Article: A Computer Model of Consciousness & the Contact Modalities

After a 45-year career at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, and over 300 peer reviewed academic publications, Rudy has been recognized as one of the leading proponents of MECOS, an alternative to black hole theory. Rudy was also a pioneer in gravitational lensing and matter structuring of the universe. Rudy’s most recent research activities involved comparison of gravitational microlensing, brightness fluctuations with black hole models to study quasar inner structure. Rudy is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cosmology which has published many academics articles on the relationship between Consciousness and the Contact Modalities. Rudy was also one of the four co-founders of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation (FREE), co-editor of FREE’s book “Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and the Contact Modalities”, and is one of five co-editors of the book “A Greater Reality”.

Article: Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Long by Rey Hernandez

Dr. Jeffrey Long is a physician practicing the specialty of radiation oncology, (the use of radiation to treat cancer) in Houma, Louisiana.  Dr. Long served on the Board of Directors of IANDS (the International Association for Near-Death Studies for many years), and has been one of the world’s most active Near Death Experience (NDE) researchers for more than 25 years.  His book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience, also has won major awards. Dr. Long and his wife, Jody Long, have a website, NEDRF.ORG, that is the world’s largest NDE website in the world which contains thousands of NDE accounts and numerous resources for NDE Experiencers. Dr. Long is also the Co-Research Director of a 25-member academic research institute, the CCRI, Consciousness and Contact Research Institute, together Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild and Rey Hernandez, a Ph.D. Candidate from UC Berkeley. Finally, Jeffrey is one of five co-editors of the book A Greater Reality.

Article: Contact With Transcendent Mind and The New Story: UFOs, Psychical Research, and Religion

Dr. Michael Grosso received his Ph.D. in philosophy and also studied classical Greek at Columbia University.  He has taught philosophy and humanities at New Jersey City University, City University of New York, and elsewhere. His main focus has been on philosophy of mind, with an emphasis on paranormal, creative, and mystical states of consciousness. Michael has authored numerous books, the latest being Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief. Michael was for many years affiliated with the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia where he has contributed chapters for their books titled Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21 st Century and Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality. Michael is no longer affiliated with any academic institutions. He is an independent scholar, researcher, and artist, into the interface between painting and the paranormal. Michael is one of five co-editors of the book “A Greater Reality”.

Article: Towards a Unified Theory of Consciousness and the Contact Modalities

Rey graduated with honors from Rutgers College, was a Masters Candidate at Cornell University and was a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California at Berkeley where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship. He previously was a Professor for six years at the New School for Social Research and at the City University of New York. Rey is currently the Director of the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute, or CCRI, an academic research institute comprised of more than 25 Ph.D. academics, medical doctors, and researchers whose mission is to explore a new paradigm that seeks to integrate the findings of consciousness research and the phenomenology of extraordinary experiences, what Rey coined in 2013 as the “Contact Modalities”. Rey was previously one of the 4 co-founders of The Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation, comprised of 15 Ph.D. academics and lay researchers, who during a 5-year period, conducted the world's first and only comprehensive academic statistical research study on almost 4,400 UFO contact experiencers from over 125 countries. Much of FREE's research data contradicts much of what is circulating in mainstream materialist Ufology. Rey and two other retired academic professors, Dr. Rudy Schild and Dr. Jon Klimo, were the co-editors of the historic 820-page academic book titled BEYOND UFOS: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence. Rey has also published in several peer reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration. Rey’s new project is a 4-volume book, and a full feature science documentary titled A GREATER REALITY: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal and the Contact Modalities.

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Dr. Jon Klimo received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Brown University many years ago. For the last 45 years, John was a professor in the clinical program of The American Schools of Professional Psychology, Argosy University and Rutgers University. He has chaired approximately 250 academic doctoral dissertations over his career and of these, approximately 75 have completely or primarily involved topics of parapsychology, the paranormal, consciousness studies, spiritual/transpersonal studies, "new paradigm" science, and in the area of Ufology. He has also presented lectures at over 100 academic conferences and has appeared on more than 120 different radio and 20 different television programs. Jon has published 3 academic books, Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, Handbook to the Afterlife, and Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? and many dozens of peer-reviewed articles and papers. Dr. Klimo was the co-chair of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation Experiencer Research Study and a member of its Board of Directors. He was a co-editor and the author of Chapter 2 of FREE’s book titledBeyond UFOs, where he wrote a 200 page analysis of the qualitative data from almost 4,400 UFO Contact Experiencers from over 125 countries who participated in our FREE Experiencer Research Study. Finally, Jon is one of five co-editors of the book A Greater Reality.

