DANA SAWYER

Dana Sawyer is professor emeritus of philosophy and world religions at the Maine College of Art and Design and author of biographies of both Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith.  His primary expertise is in Hinduism and Buddhism but for more than twenty years, his work has focused on comparative mysticism, theories of the “perennial philosophy,” and the spiritual value of psychedelic experiences.  His essays have been published by the University of California at Berkeley, the State University of New York, the University of Muenster, Germany, and have appeared in such popular journals as Parabola, Yoga Journal and Tricycle: the Buddhist Review.  He is the author of Aldous Huxley, A Biography (Crossroad, 2002), focusing on Huxley's philosophical development, and most recently The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded (Monkfish, 2024). He lives for six months each year in an off-the-grid cabin in Maine with his artist wife, Stephani.