Erik Goodwyn, MD, is an Attending Physician at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, Clinical Faculty at University of Kentucky, Courtesy Faculty at the Billings Clinic, and Adjunct Professor for University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry. He has authored numerous publications in the field of consciousness studies, Jungian psychology, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and the psychology of religion. He has delivered over sixty lectures, workshops, and essays in peer-reviewed journals on the above topics and has been invited to present at conferences on these topics in the US, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland.