Zayin Cabot is a scholar-practitioner. He holds a B.A. in comparative philosophy from the University of Hawaiʻi and a Ph.D. in East–West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where his doctoral work focused on comparative philosophy of religion under the mentorship of Jorge Ferrer. He taught East–West Psychology at CIIS (2012–2015) and comparative philosophy and religion at California State University, East Bay (2013–2019), then led learning and leadership development in industry and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His first book, Ecologies of Participation: Agents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners (Lexington, 2018), laid the groundwork for this body of work. His practicing life is a matter of record rather than affiliation: zazen begun in his late twenties; close training with Michael Harner; fourteen years with Malidoma Somé, including initiation as a diviner and elder in the West African Dagara tradition; ongoing practice in Buddhist and nondual Śaiva communities. He lives with his family in the Bay Area, hosts the This Spiritual Life podcast, and sometimes guides people in a practice he calls embodied liberation.
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The rest of this site is the work, and the work is the better introduction:
- foundations: the basic ideas, briefly
- tending: the heart of it, one verb
- The podcast: conversations with scholars and practitioners around the world
- Publications: the fixed record of books, chapters, articles, and papers
- Letters: occasional updates by email, no schedule, no spam
- How to cite: everything here is by Zayin Cabot (ORCID 0009-0005-0260-4136), and the person is who you cite
A longer telling of how this work emerged, the story rather than the CV, will live in the essays.