AAPS Selected Student Members

All students worldwide are encouraged to join AAPS as a Student member at a greatly reduced membership rate.  When you do, you’ll be affiliated with this important community of scientists and science supporters, and will be making a personal contribution to this important cause. We are building a visionary organization that will have a powerful voice in the world in order to promote open-minded, rigorous, and evidence-based inquiry into postmaterialist consciousness research.

Below are self-selected student members (in no particular order) who wish to share their degree pursuit, university, and research interests:

Mel Larrosa, PhD Candidate in Psychology, UCES/Argentina
-Non-local consciousness, non-ordinary phenomena of consciousness, new scientific
paradigms, informational fields, insights & creativity, meaning
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellarrosa

 

Ryan Oakeson, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, NIMH-UCL, USA-UK
– Cognitive neuroscience, language, mental health, compassion, inner experience,
synchronicities, noosphere, dual-aspect monism, enlightenment, parapsychology,
noetics
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanoakeson/

 

Austen M. Fisher, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
– Anthropology of transformation: ritual, consciousness, spirituality, psychedelics,
ontological pluralism, anomalous phenomena, and extraordinary experience
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austenfisher/

 

Katherine Baltazar, PhD Candidate in Social Work, Widener University, USA
– Main interests: meaning making post ketamine treatment for depression;
reconfiguration of being-in-the-world

 

Nikki Johnson, PhD Student in Psychology, University of West Georgia, USA
– Transpersonal psychology, Jungian / analytical psychology, psychosynthesis,
giftedness, interdisciplinary research, neuroscience, consciousness studies, altered
states
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-johnson-free-thinker/

 

Gina Mollicone, PhD Student in NeuroTheology, Oxford University, UK
– Newton’s theology, philosophy of mind, contemporary neuroscience, mental and
spiritual causation in a law‑governed world
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/GinaMollicone

 

Ben Liljedahl, MA in Bioethics, NYU, USA
– Main interests: Ontology, metaphysics, cognitive science, psi, Vedic philosophy,
science of consciousness
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-liljedahl-7783a1291

 

 

Jacob Drum, B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Oregon, USA
-Contemporary nonduality, mysticism, perennialism, philosophy, comparative religion,
persistent spiritual awakening
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-drum-774906244/

 

Damon Magness, B.S. in Psychology, Oregon State University, USA
– Holistic medicine and psychotherapy, mediumship, anomalous phenomena and UAP
– Substack: https://substack.com/@damonmagness