Robert A. Jonas

Robert A. Jonas, M.T.S. (Weston School of Theology), Ed.D. (Harvard University) is the director of The Empty Bell, a contemplative sanctuary in Northampton, MA.  He is a retired psychotherapist, a theologian, retreat leader, musician and spiritual mentor.  A Christian in the Carmelite tradition, he has also received spiritual formation with Buddhist teachers.

Dr. Jonas is a member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and the Eckhart Society, a past Board member of the Henri Nouwen Society, a Trustee of Trustees of Reservations, and the Board Chair of the Kestrel Land Trust in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts.

He is a student of Sui-Zen, the Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi). He has shared his music in many secular and spiritual contexts and has played at three Buddhist-Christian retreats with the Dalai Lama, including once under the Bodhi Tree in India.