Degree in progress:  3^rd year doctorate of 5

University or organization: University of East London

Research interests: Visionary art and its ability to understand consciousness, politics

Papers published:  Astropolitics Institute – Space and Art, Springer – Aetheric Art and Celebrities

Degree in progress: MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology

University or organization: Liverpool John Moores University

Research interests: Archetypal Cosmology, Depth Psychology, Transpersonal Education

Jonathan Dinsmore

Degree in progress: Masters in Psychological Science (MSc in progress), B.A. in Psychology

University or organization: University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Research interests: Mystical Light Experience, Mysticism, Near-Death Experience, Spiritually Transformative Experiences Generally, Psychedelic Science, Personal Transformation, Psychological Consequences of Secular Beliefs, Worldview and Wellbeing

Papers/projects/presentations/creative works of note:

·      Currently validating a scale for the measure of mystical light experiences;

·      Currently conducting a mixed methods investigation of mystical light experiences;

·      Involved in a collaborative project to study mystical experience as a result of meditation retreats;

·      Involved in a collaborative study of specific religious, spiritual, and secular beliefs in relationship to Primal World Beliefs and Wellbeing;

·      Presenting mystical light research at SoPheRe panel on “Perception in Religious/Spiritual Experience” Spring 2023;

·      Presenting on Mysticism to Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet Speaker Series 11/16/22;

·      Publishing multiple reviews for the Religious Measures Project (publication underway);

·      Co-presenting on the phenomenology of perceptions of Harmony with the Universe, SSSR Annual Meeting 11/22;

·      Presented mystical light research at ReSEARCH Dialogues Conference, UTC, 4/22.

Degree in progress: MA Psychology in Education: Spirituality Mind-Body Practices

University or organization: Teachers College, Columbia University

Research interests: Quantum physics, transpersonal psychology, depth psychology, consciousness studies, neuroscience of spirituality.

Degree in progress: MA from Columbia University

University or organization: Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute

Research interests: Tarot, storytelling, gathering

Degree in progress: Psychology M.A.

University: Teachers College, Columbia University

Research Interests: Specializing in Spirituality, Mind, and Body as well as Muslim Mental Health

Degree in progress: Ph.D. (Magna Cum Laude in Political Science from the Institute of Political Science in Paris, France)

University or organization: University of Bucharest, Romania; my second Ph.D. in philosophy on consciousness.

Research interests: NDEs, the survival of consciousness beyond bodily death.

Papers/projects/presentations/creative works of note: Master’s Thesis entitled “Consciousness and the Self – The Hard Problem of Near Death Experiences.”

Degree in progress:  PhD, Curriculum and Pedagogy

University or organization:  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Research interests:  Consciousness education, education research, narrative inquiry, wellbeing, decolonization

Papers/projects/presentations/creative works of note:

Waterman, L. (2022).Stories of a Transformation in Consciousness: A self-study to ground narrative inquiry research in consciousness education. International Journal for Transformative Research, 9(1) 27-39. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijtr-2022-0004

Rapid Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PQhaMgySE

Degree in progress: TBD

University or organization: Montana State University

Research interests: Equity in death and dying, grief support and spirituality

Papers/projects/presentations/creative works of note:

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Continuing Education Series Presenter, “Inequality in Death and Dying in Oncology”

University or organization: University of Colorado Denver

Research interests: Understanding how death impacts how we live, consciousness, living meaningfully with suffering, advancing the theory behind the mind/body problem, animal human bond.