“The grants given by BIAL Foundation for parapsychology have been enormously valuable as this area is ignored and underfunded by most grant-giving bodies. BIAL Foundation has enabled me to advance my work with hospices and study the details of the dying process.”
Peter Fenwick was born in Kenya in 1935. He went to secondary school in England, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. He did his clinical medical training at St. Thomas’s Hospital and qualified as a doctor in June 1961. He was awarded a Medical Research Council Fellowship to study electrophysiology and neurology at Queen Square, and then moved to the Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, where he completed his psychiatric training and later ran the Epilepsy and Sleep Units.
He became interested in electroencephalography and published a number of papers in this area. He was appointed to the Clinical Neurophysiology Unit of Broadmoor Special Hospital for violent offenders, and was involved in the case of Sullivan, which defined the law on automatism and later clarified it with regard to sleepwalking.
He started meditating at the time the Maharishi brought meditation to the west and published many of the foundation papers in this area. His interest in parapsychology flowed from his work on consciousness and near-death experiences, which led him to examination of the dying process. He received a number of awards for his work in these areas.
