David Luke
David is a chartered psychologist and Professor of Exceptional Experience at the University of Greenwich, London, where he has worked since 2008 and has won both the Early Career Research Excellence Award and his Faculty's first Inspirational Teaching Award, and he is currently a Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher (administered by Trinity College, Cambridge) studying lucid dreaming and precognition as part of the Psychedelic and Exceptional Experience Lab, which he leads within the Centre for Mental Health.
He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London (2019-2023), and Lecturer for the Alef Trust as programme leader for the professional certificate in Psychedelics, Altered States and Transpersonal Psychology (2021-2025), and the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology (2020-2024) accredited by Liverpool John Moores University. He continues to supervise PhDs in Applied Transpersonal Psychology at the Alef Trust.
He has a a PhD in psychology (University of Northampton, UK), a BSc in Psychology (1st class – University of Westminster, UK), a TESOL certificate (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - University of Westminster, UK), a Diploma in Parapsychology (Institute of Parapsychology, Rhine Research Centre, NC, USA), and a PGCertHE (University of Greenwich, UK), and has completed the first year of Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling with Re-Vision. He is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) as well as a Media Spokesperson for the Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
David has lectured in both undergraduate and postgraduate psychology (e.g. research methods, psychopharmacology, parapsychology, cognitive psychology, forensic psychology, consciousness and transpersonsal psychology) at the Universities of Westminster (1997-1998, 2001-2004), Northampton (2000-2001, 2008-2016), Greenwich (2003, 2008-2025), East London (2008), London Metropolitan University (2008), and Goldsmiths College (2014). He has worked as a Research Associate at the Beckley Foundation, Oxford, and as a researcher for Eleusis Benefit Corp. running a clinical drug trial looking at micro and low dose LSD in healthy volunteers.
His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including thirteen books, such as Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience (2nd ed., 2019). When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, conducting DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon (which he founded in 2008), and is a cofounder and trustee of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness (since 2010), and was a director (2011-2022), and chair (2019-2022). He has given over 500 invited public lectures and key note addresses, and nearly 100 conference presentations internationally, and won teaching, research and writing awards.
He is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Psychedelics Studies, the European Journal for Ecopsychology, Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology, and Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, and is a referee for 30+ academic journals including, Journal of Psychopharmacology, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Brain Sciences, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Pharmacology, International Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Drug Science, Policy and Law, Journal of Psychedelic Studies, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Consciousness & Cognition, Psychology of Consciousness, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Drugs and Alcohol Today, Anthropology of Consciousness, and the Journal of Scientific Exploration,
He has been an expert witness in Crown Court trials involving psychedelics, including a murder trial at the Old Bailey and an alleged terrorism case, and he is on the advisory board of numerous organisations involved with psychedelics, altered states and exceptional human experience. In 2009 he was elected President of the Parapsychological Association and was co-opted to the Council of the Society for Psychical Research.
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He was also Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London (2019-2023), and Lecturer for the Alef Trust as programme leader for the professional certificate in Psychedelics, Altered States and Transpersonal Psychology (2021-2025), and the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology (2020-2024) accredited by Liverpool John Moores University. He continues to supervise PhDs in Applied Transpersonal Psychology at the Alef Trust.
He has a a PhD in psychology (University of Northampton, UK), a BSc in Psychology (1st class – University of Westminster, UK), a TESOL certificate (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - University of Westminster, UK), a Diploma in Parapsychology (Institute of Parapsychology, Rhine Research Centre, NC, USA), and a PGCertHE (University of Greenwich, UK), and has completed the first year of Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling with Re-Vision. He is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) as well as a Media Spokesperson for the Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
David has lectured in both undergraduate and postgraduate psychology (e.g. research methods, psychopharmacology, parapsychology, cognitive psychology, forensic psychology, consciousness and transpersonsal psychology) at the Universities of Westminster (1997-1998, 2001-2004), Northampton (2000-2001, 2008-2016), Greenwich (2003, 2008-2025), East London (2008), London Metropolitan University (2008), and Goldsmiths College (2014). He has worked as a Research Associate at the Beckley Foundation, Oxford, and as a researcher for Eleusis Benefit Corp. running a clinical drug trial looking at micro and low dose LSD in healthy volunteers.
His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including thirteen books, such as Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience (2nd ed., 2019). When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, conducting DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon (which he founded in 2008), and is a cofounder and trustee of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness (since 2010), and was a director (2011-2022), and chair (2019-2022). He has given over 500 invited public lectures and key note addresses, and nearly 100 conference presentations internationally, and won teaching, research and writing awards.
He is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Psychedelics Studies, the European Journal for Ecopsychology, Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology, and Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, and is a referee for 30+ academic journals including, Journal of Psychopharmacology, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Brain Sciences, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Pharmacology, International Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Drug Science, Policy and Law, Journal of Psychedelic Studies, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Consciousness & Cognition, Psychology of Consciousness, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Drugs and Alcohol Today, Anthropology of Consciousness, and the Journal of Scientific Exploration,
He has been an expert witness in Crown Court trials involving psychedelics, including a murder trial at the Old Bailey and an alleged terrorism case, and he is on the advisory board of numerous organisations involved with psychedelics, altered states and exceptional human experience. In 2009 he was elected President of the Parapsychological Association and was co-opted to the Council of the Society for Psychical Research.
Substack for other writing - https://substack.com/@davidluke543044
For further details see: https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/faculty-of-education-and-health/dr-david-luke
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