Susan Blackmore

Sue Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of the 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, a blog for the Guardian newspaper 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 Beyond the Body (1982), Dying to Live (on near-death experiences, 1993), In Search of the Light (autobiography, 1996), and Test Your Psychic Powers (with Adam Hart-Davis, 1997). The Meme Machine (1999) has been translated into 13 other languages. Her textbook Consciousness: An Introduction was published in 2003 (Hodder UK, OUP New York), A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness (OUP) and Conversations on Consciousness in 2005 (OUP Oxford).

Ten Zen Questions is due for publication this March.

Her PT blog is Ten Zen Questions.