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Robert Sitler fell in love with the Mayan world 35 years ago while visiting with Ch’ol villagers in the rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico.

He completed a PhD in Hispanic Literatures at the University of Texas-Austin in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya-related Criollo fiction with the late Dr. Linda Schele overseeing the project’s Mayan dimensions.

Dr. Sitlers’ on-going academic passion for things Maya has been complemented by numerous immersion experiences among Maya from a dozen language groups in Guatemala, Mexico and Belize. His primary interests have been the Mam-speaking community of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala and the significance of year 2012 in the Mayan Long Count calendar. In 2006 he published the first academic work to focus on the 2012 phenomenon. His CV also includes a 2012 book entitled The Living Maya and a translation into English of the only 2012 book written by a Mayan author.

Robert has published several articles on Mayan literature and 2012, and has been interviewed both on radio and on-line concerning the Maya and their calendars. He lectures regularly about beneficial dimensions of Mayan culture while clarifying common public misconceptions about 2012. Dr. Sitler has worked to include more Mayan perspectives in the discourse concerning the significance of this much-anticipated year.

Robert is currently a Professor of Modern Languages at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and serves as Director of its Latin American Studies Program, teaching courses in Spanish, Mayan culture and the Latin American humanities.

Tom Spector began meditating while in graduate school at Yale University in 1968. He realized he had low self-esteem, lots of anger, and was flunking out of an intense, specialized program. Meditation helped him immensely. He began to work out his deep-seated personal growth issues and rapidly became a star student, completing the full Ph.D. program in record time. In 1976, after a magical meeting with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross at a Ram Dass meditation retreat, Tom started sharing the techniques that helped him so much. He continued meditating and teaching, even when he was the International VP For Cancer Research at GlaxoWellcome (now GSK). Tom is internationally regarded as a refreshingly effective meditation teacher. He teaches at many different venues, including meditation retreats, universities, hospitals, corporate firms, and other organizations. Tom also sees individual clients. He has a special gift for helping people discover the root of their suffering and their path to heal. His Meditation and Healing CD and new book, Our Two Gardens: How to Cultivate Healing will be available at the presentations.

Tom lives in North Carolina with his wife, Joanna, who teaches yoga at Duke University and their studio. To learn more about meditation and yoga, visit their website, www.hathahouse.com

Josiane d’Hoop is a leader in the field of esoteric thought and metaphysics who has helped thousands of people through her various healing methods. As the founder of the non profit organization Quantum Institute International, Josiane d’Hoop teaches and spreads the knowledge of the ageless wisdom worldwide, and how it is applied to the everyday human endeavor.

In her new book, Navigating These Challenging Times – What to Expect and How to Travel the Road, she brings a lifetime of study and an uncanny intuition to bears on one of the most important topics facing humanity today. Her website is Walk Through the Door

For over 25 years, Paul Rademacher has been studying the intersection between consciousness, spirituality and the Christian tradition. After graduating with a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1985, Mr. Rademacher spent 15 years in the pastoral ministry working in congregations in Muncie, IN and Charlotte, NC. From 1989 to 1992 he pursued doctoral studies in the areas of mysticism, meditation and spiritual practice, at the Ecumenical Theological Center in Detroit, MI.

In 1997 he attended, for the first time, The Monroe Institute and continued as a student there until 2000. In 2001 he became a residential facilitator at the Institute leading groups in experiential explorations of their inner awareness. Since October of 2007 he has served as the Executive Director of The Monroe Institute.

Dr. Pagans and has been an adjunct professor of psychology
and a visiting professor. He is Certified as a Natural Health Professional and Licensed by the Commonwealth Of Virginia as a Professional Counselor. Certified as a Certified Natural Health Professional by The Association of Certified Natural Health Professional. He published "The Me I Can Be" , which is influenced by his private counseling practice, education and his experiences growing up as a Native American of mixed blood in Virginia. He also published " Return Of The Buffalo" and a number of articles and poems, as well as, being a free lance writer for the Rustburg Ledger. He was on the Board of Youth Service and Virginia Drug and Alcohol Programs. He received his PhD in Psychology from The Union Institute and his N.D. from the Trinity School
Of Natural Health.

Eben Alexander III graduated from UNC 1976 with a BA in Chemistry, graduated from Duke University Medical School in 1980, and completed his neurosurgical residency training at Duke in 1987. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School from 1988 through 2001, achieving the rank of Associate Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) by 1994. He then directed the Movement Disorders Surgery Program (Neurosurgery) at UMass Medical School. He moved to Virginia in 2006, where he continued in neurosurgery, including work as director of global research for the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation in Charlottesville, VA. He is writing a book about this most powerful, life-changing story, which should be available in 2012. For more information, go to Life Beyond Death.

Noreen Renier is not your run-of-the-mill psychic detective. A successful young public relations executive and mother of two, Renier considers herself a born skeptic. But the sudden onset of psychic abilities changed not only her beliefs but the course of her life and career. As she followed her new path to see where it might lead, she found herself with a remarkable career spanning The Practical Psychic by Noreen Renier

more than three decades and still going strong. Her work helping distraught clients and police with dead-end cases has been the subject of numerous media stories, and her cases have been featured in television documentaries and true crime books. Her integrity has been backed repeatedly by FBI and police officials, and Court TV online recently called her “the most credible psychic out there.”

The story of her transformation from businesswoman to psychic investigator, and the case histories of some of her best-know and strangest cases form the basis for this first-person memoir of crime and the unknown in her book, A Mind for Murder. Her new book, The Practical Psychic, will be out in August. Her website

Dale Graff is a physicist and a former Director of Project STARGATE, the government program that investigated remote viewing phenomena. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, Paranormal Borderline, CNN, several TV documentaries on remote viewing, such as A&E’s Psychic Spies program in the series, THE UNEXPLAINED, Discovery Channel’s documentary on ESP, and several British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) productions, including their Mysteries series. He has been interviewed on over fifty radio talk shows, including Art Bell’s Coast to Coast, The X-Zone with Rob McConnell, Sightings with Jeff Rense, The Jerry Hughes Show and many others in the US and the UK. He was a guest on Fox News Network’s The Crier Report and on ABC’s Good Morning America. His books include Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness, March, 1998 and RIVER DREAMS, January, 2000. Other books in progress include River Shadows and On the Trail of Intuition.

