Where Is My Mind? Podcast!
Where does your “mind” come from? Easy answer: Your brain…right? Think again. It’s hard to believe, there is no explanation in modern science how a brain could create our subjective experience of being alive (“consciousness”). Science Magazine has called this “hard problem” the #2 question remaining in all of science. Where Is My Mind? explores a revolutionary hypothesis: What if consciousness comes from outside the body? The show is hosted by Mark Gober, a consciousness researcher and author of An End to Upside Down Thinking, who happens to be a former Wall Street banker working in Silicon Valley. Why does this show matter? Well, if consciousness is not native to the brain, would phenomena like telepathy, precognition, near-death experiences, afterdeath communications, and so much more not only be possible… but be PREDICTED? Plus, what happens when we die? Are psychics real? How could a young child accurately report memories of someone else’s life and death? The implications could shift our collective worldview and even impact how we treat one another… so don’t miss it.
Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit.
In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningo-encephalitis of unknown cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down everything he could remember about his journey, before he read anything about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six weeks later, he completed his initial recording of his remarkable journey, totaling over 20,000 words in length. Then he started reading, and was astonished by the commonalities between his journey and so many others reported throughout all cultures, continents and millennia. His journey brought key insights to the mind-body discussion and to our human understanding of the fundamental nature of reality. His experience clearly revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain – that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence.
Website: http://ebenalexander.com/
Scientific paper:
Independent review of Dr. Eben Alexander’s medical records, published in September 2018 by The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2018/09/Greyson_-Alexander-JNMD-2018.pdf
Books:
Living in a Mindful Universe
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Mindful-Universe-Neurosurgeons-Consciousness/dp/1635650658
Proof of Heaven
Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over three decades he has been engaged in research on the frontiers of consciousness. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, SRI International, and other academic and industrial facilities.
He is author or coauthor of hundreds of scientific, technical, and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and four popular books including the Scientific and Medical Network’s 1997 book award, The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006), a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal (Random House, 2013), and Real Magic (Penguin Random House, 2018). Supernormal and Real Magic are available as paperback, e-books, and audio books. These books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Latvian, Turkish, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic.
His 100+ academic articles appear in peer-reviewed journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin, Psychology of Consciousness, andFrontiers in Human Neuroscience. He was featured in a New York Times Magazine article; and he has appeared on dozens of television programs worldwide. His 500+ interviews and talks have included presentations at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Princeton, Columbia, University of San Diego, Georgia Tech, University of Minnesota, University of California at Davis and at Irvine, Wake Forest University, Virginia Tech, Northern Arizona University, Louisiana State University, University of Amsterdam, University of Paris, University of Padova, University of Allahabad, Andhra University, and University of British Columbia. His invited talks for industries have included Merck, Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank. His government talks have included top brass in the US Navy and US Army, the Naval Postgraduate School, DARPA, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (India), the International Center for Leadership and Governance (Malaysia), and the Australian Leadership Retreat (Australia). In 2017 he was named one of the 100 most inspiring people in the world by the German magazine, OOOM, and as of 2018 his filmography on IMDB lists 18 documentaries he’s appeared in.
Website: http://www.deanradin.org/
Scientific papers:
http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm
Books:
Real Magic https://www.amazon.com/Real-Magic-Ancient-Science-Universe/dp/1524758825
Russell Targ is a physicist and author, a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and a cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) investigation of psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. SRI is a research and development think tank in Menlo Park, California. Called remote viewing, his work in the psychic area has been published in Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), and the Proceedings of the American Association the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Targ has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Queens College and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He has received two National Aeronautics and Space- Administration awards for inventions and contributions to lasers and laser communications. In 1983 and 1984 he accepted invitations to present remote-viewing demonstrations and to address the USSR Academy of Science on this research.
He is author or co-author of nine books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities and Buddhist approaches to the transformation of consciousness, including Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability (with E. Harold Puthoff, 1977, 2005); Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing (with Jane Katra, 1998); and Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness (2004). He also wrote an autobiography, Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker, in 2008. His current book is The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities.
As a senior staff scientist at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Targ developed airborne laser systems for the detection of windshear and air turbulence. Having retired in 1997, he now writes books on psychic research and teaches remote viewing worldwide.
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 9 books, and the co-author of 6 books. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland’s leading think tank. On ResearchGate, the largest scientific and academic online network, his RG score of 33.5 puts him among the top 7.5% of researchers, based on citations of his peer-reviewed publications.
He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1963). He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow (1963-64), before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry (1967). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society (1970-73), he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.
Website: https://www.sheldrake.org/
Wikipedia controversy: https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/wikipedia-under-threat
Dog that knows its owner is coming home (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5wAm2c01w
Science and Spiritual Practices https://www.amazon.com/Science-Spiritual-Practices-Reconnecting-experience-ebook/dp/B01ND1D5JE
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-That-Their-Owners-Coming-ebook/dp/B004FGMZA8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=46V4FD7LSURB&keywords=dogs+that+know+when+their+owners+are+coming+home&qid=1556120660&s=digital-text&sprefix=dogs+that+knowdigital-text205&sr=1-1-catcorr
This distinguished Texas physician, deeply rooted in the scientific world, has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panoramic insight into the nature and the future of medicine.
Upon graduating with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Dossey worked as a pharmacist while earning his M.D. degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, 1967. Before completing his residency in internal medicine, he served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, where he was decorated for valor. Dr. Dossey helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, the largest group of internal medicine practitioners in that city, and was Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital in 1982.
An education steeped in traditional Western medicine did not prepare Dr. Dossey for patients who were blessed with “miracle cures,” remissions that clinical medicine could not explain. “Almost all physicians possess a lavish list of strange happenings unexplainable by normal science,” says Dr. Dossey. “A tally of these events would demonstrate, I am convinced, that medical science not only has not had the last word, it has hardly had the first word on how the world works, especially when the mind is involved.”
The author of nine books and numerous articles, Dr. Dossey is the former Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most widely subscribed-to journal in its field. The primary quality of all of Dr. Dossey’s work is scientific legitimacy, with an insistent focus on “what the data show.” As a result, his colleagues in medical schools and hospitals all over the country trust him, honor his message, and continually invite him to share his insights with them. He has lectured all over the world, including major medical schools and hospitals in the United States –Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, the Universities of Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, and the Mayo Clinic.
