Douglas M Stokes holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard University and a PhD in experimental parapsychology from the University of Michigan. He is a frequent contributor to the academic literature on parapsychology and has published three books on the subject: The Nature of Mind (1997), The Conscious Mind and the Material World (2007), and Reimagining the Soul (2014). He has been published widely in parapsychological journals as well as in skeptical journals such as the Skeptical Inquirer.