Publications

Books, articles, and chapters.

Both monographs are open access. Links lead to the publisher’s version wherever one exists.

01Academic and public

Books

  1. Cover of Erratic Intelligence: Leadership in the Age of AI

    Public scholarship

    Erratic Intelligence: Leadership in the Age of AI. Errāticus Press, 2026. The first volume of the Technopsychology Trilogy. Book details and ordering

  2. Cover of Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism

    Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism: The Skullward Leap Technique and the Quest for Vitality. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Open access. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350428843

  3. Cover of The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino

    The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino: Italian Perspectives on Apocalypse and Rebirth in the Modern Study of Religion. Numen Book Series 173. Brill, 2021. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004457720

Praise for Erratic Intelligence

“Erratic Intelligence offers penetrating insight into where we are and what happens next if we continue to embrace efficiency as our goal.”

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School, and author of Right Kind of Wrong

“Before you read anything else about AI, read this. It may change your life.”

Barry Schwartz, Research Associate, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and co-author of Practical Wisdom and Choose Wisely

“For all the dilemmas and uncertainty ahead, he gives us a path forward and a reason to believe in something better.”

Brad Harris, Professor of Management and Associate Dean, MBA/EMBA Programs, HEC Paris

02Journals

Articles

  1. “Crisis, Culture, and Creation: Ernesto de Martino’s Ethos of Transcendence Beyond Cassirer and Heidegger.” CoSMo 26 (2025): 117–134. Open access. https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/12176
  2. “Meditation Between Open Skies and Deep Ravines: Revisiting the Ethos of Freedom in Great Perfection (Dzogchen) Buddhism.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 45 (2022): 39–71. View at Peeters
  3. “From Grounded Identity to Receptive Creativity: The Mythical-Historical Formation of the Nyingma School and the Potential of Collective Trauma.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 30 (2020): 233–269. https://doi.org/10.16893/IJBTC.2020.06.30.1.233
  4. “Luminous Bodies, Playful Children, and Abusive Grandmothers: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disorganized Attachment in the Early History of Great Perfection (rDzogs chen) Buddhism.” Religions 11, no. 3 (2020): 114. Open access. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11030114
  5. “When Buddhas Dissociate: A Psychological Perspective on the Origins of Great Perfection Buddhism (rDzogs chen).” Cogent Psychology 6, no. 1 (2019): 1707055. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2019.1707055
  6. “The 7E Model of the Human Mind: Articulating a Plastic Self for the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 19 (2019): 450–476. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340069
  7. “A Parapsychologist, an Anthropologist, and a Vitalist Walk into a Laboratory: Ernesto de Martino, Mircea Eliade, and a Forgotten Chapter in the Disciplinary History of Religious Studies.” Religions 10, no. 5 (2019): 304. Open access. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10050304

03Edited volumes

Book chapters

  1. “Direct Transcendence: A Cognitive Perspective on Meditation as an Intentional Transformative Experience.” In Intentional Transformative Experiences, 47–70. De Gruyter, 2024. Open access. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110909883-003
  2. “Framing the Sky of Skullward Leap: Meditation as a Contemplative System.” In Traditions, Translations and Transitions in the Cultural History of Tibet, the Himalayas and Mongolia, 143–160. ISMEO, 2024.
  3. “From Bardo to Brain: Tibetan Contemplation Meets Predictive Processing.” In Contemplative Studies in Tibetan Context, edited by Michael Sheehy and Marc-Henri Deroche. Brill, in press.

04Beyond the university

Public scholarship

  1. “Teaching with AI: Revolutionising Education While Honouring Tradition.” Teaching@Sydney, University of Sydney, 2024. Read the essay

05Reviews

Review

  1. Review of Philippe Bornet, Rites et pratiques de l’hospitalité (2010). Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies (2016).

ProfilesORCID University of Sydney profile