Article: The Quantum Hologram and the Nature of Consciousness & The Intersection of Science and Religion

Dr. Edgar Mitchell was one of the 4 co-founders of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation and was an active member of the FREE Board of Directors. Our beloved Edgar passed away on February 4, 2016. Dr. Mitchell was a member of the Apollo 14 mission which was NASA's third manned lunar landing and he was the 6th man to walk on the moon. Dr. Mitchell had a Doctorate of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and had received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USN Distinguished Medal, and three NASA Group Achievement Awards. In addition, he was inducted to the Space Hall of Fame in 1979, the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 and was inducted into the Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking in June, 2011. After retiring from the Navy in 1972, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He authored Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science, Understanding the Nature and Power of Consciousness (1974) and The Way of the Explorer (1996) as well as dozens of articles in both professional and popular periodicals.  He devoted the last 40 years of his life to studying science and physics of human consciousness and the Contact Modalities including the topics of UAPs/UFOs, Near Death Experiences, the afterlife, and paranormal phenomena in the search for a common ground between science and spirituality.

Article: Consciousness - What is it? and Cosmological Implications of Near-Death Experiences

Dr. Bruce Greyson is the Chester Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.  He was previously on the medical faculty at the University of Michigan and the University of Connecticut, where he was Clinical Chief of Psychiatry. Dr. Greyson’s is one of the world’s leading academic researchers on Near Death Experiences, leading to more than a hundred publications in medical journals. He co- founded the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), an organization to support and promote research into these experiences, and for 27 years edited the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the only scholarly journal dedicated to near-death research. Dr. Greyson’s latest book is titled After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond. The book challenges our everyday ideas about our minds and our brains and offers key insights on how we can begin to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

Article: Perception, Resonance and Communications with Non-Corporeal Beings: The Legacy of Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Other Pioneers

Dr. Rein received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London and went on to conduct biomedical research for 25 years at prestigious academic institutions including Stanford and Harvard Medical Schools. His academic career culminated with two publications in the prestigious journal Nature and an assistant professorship at Mt. Sinai Medical School. Dr. Rein also has 14 years or corporate experience doing New Venture research and product development for a Fortune 500 biotech company.  More recently, he founded the Quantum Biology Research Labs (QBRL) in Colorado, with a startup grant from the Fetzer Institute, which now conducting pioneering research on non-classical EM (scalar) fields and quantum information utilization/storage in biological systems (eg. DNA) and water. Dr. Rein is the author of the book Quantum Biology: Healing with Subtle Energy  and is the author or co-author of four patents, 25 papers on bioelectromagnetics, and over 40 articles in biochemistry, neuroscience and pharmacology. Dr. Rein has published theoretical articles on the quantum nature of consciousness and the mind. Glen has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and has made numerous media appearances on radio and TV.

Article: The Primacy of Consciousness: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander

Dr. Eben Alexander graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.  Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. In November of 2008 he had a profound Near Death Experience and lifed to tell of his experience. His first book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (2012), debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and remained in the top ten for over a year. His second book, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion and Ordinary People are Proving the Afterlife (2014), explores humankind’s spiritual history and the progression of modern science from its birth in the seventeenth century, showing how we forgot, and are now at last remembering, who we really are and what our destiny truly is. His latest book on the subject of consciousness and reality, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness, co-authored with Karen Newell, released in 2017 is one of the most important books on human Consciousness. Rey Hernandez personally considers Dr. Eben Alexander as the world’s greatest authority, and someone who has the most complete insight, into the topic of “What is Consciousness”?

Article: Consciousness - What Is It?

Jim Tucker is the Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is Director of the University of Virginia, Division of Perceptual Studies, where he is continuing the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson with children who report memories of previous lives.  A board-certified child psychiatrist, Dr. Tucker worked with Dr. Stevenson for several years before taking over the research upon Dr. Stevenson’s retirement in 2002.  Dr. Tucker has numerous peer reviewed publications and is the author of three books: Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remembered Past Lives, Life Before Life: Children’s Memories of Previous Lives, and Before: Children’s Memories of Previous Lives.

Article: Out of the Blind Eye: In Search for a New Science

Dr. Massimo Teodorani is an Astrophysicist and received his Ph.D. in Stellar Physics at the University of Bologna, Italy. As a researcher at the Astronomical Observatories of Bologna and Naples, and later at the INAF Radiotelescope of Medicina he has been involved in research on many types of explosive stellar phenomena. Among his varied research interests there is an active involvement in the study of anomalous aerial phenomena. Dr Teodorani has published several informative articles on quantum physics, atomic, and nuclear physics, astronomy, astrophysics, bio-astronomy, physics of anomalous atmospheric phenomena, human consciousness, and aerospace subjects. In addition to many technical papers in all of the above mentioned subjects, he is the author of 24 bestselling books, which have been translated into multiple languages.

