In addition to being an Associate Teaching Professor in the Psychology Department of Northeastern University, Aaron B. Daniels is also a Mindfulness Fellow in NU’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service. He is the faculty leader of the NU Psychological Humanities Research Group and has also been a Research Fellow with Psychology & the Other since 2016. His PhD is from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California where he focused on Archetypal Psychology with a dissertation on the use of imagination by criminal profilers. His MA is from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he studied existential phenomenology. His BA with honors is from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. His books are: Imaginal Reality, Volumes 1 & 2 (both in 2011); Jungian Crime Scene Analysis: An Imaginal Investigation (2014); and, most recently, he contributed four chapters and edited Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love (2021). Routledge has accepted his next collected volume A Phenomenology of the Alien: Encounters with the Weird and Inscrutable Other for publication and he is working on Spiritual Direction and the Other with his editorial 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. His current research centers on the ‘inscrutably alien’ and spiritual direction, a field in which he completed certification in 2022. Film, science-fiction, and ‘Weird’ literature are frequent additions to his classes and research.