Jason Hudson
Contributor
I write here as an interested reader rather than an expert, and I would rather say that at the top than have anyone infer authority I do not have.
Most of what I cover is technique: what a given method actually involves, what practitioners report, and where the popular version of it promises more than it can deliver. That last part is most of the work. Writing on this subject tends to collapse two very different statements, “this is what the method is” and “this is what it will do for you”, and keeping them separate is usually enough to make an article more useful than the ones it competes with.
I have no formal qualifications in psychology, neuroscience or medicine. I do not teach, counsel, run workshops or take clients, and I have no professional standing in this field of any kind. Articles under my name are researched and edited, not drawn from expertise.
Where I describe what an experience is commonly like, I am summarising what practitioners and the published literature report. That is a description of what other people have said, not a prediction about what will happen to you, and the articles are written to keep that distinction visible.
Where a technique has nothing behind it beyond tradition and anecdote, which is true of most of them, the article says so rather than dressing the gap in confident language.
I started reading about out-of-body experiences out of ordinary curiosity and did not stop. Writing for this site is a way of doing that reading properly rather than casually: chasing claims back to their source, and finding out how often a confidently repeated fact turns out to trace to a single book from the 1970s that nobody has checked since.
That is most of what I contribute here. Not experience, not credentials, just the unglamorous work of finding out whether the standard version of a claim holds up, and reporting it accurately when it does not.