As soon as I saw this headline, I knew it would be Susan Blackmore. I once saw her give a talk on this topic, among others, at The Australian Museum. She is a r

As soon as I saw this headline, I knew it would be Susan Blackmore. I once saw her give a talk on this topic, among others, at The Australian Museum. She is a remarkable speaker and was brutally honest about her own less-than-scientific past in researching human consciousness; > It was just over thirty years ago that I had the dramatic out-of-body experience that convinced me of the reality of psychic phenomena and launched me on a crusade to show those closed-minded scientists that consciousness could reach beyond the body and that death was not the end. Just a few years of careful experiments changed all that. I found no psychic phenomena - only wishful thinking, self-deception, experimental error and, occasionally, fraud. I became a skeptic.