Sue Blackmore is a psychologist, lecturer and writer best known for The Meme Machine (1999) and the textbook Consciousness: An Introduction (4th Edition due 2024). She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research interests includes memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, NDEs, OBEs, free will, lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, drugs, psychedelics, spirituality and meditation. She has written over fifteen books, more than sixty academic papers and articles for many magazines and newspapers.