David Odorisio
Degrees
- Ph.D., East-West Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
- M.A., Theology (History of Christian Spirituality), Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN
- B.A., Religious Studies, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA
David M. Odorisio, PhD, serves as Associate Professor and Chair of Pacifica’s Psychology, Religion, and Consciousness MA/PhD program. David has edited five volumes, including: Mysticism and the Margins: From the Hip-Hop Underground to the Psychedelic Reformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025); Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters (Liturgical Press, 2024); A New Gnosis: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart (Fons Vitae, 2021); and co-editor of Depth Psychology and Mysticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He has published in The Merton Annual, The Merton Seasonal, Quadrant, Jung Journal, Philosophy East and West, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, and The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. His present research project examines the transformation of consciousness in the inter-religious mysticism of 20th c. Trappist monk and spiritual author, Thomas Merton.