Dale is sought as a presenter on psi topics and as a facilitator for a variety of groups and activities. Personal experiences and life-long explorations into intuition, remote viewing and precognitive dreaming guided him to a scientific career for research in parapsychological, or psi, phenomena. He provides user-friendly guidance and explanation of psychic abilities for people seeking to expand their talents or understand their experiences. His website

Gail has been privileged to spend time in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of Mexico with the Huichol Indians of The Santa Catarina Communidad. Gail traveled to Mongolia during the 800th year celebration of the Mongolian Empire, and was an invited speaker at the Medicine for the Earthʼs Shamanic Powers International Shamanic Symposium in Ulaanbataar in 2006. July 2011 she will be presenting again in Mongolia at The International Shamanism Colloquium Conference on her experiences with The Huichol Indians.

Gail Hayssen's perceptive and intuitive abilities were first recognized when, as a teenager, she did medical diagnosis in the Mind Dynamics program with Werner Erhard and Alexander Everett. In the late 1990s Gail began to participate in experiments with Dr. Dean Radin, Russell Targ and Ed May at Interval Research, and has continued to work with Dr. Radin at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Gail has been a subject, participant, or co-author in numerous experiments
and publications. Targ says of her, "Gail has collaborated with me in various psychic endeavors for more than a decade. She shows her remarkable abilities in formal studies of clairvoyance and precognition in our work."

Dr. Radin says, "In another time and place, she would undoubtedly be a shaman or medicine woman. Her life has been saturated with spontaneous psychic experiences, which she has also demonstrated in the laboratory. I look forward to seeking her advice and skills in future studies of these exceptional abilities."

Links to all her papers can be found on: www.smallmediumatlarge.net.

Susan MacWilliam is an artist based in Belfast, and a lecturer in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. MacWilliam has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for over 15 years including exhibitions in Dublin, London, Vancouver, New York, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Winnipeg and Washington, DC. In 2009 she represented Northern Ireland at the Venice Biennale international art exhibition with a solo exhibition. ‘Remote Viewing’ a book about MacWilliam’s practice is published by Black Dog. MacWilliam’s video works are housed in the Drama and Literature Section of the Sound Archive, British Library.

Susan MacWilliam’s residency at the Rhine Research Center was supported through funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her website

Edd Edwards grew up in NE Georgia and spent his childhood experimenting with an awareness of an energy field he could sense and modulate. In the fall of 1995 Dr. William Levengood was the first scientist to quantitatively measure Edd’s capability to transfer energy beyond space and time, at his Pinelandia Biophysical Laboratory in Grass Lake, Michigan. In 2008 Edd was tested at the Rhine Research Center where he was able to increase the light level, or photons, by 210X above the amount of normal background photons. Edd has an ongoing project with The Rhine Research Center in the Bio-Energy Emissions Lab.

Dr. Daryl Bem, professor of psychology at Cornell University, obtained a B.A. in physics from Reed College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, changing directions after the civil rights movement led him to become intrigued with changing racial attitudes in the South. He has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Stanford, Harvard, and Cornell, where he has been since 1978. Dr. Bem has published on several diverse topics in psychology including ESP. In 1994, he co-authored a well-known article in a mainstream psychology journal with Charles Honorton that is considered a classic in the field of parapsychology. He has been a SSP lecturer for several years, where he also uses his ability as a magician to help educate students on how tricks can be disguised as genuine ESP. Read more about Dr. Bem's work at www.dbem.ws.

Kathe Martin had been a professional psychic for five years and had remained skeptical of the channeling concept until 1993 when during a Tarot reading the deceased boyfriend of the woman receiving the reading dropped in to say hello. Three years later during a workshop on Shamanism led by Michael Harner she was told her mission as a healer was to work with the dead and dying. Since this time spontaneous communications from those on the other side would frequently come through during readings and in 2006 she began holding monthly afterlife communications events in Greensboro, NC. Her website is KatheMartin.com

Larry Dossey, M.D., is a respected leader in bringing scientific understanding to spirituality and an internationally influential advocate of the role of spirituality in healthcare and wellness. During his distinguished career as a practitioner of integrative medicine, he helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association and served as Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital. The author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestseller Healing Words, he is executive editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. Dr. Dossey has lectured all over world and at major medical schools and hospitals in the United States—Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and the Mayo Clinic, among others. A native Texan, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jerry Lazarus is a spiritual counselor, author, and speaker. In the past two decades, Jerry has given lectures and workshops on spirituality, meditation, and dreams. As a nationally known speaker, Jerry presents at the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) headquarters and field conferences. He is the dream columnist for Venture Inward magazine and has published articles on various spirituality topics. He has a master's degree in religion and meditation. Visit his website: www.jerrylazarus.com

Paul Devereux is a prolific author, with many articles, a range of peer-reviewed papers, some contributory chapters, a few blogs, and 27 published books to his credit. Some of his books include Secrets of Ancient and Sacred Places, Re-Visioning the Earth, Haunted Land, The Sacred Place, and The Long Trip. His latest (2010) is Sacred Geography. He also lectures and gives workshops worldwide to various types of audiences, from academic to general, is the managing editor of the peer-reviewed publication, Time & Mind - The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, and is a research affiliate with the Royal College of Art.. His personal research currently centers around the study of sound at archaeological sites, general consciousness studies, and he is developing a fresh parapsychology project. He lives in England, near Oxford. Visit his website

