Serena Roney-Dougal gained a PhD in parapsychology at the University of Surrey (one of around fifty people in Britain who have this qualification). She has over forty years of study and experience in scientific, magical and spiritual explorations of the psyche, and has lectured and taught courses, seminars and workshops in America, India, Japan, Britain and Europe. She has written numerous articles, both technical and popular, and two books: Where Science and Magic Meet, which has been translated into four languages, and is now in its third revised edition, and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science with Spirit.