Stephen Aronson is a psychotherapist with an eclectic training background ranging from cognitive behavioral therapy to the alchemical approach of Carl Jung. His spiritual life has been a search for verification of a deeper reality underlying the ordinary world of our senses. His personal aim has been to find a way to reconcile science and spirituality which would unite the concept of Universal Intelligence with rationality. After more than a decade in Jungian analysis and over four decades of study and practice in the system of transformational psychology introduced to the West by G. I. Gurdjieff, he has sought to find an approach to illustrate these deep and complex ideas and methods in common language and universally shared experiences.

Dr. Aronson received a B.S. from Penn State University in 1965 and an M.A. and PhD. in clinical psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1970. After initially teaching at Arizona State University and Alfred University, he left academia to pursue immersion in clinical practice with two aims in mind. First, he wished to share from his personal practical experience and not only repeat the theories and impressions of others. Second, he realized that to help others understand themselves he must first understand himself and that only direct experience could extract true understanding from intellectual knowledge.

Steve lives in rural Maine where he retired in 2013 after forty-three years in the practice of psychotherapy, education and training. He has published on the subject of Spiritual Psychology in the Proceedings of the annual All and Everything International Humanities Conference and in Parabola, a magazine dedicated to myth, tradition and the search for meaning. In 1981, he co-authored The Stress Management Workbook, Appleton-Century-Croft, with Michael Mascia, MD, MPH.