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We
currently have a wonderful display of art works by Vandorn Hinnant
in the Alex Tanous Library. If you get a chance please stop by
to enjoy it.
This geometry, experienced through the senses, resonates
with the underlying energetic substructures residing in
and around each of us, and has the potential of
activating the often dormant awareness we walk with of
universal order, and the indwelling love, beauty, and
grace of soul. --
Vandorn Hinnant May
2007 Lightweavings
PSI Games Learn about
your own PSI abilities and have fun doing it! led
by Bill Joines, Carl Blackman and Bonnie Albright
Friday, February 05, 2010
7:30-9pm Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
"Psi
Games for Grownups" will take place on 02/05/2010
at the Rhine at 7:30pm. Your ticket dates
have been changed. Please
contact us
if you cannot make this change in your
schedule, otherwise we will assume that you
will keep your tickets for the new date.
Due to the changes in schedule we have also
changed some of our presenters... Rhonda
Bailey of IANDS is covering for Bonnie
Albright, and Benton Bogle who leads the
Remote Viewing Group will cover for Carl
Blackman.
Ever wondered about your ESP ability? Or
wanted to attend a Spoonbending Party?
Here's a chance to test your ESP in an
informal group setting with like-minded
Rhine Center friends and/or the frankly
curious. Bill Joines will lead the group in
a variety of ESP guessing games using the
well-known Zener cards followed by exercises
in Remote Viewing of hidden target pictures.
As a finale, you will have a chance to
participate in one of our favorite but rare
occasions – a real live Spoonbending Party!!
Spoons provided!
This experiential and experimental evening
will be led by Bill Joines, Benton Bogle
and Rhonda Bailey, all of whom like to have
fun.
Ongoing: Every first
Tuesday of the month
February 2nd
7:00 -9:00 PM Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
There is an open discussion group that
meets at the Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center. As an informal group,
participants share personal experiences involving psi (experiences
outside our ordinary daily lives). At times, various topics may
unfold, but the evening always begins with the sharing of
experiences. We honor participants' privacy for their stories
outside the meetings. Facilitators are Pamela St. John and Debi
Pratt. For questions or information, please contact:
Pamela St. John, or call
(919) 929-1578
February
10th, 2010
12:00 -1:00 PM Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
The author for the February Rhine Book Club
is Dr. Bruce Lipton who is an
internationally recognized authority on cell
and gene research and consciousness. In lieu
of a book discussion we will view his video,
"The Biology of Belief" and discuss the book
of the same title at a later date.
Ongoing: Every
second Wednesday of the month
Next meeting February 10, 2010
7:00 -9:00 PM Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
Interested in
Remote Viewing Practice? The Remote Viewing Practice Group meets regularly at the Rhine
Center to do outbounder and other types of Remote Viewing that
involve interaction. It is not be necessary to be trained as a
Remote Viewer or to follow a particular method to participate. If
you are interested in practicing Remote Viewing as a part of a small
group of viewers and / or have questions, please contact Benton
Bogle by email at
bbogle@triad.rr.com. Rhine Members
Free
Non-Members *
$10.00
Is there a
Psychic Detective in the house? Yes, there is!
an evening with Anne Poole
Friday, February 12th
7:30 to 9 pm
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Centerand
via teleconference
Anne Poole has
presented on this topic for RRC before and is known to be a "crowd
pleaser". Come join the crowd for this program and enjoy! Anne
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. During
this evening, she will explain how she works with law enforcement on
cases and takes what she calls "the turban clad Miss Cleo" idea out
of the concept. If any law enforcement agencies are attending this
lecture and would so desire, Anne will be glad to hear about a case
with which they are currently working and try to give them some
helpful information towards solving that case.
You can see that the part of the content of this evening's session
with Anne Poole will be defined by who is in the audience and what
is current in their professional lives at that time. This is a
chance to learn about and possibly observe a real psychic detective
doing real work. This is a real opportunity!
