Alex S. Kohav is a philosopher researching concept formation and categorization, agency, self-consciousness, and alteration of consciousness. He is an independent scholar based in Boulder, Colorado, and an affiliate faculty member at the Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph on mysticism, Mysticism and Altered States of Consciousness Phenomena: Theoretical Perspectives and Explanatory Mechanisms.
Dr. Kohav’s recent dissertation, The Sôd Hypothesis: Phenomenological, Cognitive, Semiotic, and Noetic-Literary Recovery of the Pentateuch’s Embedded Inner-Core Mystical Ini…
Alex S. Kohav is a philosopher researching concept formation and categorization, agency, self-consciousness, and alteration of consciousness. He is an independent scholar based in Boulder, Colorado, and an affiliate faculty member at the Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is the author of a forthcoming monograph on mysticism, Mysticism and Altered States of Consciousness Phenomena: Theoretical Perspectives and Explanatory Mechanisms.
Dr. Kohav’s recent dissertation, The Sôd Hypothesis: Phenomenological, Cognitive, Semiotic, and Noetic-Literary Recovery of the Pentateuch’s Embedded Inner-Core Mystical Initiation Tradition of Ancient Israelite Cultic Religion (2011, accessible from ProQuest Dissertations at http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3483133), establishes a new research area: Pentateuchal mysticism and First Temple ancient Israelite priestly initiation tradition.