Dr. Larry Burk’s experiences in the 1990’s with numerous talented medical intuitives led to his involvement in parapsychology at the Rhine Research Center. He did research on intuitive medical diagnosis and was Rhine Board President in 2007-2008. Since 1990, his interest in altered states of consciousness has included experiences with shamanic journeying and power animals, especially his favorite, the jaguar. In 2002, his career moved further toward a healing path when he learned dynamic interactive acu-bodywork (DIA) from Dr. Michael Greenwood, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) from Gary Craig. He went on to become a Certified Energy Health Practitioner through the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology in 2010. He now combines EFT and DIA with hypnosis and dreamwork in his current holistic medicine practice. Visit his website for more information Let Magic Happen

Dr. Jim Carpenter is a clinical psychologist and research parapsychologist who has been involved with the Rhine Center since the days of its earlier incarnation as the Duke Parapsychology Lab. He has conducted research on psychological factors that affect the expression of psi, and in recent years he has developed a new model and theory of psi that emphasizes its integration (on an unconscious level) with all the rest of our psychological functioning. He calls this First Sight theory in order to emphasize the idea that psi plays a continuous role in the earliest stages of the development of all experience and behavior. He is finishing a book on this approach currently. Besides his research and theoretical work, he has been active as a leader in the field, serving on the Board of the Parapsychological Association and the Board of Directors of the Rhine Center, where he served two terms as president. As a clinical psychologist, he was formerly a professor in the psychology department of UNC Chapel Hill, and is still serving as Clinical Professor (Adjunct) in the UNC Department of Psychiatry. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Clinical Psychology. His research in clinical psychology was primarily focused upon family communication, person perception and self-disclosure. He has had a busy private practice in Chapel Hill for over 30 years. A small part of that work has involved pro bono consultations with persons who have approached the Rhine Center looking for help in dealing with their distress over experiences that they considered somehow psychic. His website: DrJimCarpenter

Mitch Horowitz is a widely known writer and speaker on the history and impact of alternative spirituality. For more than twenty years, he has been an editor at New York publishing companies and is currently editor-in-chief at Tarcher/Penguin, one of the leading publishers of spiritual and metaphysical literature. Occult America is his first book. Horowitz has written for U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, Parabola, the Religion News Service, and BoingBoing. He has recently appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, and All Things Considered, and spoken at The Esalen Institute, The New York Open Center, and 92YTribeca. A native of Queens, NY, Horowitz lives in Manhattan with his wife, Allison Orr, a network news producer, and their two sons Caleb and Tobias. Visit him at www.MitchHorowitz.com.

Loyd Auerbach, M.S., Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations, has been investigating cases of apparitions, hauntings and poltergeists for over 30 years. His latest book, co-authored with psychic Annette Martin, is The Ghost Detectives’ Guide to Haunted San Francisco. He is the author of 7 other books including: A Paranormal Casebook: : Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium (Atriad Press, 2005), Hauntings & Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide (Ronin Publishing, 2004) and Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal (Ronin, 2004). He has a graduate degree in Parapsychology and a BA in Cultural Anthropology, and was recently appointed to the faculty of Atlantic University, and teaches at HCH Institute and JFK University in northern California. He’s currently on the Boards of three major organizations including the Rhine Research Center, and has appeared on well over 100 national (many constantly in reruns) and local TV shows and thousands of other media appearances. He is a professional mentalist and psychic entertainer, performing as Professor Paranormal – this part of his background has made him indispensible to numerous researchers over the years, concerned about possible fraud and also about proper controls in the lab and for field investigations.

As of late 2009, he added the skill of “professional chocolatier” to his repertoire, and began selling his first chocolate products in late 2010 at www.hauntedbychocolate.com.
Visit his Paranormal Network website at www.mindreader.com

Dr. William Jordan founded and directed the Inner Insight Institute, an energy and healing center in Denver, for ten years before moving to Rhode Island where he promoting his book "The Incarnation of CatMan Billy" and giving workshops nationwide. From days in Peace Corps, through getting his Ph.D. in occupational reading for second language speakers, Will has always worked with diverse groups. After being an extended caregiver, he moved from academia to healing work full time, working with people to integrate body and mind and spirit.

Paul H. Smith, a retired Army intelligence officer and Operation Desert Storm veteran, became a psychic spy in 1983, when he was recruited for the Army's remote viewing psychic espionage program. During his seven years in the military program he studied under the legendary Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann, served as a first-line operational remote viewer, wrote the official manual on controlled remote viewing (CVR), and taught CRV to new remote viewer candidates.

Since 1997 he has been president of his own company, Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc. and is a founding director and current president of the non-profit International Remote Viewing Association.

Paul has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, writing on consciousness, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He has spoken on the subject of remote viewing and parapsychology at various national and international conferences, and appeared on numerous national and regional broadcast media programs.

Paul is author of the book "Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate - America's Psychic Espionage Program" He is also co-producer of the acclaimed DVD-based "Learn Dowsing" training program.

Diana Henderson has helped her clients and herself discover the means and the moment for healing for over 13 years as a healing arts practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, Energetic Therapist, and Intuitive.

Diana is also certified in Therapeutic Breathwork and DNA Activation. Her long-time interest in metaphysics coupled with a need for healing led her to the study and practice of many alternative health modalities. Diana believes that learning and growing must continue in order to infuse her lightwork with perpetually rising frequencies. During many years of study, she has taken courses in Esoteric Healing, Advanced Energy, Quantum Touch, Lightwave Energy, Chakra Toning, Muscle Testing, and more. Her web site is Diana Henderson

Mara Bishop is an intuitive consultant, shamanic practitioner, teacher, artist, and author of Inner Divinity: Crafting Your Life with Sacred Intelligence.

