Stanley Krippner, PhD is the Alan Watts Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. He has received Lifetime Career Achievement Awards from the Parapsychological Association, the Society for Humanistic Psychology and the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He was the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of International Psychology. He is the co-author of Demystifying Shamans and Their World and is editor of nine volumes of Advances in Parapsychological Research and is a member of the Society for Psychical Research and the Scientific and Medical Network.