Dr. Douglas Richards is a faculty member at Atlantic University. He is the author of "The Psychic Quest: Understanding Your Psychic Experiences," and co-author of "Mysteries of Atlantis" (with Edgar Evans Cayce and Gail Cayce Schwartzer). He was a co-founder of Meridian Institute, a non-profit organization conducting research based on the principles in the Cayce readings. His research, published in the "Journal of Parapsychology," the "Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research," the "International Journal of Neuroscience," and other journals, explores psychic phenomena and altered states of consciousness.