Leila Kincaid

California Institute of Integral Studies, Transformative Studies PhD Program - Consciousness Studies Focus, Graduate Student

California Institute of Integral Studies, Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, Graduate Student

California Institute of Integral Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Student

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Philosopher, poet, scholar, filmmaker, consciousness researcher.

Leila Kincaid studied Philosophy at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University under Jacob Needleman.

She researches consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) where she received her Master's Degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness.

Her work includes assisting women in need with resources for creative expression, group therapy, and partnering with NGOs to match resources to need.

She is currently doing doctoral research in transformative studies at CIIS, and is participating in an Ecozoic Governance study, led by Herman Greene.
Supervisors: Jennifer Wells
Phone: 5416617878
Address: 96900 Windsong Ranch Rd Brookings, Oregon

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Liberatory Inquiry for Transformation: Death as an Advisor On the Processes of Liberation -From Traumatized Consciousness to Liberation from Oppression

California Institute of Integral Studies, 2024

The problems in the world are due in part to humanity's fear of death. An argument can be made th... more The problems in the world are due in part to humanity's fear of death. An argument can be made that all forms of oppression and human inflicted violence like war, ecocide, and genocide are manifestations of thanatophobic consciousness. As a primary traumatizing realization, the awareness of mortality can create maladapted consciousness and behaviors. This traumatized thanatophobic consciousness can be transformed and liberated through various practices and methods for the realization and actualization of the acceptance of death as part of life. Using death as an advisor, a Toltec Indigenous Wisdom practice, can lead to liberation from thanatophobia. Through liberatory inquiry, we can understand the human condition as characterized by a maladjustment to the awareness of death, and through an inquiry into the nature of trauma and oppression, we can forge a path toward liberation, integration, and transformation. Liberatory inquiry seeks to understand the best and the worst in human systems and theories for the sake of transcending them. Highlighting what is good in these systems and theories while also holding a consciousness of what is oppressive and harmful in them can help to disentangle our assumptions about ourselves and our world, and liberate us from oppressive systems, theories, and processes. Principles of transformative learning guide this inquiry.

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