Imants Barušs holds a MSc in mathematics, and a PhD in psychology with specialization in consciousness. He is a tenured full professor at King's University College at The University of Western Ontario, where he has taught undergraduate courses in consciousness, altered states of consciousness, humanistic psychology, and the psychology of religion for 20 years.
Immants is also the author of various papers and a book: "The Personal Nature Of Notions Of Consciousness" where he surveys various theories of mind and how peoples perception of reality and so on effects ideas.