Jim Fournier

(May 30, 1961 - 6:37 p.m. EDT - Washington, DC)

Jim is a graduate student studying Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies with Rick Tarnas. A self-described "design scientist," his undergraduate work was in physics and chemistry and he went on to study architecture at MIT. In 1984 Jim started a design firm in Vermont. The business grew rapidly to become a manufacturing and export company which he ran for ten years before moving to San Francisco in 1995. His design work earned him numerous international awards and induction into the Industrial Design Society of America where he served as the ecology editor of the IDSA journal, Innovation. Jim has traveled extensively throughout the United States and other parts of the world. His interests include sustainable development, computer graphic animation, sacred geometry, astrology, entheobotany and transpersonal psychology, which he studied with the internationally recognized psychiatrist Stan Grof.