[3] He then received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 1958[3] after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Thomas Cromwell and the Henrican reformation.

"[4] His academic career began by teaching at Stanford University from 1958 to 1963[3][2] before joining Cal State Hayward.

[6][7] He was featured prominently in the "Alternative Lifestyles in California" episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search.

[14] Other books include Where the Wasteland Ends,[15][16][17] The Voice of the Earth (in which he coined the term for the budding field of Ecopsychology),[18][19] Person/Planet,[20] The Cult of Information,[21][22][23] The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science,[24] and Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders.

His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema titled Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books).