Article: Example of Survival of Consciousness Research and Arguments for a Post-Materialist Science

Dr. Gary Schwartz, former Harvard and Yale professor, is now senior professor at the University of Arizona in psychology, medicine, neurology, and psychiatry.  In addition to teaching courses, he directs research at the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness & Health. He was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. Gary later became a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, directed the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-directed the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic.  He joined the faculty of the University of Arizona as a senior professor in 1988. Dr. Schwartz published more than 450 scientific papers, including six in the prestigious journal Science. He co-edited eleven academic books and authored twelve others.  The latter include The Sacred Promise, The G.O.D. Experiments, The Afterlife Experiments, The Truth About Medium, The Living Energy Universe, and Greater Reality Living (co-authored with Dr. Pitstick).

Article: Interview with Dr. Raymond Moody by Rey Hernandez

In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term near-death experience (NDEs) in his book Life After Life.  For half a century, Dr. Moody has continued research NDEs. Raymond has both a PhD in philosophy and is a licensed Medical Doctor. In his multiple roles as author, professor, public speaker and grief counselor, he has heard thousands of accounts of near-death, shared-death and after-death experiences. Throughout his five-decade career, Dr. Moody has explored themes related to the trans-personal aspects of death, dying and grief. In his book Glimpses of Eternity, he discusses the phenomena of shared-death experiences. In his book Coming Back, Raymond writes about past lives and in his book Reunions Raymond shares methods for evoking the dead, from Ancient Greece to modern times. Dr. Moody has also written numerous books on the Near Death Experience, shared-death experiences, and after-death experiences. In 2020, Dr. Moody wrote his latest book, Making Sense of Nonsense, discusses what nonsense teaches us about consciousness and altered states of being. In summary, Dr. Raymond Moody is the “Father” of Near Death Experiences research and has opened the doors for humanity to begin to understand the afterlife.

Article: Consciousness & the Contact Modalities: Three Moves into Strangeness

Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. Jeff is the author or co-author of eleven books, seven of which are with The University of Chicago Press, including, most recently a memoir-manifesto entitled Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (Chicago, 2017). He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of religions and the sciences for The University of Chicago Press, collectively entitled The Super Story.

Article: Survey of subjective God encounter experiences: Comparisons among naturally occurring experiences and those occasioned by the classic psychedelics psilocybin, LSD, ayahuasca, or DMT

Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs. He is author of over 400 academic journal articles and book chapters. He has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs, and as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. In 1999 he initiated a research program investigating the effects of the classic psychedelic psilocybin. Therapeutic studies with psilocybin include treatment of psychological distress in cancer patients, treatment of cigarette smoking cessation, and psilocybin treatment of major depression. Dr. Griffiths has also conducted a series of survey studies characterizing various psychedelic experiences including those associated with acute and enduring adverse effects, mystical-type effects, entity and God-encounter experiences, and alleged positive changes in mental health, including decreases in depression and anxiety, decreases in substance abuse, and reductions in death anxiety.

Dr. Raul Valverde has a Doctorate in Information Systems from the University of Southern Queensland and a PhD in Psychology in Transpersonal Psychology from UNEM and SEP Mexico, MEng in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University, MSc in Finance from the University of the West of England, and a BSc in Management Mathematics from the State University of New York. He is a senior lecturer of technology management at Concordia University and a research professor in psychology and information technology at the University of Quebec. His research interests include application of information technology, data analytics and consciousness studies. His research in consciousness concentrates in the scientific explanation of the concept of God, human consciousness origins, transpersonal psychology, near death studies and human consciousness models by using quantum physics, modern theological revelations and alien encounters experiences. He has published work in Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychology, Spiritual Science and Information Technology.

Article: Consciousness - What is it? and The One Mind of Consciousness

Dr. Larry Dossey is a licensed Medical Doctor in the United States. Larry is the author of thirteen books and is best known for his book One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters. Dr. Dossey is the former Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. He is currently Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. This distinguished Texas physician, deeply rooted in the scientific world, has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panoramic insight into the nature and the future of medicine. An education steeped in traditional Western medicine did not prepare Dr. Dossey for patients who were blessed with "miracle cures," remissions that clinical medicine could not explain. "Almost all physicians possess a lavish list of strange happenings unexplainable by normal science," says Dr. Dossey. "A tally of these events would demonstrate, I am convinced, that medical science not only has not had the last word, it has hardly had the first word on how the world works, especially when the mind is involved."

