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Copyright © 2009
The Rhine Research
Center
Updated:
06/07/11
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Rhine
Research Center Advisory Board
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. |
 Carlos
S. Alvarado, Ph.D.
has a Ph.D. in psychology (University of
Edinburgh), an MA in history (Duke
University), an MS degree in parapsychology
(John F. Kennedy University), and a BA in
psychology (University of Puerto Rico). He
has conducted research and published widely
in English, Spanish and Portuguese on
out-of-body experiences, the histories of
psychology and psychical research, and the
psychological characteristics of psychic
experiencers in such journals as the
American Journal of Psychiatry, the
Australian Journal for Clinical and
Experimental Hypnosis, Imagination,
Cognition and Personality, the Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease, the Journal of
Trauma and Dissocation, as well as in
the such parapsychological publications as
the European Journal of Parapsychology,
the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the
Journal of Parapsychology, the Journal of
the Society for Psychical Research, and the
Revista Argentina de Psicología Paranormal.
He has received research grants from the
Bial Foundation, the Institut für
Grenzegebiete der Psychologie und
Psychohygiene, the Parapsychology
Foundation, the Parapsychological
Association Research Endowment, the Perrott
Warrick Fund, and the Society for Psychical
Research. A long-time consultant, employee
and now volunteer of the Parapsychology
Foundation, he remains the Director of
International and Domestic Programs and
Associate Editor of the International
Journal of Parapsychology. 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. |
 Richenel
(Muz) Ansano, M.A.
Richenel Ansano received a B.A. in Economics from the Interamerican
University of Puerto Rico, and an M.A. in cultural anthropology from
Rutgers University. He is a native of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean,
and has done community and cultural policy work there, including
research on religion, spirituality, and healing in the Caribbean. In
Curaçao he also held the post of Director of the Cultural Ministry.
Ansano is former Associate Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities
Institute at Duke University, a center promoting interdisciplinary work
in the humanities and ex-Executive Director of the Global Medicine
Education Foundation (GMEF) and most recently served on the Board of
GMEF. As a healer, he honors and engages people's own traditions and
experiences, bringing a multiple intelligences perspective to his
healing work through his company, Alimá Transformations.
| "From its pioneering
work in psi research to its explorations of the
relationships between culture, healing, social communication
and consciousness the Rhine Research Center has been one of
the most influential voices in consciousness studies. Some
of the fundamental principles in the field established early
on by the Rhine Center are still being used or debated
today. As the field of consciousness studies keeps
developing the center is becoming a 21st century research
center without losing touch with its strong background in
psi research." --Richenel (Muz) Ansano, M.A. |
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 Loyd
Auerbach M.S.
Lloyd Auerbach is well-known to the public as an expert on Ghosts and
Psychic Experience. With a Master's degree in Parapsychology, he is
Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations, a Professor at JFK
University, and creator and Instructor of the Certificate Program in
Parapsychological Studies at HCH Institute, available both in California
and for distance learning.
He focuses on field investigation of psi phenomena, as well as education
and public outreach, and consequently is active and available for public
lectures all over the US. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory
Board of the Forever Family Foundation. He was a Consulting Editor and
columnist for FATE magazine from 1991-2004. He is a past President of
the Psychic Entertainers Association (2001-2005) and a past President of
the California Society for Psychical Study. He is a professional
mentalist and psychic entertainer, performing as Professor Paranormal –
a title that follows him into his more serious work. Auerbach is the
author of seven books on the Paranormal, including A Paranormal
Casebook: Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium (2005), Hauntings &
Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide (2004) and Ghost Hunting: How to
Investigate the Paranormal (2004) and Mind Over Matter (1996). His first
book, ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists (1986) was named the "Sacred Text"
on ghosts by Newsweek in 1996. Read more about Auerbach's work, as well
as numerous of his articles, at
www.mindreader.com.
