About Me

I received an AB in history and science from Harvard, an MS in physical sciences from Stanford, and a PhD in the history of science and technology from the Johns Hopkins University. In the fall of 1972, after my undergraduate years, I attended the annual PA meeting in Edinburgh and then moved to North Carolina to work at the Psychical Research Foundation with Bill Roll and Bob Morris, spending a great deal of my spare time over at Rhine's lab sitting on Ed Kelly's desk and asking him questions. After marriage, Stanford, and Hopkins, I spent two decades at Rutgers University on the staff of the Thomas A. Edison Papers, a historical documentary project, the last seven as director of the project. In 2001, I followed my wife to the San Francisco Peninsula, working from 2005 to 2013 for John Wiley & Sons and otherwise as an independent scholar. I participated in the annual Survival Seminar at Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research from 2003 to 2013, a venture that produced the books Irreducible Mind (2007), Beyond Physicalism (2015), and Consciousness Unbound (2021), to the last of which I contributed a chapter on precognition.

Now we live outside Boston, where winter comes with snow.