Les Lancaster, PhD

Brian Les Lancaster is a Founding Director and Dean of the Alef Trust. He is also Professor Emeritus of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, and an Honorary Research Fellow in Religions and Theology, University of Manchester. He has previously served as Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, as President of the International Transpersonal Association, and as a Board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Les’ research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and the connections between this topic and mysticism, specifically focusing on Kabbalistic Psychology. In addition to numerous journal articles and chapters in edited books, his published works include The essence of kabbalah; Approaches to consciousness: The marriage of science and mysticism; and Kabbalah in the transpersonal age: Psychology, mysticism, and soul (forthcoming).