| "The Rhine Research
Center is one of the very few resources I point to when
people ask me where the authoritative centers or sources for
Parapsychology are. With its long, illustrious history and
current activities of public outreach, the RRC is incredibly
important to the field of Parapsychology, and to anyone
interested in psychic phenomena." --Loyd Auerbach, M.S. |
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 Julie
Beischel, PhD
Dr. Julie Beischel is the Co-Founder and Director of Research at The
Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential and one
of the premier investigators in the fields of survival of
consciousness and mediumship research. She received her doctorate in
Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and
Immunology from the University of Arizona and has published a number
of peer-reviewed articles in journals including Journal of
Scientific Exploration, Journal of Parapsychology, Cardiovascular
Toxicology, and Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing. Dr.
Beischel was the first ever recipient of the William James
Post-doctoral Fellowship in Mediumship and Survival Research at the
University of Arizona where she served as Co-Director of the VERITAS
Research Program before moving the research and the screening and
training of prospective research mediums to Windbridge in January
2008. More information about Dr. Beischel and The Windbridge
Institute can be found at
www.windbridge.org
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"Following
an illustrious history at the forefront of psi research, the
Rhine Research Center continues to serve a vital function in
the scientific community through on-going research and the
publication of the peer-reviewed Journal of Parapsychology."
--Julie Beischel, Ph.D. |
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 Daryl
J. Bem, Ph.D.
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.
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"Because parapsychology is
not well represented in
traditional academic settings,
the Rhine Center has always
served as the center of gravity
for the field in the United
States, uniquely providing both
a home for serious research and
scholarship and a respected
public face for our discipline.
From the very first, the Center
has been broadly based,
encompassing both experimental
laboratory-based research and
first-person accounts of
spontaneous ESP experiences in
everyday life, a continuing
legacy we owe to its founders
Joseph and Louisa Rhine.
Whenever I receive questions
about ESP or parapsychology from
students, academic colleagues,
journalists, or members of the
public, the Rhine Center is the
first place I send them for
accurate information."
--Daryl J. Bem, Ph.D. |
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 Larry
Dossey, M.D.
Dr. Larry
Dossey is the author of eleven books,
including Healing Words, Reinventing
Medicine, and his latest book, The Power
of Premonitions. 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
executive editor of the journal Explore:
The Journal of Science and Healing. 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.
"The Rhine Research Center is
a beacon for the scientific
exploration of consciousness. At
this moment in history, the
Rhine Research Center's mission
is of the utmost importance. Our
fate may depend on it."
-- Larry Dossey, M.D. |
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 Athena
A. Drewes, Psy.D., RPT-S
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.
"The field of parapsychology
and the scientific study of
paranormal experiences owes an
enormous debt to the Rhine
Research Center and Drs. J.B.
and Louisa Rhine. Their efforts
and perseverance led to the
creation of the field of
parapsychology and set the
standards for present day
research. The Rhine Research
Center remains a beacon and
integral hub for researchers and
laypeople alike seeking to
understand and learn about psi
abilities and experiences. I
have personally found the RRC
invaluable as both a resource
and support in my research and
writings, and replies to
families on children's psychic
experiences."
-- Athena A. Drewes, PsyD |
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 Sally
Ann Drucker, Ph.D.
Dr. Sally
Ann Drucker has been active in the field
of parapsychology since the early 1970s.
At Maimonides Medical Center's Division
of Parapsychology and Psychophysics, she
assisted Charles Honorton in altered
states experiments. With Dr. Athena A.
Drewes, she conducted several studies on
children's psi and edited a book:
Parapsychological Research with
Children: An Annotated Bibliography
(NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991). A
Parapsychological Association member for
25 years, Dr. Drucker's experimental and
theoretical papers have appeared in PA
Proceedings, the Journal of the American
Society for Psychical Research, and
popular media. At the Rhine Research
Center, she has worked as an editor and
researcher of psychic healing.