The impact of Dr. Dossey’s work has been remarkable. Before his book Healing Words was published in 1993, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in health; currently, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which utilize Dr. Dossey’s works as textbooks. In his 1989 book Recovering the Soul, he introduced the concept of “nonlocal mind” — mind unconfined to the brain and body, mind spread infinitely throughout space and time. Since then, “nonlocal mind” has been adopted by many leading scientists as an emerging image of consciousness. Dr. Dossey’s ever-deepening explication of nonlocal mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. The ramifications of such a union are radical and call for no less than the reinvention of medicine.
In 2013, Larry Dossey received the prestigious Visionary Award that honors a pioneer whose visionary ideas have shaped integrative healthcare and the medical profession.
Website: http://www.dosseydossey.com/larry/default.html
One Mind
https://www.amazon.com/One-Mind-Individual-Greater-Consciousness/dp/1401943152
The Power of Premonitions
Stephan A. Schwartz is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, a Fellow of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Sofia University, and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. He is the columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in both of which he covers trends that are affecting the future. He also writes regularly for The Huffington Post. His other academic and research appointments include: Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute; founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory; Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center; and Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research Society. Government appointments include: Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy. He has also been editorial staff member of National Geographic, Associate Editor of Sea Power. And staff reporter and feature writer for The Daily Press and The Times Herald. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, both as an experimentalist and as a social researcher. This latter work has had three major purposes: 1) exploring the relationship between social values, and social outcomes; 2) studying the processes of social transformation, particularly how individuals and small groups can make change occur; 3) future trend analysis research. As Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, first Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and then Admiral James Holloway, Schwartz was part of the small group that in the 1970s, transformed the elitist conscription military of the Viet Nam era into the all-volunteer meritocracy armed forces the United States has today. For this work he received a Certificate of Commendation. He was also a member of the Secretary of Defense/MIT Discussion Group on Innovation, Technology, and the Future. Most recently his award-winning book, The 8 Laws of Change, presented two decades of research on how an individual can become an agent of social change. His experimental work has focused on exceptional human performance, particularly as it involves nonlocal consciousness, that aspect of consciousness independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra’s Palace, Marc Antony’s Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the California coast, and in the Bahamas. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. Since 1978, he has been getting people to remote view the year 2050, and out of that has come a complex trend analysis. His submarine experiment, Deep Quest, using Remote Viewing helped determine that nonlocal consciousness is not an electromagnetic phenomenon. Other areas of experimental study include research into creativity, meditation, and Therapeutic Intent/Healing. In all of these areas he has published more than 150 technical reports and papers, 20 book chapters and five non-fiction books.
Website: https://stephanaschwartz.com/
Opening to the Infinite
https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Infinite-Stephan-Schwartz/dp/0976853612
The Alexandria Project
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1504026659/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
Brian Josephson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 “for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects.” He is the director of the Mind-Matter Unification Project of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, a project concerned primarily with the attempt to understand, from the viewpoint of the theoretical physicist, what may loosely be characterised as intelligent processes in nature, associated with brain function or with some other natural process.
Website: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/
Where Progress and Politics Collide: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1206/1206.5850.pdf
Rick Strassman was born in Los Angeles, California in 1952. He attended public schools in southern California’s San Fernando Valley, and graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys in 1969. As an undergraduate, he majored in zoology at Pomona College in Claremont California for two years before transferring to Stanford University, where he graduated with departmental honors in biological sciences in 1973. During summers in college he worked for RedKen Laboratories, developing cosmetics and a line of hair dyes, and also performed laboratory research at Stanford, on the development of the chicken embryo’s nervous system. He attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York, where he obtained his medical degree with honors in 1977.
Dr. Strassman took his internship and general psychiatry residency at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento, and received the Sandoz Award for outstanding graduating resident in 1981. After graduating, he worked for a year in Fairbanks, Alaska in community mental health and private psychiatric practice. From 1982-1983, he obtained fellowship training in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California, San Diego’s Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. He then served on the clinical faculty in the department of psychiatry at UC Davis Medical Center, before taking a full-time academic position in the department of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque in 1984.
At UNM, Dr. Strassman performed clinical research investigating the function of the pineal hormone melatonin in which his research group documented the first known role of melatonin in humans. He also began the first new US government approved and funded clinical research with psychedelic drugs in over twenty years. Before leaving the University in 1995, he attained the rank of tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and received the UNM General Clinical Research Center’s Research Scientist Award.
In 1984, he received lay ordination in a Western Buddhist order, and co-founded, and for several years administered, a lay Buddhist meditation group associated with the same order. Dr. Strassman underwent a four-year personal psychoanalysis in New Mexico between 1986 and 1990.
He has published nearly thirty peer-reviewed scientific papers, and has served as a reviewer for several psychiatric research journals. He has been a consultant to the US Food and Drug Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Veteran’s Administration Hospitals, Social Security Administration, and other state and local agencies. In 2007 he founded, with Steve Barker and Andrew Stone, the Cottonwood Research Foundation.
From 1996 to 2000, while living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Dr. Strassman worked in community mental health centers for Washington State in Bellingham and Port Townsend. For the next four years, he had a solo private practice in Taos, New Mexico. After two years working on the edge of the Navajo Reservation in Gallup NM, he returned to northern New Mexico in 2006, where he served at a mental health center in Espanola. Since mid-2008, he has been writing full-time.
He currently is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Website: https://www.rickstrassman.com/
DMT: The Spirit Molecule (book): https://www.amazon.com/DMT-Molecule-Revolutionary-Near-Death-Experiences/dp/0892819278
Documentary (DMT: The Spirit Molecule): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtT6Xkk-kzk
JIM B. TUCKER, M.D. is Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where he is continuing the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson with children who report memories of previous lives. A board-certified child psychiatrist, Dr. Tucker worked with Dr. Stevenson for several years before taking over the research upon Dr. Stevenson’s retirement in 2002.
Dr. Tucker was born and raised in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in psychology in 1982, followed by a Medical Degree four years later. He then received training in general psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of Virginia. After he completed his training, he stayed in Charlottesville and began a successful private practice in psychiatry.
Dr. Tucker, who was raised Southern Baptist, had never seriously considered the possibility of past lives before reading one of Dr. Stevenson’s book. After learning about the work, he became intrigued both by the children’s reports of past-life memories and by the prospect of studying them using an objective, scientific approach. He contacted the Division and in 1999 began working there half-time. A year later, he gave up his private practice completely to work at the university. He has now published two books and numerous papers in scientific journals. He has spoken before both scientific and general audiences and has made a number of television appearances, including Good Morning America, Larry King Live, and CBS Sunday Morning.