Rhine Members $10.00
Non-Members
$15.00
PSI & Photography, presented in
two parts
Presenters: Graham Watkins and María DeGuzmán
Friday, Feb 26, 2010
7:30-9pm
at the Stedman Auditorium Directions
In this
unusual evening, RRC will present two
aspects which will stimulate your thinking
on PSI & Photography. First, you will learn
how to consider whether photographs may
truly include a reflection of an element of
PSI and why most photos do not. AND, you
will see some photos which just might! Then
you will be introduced to Camera Query, an
approach to photography that just might
generate psi-related images. As time allows,
audience members will be able to present a
few of their own photos for consideration.
This is going to be a very full and very
interesting evening. Please don't be late!!
When might it
be real and how can you know?
Graham Watkins will offer a somewhat
contrarian view about PSI and photography,
including discussion of various ways people
commonly interpret photos as being
"paranormal" when they aren't. Often times
the effects are the results of things such
as lens artifacts, close objects/water
droplets/insects out-of-focus
(orbs/vortices), double exposures and other
film/digital artifacts, pareidolia and
deliberate fakes. He will also explain why
he believes it to be unlikely that one will
ever be able to photograph a "ghost" with a
normal camera (including the Vic Tandy
story). Just when you may be feeling
discouraged, he will offer a (VERY) few
pictures that might be genuinely of interest
to parapsychologists. Those will be the
photos that even the skeptics among us will
not want to miss!
As time allows, audience members may offer
their own photos for quick evaluation. To
avoid previewing and prejudging photos, they
will be accepted on a first-come
first-served basis. Pictures to be
considered should be on a USB thumbnail
drive in JPG or GIF format. Resolution must
be at least 72 pixels/inch for us to tell
much of anything about it, and the higher
the better.
Conceptual
Photography: The Work of "Camera Query" in
Relation to Psi
María DeGuzmán will share some samples of
her conceptual photography work with small
figurines (“minikins” ) in which, to her
surprise, some psi elements have seemed to
appear. As a conceptual photographer who
privileges ideas over the production of a
finished product , she composes photographs
that serve as inducements to fantasy and
altered images of reality. Since 2003 she
has been working with small
figurines/minikins, prisms, mirrors, and
other modalities to explore striking and
often surprising interactions between
sculptural forms, light, and the textures of
material surfaces. María will focus on those
images and moments that seem to cross
into
something more uncanny, anomalous, and
potentially psi-related. DeGuzmán suggests
that psycho-kinesis or the influence of
thought on matter may be at work, among
other possible forces.
Audience members will be invited to reflect
on their own reactions to the exhibited
images and to rank the images in terms of
how “anomalous” they find them and according
to what criteria. One of the goals of this
presentation is to hone our collective
awareness of photography as a complex and
perplexingly hybrid practice of the
simultaneous “documentation” and creation of
reality and to ponder the implications of
this awareness for the study of “photography
and psi.” For many of us, this part of the
presentation will be opening a door into a
new way of thinking about photography. Let
the adventure begin!
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.
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.
Thursdays at 6:30 - 8:30 pm
March 4th through April 22nd, 2010
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
One of the great, continuing mysteries
of our time is the world of the paranormal. When people can apparently
communicate with one another without words, when the form of a deceased
loved one suddenly appears without warning, when otherwise sane,
upstanding parents have a young child who begins to speak of a previous
life which seemingly proves to be true, we are dealing with events which
can often be incomprehensible and unsettling.
Sponsored by the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC, Dr. Philip S.
Morse will teach a course describing the areas of ESP, remote viewing,
ghosts and poltergeists, near death experiences, mediums and channelers,
and reincarnation together with some of the most compelling cases in
each instance.
Participants will have an opportunity to ask about and discuss what they
see and read about, share their own experiences, and be able to express
what they think are possible explanations. We shall conclude by
examining some of the latest attempts by quantum physicists to integrate
both the paranormal and their own world into a grand design which they
hope will ultimately explain what continues to be an elusive and
mysterious realm.