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"The
Rhine Research Center occupies a
tremendously important place in
the field of Parapsychology. In
addition to its outstanding
history of research and
publication, its library, public
lectures, and classes serve to
educate the public about this
cutting-edge field. " --
Sally Drucker, PhD |
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 Dale
E. Graff, M.S.
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:
www.dalegraff.com.
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"Defying
prevailing scientific orthodoxy,
the Rhine Research Center (RRC)
has forged a new way of thinking
about unexplained phenomena,
including our natural
extrasensory perception (ESP)
talents, and demonstrated that
our minds are interconnected
with others and our environment
in ways seemingly independent of
spacetime. This breakthrough is
only the beginning: the existing
challenge to the RRC is to
expand their paradigm shifting
investigations to further
quantify the extent of this
interconnection and to provide
the links and integration
between the physical and mental
domains for a better
understanding of reality by an
evolving science." -- Dale
E. Graff, M.S. |
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 Stanley
Krippner, Ph.D.
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
www.stanleykrippner.com.
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"The Rhine Research Center
continues the historic legacy
left them by J.B. and L.E.
Rhine, those great pioneers in
the study of human
consciousness. The programs at
"The Rhine" go beyond
parapsychology research; they
demonstrate how these phenomena
interact with other human
experiences and activities."
--Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. |
|
 Seymour
Mauskopf, Ph.D.
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.
"Parapsychology
is potentially a very important
branch of scientific research.
Arising out of a complex
tradition of spiritualist
interests and attempts to gain
scientific mastery over what are
currently termed "paranormal
phenomena," parapsychology
received its most significant
establishment at Duke University
in the early 1930s under the
leadership of Dr. J. B. Rhine.
Rhine focused on developing the
scientific methodology that
would experimentally validate
and legitimate the existence and
study of these phenomena.
Rhine's work inspired several
generations of researchers and
continues to inspire those who
feel that parapsychology should
be included within the bounds of
science.
The legacy of J. B. Rhine's
vision and work serves as the
inspiration for the Rhine
Research Center. As one of the
few venues for the serious study
of paranormal phenomena, it is a
very valuable center indeed! I
give it my whole-hearted and
enthusiastic endorsement."
--Seymour H. Mauskopf, Ph.D. |
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 Joseph
W. McMoneagle, CW2, USA Ret.
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
www.mceagle.com.
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"There are not many places in
America or the world where one can
go for the bottom line truth within
the field of the Paranormal. Among
those places, the J.B. Rhine Center
is an historical icon - one of the
very best. It's a place that honors
all aspects of paranormal research,
while bringing the highest quality
of scientific clarity and
understanding to the effort. These
efforts have never faltered since
its founding. It can truly be said
that it represents the "people's
library of knowledge" when it comes
to understanding cultural,
spiritual, and mystical human
abilities. They've always been there
when I've needed support, additional
insight, or friendly advice." --Joe
McMoneagle, CW2, USA Ret. |
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 Jeffrey
Mishlove, Ph.D.
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.
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"When it comes to American
parapsychology, there is one name
that stands out above all others.
That name is Rhine. J. B. and Louisa
Rhine literally created the
discipline of parapsychology in the
United States. The Rhine Center
today embodies this legacy."
--Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. |
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 Vernon
M Neppe, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Vernon Neppe is an internationally respected
neuropsychiatrist, behavioral neurologist,
psychopharmacologist,forensic specialist,
epileptologist, psychiatrist and
parapsychological researcher/
phenomenologist/ dimensional
biopsychophysicist. He is author of seven
different books including Cry the Beloved
Mind: A Voyage of Hope and 4 on the deja
vu phenomenon. He is also a playwright and
philosopher. He trained in South Africa and
at Cornell University, New York. Since 1992,
he has been Director of the Pacific
Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle and
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at St. Louis
University. In 1986, he founded and directed
the first Division of Neuropsychiatry in a
Dept. of Psychiatry in the USA (University
of Washington, Seattle). Dr. Neppe is the
recipient of many scientific awards and a
fellow or member of about two dozen
professional societies. He has over 350
publications with a significant proportion
of these impacting on anomalistic
psychology. Dr. Neppe has been active in
research, theory and terminology on
anomalous experiences and phenomenology for
over 30 years.
