Daniel Washburn

The papers on this site are organized under the books I am working on:

Easy Ecstasy:  Using Trance to Produce Spiritual Experience. 
  Hypnotic methods for reaching mystical states

Christianity is the Cultivation of Love. 
  Papers on the meaning of Christianity and how to cultivate love

Jesus and Esoteric Judaism. 
  Merkabah mysticism in early Christianity, Shi’ur Qomah, Paul’s ascension into heaven, etc.                                                     

I’m a graduate of Harvard University and have an MA in psychology from Brandeis University. At Brandeis I was a teaching assistant to the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow.  After getting my degrees I did a 2 year internship in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC.  I did not go on in Psych, however. I went forward with data analysis, statistics, and computers.  I worked my way up to be a Manager of Satellite Traffic at COMSAT, the Communications Satellite Corporation.  From there I worked for 18 years as a Senior Systems Analyst at the FBI.  I retired in 2013 and have been pursuing my interests in the intersection of psychology and spirituality.