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Jesse Bering is a science writer, research psychologist, and head of the Science Communication program at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, and Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves, which was published by the University of Chicago Press. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Discover, The Guardian, The New Republic, The New York Times, Playboy, Scientific American, The Telegraph, Slate, Vice, and other outlets. He currently writes a weekly column for the French magazine Le Point.
“The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson is the most enjoyable, informative, and surprising book I’ve read in a very long time. I was vaguely aware of Stevenson’s research into reincarnation, but Bering’s elegant and witty writing helped me see that research in the context of Dr. Stevenson’s profoundly unusual, brilliant mind. Rarely has the relationship between the discoverer and his discoveries been explored with such insight, understanding, and indeed, grace.” -- Christopher Ryan, author of “Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress” “Here is a balanced biography of Ian Stevenson that is sensitive to our twentieth-first century concerns as it connects the psychiatrist’s humanity to his many books and ideas, including his early psychedelic studies and his final speculations on birthmarks and the ‘psychophore’ of the reincarnating soul. In these pages, the reader encounters both a humane fairness and a potential ontological shock.” -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of “How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else” “Through Ian Stevenson’s life, Bering deftly examines the ignored and mocked corners of the behavioral sciences. Never dismissive and never credulous, Bering shows how parapsychology—ESP, survival, reincarnation—walked the same academic corridors as psychology and psychiatry. Bering’s clever biography shows that what’s been marginalized deserves a place in the light. A revealing tale, and a fun one.” -- Joshua Blu Buhs, author of “Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers”