Mara has worked in the fields of intuition and shamanism since 1995. In her private practice, Mara combines intuitive consultations, shamanic healing, and energetic healing. Her personal evolution counseling provides each client with an integrated approach to spiritual healing, personal growth and emotional well-being.

Mara holds degrees in Energy Medicine, Art and Communications and is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three–Year Program in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing with Michael Harner, and Sandra Ingerman’s Teacher Training program in Shamanic Journeying and Healing. She is certified in Harner Method Shamanic Counseling. Her website is Whole Spirit.

Christine Simmonds-Moore, PhD has a PhD on personality and anomalous experiences and has been actively studying anomalous, paranormal and transpersonal experiences for over 10 years. Previous research projects include healing, ganzfeld research, virtual reality and ESP, gender role and paranormal experiences and recently, cognition and attention and paranormal experiences and the overlaps between paranormal experiences and clinical psychology. She has recently become interested in evolution and psychic experiences. Christine has also regularly taught courses on paranormal experiences, both for members of the public (at the Rhine Research Center) and at undergraduate level (at Liverpool Hope University). Christine is currently on grant funded sabbatical from her teaching post at Liverpool Hope University in the UK, and is a visiting Researcher at the Rhine Research Center and the Division of Perceptual Studies at UVA in Charlottesville. During this upcoming year, she will be working on a study which will explore individual differences and the detection of weak and paranormal signals as well as working on two books - one on psychic personality and the other on health, mental health and exceptional human experiences (the outcome of a recent conference that Christine organized in the UK). Christine is a member of the PA, where she sits on one of the grant committees, the SPR, and also a member of the British Psychological Society, highlighting her passion for mainstream psychology and the psychology of anomalous experiences.

Dr. John Palmer, Ph.D., was on the staff of the Rhine Research Center (formerly Foundation of Research on the Nature of Man) from 1984 to 2004, serving as both the Director of Education and Director of Research. He has been Editor of the Journal of Parapsychology since 1994 and was President of the Parapsychological Association in 1979 and 1992. His research has focused primarily on psychological factors associated with ESP performance in the laboratory. He has published numerous research articles and is co-author of the book Foundations of Parapsychology.

Dr. Bill Joines, PhD

Dr. Bill Joines has a B.S. and M.S. degree from N.C. State University and a Ph.D. from Duke University in electrical engineering, where he is now a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in technical journals and numerous book chapters. Currently he has a BIAL grant for measuring and analyzing mentally induced optical photon emission from the body and electrical charge accumulation on the body of practiced healers and volunteers (shams). In the 1960's and 1970's Dr. Joines served as a consultant-investigator at the Psychical Research Foundation (PRF) with William Roll on poltergeist and haunting events, as well as in investigations of channeling or mediumship, where the goal was to record as much data using instruments as the situation allowed. Dr. Joines continues to seek a clearer understanding of the conscious and non-conscious mechanisms that drive paranormal events.

John G. Kruth has been a software developer and manager for over 16 years. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in experimental design and analysis. Because he was raised in a family that practiced healing traditions, John has been using and studying psi techniques for over 35 years. He is certified as an Esoteric Healer following the teachings of Alice Bailey, and he has worked informally as an energetic healer and advisor. John is a member of the Rhine Research team and is actively designing and developing experiments related to precognition, hypnosis, the practical applications and effects of energetic healing, and an examination into the experiences of healers.

"What I now recognize as 'psi' abilities were part of normal experiences in my family when I was younger. We regularly practiced mediation, hypnosis, creative imagining, and positive thinking. My mother's family performed healings for people in the community, and they discussed what they had done at the breakfast table. At times, card games and trivia games became impossible for my brothers and sisters and me. It became too easy to 'guess' the answers or the cards other people were holding in their hands. I would like to use this experience with psi to help to inform my experimental designs and assist in the advancement of the science of parapsychology."

Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain by Carol Krucoff

Krucoff is an experienced registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance, and certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise. She also has earned a second-degree black belt in karate and sits on the peer review board for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. She has practiced yoga for more than thirty years.

Author Carol Krucoff suffered from persistent neck pain for years before creating a yoga-based self-care program that eliminated her problem entirely. In Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain: Easy, Effective Practices for Releasing Tension and Relieving Pain, she shares simple yet powerful techniques for relieving this common and often disabling problem and also addresses disorders associated with neck pain, including headaches, repetitive stress ailments, and TMJ problems. Her website is Yoga For Neck Pain.

Pamela Rae Heath M.D., Psy.D. One of the country’s leading experts on psychokinesis, Dr. Heath has an MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1980 and a Psy.D. in parapsychology from the American School of Professional Psychology and Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology in California. She has worked with the Office of Paranormal Investigations alongside Loyd Auerbach since 1996. She has published journal articles and textbook chapters on psychokinesis, place memory, experiential research, and the survival of bodily death. Her most recent book is Mind-Matter Interaction, earlier books include Handbook to the Afterlife and Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? Dr. Heath currently lives in the Bay Area of California, and divides her time between writing, painting, practicing medicine, and doing field investigations. Her website is Pamela Heath

Louis E. LaGrand, Ph.D., is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Health Careers at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, New York. He was a member of the debriefing team for the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s office on the TWA Flight 800 disaster, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and a founder and past-president of Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley.

The author of eight books and numerous articles, he is known world-wide for his research on the Extraordinary Experiences of the bereaved (After-Death Communication phenomena). His first two books on the subject of the extraordinary have been translated into several languages. Messages and Miracles: The Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved is listed in the 100 Top Bestsellers for Counseling by the Online Dictionary of Mental Health. Love Lives On: Learning from the Extraordinary Encounters of the Bereaved, his latest book, was published in an eBook edition in June 2009 by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin.