His web sites are:
Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute and
Brain Voyage
"The Rhine Research Center has a
history and a presence in
parapsychological research that is
unequalled; it has produced many
outstanding contributors to the
field: and it has acted as a leader
and example for many others.
Congratulations!"
-- Vernon M Neppe, M.D., Ph.D. |
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 Dr.
William Roll
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 Department 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
Outstanding Career Award from the
Parapsychological Association and the Tim
Dinsdale Memorial Award from the Society for
Scientific Exploration.
"The Rhine Research Center is the
direct successor of the
Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke
University that Dr. J. B. Rhine
directed since its inception nearly
80 years ago. It is now in the
capable hands of his daughter, Sally
Rhine Feather. The work of Dr. Rhine
and his colleagues laid the
foundation for the science of
parapsychology as it has been
practiced until the present. In
1937, Dr. Rhine established the
Journal of Parapsychology as the
principal journal for experimental
research in the field and also for
analyses of real-life accounts of
parapsychological (psi) experiences,
an area in which his wife, Dr.
Louisa Rhine was an expert. Her
daughter, Dr. Rhine Feather has
continued the work and published her
findings in the book, The Gift
(coauthored by Michael Schmicker and
published by St. Martins Press in
2005).
In 1957, Dr. Rhine established the
Parapsychological Association (PA)
as an international organization and
meeting-place for workers in the
field. During its more than 50
years’ existence, the PA has held
annual conferences in the United
States and overseas, during which
current research is presented and
discussed. Abstracts of all papers
presented at the PA and some
full-length articles are published
in the Journal of Parapsychology.
In 1969, the Parapsychological
Association became an affiliated
organization of the prestigious
American Society for the Advancement
of Science, an important step in the
recognition of parapsychology by
traditional science.
Dr. Rhine used the term extrasensory
perception (ESP) for the receptive
mode of psi and psychokinesis (PK)
for psi that affects physical
objects. He was convinced that ESP
and PK cannot be explained by the
traditional materialist theories of
physics, but that the psi process is
basically a mental one.
Over the past several years,
traditional physics has been
replaced by quantum physics. In most
forms of quantum physics, mind or
consciousness is central to the
perception and creation of the human
world. From being at the fringe of
science, mind is now in the driver’s
seat, as Dr. Rhine realized many
years ago." -- William Roll Ph.D. |
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 Michael Schmicker
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, published by St. Martin’s Press
in May 2005 (and 2006 in the UK by Random
House/Rider). A longtime member and book
reviewer for 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.
www.booksbymichael.com
or his writer’s website at
www.redroom.com/author/michael-l-schmicker.
"Almost a century ago, the Rhine
Research Center pioneered scientific
research into ESP. Today it serves
as home and information central for
a new generation of investigators
exploring a dozen scientific
anomalies, any of which, if
confirmed, could shatter today's
Science and our view of reality."
--Michael Schmicker |
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 Stephan
A. Schwartz
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
Schwartz
Report and
Stephan
Schwartz.
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"Understanding the nature of
consciousness is of the utmost
importance as we move into an age
when, increasingly, all life is seen
as interdependent and
interconnected. Insights from the
laboratory are one of the ways we
come to better understand the
processes that create these
linkages, and the Rhine has a long
proud history of doing just such
research." --Stephan A. Schwartz |
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 Rupert
Sheldrake, Ph.D.
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
Sheldrake.org.
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"The Rhine Center plays an
invaluable role as a center for
rational enquiry on the frontiers of
the unknown. Its long tradition and
experience make it unique and of
international importance." -- Rupert
Sheldrake, Ph.D. |
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 Jerry
Solfvin, Ph.D.
