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Rhine Center Administration
The Rhine Center has an impressive group of advisors who serve in providing general support and advice, networking help, and program assistance. See the bios and photos of this large group of scientists, scholars and other consultants with expertise and connections to the field of consciousness study. Richenel "Muz" Ansano, M.A. Loyd M. Auerbach, M.S. Julie Beischel, PhD Daryl J. Bem, Ph.D. Larry Dossey, M.D. Athena A. Drewes, MA, PsyD Sally Ann Drucker, Ph.D. Dale E. Graff, M.S. Wayne B. Jonas, M.D. Jane Katra, Ph.D. Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Seymour Mauskopf, Ph.D. Joseph W. McMoneagle, CW2, USA Ret. Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. Dr. William Roll Michael Schmicker Cynthia Sterling, Ph.D. Susan A. Tanous, B.S., CPC Wakine G. Tanous, J.D. Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. Mr. Larry Trevarthen John Troy James W. Wells, M.D. |
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Mr. Loyd Auerbach, a leading expert on ghosts, poltergeists and psychic experience, is Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations, Consulting Editor for Fate Magazine, professor at JFK University, and President of the international organization the Psychic Entertainers Association (2001-2005). He is a past President of the California Society for Psychic Study, and is co-founder the new Paranormal Research Organization, which is aimed at networking and bringing professional standards to paranormal investigators all over the world. He is a professional psychic entertainer and mentalist. He is the author of two audio CDs and several books; the first one, ESP, Hauntings, and Poltergeists, was named the "Sacred Text" on ghosts by Newsweek in 1996. Other books include:Mind Over Matter (1996), Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal (2004), and Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide (2004). Read more about Auerbach's work at 
Julie Beischel, PhD, Co-Founder and Director of Research at The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential ( 
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 
Dr. Larry Dossey is the author of nine books, including Healing Words, Be Careful What You Pray For, Reinventing Medicine, and his latest book, Healing Beyond the Body. He was a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, Chief of Staff at Medical City Dallas Hospital, a co-chair on the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions of the Office of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH, and editor of the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. Dr. Dossey has lectured all over the world and in numerous major universities and medical schools on spirituality and medicine. He has given many public lectures as fundraisers for the RRC, as well as served as SSP lecturer, during the last decade in which he has been closely involved with the RRC.
Dr. Athena A. Drewes is a licensed child psychologist, parapsychologist and consultant to the Rhine Research Center and the Parapsychology Foundation on children’s psychic experiences. She was a research assistant at the Division of Parapsychology and Psychophysics at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, NY assisting with dream telepathy experiments. She has published research on children and ESP and has written extensively on children’s psychic experiences, as well as lectured on the subject. Dr. Drewes has had her own psychic experiences as a child through adulthood. Dr. Drewes is senior author, with Dr. Sally A. Drucker, of the reference work, Parapsychological Research with Children: An Annotated Bibliography. She was recently featured on a CBS News production "Psychic Children" and contributed to and is referenced in The Gift: ESP, the Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People by Dr. Sally Rhine Feather and Michael Schmicker (2005, St. Martin’s Press). Dr. Drewes conducts therapy with children in foster care and is a clinical training director at a large multi-service non-profit mental health agency in the Hudson Valley. She is also a national and international presenter on the subject of play therapy, along with being a chapter author and senior editor of four books on play therapy.
With degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Physics and an extensive background in research and applications of parapsychological phenomena, Mr. Dale E. Graff became involved with remote viewing research in 1976 as the Department of Defense contract manager for RV research at the Stanford Research Institute and then eventually a director of Stargate, the combined psi-RV research, applications and Soviet psi assessment effort in the Defense Intelligence Agency. Currently Mr. Graff presents seminars and workshops for individuals through Psi-Seminars-Initiatives and other organizations in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He facilitates programs with an integrated approach for psi exploration that emphasize balance and well being while offering user-friendly guidance and explorations of psychic abilities. His dream seminar focus is on precognition (future-seeing) and healing potential, while his independent psi research explores the relationship between cognitive processing, art principles and the nature of the psi target. His published books include Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness and River Dreams. Website: 
Dr. Stanley Krippner earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. While a student at Northwestern he invited JB Rhine to address the annual banquet of Phi Delta Kappa (honorary educational society), JB accepted, and thus began a lifelong friendship between the two.. Dr. Krippner served for several years as Director of the Child Study Center at Kent State University, but it was his subsequent work supervising psi dream research at Maimonides Medical Center that brought Dr. Krippner much acclaim in the parapsychological world and contributed to his being awarded the PA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. In 1973 Dr. Krippner joined the faculty of Saybrook Graduate School, holds faculty positions in Brazil and Mexico, and has lectured and published extensively on personal mythology, dreams, hypnosis, and/or anomalous phenomena in many countries around the world. He is the recipient of many awards, probably the most prestigious being the APA Award for Outstanding Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, 2002. Read more about Dr, Krippner's research at 
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 (Duke) in 2006.
Mr. Joe McMoneagle is a much-decorated retired Army officer and the Owner/Executive Director of Intuitive Intelligence Applications in Nellysford, Virginia. Mr. McMoneagle is the author of several books, recently The Stargate Chronicles, and many articles that grew out of his long and extensive experience as a Remote Viewer and paranormal consultant to various agencies of the U.S. Government, notably the famous Stargate Program. He was a research consultant to SRI-I (1984-88) and SAIC (1988-94), and has been an associate researcher with the Laboratories for Fundamental Research from 1994 to present. He has been a PA Member and a consultant, SSP lecturer, subject, and friend to the Rhine Research Center for many years. Read more about Mr. McMoneagle at 
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.