Website: http://www.jimbtucker.com/
University of Virginia, Division of Perceptual Studies: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/
Return to Life: https://www.amazon.com/Return-Life-Extraordinary-Children-Remember/dp/1250063485
Life Before Life:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003J5UIRS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
Uri Geller was born in Israel on December 20, 1946. At the age of four he had a mysterious encounter with a sphere of light while in a garden near his house. A retired Israeli air force officer, who was an eyewitness to this encounter, validated this mystifying event decades later. He is world-renowned for his psychic abilities. In fact, in 2017 the CIA released a large volume of previously top secret data, including documents and memos about the tests that were performed on Uri Geller. The CIA concluded that Uri “demonstrated his paranormal perception ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner.”
Webiste: https://www.urigeller.com/
The CIA released documents on the tests it conducted with Geller: https://www.urigeller.com/the-cia-release-secret-files-on-uri-geller-as-reported-by-worldwide-media/
Award-Winning Author. Dr. Moody received the World Humanitarian Award in Denmark in 1988. He was also honored with a bronze medal in the Human Relations category at the New York Film Festival for the movie version of Life After Life.
World-Renowned Scholar and Researcher. Dr. Moody is the leading authority on the ‘near-death experience’—a phrase he coined in the late seventies. Dr. Moody’s research into the phenomenon of near-death experience had its start in the 1960’s. The New York Times calls him “the father of the near-death experience.”
His Education
- D. from the Medical College of Georgia, 1976
- D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, 1969
- A. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, 1967
- A. with Honors in philosophy from the University of Virginia, 1966
Website: http://lifeafterlife.com/
Life After Life: https://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Bestselling-Investigation-Experiences/dp/006242890X
Glimpses of Eternity: https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Eternity-Sharing-Loved-Passage/dp/0692655573/ref=sr_1_6?qid=1556202686&refinements=p_27Raymond+Moody&s=books&sr=1-6&text=Raymond+Moody
Dannion Brinkley’s NDE (Near Death Experience) is perhaps the world’s most well known NDE. Officially dead for over 28 minutes, he has written two Best Selling books about his NDE experiences. He has had four NDEs in total. It was Dannion’s first NDE that brought the term “NDE” into the mainstream consciousness.
Website: http://dannionandkathrynbrinkley.com/
Secrets of the Light https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Light-Lessons-Dannion-Brinkley/dp/0061662461
Saved by the Lighthttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001M2FTCY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
Daryl Bem obtained his BA degree in physics from Reed College in 1960, and began graduate work in physics at MIT. The civil rights movement had just begun, and he became so intrigued with the changing attitudes toward desegregation in the American South that he decided to switch fields and pursue a career as a social psychologist specializing in attitudes and public opinion. He obtained his PhD degree in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1964, and has since taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford, Harvard, and Cornell University, where he has been since 1978.
Professor Bem has published on several diverse topics in psychology, including group decision making, self-perception, personality theory, ESP, and sexual orientation. He is coauthor of an introductory textbook in psychology and the author of Beliefs, Attitudes, and Human Affairs and Exotic Becomes Erotic: Explaining the Enigma of Sexual Orientation.
He has presented testimony to a subcommittee of the United States Senate on the psychological effects of police interrogation and has served as an expert witness in several court cases involving sex discrimination.
Feeling the Future https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-01894-001
Meta-analysis of the Bem precognition studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706048/
The New York Times article discussing the controversy: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html
Dr. Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 30 years. He has taught in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.
The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A8KWLYK/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
In addition to being the founder and research director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, Dr. Mossbridge is a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Science Director at Focus@Will Labs, and an Associated Professor in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Her focus is on teaching and learning about love and time, and she pursues this focus by speaking about love and time, leading projects, conducting research, and coaching technology executives and engineers.
She is currently engaged in four love-centered projects: 1) LOVING AIs, a project designed to bring unconditional love into artificial intelligence (especially artificial general intelligence), 2) a project in which she is examining whether hypnosis can be used to induce a state of unconditional love, 3) The Calling, her current book project about how love gets translated into life purpose, and 4) consciously bringing unconditional love into the lives of the tech workers and executives she coaches.
Dr. Mossbridge’s interest in how time is perceived by unconscious and conscious processes has led her to examine aspects of both cognitive and perceptual timing (e.g., order effects on reading comprehension, perceptual integration across senses) as well as controversial reverse-temporal effects (covered in ABC News 20/20, Wall Street Journal Ideas Market, Fox News and other mainstream media outlets). She is also the 2014 winner of the Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions award for this work. She is currently working with bestselling author Theresa Cheung on a book related to this work, The Premonition Code, to be released in October 2018 from Watkins Media.
Julia’s Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders is from Northwestern University, her M.A. in Neuroscience is from the University of California at San Francisco, and she received her B.A. with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College. She also invented and patented Choice Compass, a physiologically based decision-making app. A peer reviewer for Brain Research, Psychological Bulletin, Perception, Cognition, PLoS One, Explore, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Dr. Mossbridge received funding from the National Institutes of Health in her role as post-doctoral member of the Psychology Department at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Dr. Mossbridge is also the author of Unfolding: The Perpetual Science of Your Soul’s Work (New World Library, 2002) and The Garden: An Inside Experiment. She is also the co-author, with Imants Baruss, of Transcendent Mind: Re-thinking the Science of Consciousness.
Website: https://www.mossbridgeinstitute.com/
Transcendent Mind: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4316171
The Premonition Code: https://thepremonitioncode.com/
Precognition meta-analysis https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390/full
Analysis of precognition: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971164/
Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. Having grown up as the daughter of a coal miner in the north of England, she has since journeyed to more than seventy countries around the world and for the last nearly twenty years has lived in the sacred landscape of Avebury. She has experienced multidimensional realities since early childhood and worked with the wisdom keepers both incarnate and discarnate of many traditions.
Jude integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic wholeworld-view. This underpins her work aimed at enabling transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues, raising awareness and empowering fundamental change and sustainable solutions to global problems.
She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics.
She is the author of six non-fiction books currently available in 15 languages and 25 countries including CosMos – a co-creator’s guide to the whole-world co-authored with Dr Ervin Laszlo. Her first fictionalised e-book Legacy is available at amazon.
