Here he shares his investigations of hoodoo or conjure practitioners in the Carolinas and Georgia. His perspective is not that of a practitioner, but rather that of a sympathetic psychotherapist interested in understanding the prevalent, yet hidden, culture he found himself surrounded by in South Carolina. He traces the origin of hoodoo to the African [...]

Here he describes the philosophical approach of addressing the many problems associated with consciousness through logical analysis. He maintains that strict materialism logically implies that consciousness does not exist. While many criticize dualism for failing to define how mind and matter can interact, he maintains that this is not necessarily a fatal flaw. He suggests [...]

Here he reflects on why the profession of psychotherapy is diminishing while increasingly more people are seeking help from psychics, mediums, and healing practitioners. Research evidence shows that psychotherapy does work — including a variety of short-term approaches. The most talented therapists, however, do not necessarily follow any particular school or doctrine. Instead, they are [...]

Here she reviews the history of women functioning as healers going back to prehistoric times. She describes some of the unique challenges faced by women in general; and then reviews her own specific life challenges as well as those of women included in her own doctoral research. She discusses self-esteem issues related to social stigmatization. [...]

Here she focuses on many aspects of her work as a professional intuitive consultant. She addresses the issue of determining what other people really mean when they are speaking, and what they really need to hear or learn. She speaks to the dilemma of getting in touch with one’s inner voice in a world where [...]

Here he describes a variety of experiences involving recurring, spontaneous, psychokinesis that he attributes to individual, living human beings. He suggests a sophisticated hypothesis involving geomagnetic anomalies coupling with the unusual brain activity of certain individuals — particularly those subject to seizures. He also provides details of an investigation that was later fictionalized into a [...]