Etzel Cardeña PhD holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in Psychology at Lund University in Sweden, where he directs the Centre for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). His main areas of research include exceptional (anomalous) experiences including ostensible psi phenomena, the neurophenomenology of hypnosis and dissociation, and psychological acute reactions to traumatic events. He has been elected fellow of a number of professional organizations and his more than 300 publications include Varieties of Anomalous Experience and the two-volume Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. He has also worked professionally as a theatre director, actor, and playwright in México, the USA and Sweden, and is currently the Artistic Director of the International Theatre of Malmö. He has been a consultant to the University of Huddersfield’s Center for Psychophysical Performance Research and the NODE Center for Curatorial Studies.