Edward Francis Kelly

Edward Francis Kelly is an American neuroscientist and parapsychologist. He is a Research Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Kelly's research interests include cognitive neuroscience and mind–body dualism, with a focus on phenomena (for example, from parapsychology and the paranormal) that challenge the current neuroscientific view of mind. Among his interests are intensive neuroimaging studies of persons in various kinds of altered states of consciousness.

Kelly has published peer-reviewed works in which he argues for a break from the dominant physicalist view of human mind and nature for a strong dualistic account of mind-brain problem which argues for post mortem survival of consciousness, drawing upon evidence from psychical research such as mystical experience, near-death experience and stigmata. He served as the lead author for the two books ''Irreducible Mind'' and ''Beyond Physicalism''. Provided by Wikipedia