George-Harold Jennings is the author of Passages Beyond the Gate: A Jungian Approach to Understanding American Psychology, which was recognized as First Runner-Up in the Spiritual category and a finalist for the Montaigne Medal in the 2011 Eric Hoffer Book Award program.
The monograph is indexed in both psychology and philosophy research databases, reflecting its interdisciplinary engagement with psychology, consciousness, symbolism, and the metaphysical dimensions of human experience. Jennings’ work emerges from a central question: What would it mean for mainstream American psychology to fully remember the depth of the human soul?
Across his writing and through this website, Jennings explores the meeting ground of science, spirituality, and the symbolic life of the psyche. Rather than treating these as separate domains, he approaches them as interwoven dimensions of a single, unfolding reality — one that calls for integration rather than fragmentation.
At the heart of this vision is the intersection of science, spirituality, and geocosmology—an understanding of human life and consciousness as participating in a meaningful relationship between Earth and cosmos.
Within this framework, the individual is neither isolated nor reducible to material processes alone, but exists within a larger living order where scientific insight, symbolic meaning, and spiritual awareness converge. Seen through this lens, psychology becomes not merely the study of mind and behavior, but part of a deeper effort to restore the soul to its place within an interconnected, conscious, and sacred universe.
Jennings earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to completing his doctorate, he was a National Institute of Mental Health fellow and later served as a predoctoral fellow in clinical psychology at the Yale School of Medicine. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Drew University.
Born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Jennings has lived in Madison, New Jersey since 1981. He has studied in Europe, taught in Africa, and enjoys travel, teaching, and time with family and friends.
Jennings previously served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and has been invited to participate in Renaissance Weekend, an invitation-only retreat devoted to the exchange of ideas among preeminent leaders, passionate change-makers, and rising stars across fields and generations. His participation reflects his continuing interest in conversations about psychology, spirituality, and the evolving understanding of human consciousness.
For a fuller exploration of the psychological, spiritual, and geocosmological vision that informs this work, see: A Geocosmological View of the Psyche
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Contact: gjenning@drew.edu
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