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Meet
the Windbridge Team:
Windbridge Investigators
Meet our international team of interdisciplinary researchers:
Julie
Beischel, PhD, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Windbridge,
graduated magna cum laude and with honors with a BS in Environmental
Sciences from Northern Arizona University and received her PhD
in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology
and Immunology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Beischel
was the first recipient of the William James Post-doctoral Fellowship
in Mediumship and Survival Research at the University of Arizona
where she served as Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program
with Dr. Gary Schwartz before moving the research and the screening
and training of prospective research mediums to Windbridge in
January of 2008. Her
research interests center on the survival of consciousness hypothesis
and include proof-focused studies on mediums' communication
with discarnates and process-focused studies on mediums' experiences
of that communication. Dr. Beischel's academic training in several
interdisciplinary scientific fields allows her to design and
apply traditional research methods to investigating these more
unconventional topics of study. Dr.
Beischel is currently a member of the Parapsychological Association,
a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Rhine Research
Center and the Forever Family Foundation, and an Institute of
Noetic Sciences (IONS) Shift-In-Action Luminary. She is the
recipient of a 2008 Bial Foundation research grant and has published
a number of peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Journal
of Scientific Exploration, Journal of Parapsychology,
and Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing.
Mark
Boccuzzi, Co-Founder of Windbridge, holds a BS in computer
science with a minor in broadcast communications. Mark has over
ten years experience in technical project management having
worked on both consumer products and research and development
projects. Originally
from the software industry, Mark was Executive Producer of Consumer
Entertainment at Human Code Presage. More recently he was a
Project Manager at the Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Art,
and Human Perception where he worked on a wide range of research
and exhibit development projects funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Additionally, Mark spent six years in survival of consciousness
research investigating spontaneous cases of apparitions and
related haunting phenomena in the San Francisco Bay Area. In
2005 he successfully completed the Summer Study Program in Parapsychology
presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the
Rhine Research Center. Mark's
research interests include survival of consciousness, intuition,
applied psychokinesis, and distant mental interactions on living
systems (DMILS). In addition to his research role, Mark is also
Director of Operations at Windbridge.
Adam
J. Rock, PhD, Adjunct Research Fellow and Editor of the Journal
of Mindbody States at Windbridge, received his BA (Hons)
degree and PhD in Psychology from Charles Sturt University,
Australia. Dr.
Rock has held academic appointments at Charles Sturt University
and The University of New South Wales, and is currently a lecturer
in Psychology at Deakin University. His
research interests include the phenomenology of what have typically
been referred to as altered states of consciousness; conceptual
problems associated with consciousness; shamanism and shamanic
journeying experiences with special emphasis on the ontology
and epistemology of shamanic journeying imagery; philosophical
problems of psychology; and purported discarnate communication
experiences. Dr. Rock has published in all of these areas.
Chad
Mosher, PhD, Research Associate at Windbridge, holds a doctorate
in Counseling Psychology from The University of Memphis, and
a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Idaho State University.
He is currently a counselor educator and chair of a counseling
program in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Mosher is primarily interested in
the potential therapeutic applications of the current research
at Windbridge (e.g., mediumship as a counseling intervention),
as well as cultural aspects of mediumship, survival of consciousness,
and healing. He is trained as a child and family therapist,
in therapeutic modalities such as play therapy, art therapy,
and sand tray, and utilizes humanistic and post-modern (i.e.,
multiculturalism, social constructionism) interventions within
the counseling relationship. His prior research focused on culture,
identity, and phenomenological experience and used qualitative
methodologies. Dr. Mosher also received his Masters in Applied
Music Performance from the University of Connecticut and he
remains a music educator and freelance performer (cello) in
spirit if not in practice.
Michael
Biuso, Research Assistant at Windbridge, received a BA in
Philosophy from the University of Arizona where he served as
a research assistant in the VERITAS Research Program. His research
interests include healing, meditation, and the survival of consciousness
after death.
...and
growing!
For Windbridge
Investigator reading recommendations, please see the Windbridge
Bookstore.
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