Article: Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection and the Virtual Experience

Dr. Joseph Burkes is a retired internal medicine physician and a life-long volunteer peace and social justice activist. He is a volunteer UFO investigator since 1992 and currently serves as a medical consultant for the Consciousness & Contact Research Institute and previously with the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation, FREE. During the 1960s and 1970s he participated in the US civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. In the 1980s he was an activist in “Physicians for Social Responsibility”, PSR. The global umbrella organization of PSR, “The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for their efforts to inform people and government leaders about the medical dangers of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race.  He continues to promote the worldwide efforts of activists that he calls “The Contact Underground.” Dr. Burkes’ writings focus on the mechanisms of contact. These include his “Virtual Experiencer Theory” which describes the role of illusion during close encounters and the “intelligence-counterintelligence model” for UFO investigations. Most importantly he sees the need to establish world peace based on social justice as a necessary pre-condition for establishing full direct relations with the non-human intelligences responsible for the flying saucer phenomenon.  In Dr. Burkes’ view they are assisting humanity during this period of rapid transformation of Earth civilization. He is co-author of “Paths to Contact, True Stories from the Contact Underground” edited by Jeff Becker. He is also co-author with Preston Dennett of a chapter on UAP Medical Healings in the FREE compendium, "Beyond UFOs". Dr. Burkes lives in Northern California with his wife Yael, four small dogs and a 106-year-old desert tortoise named Moishe. 

Article: Consciousness – What is it?

Dr. Peter Sturrock received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Cambridge University in 1951. In 1961, he was appointed a professor of applied physics at Stanford University where he remained until 1998 where he is currently an emeritus professor of applied physics. In 1990, Dr. Sturrock was awarded the Arctowski Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. From 1992 to 1998, he was director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics. Sturrock noted that many scientists wished to explore the topics of UFOs and the Paranormal in scientific journals (there was an almost complete absence of such articles in journals). He subsequently helped establish the Society for Scientific Exploration in 1982 to give a scientific forum to subjects that are neglected by the mainstream. From 1981 to 2001 he was president of the Society for Scientific Exploration. Their publication, the Journal of Scientific Exploration, has been published since 1987. Sturrock subsequently wrote up the work of the panel in the 2000 book The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence.

Article: An Extraordinary Experiment: Will Owens Produce a UFO for Me?

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. Dr. Mishlove recently won an international competition for the best essay that provides the best evidence for life after death and was awarded the $500,000 grand prize from the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies. Dr. Mishlove is one of the world’s leading scholars and researchers on the topic of “What is Consciousness” which first began with his Ph.D. Dissertation and his book titled The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies. Dr. Mishlove has also published the books The PSI Development Systems and The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter. He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. For many years, Jeffrey has hosted hundreds of interviews with leadings thinkings and scholars on the topics of Consciousness, Parapsychology, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, and almost all of the Contact Modalities.

Article: Arguments for a Post-Materialist Science on Consciousness

Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. He received his doctorate degree in neuroscience from the University of Montreal. He has also undergone postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas Medical School (Houston) and the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. Dr. Beauregard is the author of more than 100 publications (articles, essays, book chapters) in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Because of his research into the neuroscience of consciousness, Dr. Beauregard has published the following books: The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul (2008); Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof that Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives (2013); Expanding Science (2020) and Expanding Reality: The Emergence of Postmaterialist Science (2021). In these books, Dr. Beauregard demonstrates that mind and consciousness are much more than the activity of nerve cells in our brains.

Article: Phenomena Without Borders: Consciousness, the Paranormal and the Contact Modalities

Dr. John Alexander was a former U.S. Army colonel and served in key positions in US military intelligence and conducted research on non-lethal weapons. Upon his retirement, he introduced his work on Non-Lethal Defense to the Los Alamos National Laboratory for which he is an internationally recognized expert. Dr. Alexander developed a deep interest in Near Death Experiences and then completed his Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of one of the pioneers of NDEs, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. He went on to become the president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies  (IANDS) and helped to create the Children’s Hospice International. John had engaged in research on all aspects relating to Consciousness, the paranormal, and the psychic phenomena. He and his wife have travelled the world and have spent weeks with local shamans learning about the consciousness and paranormal aspects of their work. Dr. Alexander has held leadership positions with the International Remote Viewers Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration. He has also worked part-time for the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a private research organization dedicated to exploring the UFO, Consciousness, and Paranormal topic. His books include the following: UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities (2011) and Reality Denied: Firsthand Experiences with Things that Can’t Happen – But Did (2017).

