Dr. Ken R. Vincent has a B.Sc. in Psychology and a M.Ed.

in Counseling from the University of Houston and an

Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of

Northern Colorado. Ken has had three careers in psychology — first

as a counselor (in the War on Poverty programs of the Kennedy/

Johnson administrations), second as a psychologist (working at Texas

Rehabilitation Commission and the Hauser Psychiatry and Neurology

Clinic), and third as a professor (Educational Psychology Dept. at the

University of Houston and Houston Community College). In 1993, he

married the love of his life Pam who became his best friend and first

editor.

Concurrent with his career in psychology and continuing after

his retirement in 2001, Ken had an avocational career as a writer and

religious/spiritual experience researcher and lay Universalist minister.

He has been active in interfaith organizations and the Foundation for

Contemporary Theology; he served many years as webmaster for the

Universalist Herald. He is the author of Visions of God from the Near-

Death Experience (1994), The Magi: From Zoroaster to the “Three Wise

Men” (1999), The Golden Thread: God’s Promise of Universal Salvation

(2005), and God Is With Us: What Near-Death and Other Spiritually

Transformative Experiences Teach Us About God and Afterlife (2014

Online Version and 2019, White Crow Books).