Her latest is The Cosmic Hologram- In-formation at the Center of Creation, the first book of the Transformation trilogy and which won a silver Nautilus Book Award for 2017. She is currently writing book two Gaia: Her-Story.
Her international corporate career culminated in her being the Group Finance Director of two major international businesses. She has extensive experience and knowledge of world events, international politics and global economic and financial systems and has spoken on transformational reforms in the UK, US, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
For the last seventeen years she has also travelled around the world in service to planetary and collective healing, some of which is described in her books The 8th Chakra, The 13th Step and most recently HOPE – Healing Our People & Earth.
In 2010 she was presented with a CIRCLE Award by WON Buddhism International cited for her ‘outstanding contribution towards planetary healing and expanding new forms of consciousness’.
In 2014 she was invited to become a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle that includes Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston.
Website: https://www.judecurrivan.com/
The Cosmic Hologram: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Hologram-formation-Center-Creation-ebook/dp/B01JM2XGKW
Roger Nelson, Ph.D., was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University from 1980 to 2002, and has directed the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), since its inception in 1997.
Interests in psychology, physics, philosophy and the arts have given opportunities to collaborate with creative interdisciplinary teams at PEAR and elsewhere developing ways to study consciousness and intention. Roger’s work integrates science and spirituality, including research that is directly focused on numinous communal experiences.
Building on years of laboratory experiments, Roger began using random event generator (REG) technology in the field to study effects of special states of group consciousness. This led naturally to the GCP, which is designed to register indications of a coalescing global consciousness responding to major world events such as 9/11, the beginnings of war, or New Year’s Eve.
Speculative interpretations suggest that we may be looking at some form of consciousness field. Though we don’t have a full explanation, this frontier research provides evidence of interconnection and interaction of our minds with the environment. It is consonant with ancient and modern ideas about a nascent greater consciousness.
The Global Consciousness Project: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness: https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Emergence-Consciousness-Roger-Nelson/dp/1936033356/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?keywords=roger+nelson+phd&qid=1556203802&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr2
Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. is an author, researcher, public speaker and practicing psychiatrist who started as a neuroscientist before obtaining her medical degree and training in medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. She became a member of Harvard Medical School’s faculty and later an original member of the La Jolla Group for Understanding the Origin of Humans, a think tank at the Salk Institute with several world-renowned neuroscientists and Nobel laureates. She has spoken at international conferences such as Towards a Science of Consciousness and the IONS annual conference. Her research findings and hypotheses about the brain and psi are published in her book,The ESP Enigma: A Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena.
Her current research focuses on autistic savants. Their abilities are so similar to psychic phenomena that they defy the current paradigm about the brain and consciousness, but unlike psychic abilities, theirs are accepted because they are reproducible. Her current project investigates savants who also report psi. She is also collborating with her brother, theoretical physicist and artificial intelligent expert Ken Hennacy, PhD., on creating a model for understanding consciousness and the quantum world.
Website: https://drdianehennacy.com/
The ESP Enigma: https://drdianehennacy.com/books/the-esp-enigma/
Dr. Alan Hugenot made a life study of the scientific basis for the afterlife. Today, continuing to research consciousness survival, many questions remain. The true nature of consciousness survival may always remain a mystery, but rigorous research shows death, like birth, may be a mere passing from one state of consciousness into another. An NDE survivor and a physicist, he has the knowledge, experience, and research data necessary to provide insight on these questions. Since publication of his book in 2012 he speaks several times each month before local groups, and at several national conventions on consciousness organizations.
Dr. Hugenot, holds a Doctorate of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and is a nationally recognized expert in physics & engineering science, currently he serves on five engineering standards writing committees for NFPA, ASHRAE, SNAME & ABYC, and is currently chairman of one. His consciousness research continues as a Professional Member of the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS), an active member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and the Foundation for Mind Being Research (FMBR).
The Death Experience: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Experience-What-like-when/dp/145751334X
The New Science of Consciousness Survival and the Metaphysical Shift to a Conscious Universe https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Survival-Metaparadigm-Conscious-Universe/dp/1457546949/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1556204101&refinements=p_27Alan+Ross+Hugenot&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Alan+Ross+Hugenot
Janice Miner Holden, EdD, is professor of counseling and chair of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX. She is current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.
Website: https://www.coe.unt.edu/facultystaff-department/janice-miner-holden
The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Near-Death-Experiences-Thirty-Investigation/dp/0313358648
Pim van Lommel (b.1943) worked as a cardiologist at the Rijnstate Hospital, an 800-bed teaching hospital in Arnhem in the Netherlands, from 1977 to 2003. He published several professional papers on cardiology. In 1986, he began studying near-death experiences in patients who survived a cardiac arrest.
In 2001, Dr. van Lommel and others published their Dutch study in the reputable medical journal The Lancet. In addition, he has authored chapters in several books about near-death experiences and also published articles about the subject.
In 2007 he published in The Netherlands his book ‘Endless Consciousness: a scientific approach to the near-death experience‘ [ Eindeloos Bewustzijn: een wetenschappelijke visie op de Bijna-Dood Ervaring] . This book was a bestseller: within one year over 100.000 books were sold in the Netherlands, and it was also nominated for ‘The Best Book of 2008′. It has been translated into the German language in 2009: ‘Endloses Bewusstsein. Neue Medizinische Fakten zur Nahtoderfahrung‘, and in 2010 it is published in the English language by Harper Collins, entitled: Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience. In 2011 it will be published in the French language by Éditions Robert Laffont.
Over the past several years Pim van Lommel has been lecturing all over the world on near-death experiences and the relationship between consciousness and brain function. In 2005, he was granted the ‘Bruce Greyson Research Award’ on behalf of the IANDS (the International Association of Near-Death Studies). And, in September 2006, the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, awarded him the ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ at the World Congress on Clinical and Preventive Cardiology in New Delhi.
Pim van Lommel studied medicine at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and specialized in cardiology.
Website: https://pimvanlommel.nl/en/
The Lancet article on near-death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(01)07100-8/fulltext
Jeffrey Mishlove received an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. He has been a registered Commodity Trading Advisor. He has also been a California licensed psychologist. From 1987 to 2002 he hosted the national, public television series, Thinking Allowed. He is the author of the Handbook for Contestants in CNBC’s 2007 Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. In 2010, he was part of a team that discovered the first dinosaur tracks found in the State of Nevada. He has served as president of the nonprofit Intuition Network.
