Dr. Stanley Krippner was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, on October 4, 1932. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received his B.S. in 1954. He then attended Northwestern University and received his M.A. in 1957 and his Ph.D. in 1961.

Krippner worked as a speech therapist for the city of Warren, Illinois from 1954 to 1955 and for the public schools of Richmond, Virginia from 1955 to 1956. He was the director of the Kent State University Child Study Center from 1961 to 1964 and served as director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York from 1964 to 1973.

In the American Psychological Association, Krippner was President of Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology) from 1980 to 1981 and President of Division 30 (Society of Psychological Hypnosis) from 1997 to 1998.

In the field of parapsychology, Krippner's two major research contributions were on dream telepathy while at Maimonides and the Magenta Project which was conducted with Amyr Amiden in Brazil.

Krippner has written on various topics in including altered states of consciousness, dream telepathy, dissociations, shamanism, and parapsychological phenomena. Krippner is a Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has authored or co-authored 20 books and served as editor for countless others.