Helmut Wautischer received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Graz, Austria, where he studied with Rudolf Haller and Ernst Topitsch. He has published essays in numerous venues, such as Polylog, Prima Philosophia, Dialogue and Humanism, Anthropology of Consciousness, Shaman, Journal of Ritual Studies, and Journal of Ethical Studies. He presented papers at venues, such as the World Congresses of Philosophy (Moscow 1993, Boston 1998, Istanbul 2003, Athens 2013), Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson), American Philosophical Association, American Anthropological Association, the Austrian Association for Philosophy, International Conference on the Study of Shamanism and Alternative Modes of Healing, and others. Currently he serves as president of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America (www.karljaspers.us), is co-Editor (with Alan M. Olson) of the online journal Existenz (www.existenz.us), and is Managing Editor of the Paideia Project at Boston University (www.bu.edu/paideia).