Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought and former chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His books include Kali’s Child, Esalen, Authors of the Impossible, The Serpent’s Gift, Mutants and Mystics, The Supernatural (with Whitley Strieber), Secret Body, The Flip: Epiphanies [...]

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, PhD, is Dean of Integral Education at the California Institute for Human Science and Program Director of the MA/PhD program in Integral Noetic Sciences which has an optional concentration in Anomalous Studies. He founded the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. He has also authored or edited eight books including: Integral Ecology (co-authored [...]

Davis K. Brimberg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist. She has worked with an animal rescue organization and has become certified as an owl handler. She has also studied dance and theater extensively as an adolescent and young adult. She is author of Teachings From the Gatekeeper: A Memoir and Journey into Parapsychology.

Julie Anderson, a former Playboy centerfold model, was an intimate companion of Adi Da Samraj from 1976 until 1992. During that time she was known as Kanya Samarpana Remembrance (also Swami Dama Kalottara Devi, and a number of other names). Her article, “The Real Practice of Guru-Devotion,” was published in the Free Daist Magazine in [...]

Christopher Noël holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Yale University and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts where he taught writing for 20 years. He also researches the phenomenon of Sasquatch. He is author of In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: A Geography of Grief, MindSpeak: Tapping [...]

Courtney Brown is a political scientist and parapsychologist who is an associate professor in the political science department at Emory University. His academic specialty is nonlinear mathematical modeling. He is author of Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth, Cosmic Explorers: Scientific Remote Viewing, Extraterrestrials, and a Message for Mankind, and Remote Viewing: [...]

Sean McNamara is author of Defy Your Limits: The Telekinesis Training Method, Meditation X Telekinesis: The Mindfulness Method of Moving Matter With Subtle Energy and Intention, Renegade Mystic: The Pursuit of Spiritual Freedom Through Consciousness Exploration, Signal and Noise: Advanced Psychic Training for Remote Viewing, Clairvoyance, and ESP, Mind Sight: Training to See Without Eyes, [...]

Tom Cheetham, PhD, is author of several books, including Imaginal Love: the Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman; All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings; Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World; and The World Turned Inside [...]

Alan Steinfeld is Host and Producer of New Realities on New York City cable and New Realities on his YouTube channel. He has produced two feature-length documentaries on UFOs: The Hidden Hand and Calling All Earthlings. He is also a licensed acupuncturist. Over the past several years he has been one of the main emcees [...]

Imants Barušs is Professor of Psychology at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is author of The Personal Nature of Notions of Consciousness: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Role of the Personal in the Understanding of Consciousness, Science as a Spiritual Practice, Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis [...]

Robert Bigelow is founder of Bigelow Aerospace as well as the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies.

Alan Steinfeld is Host and Producer of New Realities on New York City cable and New Realities on his YouTube channel. He has produced two feature-length documentaries on UFOs: The Hidden Hand and Calling All Earthlings. He is a board member of The Friends of the Institute of Noetic Science. He has taught remote viewing [...]

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, artist, scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also Empire of [...]

Laurel Airica is a Linguistic Evolutionary and Educational Entertainer. She is the creator of WordMagic – a way of playing with words that makes people smarter, wiser, kinder, and more literate. Laurel shows in verse and prose how young and old around the globe can collectively, creatively, and quite rapidly take command of the English [...]

Reinerio Hernandez, JD, MCP, is currently the Director of the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute (CCRI). He is editor of several anthologies including Beyond UFOs, and the first two volumes of A Greater Reality. He is author of The Mind of God: A Spiritual-Virtual Reality Model of Consciousness & The Contact Modalities.

Greg Bishop is the former publisher of The Excluded Middle magazine. He is author of Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth; It Defies Language; and (with Adam Gorightly) A is For Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees. His website is http://radiomisterioso.com/greg-bishop/

Greg Bishop is the former publisher of The Excluded Middle magazine. He is author of Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth; It Defies Language; and (with Adam Gorightly) A is For Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees. His website is http://radiomisterioso.com/greg-bishop/

Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The [...]