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  <name><![CDATA[Susan J. Blackmore]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Susan Jane Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. She has a degree in psychology and physiology from Oxford University (1973) and a PhD in parapsychology from the University of Surrey (1980). Her research interests include  memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, and meditation. She practices Zen  and campaigns for drug  legalization. Sue Blackmore no longer works on the paranormal. 

She writes for several magazines and newspapers, blogs for the Guardian newspaper and Psychology Today, and is a frequent contributor and presenter on radio and television. She is author of over sixty academic articles, about fifty book contributions, and many book reviews. Her books include Dying to Live (on near-death experiences, 1993), In Search of the Light (autobiography, 1996),Test Your Psychic Powers (with Adam Hart-Davis, 1997), The Meme Machine (1999, now translated into 13 other languages), Consciousness: An Introduction (a textbook 2003), Conversations on Consciousness (2005) and Ten Zen Questions (2009).

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  <title><![CDATA[Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-Of-The-Body Experiences]]></title>
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