Article: Thomas Kuhn and the Emerging Paradigm of Consciousness & Through Time and Space: The Evidence for Remote Viewing

Stephan A. Schwartz is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, and a BIAL fellow. He is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in both of which he covers trends that are affecting the future. He also writes regularly for The Huffington Post. His other academic and research appointments include: Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute; founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory; Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center; and Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research Society. Government appointments include: Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy. He has also been editorial staff member of National Geographic, Associate Editor of Sea Power. And staff reporter and feature writer for The Daily Press and The Times Herald. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research. He is the author of more than 130 technical reports and papers. In addition to his experimental studies he has written numerous magazine articles for Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, as well as other magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient of the Parapsychological Association Outstanding Contribution Award, OOOM Magazine (Germany) 100 Most Inspiring People in the World award, and the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Award for Outstanding Contributions. He has produced and written a number television documentaries, including Psychic Detectives (ABC), Psychic Sea Hunt (NBC), the series Report from the Unknown (MCA/Universal), It’s A Small World (USIA), and has written four nonfiction books.

Article: A New Perspective: An Information Based Theory of Consciousness in which the “Hard problems” of Consciousness and Modern Physics are Solved

Tom Campbell was a Ph.D. candidate in Physics when he met Robert Monroe, the researcher who popularized around the world the Out of Body Experiences phenomena. Tom assisted Monroe in developing sounds and techniques for creating altered states of consciousness within subjects which would induce an OBE. Over the last 45 years, Tom applied these techniques and he has had numerous OBE experiences. He undertook physic experiments during his OBEs and he began to receive insights into the nature of reality and the mechanics of what he calls “the larger consciousness system". In 2003, Tom published his classic work, My Big T.O.E. (Theory of Everything) which argues that we are living inside a virtual reality. Similar to the other authors in our book, Tom also agrees that Consciousness is primary, and that all of what we perceive as the “paranormal” can be explained by his complex and highly detailed virtual reality thesis.

Article: The Marian Apparitions at El-Zeitoun, Egypt, 1968-1971: Miracles and UAPs from a perspective combining parapsychology and sociology

Dr. Eric Ouellet is professor of Defense Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, and at the Canadian Forces College (Canada's Joint Staff and War College). He has a Ph.D. in sociology from York University (Toronto, Canada), and is the liaison officer for Canada with the Parapsychological Association. He has published articles on parapsychology in the Australian Journal of Psychology, Edge Science, and the Bulletin Métapsychique. Eric is interested in the social dimension of psi effects, and how the concept of psi could be used in sociological research. Dr. Ouellet’s research is primarily focused on the UFO phenomenon, and argues that it is an anomaly more amenable to sociological analysis. His latest publication in parapsychology; Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event was published in 2015. His other research works focuses on military, sociology, and war studies.

Article: Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette earned her PhD in philosophy from New York University in 2008, studying under Thomas Nagel and Sharon Street and writing the bulk of her dissertation while a pensionnaire étrangère at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. From 2008 to 2010, she was Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethics at Brandeis University before leaving academia for an independent writing career. Her subsequent research has focused on consciousness, parapsychology, and spirituality, and her writing, in multiple genres, has appeared in peer-reviewed journals as well as in popular venues such as Salon and her Psychology Today blog “Mysteries of Consciousness.” Her books include The Feeling of Value: Moral Realism Grounded in Phenomenal Consciousness (2016),  The Source and Significance of Coincidences: A Hard Look at the Astonishing Evidence (2019), and The Supreme Victory of the Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Synchronicity (2020). She also recently contributed to a collaborative volume on “deep weird” and a French collective work on the role of the Trickster in paranormal phenomena.

Article: Methodologies for the Mysterious: UFOs and Consciousness

Dr. Charles Emmons has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago and was a Professor of Sociology at Gettysburg College for 46 years.  His research is mainly in the area of the sociology/anthropology of science, religion and the paranormal.  His latest book, co-authored by his wife, Penelope Emmons, is Science and Spirit: Exploring the Limits of Consciousness (2012). They also collaborated on Guided by Spirit: A Journey into the Mind of the Medium (2003). Other publications by Charlie include Chinese Ghosts and ESP: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences (1982),  Hong Kong Prepares for 1997 (1987) and At the Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age (1997). He also appears in the TV documentaries “Ghosts of Gettysburg.”  He is active in the online research network Exploring the Extraordinary, is an honorary member of the Board of Reviewers of the journal Paranthropology, and is a member of The Society for Scientific Exploration. 

