Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer, PhD, is Canadian-American multidisciplinary scientist, designer, and author. Working as an astrobiologist, Dr. Damer collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new scenario for the origin of life on Earth and where it might arise in the universe. As a designer, he has provided innovative spacecraft architectures to NASA and others which could provide a viable path for the expansion of life and civilization beyond the Earth. Dr. Damer went on public record that he used a combination of mindfulness practices and psychedelics to achieve some of his key scientific and technical breakthroughs. His passion in co-founding MINDS is that anyone with creative capacities should have access to these tools to realize their own novel insights into solutions for humanity.