Debashish Banerji, PhD, is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. He has authored and edited books on figures of “the Bengal Renaissance,” Critical Posthumanism, Integral Yoga Psychology and on several creative and art-related projects, including Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (2012) and Time-Steps of the Cosmic Horse: Meditations on the Contemplative Philosophy of the Great Forest Upanishad (2024). He has curated over fifteen exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art and has written and produced a documentary film, Darshan: The Living Art of India (2018).