The Transliminal Mind | Christine Simmonds-Moore

Paranormal experience, mental boundaries and schizotypy

Matt Colborn

May 01, 2025

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Show Notes

‘Season 2 Episode 7 The Transliminal Mind’

Today my guest is Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore. Christine earned her Ph.D in psychology from the University of Northampton in the UK. In 2010, she left her native UK for the USA. Christine worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rhine Research Center in Durham North Carolina until she moved to Carrollton in 2011 to join the psychology department at the University of West Georgia. Her research interests include the study of personality types who are prone to subjective anomalous and paranormal experiences and beliefs, synesthesia, anomalous experiences and sleep-related altered states of consciousness. Recent research has focused on the roles of the body in anomalous experiences. She is currently working on a Bial funded project about Aphantasia (people who have a lack of visual mental imagery). She is the editor of Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, body and human potential and a co-author of a text book on Anomalistic Psychology.

Today we have an in-depth discussion on the relationship between paranormal experience and what Christine calls the Transliminal Mind. We discuss the psychological dimensions of anomalous experience, and their relationship to certain, specific personality types. We discuss the evidence for psi phenomena. And we talk about possible future directions for parapsychology and consciousness studies.

Resources

Christine at the UWA:

Christine Simmonds-Moore, Phd. Page at the University of West Georgia, USA.

Christine Simmonds-Moore’s entry on the Psi Encyclopaedia.

Books & Chapters:

Holt, N., Simmonds-Moore, C., Luke, D. & French, C. (2012). Anomalistic Psychology (Macmillan Insights in Psychology series). Red Globe Press.

Simmonds-Moore, C. (eds.) (2012). Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, Body and Human Potential. McFarland & Co.

Simmonds-Moore, C. (2019). Liminal spaces and liminal minds: Boundary thinness and participatory eco-consciousness. Chapter in Hunter, J. Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience. August Night Press.