About Author Stephanie Lynne Thorburn. Stephanie Lynne Thorburn is a freelance writer, researcher and Reiki Master. She writes features primarily focused on music and nascent areas of social science, including Sociology, especially Environmental Sociology and Parapsychology. She holds an MA in Sociology: Qualitative Research from Goldsmiths College, London, UK and a combined honours degree in Sociology/ Psychology from City University, London. Stephanie has undertaken a range of vocational diplomas via portfolio comprising postgraduate independently researched papers on Consciousness Studies, Transformative Social Studies and Graphic Arts (UKCHT; with Distinctions. She also has a Dip. in Parapsychology, w/ Distinction. Stephanie is a fellow of the Institute for Meridian Psychotherapy and Associated Complementary Therapies and is on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Space Philosophy. In 2012 she also became an advisor and consultant to the Journal of Anomalous Sciences. Stephanie has freelanced extensively for press, especially the online news journal Los Angeles Chronicle and PR-Inside.com. She assisted on the Space Renaissance Initiative Board of Directors in 2010. Over time, Stephanie Lynne has authored a series of music related eBooks, notably 'Incendiary Soul' and 'Blues Scholars', a compendium eBook of her features on blues greats including Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker. Ongoing academic works include her Kindle publications, ‘The Astrosociological Imagination’, ‘Progressive Etudes on Human Progress’ and her forthcoming title, ‘Progressive Etudes on Consciousness & Noetic Sciences’ (Progressive Etudes Study Series.) Other titles include ‘Dharma: The Poetics of Spirit’ and ‘Primordial Essences’, encompassing multimodal art and prose. Stephanie Lynne edits her own webzine “Nuance”. Homepage: http://www.stephaniethorburn.webs.com