Welcome, friend. This is the home page of Victor Daniels, author and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University in Northern California. My interests combine several branches of psychology, transpersonal spiritual traditions, ecology, anthropology and philosophy—especially political and economic philosophy. Before I became a psychologist I was going to be an architect. I designed several buildings but built only one—my own house. Now I’m interested in the architecture and process of natural systems, politics and economics.

Our consciousness and cultures are intertwined in countless ways. The stories, rules and habits of the cultures we know and the groups we belong to structure our perception and behavior. Often we have no clue that this is happening–like a fish that doesn’t know what “water” is, because it doesn’t know anything else. This site aims to shed light on all that.

One side of an ancient debate holds that if we want to improve society we have to begin by transforming our own consciousness. The other side says that we have to start by changing the social conditions that affect our lives—which in turn affect our consciousness. Today any systems theorist will tell you that we have to do both. That everything we do both internally and externally reverberates outward like the ring of waves that results from a rock thrown into a pond. And from the multiple feedback loops that many of our actions trigger. Many people call that karma, or “what goes around comes around.” This site addresses both, with the tacit and explicit understanding that they’re part of a unitary whole.

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OTHER RELATED WEBSITES
Four of the books my wife Kooch N. Daniels and I have written have their own websites that you may enjoy. (Clicking on their cover images in the book carousel below takes you to their page at Amazon. The websites reached from the links below are more extensive.) Also, there is my university website that I have neglected recently. To visit any of them, click below:

 MATRIX MEDITATIONS. A step-by-step guide to the four principal meditative forms, and a matrix analogous to that of the I. Ching for contemplative meditation about your life and concerns,.

AWAKENING THE CHAKRAS: The Seven Energy Centers in Your Daily Life. The definitive guide to understanding and realizing the potential of chakra energies in yourself and others,

SACRED MYSTERIES: The Chakra Oracle. Cards of extraordinary beauty and a deeply insightful book on the chakras keyed to the cards. (See the video flipthrough of the deck!)

TAROT AT A CROSSROADS: The Unexpected Meeting of Tarot and Psychology. A useful and beautiful resource for Tarot readers and also counselors and psychotherapists who wish to use visual imagery in their work with clients.