Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist is a Ph.D., Professor Engineering at a major European university and a prominent industrial researcher with many publications in physics journals, including more than a dozen on quantum computation. This is a fascinating account of how a teenage altered states experience influenced a life of hard science research. From an Altered State of [...]
Editor's Introduction: Dennis Hill (real name) earned his B.S. in Biochemistry back when that was sufficient training to become a scientist. He is currently employed as a consultant in environmental chemistry software. His experience occurred in November of 1958 in a college infirmary in Fort Worth, Texas. Ah, Sweet Death Dennis Hill "Dammit, woman! That [...]
Editor's Introduction: Don Morse (real name) has a wide variety of training, with a D.D.S., an M.A. in Microbiology and Immunology, an M.A. (Clinical Psychology), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Nutrition. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at Temple University, where he won the Temple University Faculty Research Award for 1985. He has written a [...]
Editor's Introduction: "You can depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Samuel Johnson, 1777 (From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition) The power of expected death to focus the mind and induce major changes has not changed since 1777, as is [...]
Editor's Introduction John Wren-Lewis (real name) was originally trained as a mathematical physicist in wartime England. He came to humanistic psychology from an industrial research career in which he was one of the world pioneers of scientific futures studies. In the 1950s and 1960s he became well-known on both sides of the Atlantic for his [...]
Editor's Introduction This anonymous scientist has a bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy and a masters in developmental psychology. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. work. She has contributed three transcendent experiences, the third of which here involves a sudden and surprising shift in what was "merely" a meditation to promote healing into something much more [...]
Editor's Introduction This anonymous scientist has a bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy and a masters in developmental psychology. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. work. She has contributed three transcendent experiences, the second of which here involves a near death experiences. It happened on February 19, 1997 from 2am to 5am in a hut in [...]
Editor's Introduction Robin Samelson (real name) is trained in psychology, in which she holds a Masters degree. She has worked as a researcher and educational designer, and co-authored with Scott Kim, Letterforms & Illusion, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1989. This experience occurred in March of 1998. I found it of particular interest, partly because [...]
