Erin Prophet, PhD, MPH, is an author and scholar of religion who specializes in spirituality and health. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at East Carolina University. She completed her doctorate in religious studies with an emphasis on gnosticism, esotericism, and mysticism. She has a master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) from Boston University. She has published articles on charisma, new religious movements, millennialism, and long-term cancer survival. She is a co-author with Jeffrey Kripal of the 2014 textbook Comparing Religions, and with her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, of Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity (1997). Her 2009 memoir, Prophet's Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside Church Universal and Triumphant, was nominated for Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Award. In it, she explores the rewards and pitfalls of channeling. Topics of her workshops range from Jungian shadow work, channeling and creativity, and narratives of spiritual evolution and secular spirituality.