Editor's Introduction: Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona, at the main campus in Tucson. In addition to teaching courses on health and spiritual psychology, he is the Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology [...]
Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist earned a Masters in Biomedical Sciences before his MD degree, and received two Young Scientist Awards. He is now in private practice. At One with the Universe Anonymous Sometime in July of 2003, I was reading a book on "Accessing your Psychic Potential". I don't recall the exact Author and title [...]
Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist is a psychiatrist with a major American HMO. He was 38 when this touch with death occurred. End of suffering near death? Anonymous I was 38 years old and had had an artificial aortic valve implanted on Dec 6th of 1993. I was about 2 days out of surgery--I was off the [...]
Editor's Introduction This anonymous scientist has a Masters degree, when that was sufficient to begin in a field of science, and is now a Director of a research and development facility in Aerospace Engineering. This experience with a deceased friend happened to him as a teenager and totally changed his attitude toward life and death. Dream Meeting [...]
Editor's Introduction: Igor Kononenko (real name), Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Working in computer science and artificial intelligence, he has published more than a hundred papers in scientific journals. This experience occurred in 1995 when he was 36 years of age. It is interesting to see [...]
Editor's Introduction: Debra C. Evans (real name), Ph.D., trained in Experimental Psychology, specializing in cognition. She owns a small company specializing in the application of research in cognitive psychology to domain-specific problems, and is also part-time faculty in the School of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her account is interesting in showing some [...]
Editor's Introduction: This anonymous scientist is a developmental pediatrician and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at a major American medical school. She has carried out research on the treatment of childhood autism. She contacted me after reading a popular story about this TASTE project. I was immediately intrigued as I began to read her submission, because I [...]
Editor's Introduction: Anonymous was trained in counseling back in the 50's and 60's when a psychology MA degree was sufficient to practice professionally, and subsequently received a Doctorate in Addictive Disorders. Now semi-retired, he has been a Full Professor and Dean of Instruction, and received numerous awards. His experience was the first of a lifetime of [...]
Editor's Introduction: Johan L. F. Gerding (real name) is doctor in philosophy and member of the management team of the Parapsychology Institute in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is vice-president of the Dutch Society for Psychical Research, and lectures at the SUW Institute in Nijmegen and the JHBC in Utrecht, both training institutes for therapists. He [...]
Editor's Introduction: Mark A. Schroll (real name) has a Ph.D. in Psychology, with training in philosophy of science, transpersonal psychology, and ecopsychology. He is currently associated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Since receiving his Ph.D. his research has included transpersonal psychology, shamanism, psychedelics, psi phenomena, and ecopsychology. His account, from his childhood, is based on a [...]