He has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows throughout the country including Unsolved Mysteries, Art Bell Coast to Coast, and Strange Universe. With over 30 years of counseling the bereaved, he is an international speaker who gives workshops on death-related topics in schools, hospices, and health agencies in the US, Canada, and England. His website is http://www.extraordinarygriefexperiences.com/

Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published more than four hundred scientific papers and co-edited eleven academic books. He is the author of The Afterlife Experiments, The G.O.D. Experiments, The Energy Healing Experiments, and the forthcoming The Sacred Promise.
His website

Dale E. Graff, facilitator and author, is a physicist and a former director of project STARGATE, the government program that investigated remote viewing phenomena.

Dale is a strong advocate of maintaining physical and psychological harmony in all aspects of life and believes that a close connection with nature helps us achieve this naturally. He also believes that our psi potential can help us keep safe in an increasingly unsafe world. His website

Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D. has been active in parapsychological research for more than three decades. She was a founding member and later Executive Director of the Midwest Psi Research Institute (Chicago), then from 1982 to 1993 she was a Research Fellow at the Rhine Research Center, and later a Visiting Scholar and instructor in the Summer Study Program for many years. Her work has been published in a wide range of parapsychological and other journals. She has long been an active member of the Parapsychological Association, editing the PA newsletter and Proceedings, and serving two terms as President. She has been connected with the Parapsychology Foundation for years as an employee, a consultant and now as a volunteer, and remains Director of Publications and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Parapsychology.

Currently, she holds a joint appointment, as the Director of Academic Affairs at Atlantic University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at the University of Virginia.

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D. is a well-known scholar of parapsychological literature with numerous publications in English and Spanish in a variety of parapsychological and other journals. His published work has focused on historical studies of parapsychology and on the psychological variables related to psychic experiences. He has been a long-time consultant, employee and currently a volunteer with the Parapsychology Foundation where he remains the Director of International and Domestic Programs and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Parapsychology. He has been active with the Parapsychology Association including two terms as President, and he was a Visiting Scholar at the Rhine Research Center as well as a Summer Study Program instructor for many years in the past.

He has been active with the Parapsychological Association for more than twenty years including two terms as President, and he was a Visiting Scholar at the Rhine Research Center as well as a Summer Study Program instructor from 1986 through 1993. Currently he holds three appointments, as the Scholar in Residence at Atlantic University, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at the University of Virginia, and as Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is on the editorial boards of Advances in Parapsychological Research, the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

Beth Wechsler, MSW, LICSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Massachusetts. She has presented on the role of psychic experiences in clinical care in more than 30 cities, as well as at the Rhine Research Center in 2009 where her program was extremely popular. Beth, whose work is on the leading edge of bringing PSI experiences back into healthcare, is the author of Psychic Moments Coming to Our Senses.

Donna Gulick received her M.A. and practiced as a professional Speech Pathologist until one day she experienced a life-altering occurrence and discovered the healing power within her. As a result of this experience, for more than 26 years she has been serving as a spiritual director and teacher, intuitive counselor, interfaith minister, healer, author, and inspirational speaker.

Now, even after the major change of no house, fewer possessions, fewer responsibilities, she'll laughingly tell you, Simplicity is an inside job. We're all in the "Choose Simple Grad School" together. We need to be. The consciousness changes that are happening now, and in the near future, require space to evolve. To learn more visit www.DonnaSpringGulick.com

Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 14 and sixth person to walk on the moon is probably most famous for the transformative experience he had while viewing the earth from space.

He holds a Doctor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. In 1972, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to sponsor research into the nature of consciousness as it relates to cosmology and causality. In 1984, he was a co-founder of the Association of Space Explorers, an international organization of those who have experienced space travel.

He is the author of "Psychic Exploration," 1974, "The Way of the Explorer," 1996, (Third edition, 2006) as well as dozens of articles in both professional and popular periodicals. He has devoted the last 38 years to studying human consciousness and psychic and paranormal phenomena in the search for a common ground between science and spirit. Visit his website for more info.

Art Funkhouser was born in 1940 in Indiana and grew up in Oklahoma. He has lived in Switzerland since 1973 and is the father of three children. His first degrees were in physics (MIT, '62) (coherent optics) and he was involved with the early work in holography (Univ. of MI '67). He worked in metrology for NBS (now NIST) from 1967 to 1971. He earned his doctorate in the field of digital picture processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1979. From 1981 to 1993 he worked as a physicist in the eye department of the Insel University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland.

In 1973 he began his training to be a psychotherapist at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich which he completed in 1981. Since then he has had a private practice as a therapist in Bern where, in addition to seeing clients, he leads a Tuesday evening dream group. Since 1989 he has led a seminar in dreamwork at the C. G. Jung Institute near Zurich. He has also led workshops in dreamwork in Switzerland, Australia and the U.S. A few years ago he was the co-director of a research project into the effects of dream-telling, supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. His website is Deja Experience Research.

Joe McMoneagle is a much-decorated retired Army officer and the Owner/Executive Director of the Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., a Virginia based company which has provided PSI support to government, businesses, and individuals for over twenty-five years. As an original member of the Star Gate unit and a full member of the Parapsychological Association, he has also been a Research Associate for the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, California, and a past consultant for PSI laboratories at SRI and SAIC. He’s authored numerous books on remote viewing and has successfully demonstrated Remote Viewing, live, on national television in seven countries. He is a long-time Advisory Board member and friend of the Rhine Research Center He currently lives in Nellysford, Virginia with his wife Nancy. Read more about Mr. McMoneagle at www.mceagle.com.

Joe McMoneagle was interviewed on the State of Things on WUNC radio on Friday, June 4th . Click here to listen.

Susan Freeman is certified in Hypnosis and Past Life Regression, Reiki, Polarity Therapy, Energy Release Technique and Aura Soma. Susan is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotherapy, the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnosis and the American Polarity Therapy Association. She has completed numerous courses and continues her studies at A.R.E, Atlantic University and Monroe Institute. Her website is
SusanFreeman.net

Steve's bio comes in three flavors. As he puts it, the brief bio is available at Brief Bio. Some extracts from that bio are Stephen E. Braude is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. and 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 and He has written five books.

