Christine Simmonds-Moore is a UK native with a Ph.D. from the University of Northampton that explored "schizotypy as an anomaly-prone personality." She is a professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia, where she teaches courses on parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, and other topics at undergraduate, MA, and doctoral levels. She has research interests in parapsychology, exceptional experiences, transpersonal psychology, psychological boundaries, aphantasia, paranormal beliefs and disbeliefs, mental health correlates of exceptional experiences, synesthesia, altered states of consciousness and healing and placebo effects. She has also trained in transpersonal coaching psychology with the Alef trust. Christine is the recipient of several Bial grants to study exceptional experiences. She is the co-author of a textbook on anomalistic psychology and has edited a collection of chapters about exceptional experiences and health. She has also published several articles and book chapters about exceptional experiences.