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The Wandering Mind: Exploring Out-of-the-Body Experiences with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D. & Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D. from Rhine Research Center.

The Wandering Mind: Exploring Out-of-the-Body Experiences with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D. & Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D. Part 2 from Rhine Research Center.

The Wandering Mind:
Exploring Out-of-the-Body Experiences
with Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D. & Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D.

Have you ever had the feeling of perceiving the physical world from a location outside of your physical body? This panel discussion of out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) aims to provide a fuller understanding of this fascinating phenomena and what it means for a broader understanding of human consciousness.

Long-time scholars of OBE phenomena, Alvarado and Zingrone will present an general introduction to the OBE phenomena, including definitions of the OBE and its differences from other phenomena. They will focus on research on OBE cases completed in Illinois, Puerto Rico, Virginia, Scotland, Spain and on the Internet, as well as on historical and upcoming research. Among the topics: features of the OBE, contexts in which the experiences take place, how common these experiences are, what is known about the psychology of folks who report them. In addition, the various explanations offered to account for OBEs and their implications for consciousness and for the issue of the survival of bodily death will be covered. Time will be allowed for Q&A and audience interaction.

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

Currently, Dr. Alvarado holds an adjunct appointment at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology as well as a faculty appointment at the University of Virginia as Assistant Professor of Research in Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Division of Perceptual Studies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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

Currently, Dr. Zingrone is an Assistant Professor of Research in Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, in the Division of Perceptual Studies in Charlottesville, Virginia where she conducts research with Alvarado.

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