Rosemarie Pilkington, a writer, musician, and educator has a Ph.D. in psychology (consciousness studies) from Saybrook Institute. In addition to writing many articles and book reviews on psychic phenomena, she compiled and edited Men and Women of Parapsychology: Personal Reflections, published in 1987 by McFarland, an anthology that earned praise in Europe and the Americas and spawned several similar books in the years that followed. Her website is Are Spirits Real?

Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and was co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute’s investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. His work in this new area, called remote viewing, has been widely published. His most recent book is Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness and his autobiography: Do You See What I see: Memoirs of a Blind Biker. In 1997 Targ retired from Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co. as a senior staff scientist. He now pursues ESP research in Palo Alto, California, and is publishing special editions of classic books is psychical research. Web site is ESP Research

Jennifer Allen’s list of accomplishments is long and wide in the business community. She is currently President and Co-Founder of One Unlimited, Inc., dba/ Skin Wisdom Products. Her life philosophy shines through in the corporate motto: We are ONE, Unlimited in our potential.

While achieving these business successes, she has happily raised a large family. Utilizing her natural high energy, Jennifer has also studied and led explorations into personal spirituality throughout her life. Her approach to spirituality is quite practical and leads to direct impact in the lives of those who listen to her counsel.

María DeGuzmán is associate professor of English and Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of the book Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire published by the University of Minnesota Press August 2005. She has published numerous articles on Latina/o literature. Furthermore, she researches, writes about, and offers courses on the relationship between literature and various kinds of photographic practice. In addition to being a professor, she is a conceptual photographer who produces photo-text work as Camera Query, both solo and in collaboration with colleagues and friends. As both Camera Query and previously as part of SPIR: Conceptual Photography, she has shown in the Golden Belt Art Studios in Durham, North Carolina, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol, England, Pulse Art Gallery in New York City, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA Gallery) in Buffalo, New York, and El Progreso Gallery in Madrid, Spain.

Graham Watkins attended the University of Kentucky and did graduate studies at Duke University, majoring in Zoology. In the early 1970s, he was a research associate at the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man at the time that J. B. Rhine was the director. He is best known for the mouse-ether studies, which demonstrated the ability of "talented" subjects to cause mice to recover from ether anesthesia faster than they normally would. He has also worked in the fields of toxicology and electronics and is a published writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

A personal note of interest which may tell more about Graham is that JB Rhine had a habit of leaving "Memo to survivors if I don't return" notes when he left for a trip. On one such trip, in 1971, his note reads ""The Administrative Committee (Dr. Schmidt, Dr. Kantha and Graham Watkins ... is working well and promises to be the unit needed for such an emergency as would arise if this 'carload' fails to return from the trip." That note speaks volumes about JBR's respect for the views of Graham Watkins, as well as Graham's long association with Rhine Research.

Anne Poole realized about thirty years ago that she had an ability to know where missing people, usually bodies, were located. She tells us that she tends to get most of this information from photographs of both the suspect and the victim, as well as by psychometry, that is, by holding objects which belong to them. Anne has worked successfully with several levels of law enforcement agencies.

Dr. Mitchell W. Krucoff is a native of Washington D.C. He graduated Yale University in 1976 Magna Cum Laude with a degree in religious studies and philosophy. He earned his M.D. from George Washington University in 1980, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. In 1988 Dr. Krucoff joined the cardiology faculty at Duke University Medical Center where he remains to this date. He is currently fully tenured as a Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, member of the Duke Senior Interventional Cardiology Staff and Director of the Cardiovascular Devices Unit at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and served as Director of the Cardiovascular Laboratories at the Durham VA Medical Center for 12 years.

In exploring new healing paradigms complementary to modern high tech medical practices Dr. Krucoff has served on the Board of Directors of the Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Puttaparthi, India since 1990. He is past Editor In Chief of Larry Dossey’s Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, is currently Senior Editor of the peer review Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and recently published the book Integrative Cardiology from McGraw Hill.

Following a corporate career, Judy B. Gardiner began exploring symbolism in her dreams. This evolved to a powerful dream series which she’s been researching and writing about for 15 years, illumining correspondences between personal dream events, psi events and objective developments in science and nature. Her self-study transformed to a “wake up call” pointing to our connection with cosmos and spirit.

Judy now lectures and conducts workshops on cosmic dreaming, the topic of her recent novel, “Lavender: An Entwined Adventure in Science and Spirit.” Her wish is that her work will inspire others to tap into the all-embracing knowledge embedded in our dreams. Her website is Cosmic Dreaming

Jeffrey Mishlove is currently director of the Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to helping create a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate their inner, intuitive resources. He also serves as program dean of the University of Philosophical Research. Jeffrey was host of the television interview series "Thinking Allowed." In this capacity, he has interviewed hundreds of leading thinkers in the areas of philosophy, psychology, health, science and spirituality. Dr. Mishlove is the author of an encyclopedic volume of consciousness studies, The Roots of Consciousness. He holds the only doctoral diploma in "Parapsychology" to be awarded by an accredited American University (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). A revision of his doctoral dissertation, Psi Development Systems, was released in 1988 as a Ballantine paperback. This book evaluates methods purported to train psychic abilities. His newest book, The PK Man, presents a case study of unusual psychokinetic abilities.

Richenel “Muz” Ansano, a native of Curaçao, in the Dutch Caribbean moved to Durham in the year 2000. His cross-cultural life experience was enhanced by training in cultural anthropology, his cultural policy and community work and his interest in religion, spirituality, and healing. He is past director of the Cultural Ministry in Curacao, past associate director of the John Hope Franklin Institute at Duke University and past executive director of the Global Medicine Education Foundation. Culture and healing have been two of his main passions since the 1970's.

