Jenny Wade is a multi-disciplinary professional whose career has spanned diverse areas with an emphasis on higher values that produce real-world results, especially the realization of human potential individually and collectively.
Dr. Wade is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, a researcher, organization and leadership development consultant, and developmental psychologist specializing the structuring of consciousness in normal and non-ordinary states and related transformative processes. The Millennium Middle School in San Francisco based their curriculum on her developmental theory, and she designed an advanced leadership program for His Serene Highness Prince Alfred of Leichtenstein and the International Peace Foundation. She is the author of numerous popular, trade, and academic articles, and the books Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil and Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness. Wade is an international speaker and workshop presenter to businesses, universities, and popular audiences on leadership effectiveness, higher levels of human capacity, and transformational development.
During this episode, Jenny talks with Victoria Fenton about:
- what is consciousness - the 4 things that define consciousness
- the six different states of normal, adult consciousness
- altered consciousness
- higher consciousness
- preconception and fetal sentience
- near-death-experience consciousness
- accessing higher consciousness through sex
- the Battle Consciousness and its potential for harnessing
- astronomy and Norse / pagan / euro mythology (yes: really!!)
You can find Jenny's work at:
Her book is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Changes-Mind-Consciousness-Philosophy-Psychology/dp/0791428494?ref_=ast_sto_dp
Recent open-access articles are listed below:
2021. Wade, J. The varieties of spiritual experiences triggered by sex: A systematic review of the empirical literature. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(1), 58-83.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol40/iss1/8/
Wade, J. (2022). Life before birth: A thematic analysis of memories of coming into life, part 1: Recollections of another realm. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/advance-archive/53/
Wade, J. (2022). Life before birth: A thematic analysis of memories of coming into life, part 2: Recollections of fetal life and birth. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/advance-archive/54/
2021. Wade, J. Going berserk, running amok, and the extraordinary capabilities and invulnerability of battle trance. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2), 1-30.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol40/iss2/3/
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