Professor Les Lancaster

Prof Les Lancaster is the UK’s first full Professor of Transpersonal Psychology, a position he holds at Liverpool John Moores University, where he co-directs the Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University, and Emeritus Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology section of the British Psychological Society. He combines a research background in neuroscience with some 35 years of study and teaching of kabbalistic sources and other areas of mysticism.

Together with colleagues in the LJMU research unit, Les has developed pioneering postgraduate programmes in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology. In its online format, the award-winning MSc in Consciousness & Transpersonal Psychology attracts students from around the world - see http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/Psychology/72120.htm

Les is a frequent broadcaster and has written numerous articles on mysticism and the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness. His first book, Mind, Brain & Human Potential, won an SMN award. His most recent books are The Essence of Kabbalah (Arcturus, 2005) and Approaches to Consciousness: the Marriage of Science and Mysticism, (Palgrave, 2004) about which Chief Rabbi, Professor Jonathan Sacks commented: “With formidable erudition and the widest of perspectives, Lancaster has written a challenging and potentially ground-breaking book on the relationship between scientific and mystical ideas of human consciousness. A humane scholar in the great tradition of William James, his work deserves to be read and discussed widely”.

For more information on Professor Les  Lancaster BSc. MSc. PhD. Chartered Psychologist (C. Psychol.) visit http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/Psychology/71506.htm