PK Man: https://www.amazon.com/PK-Man-True-Story-Matter/dp/1571741836
New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk448YbGITLnzplK7jwNcw
In a moment of deep spiritual experience Asil connected to the channeled guides several years ago. At that point, he was not aware these guides were of the angelic realms. The intensity of this experience left him in a state of bliss, deep clarity and questioning all aspects of life, setting a milestone in his current phase of life. He was given a choice to work with the guides from a blank slate, which would require him to let go of any past traditions, rituals, healing methods, dogma, and teachers that he had learned. So he decided to travel and spend time in as much quiet contemplation as possible, as the guides were adjusting his system physically and energetically. All these changes physical and energetic in nature happened, so the guides could work through him, without negatively impacting his system with the high energy that passes through, as Asil channels.
Asil has been on the spiritual path and working with healing methodologies for more than 18 years. In those years, he has acquired many teachings by masters, initiations by lineage holders of various traditions from South America, North America and China. During this time he also served as a CEO and corporate executive in the traditional structures of society. All aspects of his past have contributed to who he is today.
Website: https://asiltoksal.com/
Videos and transcripts of his channelings: https://asiltoksal.com/category/channelings/
Ever since I was a young girl, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. In 1973 I graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Education certified to teach high school French and mathematics. My first teaching assignment given to me by my team teacher was to make a seating chart for the eighty-four students enrolled in our Consumer Math class. As I wrote their names in alphabetical order I placed an X next to five or six indicating potential problems. When questioned by my team teacher about the X's, I responded that these were the students who would be ditching class, writing fake notes, and smoking in the restrooms. As the semester unfolded the students that I had marked on the seating chart did in fact become the discipline problems. My team teacher queried me about my precognition. It was the first time I realized that I had a "knowing" that others didn't.
Occasionally I would dream about the health of friends, colleagues, students or family members. Depending on how receptive they might be I would suggest that they see a doctor to be evaluated for a specific problem. Those that chose to follow up would confirm my "diagnoses" and question how I could know such a thing.
In September of 1999 following a breast biopsy I was diagnosed with cancer. The following year another biopsy indicated that cancer was still present and had spread. The doctors were insistent that I have my breast removed immediately. Amid the fear and confusion my intuitive voice would calmly reassure me that I did not need to lose my breast. After several consultations with radiologists and surgeons, I scheduled my mastectomy. It was a defining moment in my life. There was no cancer found in the breast tissue or the fourteen lymph nodes that were removed. My intuitive voice was right!!! In that moment I made a decision to trust my "knowing" and to use it professionally to assist others with their self-growth, spiritual development and physical well being.
During my recuperation I participated in three research experiments conducted at the University of Arizona by Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., author of The Afterlife Experiments. The first in February 2001 tested my efficacy as a psychic medium. The results were published in the Journal of Religious and Psychical Research, 2001, 24, 2: 82-91. In January 2003, I participated in a twelve day/night precognitive dreaming experiment sponsored by the Deepak Chopra Foundation. In November 2004 I participated in a medical intuitive study. The experiment is discussed in Chapter 15 of The Energy Healing Experiments written by Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D. My abilities as an energy healing practitioner were tested in the lab in 2006 and 2007. Chapters 11 and 12 of the Energy Healing Experiments review the findings.
With a Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University and thirty years as a professional astrologer, I assist others in understanding the complexity of their lives. I am currently mentoring, teaching classes in psychic development and conducting readings in person and by phone. Through my work I seek to inspire, empower and enlighten others so that they too may discover and travel their path just as I have mine.
Website: http://www.innerknowing.net/
Research conducted on Catherine’s abilities: http://www.innerknowing.net/research.html
Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and the former director of The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. He is also a Professor of Psychiatric Medicine in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Division of Outpatient Psychiatry, at the University of Virginia. Greyson is one of the first researchers to gather empirical data on near-death experiences, using accepted scientific methods.
Dr Greyson is co-author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences. Greyson wrote the overview of Near Death Experiences for the Encyclopædia Britannica and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Near-Death Studies from 1982 through 2007. He is co-author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation.
Irreducible Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Mind-Toward-Psychology-Century-ebook/dp/B00B9ADYGW
The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Near-Death-Experiences-Thirty-Investigation/dp/0313358648/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XG4BQS6ATXFQ&keywords=the+handbook+of+near-death+experiences+thirty+years+of+investigation&qid=1556289837&s=digital-text&sprefix=the+handbook+of+neardigital-text240&sr=1-1-catcorr
Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., is President and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and Associated Faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research has focused on spirituality and health, transformative experiences and practices, and the development of mindfulness-based interventions for emotional well-being. Her primary interest lies in how psychology, biology, and spirituality interact to affect experience and behavior.
She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and completed her research training in behavioral genetics at The University of California, San Francisco. She is author of Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Year, and coauthor of Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, and Spiritual Competencies in Clinical Practice: Guidelines for Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals. She has published numerous articles in scientific journals, is an internationally recognized speaker and workshop leader, and is a Huffington Post and Psychology Today blogger. Her current research focuses on meditation, extraordinary experiences, worldview transformation, virtual reality approaches to inducing awe, and spirituality and mental health. She’s a mom and loves singing, soccer, nature, and travel.
Institute of Noetic Sciences Website: https://noetic.org/
Paul Selig is considered to be one of the foremost spiritual channels working today. In his breakthrough works of channeled literature, I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, The Book of Knowing and Worth, The Book of Mastery, The Book of Truth, and The Book of Freedom (see books page), author and medium Paul Selig has recorded an extraordinary program for personal and planetary evolution as humankind awakens to its own divine nature.
Paul was born in New York City and received his master’s degree from Yale. A spiritual experience in 1987 left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience he studied a form of energy healing and began to “hear” for his clients. Described as “a medium for the living,” Paul has the unique ability to step-into and “become” the people his clients ask about, often taking on their personalities and physical characteristics as he “hears” them telepathically. Paul’s work is widely featured in a variety of media, including ABC News Nightline, Fox News, the Biography Channel series The UneXplained, Gaiam TV’s Beyond Belief and the documentary film PGS: Your Personal Guidance System. He has appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Bob Olson’s Afterlife TV.
Paul offers channeled workshops internationally and serves on the faculty of The Omega Institute, The Kripalu Center and the Esalen Institute. Also a noted educator, he served on the faculty of NYU for over 25 years. He directed the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College for many years, and he now serves on the college’s Board of Trustees. He lives in New York City where he maintains a private practice as an intuitive and conducts frequent live-stream seminars.
