David Luke

Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, London, UK, where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including thirteen books, including Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience (2nd ed., 2019). David is also director of the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon and is a cofounder and trustee of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. He has given over 500 invited public lectures and conference presentations, won teaching, research and writing awards, organised numerous festivals, conferences, seminars, retreats, expeditions and pilgrimages, and has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspective of scientists, shamans and Shivaites, and he lives life on the edge,.. of Sussex, in the UK.