Representative of the Sufi Movement International of the USA, which displays a website at the address of www.sufimovement.net.
Ana has directed a World Religions program for ministerial ordination for over thirty years preparing hundreds of students in spiritual ethics and counseling procedures that permit them to move into Chaplaincy and Directorial positions around the globe. She is an international lecturer, writer and a phenomenological/hermeneutic researcher with interests in French, Pali, Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese languages. She has maintained a private counseling practice in the East Bay for 15 years and has studied Dance,Yoga, Kendo (Martial Art of the Sword) and holds a black belt in Shorin-Ryu Karate.
Her latest academic interest is to publish her two major texts this year which are: Foundations of the Buddha's Teachings-Abhidhamma and its Causation, Correlation and Liberation and Sufi Akbar-The First Mogul Interfaith King.
