Nature of Mind

A professor of psychology at the University of Miami, Dr Jha serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis and postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University. Dr. Jha’s work has been featured at NATO, the World Economic Forum, and The Pentagon. She has received coverage in the The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Forbes and more.

With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering specializing in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing, Kastrup has worked as a scientist in some of the world’s foremost research laboratories, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the “Casimir Effect” of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has authored many academic papers and books on philosophy and science, including More Than Allegory, Brief Peeks Beyond, and Why Materialism Is Baloney.

Internationally known author, lecturer, counselor, past life regression therapist, and pioneer in reincarnation studies, Bowman’s books, Children’s Past Lives (Bantam, 1997) and Return from Heaven (HarperCollins, 2001) are now classics in the reincarnation field, and have been published and read around the world in 22 foreign editions.

Former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he taught literature, McGilchrist then trained in medicine and working as a psychiatrist. He is committed to the idea that the brain can be understood only by seeing it in the broadest possible context of our physical, cultural and spiritual existence.

Prof. Paul Gilbert OBE is a British clinical psychologist and founder of Compassion Focused Therapy. He is the author of the bestselling guide Overcoming Depression, and The Compassionate Mind.

Dr Penny Sartori worked as a nurse in a British hospital for 21 years, including 17 years in Intensive Care. She has conducted unique and extensive research into the near-death experiences (NDEs) of her patients.