Robert E. L. Masters

Co-founder with wife, Jean Houston, of the Foundation for Mind Research, Manhattan, New York, conducting experiments in the borderline between mental and physical experience. Masters has a background of poetry and sexology and was formerly director of the Visual Imagery Research Project and the Library of Sex Research. Both Houston and Masters have experimented with psychedelic drugs and hypnosis, and in their foundation they have investigated induction of mystical experience and altered states of consciousness.