Robert Lee Park is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a former Director of Public Information at the Washington office of the American Physical Society. Park is most noted for his critical commentaries on alternative medicine and pseudoscience, as well as his criticism of how legitimate science is…
Lothar Schafer is a quantum chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas. Schäfer and his coworkers are interested in applying computational chemistry to the structural and dynamical properties of proteins. Recently we developed an algorithm that allows predicting backbone bond lengths and angles in proteins from first principles (i.e. ab initio…
Henry Stapp is an American physicist, known for his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the development of axiomatic S-matrix theory, the proofs of strong nonlocality properties, and the place of free will in the “orthodox” quantum mechanics of John von Neumann. Stapp earned a BS in Physics from the University of Michigan, and an MA…
Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is currently Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), in Novato, California, USA, having joined the IONS research staff in 2001. Since 2016, Radin has also been Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of…
Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., is a research scientist, medical anthropologist, and writer on the subjects of consciousness, healing, and consciousness-based healthcare. She is professor and chair of transpersonal psychology at Sofia University. She is also the former President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of California Pacific Medical…
Rupert Sheldrake is an English biologist and author. He is best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance, which suggests the existence of a memory inherent in nature. He has also done research on the unexplained powers of animals and the extended mind, including phenomena like the sense of being stared at, dogs that know…
Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. Kauffman graduated from Dartmouth in 1960, was awarded the BA (Hons) by Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar) in 1963, and completed a medical degree (MD) at the University of California, San Francisco…
Brian David Josephson, FRS, is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect. As of late 2007, he was a retired professor at the University of Cambridge, where he is the head of the Mind–Matter Unification Project in the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM)…
Jeffery Martin is a social scientist and the current director of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness. He specializes in bringing rigorous empirical research and testing to transformational techniques and theories that have previously been supported anecdotally. Jeffery is a leading expert on persistent non-symbolic consciousness (enlightenment, nonduality, mystical experience, union with God/nature,…
Subhash Kak is Regents Professor of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, Kak was educated in various places in Jammu and Kashmir. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During 1975-1976, he was a visiting faculty at Imperial College, London, and a…
Freeman John Dyson was a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for over fifty years. Dyson was also a member…
Murali Doraiswamy is a leading physician scientist in the areas of brain health and personalized medicine at Duke Medicine where he is a Professor in the Division of Translational Neuroscience and Director of the Neurocognitive Disorders Program in Psychiatry. He also serves as a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Duke…