"If I have just one natural gift, that is the capacity to quickly analyse large amounts of complex information and to present the essence in a clear, effective manner. That gift has helped me enormously in my professional life, especially as a university lecturer. This book and this website are in many ways a direct product of that gift: what you’ll find here is  the essence of the some 20,000 pages (and counting) I’ve read on psychic research and consciousness studies, explained as if I were my university class.” 

A medical doctor with post-graduate education in public health and disaster management, Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti has worked for some twenty years in the international humanitarian aid sector, serving in various capacities both in the field and at headquarters, for the International Red Cross and for the United Nations. Combining humanitarian practice, policy and research, he has written extensively on the subjects of disaster response and humanitarian coordination and is the author of several books and technical publications. He is currently Professor of Emergencies and Humanitarian Action at Milan’s Institute for International Political Studies and a visiting professor at the Universities of Rome, Italy, and Geneva, Switzerland.

Piero’s life is not all about work, however. For years he has been fighting to keep a space for his two lifelong passions – music (he is an accomplished recording and performing artist) and science:

 “In my life, I’ve read very little fiction – for over 20 years my reading time has been devoted almost entirely to popular and less-popular science books and scientific magazines. My favourite subjects used to be physics, astronomy and neurosciences. Then, a few years ago, I happened to come across some serious literature on psychic research - that opened a Pandora’s box that led me become a member of the Society for Psychical Research and eventually to write 21 Days.”

Piero, who has lived most of his adult life abroad, has moved away from his Italian roots to embrace the culture and lifestyle of his country of adoption, Scotland, where he has a large part of his family and what he describes as “obscure roots”. He keenly looks forward to early-early retirement, when he will be able to devote himself entirely to his music and to the popularisation of cutting-edge research on psychic phenomena and the nature of consciousness.