Muz has honed his intuitive practice through years of interacting with cultures and stories, through working with Western Medicine practitioners in Curaçao and the US to bring alternative perspectives to their work and through his own healing. In 2004 he experienced healing of his own 35 years of epilepsy though a series of dreams and a healing story circle that led to a deep understanding of his illness and an immediate healing. He brings all the many years of accumulated knowledge and experience with him each time someone brings their illness to him for healing. Alimá Transformations

Stuart Hameroff M.D. is Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. A full-time clinical anesthesiologist, he organizes the well-known interdisciplinary conferences Toward a Science of Consciousness, and has published numerous books and papers on how the brain produces consciousness. In the mid 90s Hameroff co-developed with Sir Roger Penrose the controversial Orch OR theory of consciousness based on quantum computing in microtubules inside brain neurons. His research website is Q uantum Consciousness.

Jerry Solfvin, PhD, is associate professor with the Center for Indic Studies at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth, MA. His current research interests include Indian psychology, ways of knowing, and East-West approaches to science. He has long been interested in animal behavior studies, especially the human-dog relationship and hopes to someday complete a book on the topic.

Michael Jawer is an independent researcher who has been examining mind-body differences among individuals for the past 10 years. His original survey investigation, published by the Society for Psychical Research in the UK, uncovered linkages between environmental sensitivities, a variety of personality factors, and apparitional experience.

Jawer’s interest in emotion and extraordinary sensitivities was kindled by his investigation of indoor air quality/sick building issues in the 1990s. His book, The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion (written with Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD and with a Foreword by Larry Dossey, MD) is published by Park Street Press. The book’s website is www.emotiongateway.com.
Listen to Michael Jawer's radio interview on The State of Things with Frank Stasio

Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D. is a research and clinical psychologist who has worked with cancer patients for over forty years. His pioneering research in psychological factors in cancer has led him to be called “The father of mind-body medicine”.

Dr. LeShan has directed several research projects, and received professional awards: the Normal Cousins Award for Development of Human Relations in Psychology and Medicine, the Center for Integrative Cancer Therapies Award for Advancing Patient Participation in Their Own Treatment, the Pathfinder Award from the Association of Humanistic Psychology, and the Gardener Murphy Award. He served for five years as a U.S. army psychologist.

Michael Potts is Professor of Philosophy at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Georgia in 1992. He has been interested in near-death experiences since he found a copy of Raymond Moody's Life after Life at a Kroger store when he was in ninth grade. He has written two articles in scholarly journals on near-death experiences, and hopes to do more research and writing in this area in the future.

George Matthis is president of the National Society for Paranormal Investigation and Research (NSPIR), a non-profit organization dedicated to paranormal investigation, research, and education. As part of its mission to educate the public about the paranormal and to promote ethical, science-based investigations, NSPIR sponsors the Carolina Hauntings, Apparitions, and Poltergeists Society (CHAPS) to educate the public regarding paranormal investigations. George is also president of the Paranormal Resource Alliance, which is dedicated to promoting adherence to a code of ethics and standards among paranormal investigators and providing resources for paranormal groups.

Jim Hall is a science teacher and director of Haunted North Carolina, which has investigated hundreds of cases of paranormal activity since it was founded (as Seven Paranormal Research) in 1992. Jim has over 20 years of experience in paranormal investigations, which he approaches with a critical mindset, insisting that rational explanations be thoroughly considered before turning to paranormal ones. Jim is vice-president of the Paranormal Research Alliance and is regularly sought by the media for his expertise regarding the paranormal.

"Soul Mates" Julie Beischel and Mark Boccuzzi co-founded The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential where they perform rigorous, cutting-edge laboratory research on the survival of consciousness, or life after death. Julie received her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Arizona where she went on to serve as the William James Post-doctoral Fellow in Mediumship and Survival Research and as Co-Director with Dr. Gary Schwartz of the VERITAS Research Program until that program closed in 2007. Julie is the Director of Research at Windbridge and her primary research focus is studying mediums, the information they report, and their experiences during communication with the deceased.

Originally from the software industry, Mark spent the better part of a decade investigating spontaneous cases of apparitions and related haunting phenomena in the San Francisco Bay Area. His research interests include investigating technologies, including EVP/ITC, that may be useful in enhancing interaction and communication with deceased individuals as well as addressing reports of haunting phenomena using both field and laboratory methods. Mark has developed the thorough, multi-step C.O.R.E. method of investigating allegedly haunted locations which integrates historically successful methods with a new focus on the experiencers. In addition to his research role, Mark is also Director of Operations at Windbridge. Julie and Mark met during the 2005 Summer Study Program in Parapsychology presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the Rhine Research Center and were married in 2008. More information about Windbridge investigators, mediums, events, publications, and opportunities can be found at: www.windbridge.org

Jack Stucki, RMT, BCIAC, began his professional career in 1967 as a music therapist. He was influenced most by the people he served, including severely and profoundly retarded children, and the comatose. His work with the comatose was featured on educational television and headlined in the Contemporary Magazine of the Denver Post. In the latter sixties he taught Group Dynamics in Counseling on the graduate level at Western State College, Gunnison, CO. In the 1970’s he established one of the earlier pain clinics in the nation. His work has also been featured on the television talk show “The Changing Paradigm”. In 1991, he was a member of the fact-finding team studying the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, and introduced professionals, in the Ukraine, to biofeedback. For the past seven years he has been in private practice and has been involved in the Merkaba Research and Healing Center, which he co-founded. He is the instructor for a course in Integrative Medicine for the University of Colorado Medical School. He served three terms as President of the Colorado Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He was a recipient of the Johann Stoyva Award for outstanding contribution to biofeedback. His main interest lies in using high technology to explore subtle energies, culminating in the current use of and research with the Bio-Luminator.