Dr. Philip S. Morse is a professor emeritus at the State University
of New York at Fredonia where he taught in the School of Education for
thirty years. During that time, he was a visiting scholar at the
Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and the University of
California at Berkeley. He was also an adjunct professor at Cornell
University.
Conducting more than one hundred presentations to international
assemblies, national and state conferences, and local organizations,
schools and interest groups, Dr. Morse is the author of numerous
articles including one entitled “Nonlocal Consciousness: What Is It and
How Does It Relate to Psychic Phenomena?” (InnerChange Magazine, Fall,
2006). He is the author or co-author of five books and has been listed
in Who’s Who in American Education, Men of Achievement,
and Outstanding Americans.
Dr. Morse has served on the Board of Directors of the Rhine Research
Center and was the co-chair of the 2006 conference sponsored by the
center entitled, “After Death: What Do We Know?” He taught a course on
the paranormal at Duke University in the fall of 2009. For further bio
information, go to
www.anteaterbooks.com.
Members - $100
Non-Members - $125
Active Volunteers - $80
Alex Tanous - Friend, Healer, Artist, Musician, Professor & Psychic
a teleconferenced talk by Jennifer Allen
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center
Many
people would like to know the Real Alex
Tanous. Who was he? What was he like? Could
he actually be seen in two places at once?
Could he throw light? Did he really heal
people? Was he approachable? Was he all that
people said he was?
Jennifer Allen is coming to RRC to
talk about Alex Tanous. During her years in
Portsmouth, NH, Alex was her longtime friend
and became Godfather to each of her four
daughters. For years, she attended his
parapsychology classes University of
Southern Maine, where Alex taught students
that they all had the ability to do what he
did, if they would only open their minds and
spirit to join in.
She will open with personal stories about
his many abilities, including:
• To find missing people.
• To send healing energy to cancer patients
who were far away and who went into
remission within three days after he did so.
• To Bilocate.
• To see Auras.
• To throw light from his eyes.
• To search for UFO’s with Betty Hill,
written up in her last book.
• To talk with Jesus, St. Anne, Isaac
Newton, incredible people throughout
history.
• Alex’s experiments in the Bermuda
Triangle.
There will be plenty of time for questions
and answers throughout the afternoon.
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 four daughters, two
of whom are god-daughters to Alex Tanous and
will attend this session. 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.
Jennifer and her daughters bring personal
knowledge of Alex Tanous, knowledge that
affects their lives every day. RRC is
extremely pleased to have them all here to
share their stories, along with telling us
about the Life of Alex Tanous.
PIONEERS OF THE PARANORMAL
Would you like an inside peek
into the lives and development
of some of the most successful
psychics and mediums who have
practiced in America over the
last century? The Rhine Center
is initiating a series of talks
and readings by relatives, close
friends and/or serious students
of several gifted practitioners
who have pioneered in America’s
romance with the paranormal. We
welcome the opportunity to gain
insight into how Psi manifests
itself in the natural world,
channeled from the other side
and/or from deep within the
medium’s own psyche, by learning
more about the life and work by
these incredible men and women..
And where better to get this
wisdom than from the personal
anecdotes or special selected
life stories told by those who
gained their own knowledge by
close association?
The program described above, on
Alex Tanous, for whom RRC's
library is named, is the first
in this series. Be watching for
similar programs on Edgar Cayce
and on Eileen Garrett later in
2010.
Talk: Friday March 12, 2010
7:30-9pm
at the Stedman Auditorium Directions
Workshop: Saturday March 13, 2010
What do the healer, the mystic, the psychic,
and the spy all have in common? They are all
in touch with their non-local mind and our
community of spirit. During the 1970’s and
80’s, Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
carried out investigations of our ability to
experience and describe distant events
blocked from ordinary perception. This
intuitive capacity was named remote viewing,
and the research was supported by the CIA
and many other government organizations for
gathering intelligence about world-wide
activities during the Cold War.
Physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of this
previously SECRET psychic research program,
will describe the very best evidence for
extrasensory perception,
precognition,
intuitive diagnosis and
distant healing. In
the workshop we will experience many of
these applications, together with the
spiritual implications of psychic abilities
from the Hindu mystic Patanjali, and the
Dzogchen dharma masters, down to the present
time, as they might be applied to expanding
ones timeless and nonlocal awareness. We
will discuss how to recognize the actual
psychic signal, and separate it from mental
noise of memory, imagination, and analysis –
and why should we bother with ESP?
Finally, and most important, we will have
individual lessons in remote viewing, just
as we did in the successful Stanford
Research Institute program, partnered
lessons in intuitive medical diagnosis,
discussion of Associative Remote Viewing eg
applications to financial markets and then
discuss how such awareness can lead to a
discovery of who we really are.
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
Friday Night Rhine Members $10.00
Non-Members
$15.00
Saturday Workshop Rhine Members $100.00
Non-Members $125.00Participants who sign up for
Russell Targ's Saturday workshop should also
come to the Friday night program as it is
included in this cost.
Friday March 26th
a talk 7:30-9pm
at the Stedman Auditorium Directions
If someone you love has died, are
you experiencing deep and painful feelings of loss and disconnection?
More than half of widows says that they have seen, smelled, heard the voice of,
or experienced a "sign" from someone who has died. The experience
dramatically softens grief.
In
addition to talking about mediums, this program will also introduce the work of
Allan Botkin, PsyD in Induced After Death Communication.
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.
ADC’s may happen spontaneously, but they can often be accessed in two other
ways. The first is through a talented medium. In addition, a small but growing
number of licensed psychotherapists have been trained in
Induced After Death Therapy
by Allan Botkin, Psy.D.
This 90-minute presentation on the ADC experience will explain what is involved
in recognizing and finding a talented medium and will also provide an
introduction to Induced After Death Therapy.
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.
This presentation will be of interest to both clinicians and the public.
The evidence for survival of
bodily death raises many interesting issues, both empirical and conceptual.
Unfortunately, most people seem either to overestimate or underestimate the
reliability and importance of the case material. Stephen Braude will sort
through some of the major issues and focus in particular on one crucial
question: whether we can distinguish evidence for survival from evidence of
exotic (including paranormal) things done solely by the living.
Those who have attended presentations by Stephen Braude before know that this
evening will be filled with interaction and liveliness. Those who are new, will
be delighted to experience it, along with receiving substantial thought
provoking information. Steve's bio comes in three flavors. As he puts it, the brief bio is available at
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~braude/. 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. There are also several links
from that page to additional bio information. If you are curious about the
"real" Steve, visit
http://JazzPhilosopher.com/ Does anything more need to be added to let you
know that this will be an evening with a dynamic and multi-faceted person? Nope!
June 25 & 26
Friday evening talk 7:30 - 9:00 pm will be
teleconferenced
& Saturday workshop 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Alex Tanous Library in the Rhine Center On Saturday, bring your own lunch, or we'll
order and pickup at
Nosh, $10 each.
So many people have had déjà
experiences (64% of the US adult population) that one can hardly call them
"paranormal" and yet these uncanny happenings are still baffling and even
troubling for some people. A few years ago Art created an
on-line questionnaire
at where those having such experiences could provide researchers with some very
needed data. One important purpose of the survey is to see if it can be shown
that déjà vécu (already lived through) and déjà visité (already visited) are
separate experiences. Thus far over 2600 individuals from around the world have
submitted answers and some results of the data analysis will be presented. There
is also a Deja
Experience Research Website where those seeking more information about
such intriguing phenomena can acquaint themselves with what has been thought and
hypothesized about such experiences by researchers in a number of scientific
disciplines. Some information about goodly number of other items of interest,
such as books, records, films and pictures, are also available there as well.
As Art has resided in Switzerland for over 35 years, it is a rare treat to have
him available for an American audience. Friday evening's talk will include of
space for informal interchange. Art has been described as being a "careful
listener" as well as having a lot to share on what he describes as his "hobby
and a major passion, deja experience research". This session will be
teleconferenced.