Article: A Medical Doctor and her Many Contact Modalities Experiences

Dr. Melinda Greer is a licensed Pediatric Medical Doctor in the United States. She has had experiences with almost all of the diverse Contact Modalities since she was a young child yet, until recently, she has not told anyone of her experiences for fear of losing her license to practice medicine. She was convinced to write a chapter for this book because she saw that many other medical doctors have also written chapters for the book “A Greater Reality” and many of these medical doctors are also major experiencers of the Contact Modalities themselves. Melinda has had two Near Death Experiences, she has had many Out of Body Experiences and she has seen very large and up close UAPs/UFOs, some with her husband. She has also had 3 encounters with Sasquatch, two of them very close encounters. She has seen Orbs and after her last NDE, she began to see the spirits of many deceased individuals. She has also had many hours of what is commonly called “missing time” where she was driving her car, sometimes with a friend, and then would “wake up” many hours later and many miles away, still in her car. She has also had almost all of the diverse PSI phenomenon. She is a classic case of the many experiencers that have written chapters of their experiences with the Contact Modalities that are included in Volumes 3 and 4 of our book, A Greater Reality. There are probably thousands, if not millions of individuals around the world with similar experiences as Melinda but unfortunately, the vast majority have remained silent all of their lives because of fear, ridicule, and fear of losing their employment. Melinda, and the more than 70 experiencers that are telling their stories in Volumes 3 and 4 of our book are walking examples of the relationship between Consciousness and the Contact Modalities. As you will read in Volumes 3 and 4, these experiences are not just theoretical, but very real. Dr. Melinda Greer has finally come out of her closet and we are grateful. Thank you, Dr. Melinda Greer!

Article: DMT Models the Near-Death Experience

Dr. Christopher Timmermann received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a now a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, at the Imperial College London, Division of Brain Sciences, at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, where he led the first neuroimaging research on the effects of the potent psychedelic DMT on the human brain and consciousness, as well as its potential clinical applications. His work focuses on the neuroscience, psychology, beliefs, and ethics of the psychedelic experience. He is also a member of the international interdisciplinary group ALIUS and is the president of the Foundation for the Study of Human Consciousness (EcoH).

Article: Discovering the Nature of Reality

Dr. Joe Lewels received his Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Missouri and served as associate professor with tenure and chairman of the departments of journalism and mass communication at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1972 to 1982. Dr. Lewels is an independent researcher, speaker and author on issues related to new science and its connection to spirituality, human origins, extraterrestrial intelligence, ancient civilizations, comparative religions, human contact with non-human intelligences, the true nature of reality, and other New Age issues. He is the author of The God Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and its Implications for Science and Religion and Rulers of the Earth: The Secrets of the Sons of God.

Article: Awakening to a Greater Reality: Is there a Unification Theory of the 'Paranormal' Contact Modalities?

Mary Rodwell is one of the 4 Co-Founders of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation and served on its Research Committee. She is currently a member of the CCRI, Consciousness and Contact Research Committee. Mary was trained in the UK as a former RN, State Certified Midwife, health educator, Counselor and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She has published numerous articles from her research of more than 3,000 cases of individuals that have had contact with Non Human Intelligence through her role as founder and principal of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN). She is the author of two books: Awakening, How Extraterrestrial Contact Can Transform Your Life and The New Human: Awakening to Our Cosmic Heritage. She is featured in numerous documentaries: My Mum Talks to Aliens, Paranormal Files, Animal X, Australien Skies 2, ET Contact, They Are Here, Orenda, and Force of Consciousness. Mary has participated in various university debate forums at Oxford University (UK) and Australian National University (Australia). She is a Producer of Award winning documentaries including: Expressions of ET Contact: A Visual Blueprint?, Expressions of ET Contact: A Communication and Healing Blueprint?, and others. Mary has lectured both nationally and internationally.

Article: The Nature of A Greater Reality and the Contact Modalities

Dennis Briefer is an Engineer/Physicist and is a Founder and Executive of LVLS LLC, an instrument company and holds 24 US patents mostly related to measuring instruments and additional related international patents. Dennis was the former Chair of the Board of the John Mack Institute. Dennis is a Board Member of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation as well as the Mindshift Institute. He is a lifetime member of MUFON and a charter member of New England UFO Research, NEUFOR. For over 25 years, Dennis has been investigating new energy devices, including Cold Fusion and Zero Point Energy applications.

