Gregory Shushan, PhD, is an award-winning author and the leading authority on near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history. His books include The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife, Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions, Conceptions of the Afterife in Early Civilizations, and the forthcoming Historical Anthology of Near-Death Experiences.

​He is a Visting Fellow at the University of Winchester, a Research Fellow at the Parapsychology Foundation, and was formerly Perrott-Warrick Researcher at the University of Oxford's Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion; Scholar-in-Residence at the Centro Incontri Umani (The Cross-Cultural Centre), Ascona, Switzerland; and Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has lectured at universities in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland, has given numerous talks on his research in nine countries, and has appeared on the History Channel and elsewhere.

Dr. Shushan is also the founding editor of Afterworlds Press, an imprint of White Crow Books, publishing select books on the subjects of life after death, near-death experiences, shamanism, mediumship, reincarnation, dreams, deathbed visions, and related subjects.​