Michael Singer holds an MA in Economics and is a bestselling author whose teachings on consciousness and ego through books like The Untethered Soul have reached millions of readers, though he has no formal credentials in psychology, theology, or philosophy. His 2010 DOJ deferred prosecution agreement for securities fraud and his synthesis of Eastern spiritual traditions without explicit lineage training position his work as a widely-read popular perspective rather than academically credentialed or peer-reviewed scholarship.
The Untethered Soul (2007, NYT Bestseller); The Surrender Experiment (2015, NYT Bestseller)