Webpage: https://paulselig.com/
Books: https://paulselig.com/books/
Etzel Cardeña holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University, Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology. His areas of research include extraordinary/anomalous experiences (including ostensible psi phenomena), dissociation and acute posttraumatic reactions, hypnosis (neurophenomenology) and the stream of consciousness. Born in México, where he is licensed as a clinical psychologist, he has a Ph. D. from UCDavis and was a scholar at Stanford. He has been faculty at Georgetown University and The University of Texas-Pan American (UT), where he was Department Chair. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Studies, his work has garnered awards from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, UT, and others. He was a consultant on the dissociative disorders for the DSM-IV, DSM-5, and ICD, and has delivered keynote speeches and workshops in four continents. His more than 300 scientific publications, some of them in top journals in psychology and psychiatry include Varieties of Anomalous Experience, Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,and Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century. He is also the artistic director of the International Theatre of Malmö.
Ground-breaking paper published in American Psychologist (2018), the official peer-reviewed journal of The American Psychological Association: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-24699-001
PAUL DAVIDS is an author, artist and director, who has produced films that include Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2016), NBCUniversal s Jesus in India (2007) and The Sci-Fi Boys (2006), and Showtime s Roswell (1994).
He co-authored six books of the Star Wars saga with his wife, Hollace Davids, for Lucasfilm.
He is a Princeton Psychology graduate. His uncanny experiences of phenomena related to Mr. Ackerman are the subject of the film, The Life After Death Project (2013).
His book, An Atheist in Heaven, is about this extraordinary case of afterlife communication, and Mr. Davids has signed a sworn affidavit certifying that it is all true.
An Atheist in Heaven: https://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Heaven-Paul-Davids/dp/0989024245
Barbara Bartolome had a life-changing near-death experience. She is the head of the Santa Barbara chapter of IANDS (International Association of Near-Death Studies). She has served as area director for the Santa Barbara Region of the AuPairCare host family cultural exchange program, program coordinator for the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, executive assistant to the Directors of Marketing in Mentor Worldwide, LLC., and development team assistant in the Development Office, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.
Laura Powers is a psychic who has been featured by Buzzfeed, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Motherboard Magazine by Vice, and many other media outlets. She is currently in pre-production for a new television series about her work. She is a clairvoyant, psychic medium, writer, actress, model, producer, writer, singer and speaker who helps other receive guidance and communicate with loved ones. Ever since she was a child, Laura has seen and sensed ghosts and spirits and she has learned how to manage those experiences, using this ability to connect with the angelic and other realms. She now uses her experience communicating with angels, spirits, and other energy beings to help her clients better understand and change their lives.
Prior to her work in this field, she studied theater at the University of Colorado and has a master's degree in political science and has worked and explored in the political, spiritual and creative realms. She has worked in politics, government, higher education, and as an actress, cabaret singer, and burlesque performer. Laura also works as a ghost whisperer, and paranormal communicator.
Though Laura has always sensed the spiritual realm, it was not until adulthood that she opened up to her gifts and a life-crisis in which she was unemployed, going through a bad divorce, and physically ill. It was during the crisis that she shifted and opened up her focus to the spiritual realm and her life dramatically transformed from there. She started her company Healing Powers as a part of a personal healing journey with the goal of helping others find the resources and tools for self-healing.
Website: https://www.healingpowers.net/
Books: https://www.healingpowers.net/store
Healing Powers podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-powers-podcast/id434913262
Dr Penny Sartori worked as a nurse in a British hospital for 21 years, 17 of those being in Intensive Care. She is highly experienced and skilled in her role as an intensive care staff nurse; and has conducted unique and extensive research into the near-death experiences (NDEs) of her patients. In 2005 she was awarded a PhD for her research into NDEs.
Dr Sartori’s work has received worldwide attention and media coverage. She has spoken at many conferences both nationally and internationally and her work has received the attention of HRH Prince Charles.
Website: http://www.drpennysartori.com/
Publications: http://www.drpennysartori.com/publications.html
Dr. Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine in the School of Social Sciences. He is also a professor of philosophy in the School of Humanities at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He himself was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in 1983.
He is particularly interested in machine and human vision, visual recognition, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, consciousness and cognition (which was pondered at length in the Donald Hoffman talk) as well as shape from motion as areas of research. He is the author of three books: 'Visual Intelligence,' 'Observer Mechanics' and 'Automotive Lighting and Human Vision.'
Webpage: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/
The Case Against Reality: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540324581&sr=1-6
Bio: Helané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health and healing.
Her VET-MIND study funded by the National Institutes of Health examined the mechanisms of meditation for combat veterans with PTSD. Her current research interests include healing stress and trauma, examining mechanisms of mind-body medicine, and rigorously studying extended human capacities. Dr. Wahbeh’s extensive meditation training includes the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a four-year Meditation Teacher Training with CoreLight, and a 16-year regular meditation practice.
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he also serves as Chair of the Board. Jeff is the editor-in-chief of the Macmillan Handbook Series on Religion (ten volumes) and the author of seven monographs, including, most recently, Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (Chicago, 2017) and Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics and the Paranormal (Chicago, 2011). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of science and American metaphysical literature for the University of Chicago Press collectively entitled The Super Story.
Website: http://jeffreyjkripal.com/
Body of work: http://jeffreyjkripal.com/body-of-work/
I received my doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona in 2003 where I later served as the William James Post-doctoral Fellow in Mediumship and Survival Research and Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program until that program closed at the end of 2007. At that time, my husband Mark Boccuzzi and I founded the Windbridge Institute in order to continue performing important research on phenomena including the continuation of consciousness after death and the experiences of and information reported by psychic mediums (individuals who experience regular communication with the dead). The Windbridge Institute, where I serve as Director of Research, is currently based in Tucson, Arizona, but the research participants with whom we work are located all over the country.
I am a full member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE; where I am also currently serving on the Council) and serve on the scientific advisory boards of the Rhine Research Center (RRC) and the Forever Family Foundation (FFF). My work has been presented at scientific meetings of the SSE, the PA, the RRC, the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine as well as the FFF, Toward a Science of Consciousness, and Alternative Expressions of the Numinous conferences. My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, Journal of Parapsychology, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Transpersonal Psychology Review, and Australian Journal of Parapsychology where I also serve as a Specialist Consultant.
