Editor's Introduction: This is submitted anonymously by a graduate researcher in the field of psychology. My Awakening and Mystical Experience Story: If I reflect on it sincerely, my spiritual awakening probably began with a parent’s death when I was a young child. Although at the time I was still yet to go through the process [...]
Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist earned an M.S. in Geophysics in 1980, after a B.A. in geology degree, and is currently employed as a Seismologist in California. He has been a Project Manager in geophysics with a leading geotechnical consulting firm. This experience happened in 1967 or 1968 in the back yard of his boyhood home [...]
Editor's Introduction: Susan Blackmore (real name) is Reader in Psychology at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she teaches the psychology of consciousness. She has a degree in psychology and physiology from Oxford, an MSc from Surrey University, and gained one of the first PhDs in parapsychology in the country. Her research [...]
Editor's Introduction: Robert E. Valett (real name) has an M.A. from the University of Chicago and an Ed.D. from UCLA. Now emeritus, he has been a Professor of Special Education at California State University, Fresno, a past President of the California Association of School Psychologists and received a Distinguished Psychologist Award (1982) from the San [...]
Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist has a Ph.D. in Chemistry and was a government researcher who authored some 60 publications in his field during the 50s and 60s. He is now 89 years old and retired. I find it particularly interesting that this scientist has stayed with the paradox of having seen, at the deepest possible level of [...]
Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist has a B.S. and M.S. in Science and received a Ph.D. in astrophysics at a major US university. He is currently a senior researcher in the Division of Neurology at another major US university. He has won prizes for his work from the Mathematical Association of America. Also a student [...]
Editor's Introduction David Orme-Johnson (real name) has a Ph.D. in psychology. While currently self-employed as a writer and consultant, he was the Chair of the Psychology Department, the Dean of Research, the Director of the Doctoral Program in Psychology, and the Co-Director of the Doctoral Program in the Neuroscience of Human Consciousness at Maharishi University [...]
Editor's Introduction Arthur Ellison (real name) is trained in electrical engineering, in which he earned a Ph.D. and the higher British D.Sc. He has worked as a Professor at the University of London. Professor Ellison has written widely used textbooks in his field as well as a dozen professional books and more than a hundred [...]
