Michael Persinger

American-Canadian professor of psychology

Michael A. Persinger (June 26, 1945 – August 14, 2018) was an American-Canadian professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he had held from 1971 until his death in 2018. His most well-known hypotheses include the temporal lobes of the human brain as the central correlate for mystical experiences, subtle changes in geomagnetic activity as mediators of parapsychological phenomena, the tectonic strain within the Earth's crust as the source of luminous phenomena attributed to unidentified aerial objects, and the importance of specific quantifications for energy (10 Joules), photon flux density (picoWatt per meter squared), and small shifts in magnetic field intensities (picoTesla to nanoTesla range) for integrating cellular activity as well as human thought with universal phenomena.

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Michael Persinger was born on Tuesday, 26 June 1945 in Jacksonville, Florida. They were best known as a psychologist. Persinger's country of citizenship (nationality) was Canadian. They died on Tuesday, 14 August 2018 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada at the age of 73. Their zodiac star sign were Cancer.

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