Website: http://www.windbridge.org/
Scientific research on mediums: http://www.windbridge.org/research/
Rupert Spira first came across the poetry of Rumi at the age of fifteen in 1975. Shortly afterwards he learned the Mevlevi Turning, a sacred Sufi dance of movement, prayer and meditation, at Colet House in London.
Soon after this he met his first teacher, Dr. Francis Roles, who was himself a student of Shantananda Saraswati the Shankaracharya of the North of India,. Under Dr. Roles’ guidance he learned mantra meditation and was introduced to the classical system of Advaita or Non-Duality. This formed the foundation of his interest and practice for the next 25 years.
During this time he read everything available by the Russian philosopher, P.D. Ouspensky, and learnt Gurdjieff’s Movements. During the late 1970s he attended Krishnamurti’s last meetings at Brockwood Park close to his childhood home and was deeply impressed and influenced by his intellectual rigor and fierce humility. Throughout these years he also studied the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj on a continuous basis. Towards the end of the 1980s he had a brief encounter with the teachings of Da Free John whose early writings made a deep impression on him.
During the late seventies and early eighties Rupert trained as a ceramic artist under Henry Hammond and Michael Cardew, two of the founding fathers of the British Studio Pottery movement. He started his first studio in 1983 making pieces that are to be found in private and public collections around the world.
A turning point in the mid 1990s led Rupert to an American teacher, Robert Adams, who died two days after he arrived. However, while visiting, Rupert was told about another teacher, Francis Lucille.
Several months later Rupert met Francis. The first words Rupert heard him say were, “Meditation is a universal ‘Yes’ to everything.” Although this is the sort of phrase anyone on the spiritual circuit might come across, nevertheless it was pivotal moment in Rupert's life. “At this moment I realized that I had arrived home, that this encounter was the flowering and fulfillment of the previous thirty years of seeking.” When Rupert asked Francis at that first meeting what to do next, he replied, “Come as often as you can.”
Over the next twelve years Rupert spent all the spare time that work and family commitments would allow with Francis, exploring the sense of separation as it appears in the mind in the form of beliefs and, more importantly, how it appears in the body as feelings of being located and limited. Francis also introduced Rupert to the Direct Path teachings of Atmananda Krishnamenon, and the tantric approach of Kashmir Shaivism, which he had received from his teacher, Jean Klein.
Of the essence of these years, Rupert writes, "The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.
I do not know what it is about the words, actions or presence of the teacher or teaching that seem to awaken this recognition of our essential nature as it truly is and its subsequent realization in our lives but I am eternally grateful to Francis for our friendship."
Rupert lives in Oxford, UK, with his wife, Ellen, a therapist and yoga teacher in the non-dual tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, and his son, Matthew. He holds meetings and retreats worldwide.
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, a member faculty at the University of California, San Diego, and a research scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. In 2000, Dr. Delorme completed his PhD thesis on visual categorization in humans, monkeys, and machines. Dr. Delorme then moved to the Salk Institute for a post-doc in Terry Sejnowski and Francis Crick’s laboratory where he focused on statistical analysis of electro-encephalographic (EEG) signal recorded during various cognitive tasks. He developed the free EEGLAB software for advanced analysis of EEG signals in collaboration with Scott Makeig, software which is now amongst the most used in EEG research worldwide. He was awarded a Brettencourt-Schueller young investigator award and a 10-year anniversary ANT young investigator award for his contributions to the field of EEG research.
Dr. Delorme has a keen interest in the scientific study of consciousness and spirituality. He is a long-term Zen meditator, and has taught in India on the neural correlates of conscious experience in a Master’s degree program for the Birla Institute of Technology. Starting in 2002, he started to look at brain dynamical changes underlying extra-ordinary states of consciousness, including meditation, psycho-active agents, and mediumship. He is also investigating the means by which technology, in particular multi-channel neurofeedback, could be used to assist meditation practice.
Website: http://arnauddelorme.com/
Publications: http://arnauddelorme.com/publications/
Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in computer engineering with specializations in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing. He has worked as a scientist in some of the world's foremost research laboratories, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the "Casimir Effect" of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Bernardo has authored many academic papers and books on philosophy and science. His most recent book is "The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality," based on rigorous analytic argument and empirical evidence.
Website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
Books: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/iff-books/authors/bernardo-kastrup
In 1997, Jeff experienced a horrific automobile accident. The accident caused multiple life-threatening injuries, including crushing both his legs. He had 18 surgeries and spent six months in the hospital. His left leg was amputated above the knee. The most devastating outcome of the accident was the loss of his wife and youngest son, both killed instantly. Overwhelmed by the injuries his body suffered, Jeff had a profound near-death experience in which he met his wife on the other side, who told him he couldn’t stay and had to return. Having that glimpse into heaven gave him the courage he needed to carry on and care for his living son. He has since remarried and adopted two more sons.
Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D., is Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, and lead author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, which was developed under the auspices of the Esalen Center for Theory & Research.
Ed moved to Virginia from the University of North Carolina, where he used EEG and fMRI neuro-imaging techniques to study somatosensory cortical plasticity in humans, having previously spent over ten years working full-time in experimental para-psychology, first at J.B. Rhine's Rhine Research Institute and subsequently in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke. At UVa he has returned to his central long-term research interests, which revolve around mind/brain relations, and functional neuro-imaging studies of altered states of consciousness and psi.
Irreducible Mind https://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Mind-Toward-Psychology-Century-ebook/dp/B00B9ADYGW
Beyond Physicalism https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Physicalism-Reconciliation-Science-Spirituality/dp/1442232382
Brenda J. Dunne, MS, holds degrees in psychology and the humanities from Mundelein College in Chicago (1976), and a MS in Human Development from the University of Chicago (1979). She was manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory since 1979, in which capacity she supervised the full spectrum of PEAR activities and oversaw research projects of visiting scholars and student interns. Since 1986 she has been a Councilor of the Society for Scientific Exploration and serves on its Executive Committee as Education Officer. She is also President and Treasurer of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL).
Consciousness and the Source of Reality: https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Source-Reality-Robert-Jahn/dp/1936033038
Dr. Linda Backman is a licensed psychologist. Since 1993, she has guided innumerable individuals in regression hypnotherapy to access their past and between lives. In 1997, she and her husband, Dr. Earl Backman, established the The Ravenheart Center, a Mystery School in Boulder, Colorado, dedicated to guiding individuals to discover their path as a soul. In addition, Dr. Backman co-founded The International Between Lives Regression Network in 2005, a network for regression therapists and for the promotion of awareness among the general public, in the US and abroad, of the benefits and purpose of Regression Hypnotherapy.