Article: Interview with George Knapp by Rey Hernandez

George Knapp is an American television investigative journalist, news anchor, and talk radio host. He has been a longtime news anchor at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is also a host on Coast To Coast AM, a syndicated radio show with millions of listeners worldwide. He is known for his work investigating UFO reports and also the paranormal which are a frequent topic of the Coast to Coast show. George has been recognized with Edward R. Murrow Awards, Peabody Awards, and dozens of Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Awards. George was the co-author, with Dr. Colm Kellerher, of Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah.

Article: Ghosts, Poltergeists, Parasites, Parallel Worlds and God

Paul F. Eno is an award-winning New England journalist and an independent researcher of the paranormal since 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Wadhams Hall Seminary College and went on to do graduate work in theology at St. Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary, and in the Master of Liberal Arts program at Trinity College (Hartford). A student for the priesthood from 1967-1977, Eno was expelled on the graduate level because the seminary faculty did not like his paranormal research. His early mentors included parapsychology pioneer Dr. Louisa Rhine, Fr. John J. Nicola S.J. (technical advisor for the film The Exorcist) and legendary, first-generation ghost hunters Ed & Lorraine Warren (of The Conjuring fame). His most recent book is Dancing Past the Graveyard: Poltergeists, Parasites, Parallel Worlds and God (Red Feather, 2019). Two previous titles were co-authored with his son and colleague Ben Eno; Behind the Paranormal: Everything You Know is Wrong (Schiffer Books, 2016), and Behind the Paranormal 2: Bigfoot, Mothman and Monsters You Never Heard Of (Barking Cat Books, 2017). Three of Paul’s earlier books are still in print. The father-son pair have appeared on the Travel and History Channels, and have hosted the weekly AM/FM radio show “Behind the Paranormal with Paul & Ben Eno” for nearly 15 years.

Article: An Integral Theory of Consciousness and the Contact Modalities

Giorgio earned a BA in Sociology from Georgetown University receiving that institution’s Hoggson Award. Giorgio has been a student of integrative theoretical models of Ken Wilber’s “Integral Theory,” which he formally studied via John F. Kennedy University. He is also a student and has published widely in the field of “Exostudies”. Between 1999-2002, Giorgio became a civilian advisor to the newly founded OIFAA, the Peruvian Air Force’s Office of Investigations of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena. From 2013 to 2015 he offered his assistance once again to the same Air Force and its new Department of Investigations of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena. Giorgio Piacenza was a member of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation and is currently an advisor to the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute (CCRI). Giorgio has written many articles on the topics of consciousness studies, Ufology, Disclosure and the Contact Modalities.

Article: 17 Theories for UFO Contact

Brad was a dear friend of Rey Hernandez. Even though he was very ill, Brad completed the “Conclusion” for our book, “Beyond UFOs”, before he passed away on May 6, 2018. Brad was considered a legendary prodigious author and investigator in the “paranormal” field. Brad authored more than 175 books with over 17 million copies in print. His titles include; "Mysteries of Time and Space", "Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places", "Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier", "Touched by Heaven's Light", "American Indian Medicine Power", "Strangers from the Skies", "Project Bluebook", "The Rainbow Conspiracy", Real Encounters, Different Dimensions and Otherworldly Beings", and many more.  Brad first began publishing articles on the unexplained in 1956; and went on to write more than 2,000 paranormal themed articles. From 1970-73, his weekly newspaper column, "The Strange World of Brad Steiger", was carried domestically in over 80 newspapers and overseas from Bombay to Tokyo. He was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on February 19, 1936. He survived by his lovely wife Sherry Hansen Steiger, author and co-author of over 22 books. They have two sons, three daughters, and ten grandchildren. 

Article: The Spiritual Transformation of the UAP Contact Experiencer: An Analysis of the FREE Research Data

Rev. Michael J. Carter is an ordained Inter-faith minister and received his BA Degree in Letters from the College of New Rochelle where he graduated cum laude. He received his Masters of Divinity Degree from Union Seminary in New York City (class of 2000). While serving various Unitarian Universalist Congregations in New York, Michael was trained as an anti-racism trainer and has been recognized by President Clinton for his efforts. Rev. Carter now serves as the minister for Unitarian Universalist Congregation of The Swannanoa Valley, in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. A long-time UFO contact experiencer, he lectures extensively on the topic of Religion/Spirituality and the paranormal Contact Modalities. He has appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel’s Steven Spielberg's production of Abduction Diaries, The Real 4400, and is a frequent guest consultant on The History Channel’s production of Ancient Aliens, and UFO’s: The Hidden Evidence which currently airs on The Travel Channel. Rev. Carter's books are entitled, Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials In the Holy Bible; A New World If You Can Take It: God, Extraterrestrials and The Evolution of Human Consciousness; Consciousness: A 30 Day Meditation Manual To God Centered Thinking; and The Metaphysics Of Spiritual Healing and The Power of Affirmative Prayer. His latest book, Initiation: The Spiritual Transformation of the Experiencer was published in August of 2021.

