Aaron B. Daniels

A Teaching Professor in the Psychology Department of Northeastern University, Aaron B. Daniels is also a Senior Mindfulness Fellow in NU’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service. He is the faculty leader of the Psychological Humanities at NU workgroup and was a Research Fellow with Psychology & the Other. His degrees: PhD, Pacifica Graduate Institute; MA, Duquesne University; BA with honors, Baldwin-Wallace College. His books are: Imaginal Reality, Volumes 1 & 2 (both in 2011); Jungian Crime Scene Analysis: An Imaginal Investigation (2014); he contributed four chapters and edited Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love (2021); A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other (2025) which he edited and to which he contributed an extensive introduction; and Spiritual Direction and the Other: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Accompaniment (2026) which he edited with a team. Aaron has been teaching in higher education for over two decades and has received numerous institutional awards for his teaching, advising, research, and collaborations. A psychotherapist in Seattle for 10 years, he worked in community and private practice, achieving LGBT-specialist status. He completed his spiritual direction certification in 2022.