Dr. Etzel Cardeña received his PhD at UC Davis and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and faculty at various places including Georgetown University. He holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University, Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). His areas of research include alterations of consciousness and anomalous experiences, dissociative processes and acute posttraumatic reactions, and the neurophenomenology of conscious states. He has around 400 publications, some in top journals, and his work has been covered by various media including the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the BBC. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, and has worked professionally in theatre as director, actor, and playwright.

 Links:

https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/etzel-carde%C3%B1a

Book: Varieties of Anomalous Experience by Etzel Cardeña et al: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4316157

The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences https://www.aapsglobal.com/

The book: https://spiritual-awakenings.net/

The Scientific and Medical Network https://scientificandmedical.net/

The Galileo Commission https://galileocommission.org/

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