Athena A. Drewes, Psy.D., RPT-S, is a licensed child psychologist, parapsychologist and volunteer consultant to the Rhine Research Center and the Parapsychology Foundation on children’s psychic experiences. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Rhine Center. Dr. Drewes has conducted research, written articles and reviews and presented on children’s ESP experiences. She responds to parent and child inquiries regarding children and ESP that come in to the Rhine Research Center and through A&E. She has been featured on the A&E cable shows “Psychic Children” and “Paranormal State”. She has also had her own psychic experiences as a child through adulthood. Her involvement in parapsychology began as a research assistant at the Dream Lab (Parapsychology and Psychophysics Research Laboratory) at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY assisting with dream telepathy experiments with Dr. Stanley Krippner and Charles Honorton.

Dr. Drewes is currently the Director of Clinical Training at a large non-profit multi-service child and family mental health agency in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City. Dr. Drewes is the senior author, with Dr. Sally A. Drucker, of the reference work, Parapsychological Research with Children: An Annotated Bibliography. She is also the co-editor and chapter author of five books on play therapy. For more information see Is My Child Psychic?

Stacy Horn is a writer. Her new book is, Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory (Ecco, 2009). The book before that was The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad, (Viking.)
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Stacey Horn was recently interviewed on NPR's The State of Things.

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Dr. Sy Mauskopf has been a Professor of History at Duke University since 1964. His specialty is the history of science. He has a B.A. in history from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in the history of science from Princeton University. He has written the following books: Crystals and Compounds (1976); The Reception of Unconventional Science (ed., 1979); The Elusive Science (with Michael McVaugh, 1980); Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (ed., 1993). He was awarded the Edelstein International Fellowship in the History of Chemical Sciences and Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1988-1989, and The Dexter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1998. He was named a Price Fellow by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2000 and was the recipient of NSF fellowships and a Hagley Fellowship in 1992. Dr. Mauskopf was the recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (Duk

Michele Bustamante, Founder of Tiyoweh Communications Michele has been practicing professionally as an animal communicator and consultant for 8 years. Numerous childhood and adult telepathic experiences, and deep connections with animals lead her to study with animal communication pioneer Penelope Smith. Michele is also a Reiki Master and incorporates Reiki, Shamanic techniques, and flower essences in her practice to support healing. One of the aspects Michele enjoys most about her work is assisting humans in "re-membering" their connection to all beings and the Earth. Michele also holds bachelor's degrees in Zoology and Computer and Information Systems and has worked as a veterinary technician. Michele will lead the audience through brief exercises to demonstrate the potential for improved Animal Communication within all of us.

Sally Rhine Feather Ph.D., Executive Director of The Rhine Research Center Sally’s first job at the Duke Parapsychology Lab of the early 1950’s was assisting her father, JB Rhine, in collecting accounts of animal behavior that suggested psi. Reports of pets who knew when their owner was coming home, homed over long distances, or trailed owners into entirely new locations were astounding to her then as they are now, both for the devotion they show and for the mechanism of how this can happen. Sally will briefly review anpsi research of her own and others both here and at other labs. She will give a plea for a renewed interest in collecting more such reports that can help us learn more about the amazing human-pet connection and its meaning on all different levels. www.rhine.org

Bob Van de Castle Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at UVA and a Former Director of the Sleep and Dream Lab at UVA Medical Center. He has worked over 40 years in such areas as the content and interpretation of dreams. He is a Past President of the Association for the Study of Dreams and also of the Parapsychology Association. The author of many publications, his most recent book is Our Dreaming Mind. His website: Our Dreaming Mind

"I really want to praise Bob for facilitating such a life changing experience for us. We were both so taken by the interconnectedness of the group and Bob's wealth of knowledge on so many fascinating topics." -- S. Brown, Charlotte, NC

Dick Lowrie As part of a rare U.S. government grant to investigate psi in animals, Dick Lowrie accompanied JBR to visit various German researchers who were exploring this unusual topic in the early 1950's. He then helped JBR with later tests with animals under this grant from the US Army Corps of Engineers. Now retired, the speaker will share his memories of this collaborative association, much of which has never been published.

Read Dick Lowrie's interesting paper on Entanglement

Mary Jo Bulbrook, EdD, RN, CEMP/S/I, CHTP, HTI Dr. Bulbrook is a spiritual / medical intuitive and psychotherapist who has a practice at the Triangle Holistic Center in Durham, NC for spiritual and intuitive development, health challenges, psychotherapy, and energy medicine. Her educational program Transform Your Life through Energy Medicine (TYLEM) includes higher sense perception training. TYLEM is offered throughout the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile and South Africa. Mary Jo provides humanitarian service through Energy Medicine Partnerships International and is the humanitarian chairperson for the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology. Research in energy medicine and consciousness training is an integral part of the profession and contributions of energy medicine worldwide. Her insights and research spans thirty-five years in the field of multi-dimensionality and health care.

Ellen Kaye Gehrke, PhD has senior level management experience in public and private sectors and universities and international organizations in USA and European countries teaching, research, training, consulting, marketing, organizational development, strategic planning, cross-cultural education, business improvement, sustainability planning, project management, human resource development and education administration.

In addition she owns and manages Rolling Horse Ranch where she conducts research looking at consciousness connections between horses and humans. She also offers leaderships training through relationships with horses. Her research has been presented at the International Society for the Study of Energy and Energy Medicine. Ellen has multi-dimensional communication with horses and has gained insight unique to her profession. She also does 1:1 executive coaching with horses as partners as well as conducting research.

Dr. Laura Dunham had careers in higher education, financial planning and ministry before shifting to spiritual energy healing for people, places, and the planet. Her new book, "Spiritual Wisdom for a Planet in Peril: Preparing for 2012 and Beyond," is a timely guide for a world in transition and will be available at this program. . Learn more about Dr. Dunham at www.healingandwisdom.com.