Gary Rosenthal, Author

Gary Rosenthal is a licensed marriage and family therapist with master’s degrees in clinical psychology and transpersonal counseling, initially studying at the Jung Institute-Zurich. He has been in practice for more than thirty years, leading groups and consulting with clients throughout the world.

Gary is the author of the recently published book, Re-Visioning Narcissism: Healing Heresies for Polarized Times.

He also authored The You That is Everywhere, a collection of ecstatic love poems praised by fellow poets David Whyte and Coleman Barks. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including 365 Nirvana Here and Now: Living Every Moment in Enlightenment, and What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beats to Hip Hop, a national book award winner (1999).

Gary’s non-fiction psycho-spiritual writing first appeared in the anthology Spiritual Choices, co-edited by the transpersonal philosopher Ken Wilber. Excerpts of his writing on the Pluto/Persephone myth appeared in North Atlantic Books’ Pluto: New Horizons for a Lost Horizon. In addition to an audio-tape—Love and the Poetic Tradition—which arose from the keynote address he gave to the International Enneagram Conference in the year 2000, Gary is also the author of a chapbook, The Museum of the Lord of Shame, as well as another full-length poetry collection, An Amateur’s Guide to the Invisible World. Forthcoming works include: a collection of writing from—and about— the perception of “Transpersonal Will” (The White Latifa and its Citadel: Radical Allowing, Discipline, and the Poetry of Essential Will); and a new poetry collection, Waking from an Age of Amnesia.

Gary formerly lived as a Buddhist monastic, has worked on offshore fishing boats and was once a fire lookout ranger in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.