He is a retired Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson (USA), where he served as Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (now a private laboratory). His notable publications include “The afterlife experiments” (2003), “The truth about medium” (2005), “The energy healing experiments” (2008), and “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” (2021), among others. His research focuses on the hypothesis of the survival of consciousness after physical death, as well as energy healing.
He earned his PhD in Psychology from Harvard University in 1971, where he subsequently worked as an Assistant Professor for five years. Later, he became a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University, where he directed the Yale Psychophysiology Center and co-directed the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic. In 2002, he received an award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years. He also served as the founding President of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterial Sciences.