Professor Vernon Neppe is an internationally respected neuropsychiatrist / behavioral neurologist (see 
Dr. William Roll obtained a BA from the University of Berkeley, a B.Litt. and M.Litt.from Oxford University (under Prof. H.H. Price) and a Ph.D. from Lund University (under Prof. Martin Johnson) with a thesis on the examination of the parapsychological findings suggestive of the survival of human personality after death. Dr. Roll then worked with Dr. J.B.Rhine at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory for a 7-year-period during which time he made his first poltergeist investigation. In 1961 Dr. Rhine appointed Dr. Roll project director of the Psychical Research Foundation which was set up to explore the question of survival after death. After the dissolution of the Duke Lab in 1964, The PRF became a sponsored program at the Duke Dept.of Electrical Engineering, expanded the staff, and participated in poltergeist research, now termed RSPK for recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis. The best-known PRF experiments were the OBE tests of Keith Harary and the EEG-ESP experiments with Sean Harribance, both of which had the involvement of the late Professor Bob Morris who later held the Koestler chair in parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh. In 1986, Dr. Roll was appointed Professor of Psychology and Psychical Research at what is now West Georgia University. He has retired from teaching but continues to write and do research as a member of the faculty. Dr. Roll has written numerous papers, book chapters and four books, the most recent entitled Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder; the Strange Story of Tina Resch (with Valerie Storey). He has received the Oustanding Career Award from the Parapsychological Association and the Tim Dinsdale Memorial Award from the Society for Scientific Exploration.
Mr. Michael Schmicker is a veteran business journalist and author of Best Evidence, An Investigative Reporter's Three-Year Quest to Uncover the Best Scientific Evidence for ESP, Psychokinesis, Mental Healing, Ghosts and Poltergeists, Dowsing, Mediums, Near Death Experiences, Reincarnation, and Other Impossible Phenomena That Refuse to Disappear. He is also co-author with Dr. Sally Rhine Feather of The Gift:ESP – The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People, to be published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2005. A longtime member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Michael wrote Yahoo Internet Life magazine’s guide to the best websites dedicated to “Paranormal Phenomena,” and has been a guest on national radio talk shows, including Art Bell Coast to Coast AM, The Jeff Rense Program, and Uri Geller’s Parascience and Beyond. His interest in investigating the paranormal began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand where he first encountered a non-Western culture and people who readily accept the reality of a world beyond the five senses, sparking a lifelong curiosity about scientific anomalies unexplainable by current science. 
Stephan A. Schwartz is a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, and previously founder and Research Director of the Mobius Laboratory. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. He has written numerous technical papers, reports and four books on the subject. Other areas of interest include research into creativity and Therapeutic Intent, including a continuation of the analysis of water exposed to therapeutic intent using spectroscopy that was begun by Bernard Grad. Schwartz is the Editor of “The Schwartz Report," an international daily web publication. He is a former Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, Editor of Seapower Magazine, and staffer of National Geographic Society. He is a founder of the Society for Anthropology of Consciousness, the International Remote Viewing Association, and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and is a member of the Parapsychology Association, and its public spokesperson. Learn more about Stephan Schwartz at 
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, and Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. From 1974 to 1985 worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India. Dr. Sheldrake is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and lives in London with his wife and two sons. His last two books are Dogs Who Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At. Read more about Dr. Sheldrake's work at 
After completing undergraduate studies in Clinical Psychology at Washington State University, Evanne worked as an in-flight supervisor for Pan American Airways and later worked on the Panamac computer in New York. She then moved to Paris, France, where she lived for 33 years. She was President of Monuff Productions, a music production company located in Los Angeles, a published lyricist, and official translator for American artists and conferences in Europe. A true Franco-American, she wrote the lyrics for the French official song for the 100 year celebration of the Statue of Liberty which opened the gala event in New York on Ellis Island in 1986. Always a lover of the Arts, she later created and was owner of the European art gallery Toktumee, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, when she moved back to the United States in 1997. While in Europe she became a Relaxation Therapist and has been practicing since 1983. She has had the privilege of enriching her methods through teaching abroad and studying with many indigenous peoples. She is now living in the Seattle area of Washington State, where, besides her practice of more than 23 years, she is actively involved in event organizing and fund-raising.
Dr. Charles Tart received his Ph.D. in psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill (1963), then received postdoctoral training in hypnosis research with Ernest R. Hilgard at Stanford University. He is currently a Core Faculty Member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, as well as Prof. Emeritus of Psychology at UC(Davis) where he served for 28 years. Dr. Tart was the first holder of the Bigelow Consciousness Chair of Consciousness Studies at UNLV. He has served as a Visiting Professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as an Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of UVA, and as consultant on government-funded parapsychological research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). He is well known to the psychological community for his work on altered states of consciousness and as one of the founders of transpersonal psychology. His parapsychological work includes application of learning theory to better train ESP functioning, and work on OBEs. See 
An organic entrepreneur and Durham native, John Troy was the creator of the world’s first energy bar and then eventually became the founder of a highly successful company manufacturing over 300 different products for the organic food market that are now sold in a broad national and international market. . John is currently a consultant wizard to the The Wizard 's Cauldron Ltd. that he founded in 1986, as well as a visionary business coach to others, including the Rhine Center in realigning its vision and purpose as an organization. He presented his ideas in a program in April 2007 entitled “Breakthrough, a Revelation for the Rhine Center,” that had a focus on the very heart of the Rhine Center in understanding human consciousness and the meaning of the "Sixth Sense" or ESP. He strongly advocates that the Rhine focus on it's brand, i.e. ESP.
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