Website: https://www.ravenheartcenter.com/
Souls on Earth https://www.amazon.com/Souls-Earth-Exploring-Interplanetary-Lives/dp/0738754242
The Evolving Soul https://www.amazon.com/Evolving-Soul-Spiritual-Healing-Exploration/dp/0738739324/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=J73Y8VY1GTHJJRZ3RYNP
Through her platform at TheSoulFrequency.com, Shanna Lee teaches women how to live powerfully and authentically, how to feel great in their bodies, confident with who they are, and to connect with their purpose. By locating their deepest truths and raising their energy frequency her clients create fulfilling lives founded on alignment and intuition. She is the host of The Soul Frequency Show podcast and is the author of The Soul Frequency: Your Healthy, Awakened and Authentic Life. Shanna has been featured in Awareness Magazine, Tiny Buddha, and Elephant Journal.
Website: https://thesoulfrequency.com/
Podcast https://thesoulfrequency.com/soul-frequency-show/
The Soul Frequency https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Frequency-Healthy-Awakened-Authentic/dp/1732505527
I am a wife, a mother of three, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium.
In my life I have read for hundreds of people and connected them with loved ones who have crossed to the Other Side. I have learned that powerful cords of light connect us to those we love, both here and in the afterlife—and that if we open our hearts and minds to these bonds, we can immeasurably enhance the way we live and love today.
Now, I want to share the lessons I have learned from the Other Side. And the most amazing among them is this—that we may think we are just one small person on a very big planet, but all of our lives have extraordinary meaning and purpose, and that purpose is always about learning to love and help each other in our beautiful journeys.
I invite you to embrace the brightness and power of your soul—and to share your own beautiful light with the world.
Website: http://lauralynnejackson.com/
The Light Between Us http://lauralynnejackson.com/book-the-light-between-us/
Eva became a popular talk show hostess on BBS Radio, which gave her the opportunity to engage the minds of today’s top thinkers in the fields of science and consciousness and our human experience. A list of her past interviews reads like a ‘who’s who’ list of luminaries. Eva conducts both her interviews and herself with a raw honesty, devoid of the pitfalls of egotism, that is seldom seen today.
Eva is based in Georgia, and does private mentoring and counseling, and occasionally travels to conduct lectures.
Website: https://evaherr.com/
Agape https://evaherr.com/agape-the-intent-of-the-soul/
Consciousness https://evaherr.com/consciousness/
My journey with Remote Viewing started shortly after it became declassified in 1995. From there I became a professional Remote Viewer, working in a think tank called TDS, and later co-running it while living in a Zen Center. Through the years, I have worked with clients in the computer industry to the financial industry, as well as counter-terror with the FBI and other gov agencies. We were one of the only successful Civilian Remote Viewing think tank since the declassification in 1995 - until we were forced to close our doors. Since then, I have been Remote Viewing (running teams), teaching Remote Viewing, writing about it, and working on projects related to TV and film in order to inspire and excite the full potential we all have.
Website: https://righthemispheric.com/
The Time Before the Secret Words https://www.amazon.com/Time-Before-Secret-Words-Strangeness/dp/0997825804
David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer, editor, and program director of the Scientific and Medical Network. After a career as a merchant banker, Lorimer became a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College. He has a long-standing interest in perennial wisdom and has translated and edited books on the Bulgarian sage Peter Deunov. He is also a member of the International Futures Forum and editor of its digest, Omnipedia: Thinking for Tomorrow. David Lorimer is chair of the Wrekin Trust, an adult education charity. He is also vice-president of the Swedenborg Society and the Horizon Foundation (The International Association for Near-Death Studies in the U.K.), and chair of the University for Spirit Forum. He also chairs the All Hallows House Foundation, which is concerned with holistic health. His other books include Whole in One: The Near-Death Experience and the Ethic of Interconnectedness and Survival: Body, Mind, and Death in the Light of Psychic Experience.
Website: https://www.galileocommission.org/david-lorimer/
Survival? https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Death-Transition-David-Lorimer/dp/1786770350
Whole in One https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140192581/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
Thinking Beyond the Brain https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0863153577/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
Prophet for Our Times https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Our-Times-Teachings-Deunov/dp/1781805911/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=prophet+of+our+times&qid=1556379027&s=books&sr=1-1
Jeff O'Driscoll, MD, practiced emergency medicine in a level-one trauma center for twenty-five years and served as department chair for eight. He received his training at the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed his residency in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Dr. O'Driscoll recently stepped away from practicing medicine to pursue consulting and to write. His recent books include a novel, Who Buried Achilles?, a series of children's books about Muck the Duck and friends, and his award-winning memoir, Not Yet, focusing on his spiritual encounters in the emergency department.
Website: https://www.jeffodriscoll.com/
Not Yet https://www.amazon.com/Not-Yet-Jeff-ODriscoll-MD/dp/0998610275
He studied Philosophy and English at Oberlin College and the University of London, and in 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
After publishing a number of articles in the philosophy of language, temporal logic, and the philosophy of time, he turned his attention to several related problems in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind — in particular, questions concerning causality, scientific explanation generally, and psychological explanation specifically. One of his overriding concerns was to demonstrate the inadequacy of mechanistic theories in psychology and cognitive science.
Prof. Braude also examined the evidence of parapsychology to see whether it would provide new insights into these and other traditional philosophical issues.
After that, he shifted his focus to problems in philosophical psychopathology, writing extensively on the connections between dissociation and classic philosophical problems as well as central issues in parapsychology—for example, the unity of consciousness, multiple personality and moral responsibility, and the nature of mental mediumship.
Prof. Braude is past President of the Parapsychological Association and is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including Research Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the BIAL Foundation in Portugal. He has published more than 60 philosophical essays in such journals as Noûs; The Philosophical Review; Philosophical Studies; Analysis; Inquiry; Philosophia; Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; Social Philosophy and Policy; New Ideas in Psychology; The Journal of Scientific Exploration; and The Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.
He has also written six books: ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (1979; revised edition 2002); The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science (1986; revised edition 1997); First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind (1991; revised edition 1995); Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death (2003); and The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations (2007). His latest book is Crimes of Reason: On Mind, Nature and the Paranormal(2014)
Website: https://userpages.umbc.edu/~braude/
Immortal Remains https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Remains-Evidence-After-Death/dp/0742514722
ESP and Psychokinesis https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581124074/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5