Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., is a research scientist, medical anthropologist, and writer on the subjects of consciousness, healing, and consciousness-based healthcare. She is professor and chair of transpersonal psychology at Sofia University. She is also the former President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of California Pacific Medical…
John Rogers Searle (1932–2025) was an American philosopher and the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. John Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in his junior year became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained all of his university degrees, BA, MA and DPhil.…
Robert Stickgold is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He graduated from Harvard University before attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received his doctorate in biochemistry. A preeminent sleep researcher, Stickgold has dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between sleep and learning.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. Nasr is a Muslim Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and writes in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Professor…
Jeffery Martin is a social scientist and the current director of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness. He specializes in bringing rigorous empirical research and testing to transformational techniques and theories that have previously been supported anecdotally. Jeffery is a leading expert on persistent non-symbolic consciousness (enlightenment, nonduality, mystical experience, union with God/nature,…
Colin McGinn is a British philosopher who has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London, the University of Oxford, Rutgers University, and the University of Miami. McGinn is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, and is the author of over 20 books on this and other areas of philosophy,…
Alfred Remen Mele is an American philosopher and the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is also the past Director of the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control Project (2014-2017) and the Big Questions in Free Will Project (2010-2013). Mele is the author of thirteen books and over…
Elizabeth F. Loftus is an American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory. Loftus is best known for her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect and eyewitness memory, and the creation and nature of false memories, including recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. As…
James Porter Moreland is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada, California. Moreland earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with honors from the University of Missouri and a Master of Arts in Philosophy with…
George P. Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. Although some of his research involves questions traditionally pursued by linguists, such as the conditions under which a certain linguistic construction is grammatically viable, he is most famous for his ideas…
Jenann Ismael is the William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she was Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute. She has also taught at Stanford University (1996-98) and the University of Arizona (1998-2018). Ismael earned her MA and PhD from Princeton University in 1994 and 1997, where her dissertation advisor was Bas…
Hugh McCann was an American philosopher and professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University. McCann’s principle research and teaching interests were in action theory, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, especially issues associated with creation, divine action, eternity, sovereignty and foreknowledge, and the divine nature. He authored a book of papers on action theory…