John Buchanan received his master's degree in humanistic/transpersonal psychology from West Georgia College, and his doctorate from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University.

John has had the privilege of participating in many of Jean Houston's Dromenon workshops, of going through a three-year training group with Stan and Christina Grof, leading to certification as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner, and the rare opportunity to study with innovative and unorthodox scholars at New College (Sarasota), University of Wisconsin, Green Bay (BS in Human Development), West Georgia College (MA in Humanistic Psychology), and in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University (PhD). Since then, John has been writing, lecturing, and organizing conferences in the areas of process philosophy and transpersonal psychology, which he has found to hold the most adequate and interesting ideas for addressing the core issues of his inquiries. Along with writing a number of book chapters and journal articles and reviews, John is a contributing editor for the 2020 book, "Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science"; his long-in-the making "Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Sobriety, and Psychedelics" was published in October of 2022.