Dr. Jerry Solfvin came to the Durham/Chapel
Hill area in 1972 to pursue a career in
parapsychology. A mathematician at the time,
he engaged in further graduate studies, at
J.B. Rhine's suggestion, in behavioral
statistics and human experimental design at
UNC, where he received special mentoring
from Jim Carpenter and David Rogers. Dr.
Solfvin worked as Senior Research Associate
at the Psychical Research Foundation at Duke
(with William Roll) for the next six years,
conducting studies of poltergeists,
meditation & psi, and psychophysiology (with
Ed Kelly). He was then invited to come to
Utrecht (with Martin Johnson & Sybo
Schouten) where he completed a PhD
dissertation on psi, healing, and placebo.
Back in the USA, Dr. Solfvin directed the
graduate program in parapsychology at John
F. Kennedy University in California for over
ten years before returning to the East
coast, where he is now settled. Dr. Jerry
Solfvin is currently an associate professor
in the Center for Indic Studies at the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (North
Dartmouth, MA) where he pursues research on
the psi dimensions of expectancy and placebo
effects.
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"The Rhine Center is not only the
result of a glorious past. It is
superbly positioned to be the cause
of a glorious future. In the words
of founder J.B. Rhine, 'We must go
on.'"--Jerry Solfvin, Ph.D. |
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 Evanne
Solvinto
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.
"I consider it a true privilege
having had the opportunity to get to
know the Rhine, its history and
founding by J.B.Rhine, its many
accomplishments in the field of what
scientific researchers have
considered for over 100 years to be
paranormal phenomena, and the
remarkably interesting and brilliant
people who work with the Center.
The Center's studies help create
awareness and shed scientific light
on how the mind is an integral
factor in Extrasensory Perception,
Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Remote
Viewing, Precognition, Psychokinesis
and survival of Consciousness.
The Rhine is particularly
exceptional in its welcome of all
those who wish to participate in the
exciting experiential and
educational events that are a
regular part of its planned
activities."
-- Evanne (Muff) Solvinto |
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 Cynthia
Lee Shore-Sterling, Ph.D.
Cynthia Lee
Shore-Sterling, Ph.D., Executive Publisher
of Sterling House Publisher and the
President of International Book Management
Corporation has authored twenty-two books
including the Ghost Trail series.
Her
interest in medicine, healing and
out-of-body experiences began at Indiana
Hospital where she worked in laboratory and
in assisting the pathologist in autopsies,
then as the Departmental Assistant for
Nuclear Medicine Cardiopulmonary Function
and as an Emergency Medical Service
responder. Her interest continued to grow
when she entered into private practice as a
physician’s assistant.
Dr. Sterling has extensive exposure in the
media, appearing on The Maury Povich Show,
Philly After Midnight, City Chronicle and
news channel affiliates of NBC, CBS, ABC and
FOX. She was interviewed by Time Magazine,
Publisher’s Weekly, The Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette and The Christian Science
Monitor. She has been a guest on over 2000
radio stations, including Radio Free Europe
and National Public Radio.
She has taught at The Chautauqua Institute,
University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania and toured with the Learning
Annex. She earned a Ph.D. in
Philosophy/Metaphysics from AHIT and is best
known as C. L Shore: America’s GhostHunter
and for her company PSI (Paranormal and
Supernatural Investigations).
Dr. Sterling serves on the board of the Mel
Blount Youth Home, has served on the
advisory board of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Entrepreneurial
Forum and recently fulfilled her two-year
service as a board member on the MIT
Entrepreneurial Forum.
"There is a place where science
and spirituality intersects—The
Rhine Research Center. It’s a place
where the truth of the human journey
is slowly and methodically revealed.
Not all of life’s journey can or
will be explained. But what can be
explained, will be explained,
through the Rhine Research Center’s
commit to science and the human
experience."
--Cynthia Sterling, Ph.D.
