Noel Cobb co-founded, with Eva Loewe, both the London Convivium for Archetypal Studies and Sphinx: Journal for Archetypal Psychology and the Arts. He lectures in the UK and abroad and his publications include five books of poetry as well as Prospero's Island: The Secret Alchemy at the Heart of The Tempest, and Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art.
Noel studied philosophy at the University of Michigan, then moved to Norway where he took a six year degree in psychology from the University of Oslo. In 1966 he came to England to study and work with Dr R. D. Laing and was a member of the Kingsley Hall Community in London's East End. He has made expeditions to the Ahaggar mountains of the Algerian Sahara, North Afghanistan, Swat and the Himalayas of the Nepal. In India he studied meditation under several masters of the Mahamudra tradition.
He lives in Kent with his wife, Maria.