Claudia Müller-Ebeling, PhD, is an anthropologist and historian specializing in visionary art. She did her doctoral thesis on 19th century visionary art examining the tradition of nature's demonization as represented in Western art. She works in Hamburg, Germany, as an independent researcher and translator, and has served as a member of the board of advisors of the European College of the Study of Consciousness (ECSC). She writes and lectures along with her partner Christian Rätsch.