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Susan
Tanous
Susan Tanous has
operated a Boston-based recruitment service
dedicated to identifying, locating and
evaluating talented professionals for
permanent placement in the Investment
Services sectors, representing some of the
finest financial firms nationwide. She began
her recruiting career after a brief period
at Jordan Marsh & Company as both personnel
trainer and sales representative. Susan
earned the Certified Personnel Consultant,
CPC, designation, and after several
fulfilling years with leading agencies, she
opened the Tanous Group. She was educated at
Notre Dame Academy prep school, and the
University of Massachusetts within the walls
of its Management curriculum. Susan has
served as board member and President of the
Board of Directors of the Alex Tanous
Foundation for Scientific Research of
Portland, ME. The Alex Tanous Foundation is
the benefactor of the RRC library, now known
as the Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine
Research Center.
"The Rhine Research Center has
been and continues to evolve as one
the world’s leading pioneers of psi
research. To that end, sincere and
serious research captivates not only
the dedicated scientists of Rhine,
and their subjects, but those whose
journey has taken them far beyond
what the human eye can see.
Time-tested research, pragmatic
thinking, bold and dynamic new
approaches, lend themselves to far
reaching discoveries and advances in
the field of psi, the results of
which will continue to lend ever
more understanding and assistance
throughout the world in fields such
as medicine, education, law
enforcement and beyond."
-- Susan Tanous, B.S., CPC |
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 Wakine
Tanous
Attorney Wakine Tanous has owned and
operated his law firm Tanous & Snow for the
past 53 years in East Millinocket, Maine,
after graduating youngest in his class from
Portland Law School for a life-long career
in law. Prior to law school Mr. Tanous
received his B.S. from Boston College. He
spent six years in the Maine State Senate as
Senate Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
and Senate Chairman of the Labor Committee,
as well as Charter President of the East
Millinocket Chamber of Commerce Board and a
past member of the Millinocket Regional
Hospital Board. He is a Board Member of the
Eastern Maine Medical Center Health Care
System, is Past President of the Pine Tree
Council Boy Scouts of America, and was
awarded the Silver Beaver Badge. Mr. Tanous
was instrumental in the development of the
Alex Tanous Foundation for Scientific
Research; which was his brother Alex’s life
long dream. Wakine Tanous served as the
first nominated President of the
Foundation’s Board and has remained the
Clerk for the Foundation since its inception
in March 1990.
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"The Rhine Research Center is a
visible accomplishment of dedicated
individuals in fulfilling the
founder J.B. Rhine's dreams and
furthering the mission of the Rhine.
It is a wonderful space housed with
an array of historic collections and
new periodicals, newsletters,
journals and books on parapsychology
and related areas. As well as a
spectacular venue for speakers,
researchers, lectures, study groups,
etc. to meet and discuss the
parapsychology and related fields."
--Wakine G. Tanous, J.D. |
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 Dr.
Charles Tart
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
www.paradigm-sys.com/cttart/ and
www.issc-taste.org for more on Dr.
Tart's work.
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"Our consciousness is the most
unique attribute and the best (and
too often worst!) tool that we have
for coping with reality. The work of
the Rhine Research Center in
investigating the fundamental nature
of that consciousness is vital to
the survival and progress of the
human race!" --Charles Tart, Ph.D. |
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 Mr.
Larry Trevarthen
Mr. Larry Trevarthen is a 20-year veteran of
the high-technology industry in the
Portland, Oregon area. He is presently a
Marketing Director for Hewlett-Packard,
based in Vancouver, Washington. In his
high-tech career, Larry has spent 12 years
with HP holding management positions in
product development, strategic planning and
business development. Trevarthen has also
spent 2.5 years as a marketing manager for
Digimarc, a software technology company, and
a year with MarketStar, where he was Vice
President of Consulting and Market Research.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in History and
an M.B.A. from Portland State University.
Mr. Trevarthen is the grandson of J.B. and
Louisa Rhine.
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"The Rhine Research Center is the
place to come for research into the
field of parapsychology. Its
combines a rich history of
scientific study in the field, with
its constantly evolving research
portfolio covering a wide range of
paranormal areas at present. This
combination of breadth and depth in
the field is truly its unique
asset." |
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