In the Saturday workshop, those attending will have the opportunity of sharing
their déjà experiences and we'll have a look at the possible types of such
experiences (e.g., déjà rêve [already dreamt]) people are having. This session
will not be available by teleconference. Those of us who have wondered about deja experiences, have experienced them,
have wondered if they have experienced them, or would just like to know more
about this phenomenon will treasure these two events. Join us if you possibly
can!
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.
Art's hobby and a major passion, though, is déjà experience research. He has
devoted over 35 years to learning as much as he can about it and, thanks to the
Internet, is now able to share the fruits of that work with anyone who is
interested.
Friday Evening Talk
Members $10.00
Non-members $15.00
Saturday Workshop
Members $30.00
Non-Members $40.00
Sunday,
April 16 -17 a talk byRosemarie Pilkington "The Enigma
of Séance Phenomena".
May 7th: Ingrid Dean, author of The Spirit of the Badge, an
intriguing new book about real life stories of Psi and Law Enforcement.
Spirit of the Badge Website
May 15 - 16: Susan Freeman,
one of RRC's most active contributors,
sharing both her time and talents, will
conduct a 2 day workshop on Everyday
Intuition - Discover your own unique Extra
Sensory Perception.
June 4 - 5:Joe McMoneagle, long time friend of
RRC, will be coming to do a Friday evening presentation and Saturday workshop!
Details to follow soon.
July 9: Kathe Martin, will
present "Death, the Final Journey and How We
Survive It - A Medium's Perspective". This
is a second visit for Kathe who presented
for RRC in January 2009 as part of a panel
of three mediums.
www.kathemartin.com
July 16: Edgar Mitchell, another long time friend
of RRC, will be coming to do a Friday evening presentation! Details to follow
soon.
September 10: Nancy L. Zingrone and Carlos S. Alvarado will be returning
to RRC, this time to speak on "Investigating Aura Vision". Nancy and Carlos
joined us last October, speaking on Out of Body Experiences. Their bios can be
found on our Past Presenters page.
September 12: Carol Krucoff will hold a Yoga Discussion & Workshop in the
Tanous Library. Her newest book, Healing Yoga for Neck & Shoulder Pain,
will be published in May, 2010.
Yoga for
Neck Pain Website
September 24 - 25: Dale E. Graff, dear friend and RRC Advisory Board
Member will give a Friday night talk and Saturday workshop on The Art of Psi:
ESP, Remote Viewing and Precognitive Dreaming.
Dale's bio
Website:
Dale
Graff
Anne Poole has
presented on this topic for RRC before and is known to be a "crowd
pleaser". Come join the crowd for this program and enjoy! Anne
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. During
this evening, she will explain how she works with law enforcement on
cases and takes what she calls "the turban clad Miss Cleo" idea out
of the concept. If any law enforcement agencies are attending this
lecture and would so desire, Anne will be glad to hear about a case
with which they are currently working and try to give them some
helpful information towards solving that case.
into
something more uncanny, anomalous, and
potentially psi-related. DeGuzmán suggests
that psycho-kinesis or the influence of
thought on matter may be at work, among
other possible forces. 
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.
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
One of the great, continuing mysteries
of our time is the world of the paranormal. When people can apparently
communicate with one another without words, when the form of a deceased
loved one suddenly appears without warning, when otherwise sane,
upstanding parents have a young child who begins to speak of a previous
life which seemingly proves to be true, we are dealing with events which
can often be incomprehensible and unsettling. 
Dr. Philip S. Morse is a professor emeritus at the State University
of New York at Fredonia where he taught in the School of Education for
thirty years. During that time, he was a visiting scholar at the
Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and the University of
California at Berkeley. He was also an adjunct professor at Cornell
University.
Many
people would like to know the Real Alex
Tanous. Who was he? What was he like? Could
he actually be seen in two places at once?
Could he throw light? Did he really heal
people? Was he approachable? Was he all that
people said he was? 
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/
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
If someone you love has died, are
you experiencing deep and painful feelings of loss and disconnection?
Steve's bio comes in three flavors. As he puts it, the brief bio is available at
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.