Everton Maraldi

Everton de Oliveira Maraldi is a Brazilian psychologist and researcher. He is a research associate at the Institute D’Or for Research and Education (Rio de Janeiro) and Pioneer Science initiative. He is a professor of Religious Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Coventry University (Brain, Belief, and Behaviour Lab) and University of Oxford (SCIO—Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford), UK. He is the current president of the Parapsychological Association in the US. Maraldi’s research interests focus on the psychology of non-ordinary experiences, spirituality, religion and health.

More specifically, his investigations revolve around topics such as dissociation and dissociative disorders; trance and dissociation in religious contexts; anomalous or non-ordinary experiences; and historical approaches to psychological and psychiatric studies on religion. His work is internationally recognized in one of the entries in the Psi Encyclopedia of the Society for Psychical Research