Article: Computer Analysis for the Validation of the Quantum Matrix Type of Ontology for Various Types of Contact Experiences with Non-Human Intelligence

Chet Swanson has a Masters in Behavior Analysis from Northern Illinois University, and a BS from Shimer College in Natural Sciences. He is an Experiencer and Independent Researcher. He has experienced NDE, OBE, Shamanic Hallucinogenic contact, Remote Viewing contact, UAP, and unintelligible Consciousness and contact. He has published work in Consciousness, NDE, Hologram Theory of Consciousness, Alternative States of Consciousness and Non-Human Intelligence.

Article: A Literature Review of Out of Body Experiences

Julia has degrees in Law, Russian Area & Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, and Divinity. She also briefly studied Journalism, Phytopathology, Political Science, and International Affairs. She studied in the former USSR, USA, Slovakia, and in the Czech Republic.  She is fluent in four languages and has dual American and Slovak citizenship. Julia was the Executive Manager and head of the international section of the presidential election campaign (Slovakia), she is the foreign relations adviser to the ex-Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, an analyst for the Department of International Relations, deputy manager of the central election campaign, a foreign correspondent accredited to the US Department of State, and a freelance writer and lobbyist. She also worked for the Fund for Constitutional Government based in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Julia has lectured in Slovakia, the Czech Republic (including the Prague international conference featuring Raymond Moody), and in the U.S.A. (Yale University). Julia has published many articles in peer reviewed academic journals on Out of Body Experiences.

Article: John Keel and his Theory of UAPs & the Paranormal

Since 1985, Brent has been editing Alternate Perceptions magazine (apmagazine.info) with noted author and psychologist Dr. Gregory Little, and he's written three books: Visitors from Hidden Realms (2004), On the Edge of Reality (2009), and most recently John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and the Ongoing Mysteries (2019). Brent Raynes entered the UFO field in January 1967, at age 14, soon after reading Flying Saucers - Serious Business by Frank Edwards. Like most, his initial go to theory was the mainstream's "nuts and bolts" extraterrestrial one. In spite of his young age, he took a deep dive into the subject. In 1969, he was acting as part of the board of directors for a monthly magazine published out of St. Petersburg, Florida, called Saucer Scoop. One of its frequent contributors happened to be John Keel, a New York journalist who was taking a radically (for that time) alternative approach to ufology. He was traveling through many different states interviewing witnesses firsthand, finding isolated locations in active areas to observe the objects himself, and reporting on the contact cases and paranormal elements that the majority of the mainstream was turning a blind eye toward. Brent began corresponding with him in October 1969, and after reading his Operation Trojan Horse (1970) and Jacques Vallee's Passport to Magonia (1969), he was on the alternative bandwagon. By 1975, Brent spent several months traveling from Maine to Florida and even out to Indiana talking with researchers and experiencers to get the lo down. Along the way, Keel's good friend psychiatrist Dr. Berthold Schwarz, who had been diving deep into the whole UFO/PSI aspects himself, was in correspondence with him every step of the way, and even helpfully guided Brent to interesting people to meet along the way.

Article: An Extraterrestrial Cosmology of Consciousness

William Treurniet directed and performed scientific research for many years at the Communications Research Centre, a laboratory of the Government of Canada. Many articles were published in a number of journals, such as the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He coauthored several books with the medium, Paul Hamden, that documented interviews with beings from extraterrestrial races. The books include The Zeta Interviews, A Primer of the Zeta Race, and Extraterrestrial Cosmology and Technology. He also published the book, Signs of a Multidimensional Reality, which is a compilation of research on various paranormal phenomena.

Article: Lucid Dreams as a Contact Modality

Daniel Rekshan holds a MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, a BA in the Classical Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, and a certificate of hypnotherapy in the spiritual counseling modality of Depth Hypnosis.  He is trained in psycho-spiritual work such as Beyond Quantum Healing, dream work, core shamanism, and energy healing.  Daniel is the Chief Dream Officer of DreamWell, an expert designed mobile app that promotes sleep and dream wellness. He is co-founder of the Wisdom Age Metaverse, which supports citizen science through the Exo Metaverse and Light Net platforms. Daniel offers one-on-one and group sessions in dream work, meditation, and hypnosis experience through Cosmic Dream Sanctuary.