Volume 2, Issue 2, 2010
Editors:  Jennifer Moore and Mark A. Schroll, Ph.D.
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1 Editorial Overview:
We are excited about this summer 2010 issue of our Psi News Magazine. Our general focus is on complementary and alternative healing techniques. Psi and healing is a topic that arises frequently in discussions, talks, and workshops at the Rhine, and one of great interest to the community at large. In fact, one of our current research projects (led by Dr. Bill Joines) is a study of photon emission in bio-energy healers.  Read more...

2 Shamanism and Healing: A Personal Perspective
Katherine MacDowell, D.Th, MA, M.Ed.

While the term shamanism may be problematic in its risk of obscuring and conflating cultural differences and traditions and their relationship to human psychobiology (Ogembo: 2005; Price: 2001; Vitebsky: 2001), the term serves a general descriptive purpose that allows for a relatively accurate broad outline as to what shamanism is. 
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4 Anthropology and the Ontological Status of the Paranormal
Jack Hunter
At a recent talk about anthropological approaches to the study of the paranormal, at the Society for Psychical Research, I was asked whether I thought that anthropology was in a position to comment on the ontology of the paranormal. This essay is an attempt to expand a little on the answer that I gave. Read more...

5 An Interview with Christine Simmonds -Moore, PhD
Christine Simmonds-Moore, PhD, is a visiting researcher this year at the Rhine Center. We have been fortunate to work alongside her and share in her knowledge, curiosity, innovative research ideas, and overall enthusiasm for parapsychology. She also holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

She took time out of her busy schedule for an interview, and we hope that it gives you the chance to know a bit more about her and some of her current psi research. Read more...

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cover photo by Tasha Ravenscry

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Volume 2, Issue 2, 2010