Stephen Braude, PhD: Philosopher and parapsychologist

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

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Jeff O’Driscoll, MD: Spiritual encounters as an ER doctor

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.

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David Lorimer: The Galileo Commission

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.

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John Vivanco: Remote viewer

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.

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Eva Herr: Science Medicine Journalist

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.

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Laura Lynne Jackson: Psychic medium

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

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Shanna Lee: The Soul Frequency

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

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Dr. Linda Backman: Past life regression hypnosis

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

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Brenda Dunne: Former Princeton University consciousness researcher

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

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Jeff Olsen: His near-death experience

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.

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Bernardo Kastrup, PhD: Philosopher of mind

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

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Arnaud Delorme, PhD: Consciousness researcher

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.

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Rupert Spira: Nondual philosopher

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.

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Julie Beischel, PhD: Mediumship researcher

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.

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Jeff Kripal, PhD: Rice University professor of religion

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.

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Helané Wahbeh: Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences

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.

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Donald Hoffman, PhD: Professor of Cognitive Sciences, UC-Irvine

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.

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Dr. Penny Sartori: Former nurse and near-death researcher

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.

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Laura Powers: Psychic communicator, author, and podcast host

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.

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Barbara Bartolome: Her near-death experience

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,

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Paul Davids: Hollywood producer and author

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).

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Etzel Cardeña: Lund University parapsychology researcher

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

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Paul Selig: Psychic channel

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),

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Bruce Greyson, MD: University of Virginia psychiatrist who studies near-death experiences

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.

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Catherine Yunt: Psychic medium and channel

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.

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Asil Toksal: Healer and channel

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.

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Jeff Mishlove, PhD: Parapsychology researcher

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.

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Pim van Lommel, MD: Cardiologist and near-death experience researcher

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.

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Alan Hugenot, PhD: Scientist and near-death experiencer

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.

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Diane Hennacy Powell, MD: Johns Hopkins-trained savant researcher

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.

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Dr. Jude Currivan: Cosmologist and consciousness researcher

Dr. Jude Currivan: Cosmologist and consciousness researcher

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

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Julia Mossbridge, PhD: Cognitive neuroscientist and precognition researcher

Julia Mossbridge, PhD: Cognitive neuroscientist and precognition researcher

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.

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Dennis McKenna, PhD: Psychedelics researcher

Dennis McKenna, PhD: Psychedelics researcher

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.

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Daryl Bem, PhD: former Cornell professor studying precognition

Daryl Bem, PhD: former Cornell professor studying precognition

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.

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Dannion Brinkely: His four near-death experiences

Dannion Brinkely: His four near-death experiences

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.

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Uri Geller: Israeli psychic

Uri Geller: Israeli psychic

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.

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Jim Tucker, MD: University of Virginia professor studying children who remember previous lives

Jim Tucker, MD: University of Virginia professor studying children who remember previous lives

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.

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Rick Strassman, MD: DMT, The Spirit Molecule

Rick Strassman, MD: DMT, The Spirit Molecule

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.

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Dr. Brian Josephson: Nobel Prize-winner in physics

Dr. Brian Josephson: Nobel Prize-winner in physics

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

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Stephan Schwartz: Remote viewing researcher

Stephan Schwartz: Remote viewing researcher

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.

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Larry Dossey, MD: Non-local consciousness

Larry Dossey, MD: Non-local consciousness

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. 

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Rupert Sheldrake, PhD: Psychic abilities in humans and animals

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD: Psychic abilities in humans and animals

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.

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Russell Targ: Remote viewing and the US government

Russell Targ: Remote viewing and the US government

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).

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Dean Radin, PhD: The science of psychic abilities

Dean Radin, PhD: The science of psychic abilities

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.

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Eben Alexander, MD: His near-death experience

Eben Alexander, MD: His near-death experience

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.

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