About Speaker

Edward Bruce Bynum, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in the Amherst Massachusetts area. Recent books in psychology include Dark Light Consciousness, Our African Unconscious, The Dreamlife of Families, and The Roots of Transcendence. Books in poetry include The First Bird, The Magdalene Poems: Love Letters of Jesus the Christ and Mary Magdalene, The Luminous Heretic, and Gospel of the Dark Orisha. His book Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions won the national Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award in 2010. He received the Abraham H. Maslow Award from the American Psychological Association for “an outstanding and lasting contribution to the exploration of the farther reaches of the human spirit.” His website is: www.obeliskfoundation.com. His books can also be found at: amazon books /author page/Edward-Bruce-Bynum.