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Meet
the Team:
Windbridge Institute Investigators
Meet our international team of mulitdisciplinary researchers:
Julie
Beischel, PhD, Co-Founder and Director of Research at the Windbridge
Institute, holds a BS in Environmental Sciences (1996) from
Northern Arizona University and a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology
with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology (2003) from the
University of Arizona (UA). Dr. Beischel served as the William
James Post-doctoral Fellow in Mediumship and Survival Research
and Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program at the UA. When
the funding for mediumship research at the UA ended and that
research program closed, Dr. Beischel moved the research and
the screening and training of prospective research mediums to
the Windbridge Institute in January of 2008. Dr. Beischel's
academic training in several interdisciplinary scientific fields
allows her to design and apply traditional research methods
to investigating more unconventional topics of study. She has
received research grants from the Bial Foundation and the Society
for Psychical Research (SPR). Dr. Beischel is a full member
of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) and the Parapsychological
Association (PA) and serves on the scientific advisory boards
of the Rhine Research Center (RRC) and the Forever Family Foundation
(FFF). Her research has been presented at scientific meetings
of the SSE, the PA, the RRC, the FFF, and the Society for the
Anthropology of Consciousness as well as the Toward a Science
of Consciousness conferences and has been published in peer-reviewed
journals including Journal of Parapsychology, Journal
of Scientific Exploration, Transpersonal Psychology Review,
Australian Journal of Parapsychology, and Explore: The
Journal of Science and Healing.
Click
here to visit Dr. Beischel's Blog
for a behind-the-scenes look at her research.
Mark
Boccuzzi, Co-Founder, Researcher, and Director of Operations
at the Windbridge Institute, holds a BS in computer science
with a minor in broadcast communications. In addition to serving
as Executive Producer of Consumer Entertainment at Human Code
Presage, Mark 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 has spent more than a decade
investigating spontaneous cases of apparitions and related haunting
phenomena in the San Francisco Bay Area and southern Arizona.
In 2005, he successfully completed the Summer Study Program
in Parapsychology presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences
(IONS) and the Rhine Research Center and is currently an associate
member of the Parapsychological Association. Mark's research
interests include intuition, animal psi, applied psychokinesis,
photographic anomalies, distant mental interactions on living
systems (DMILS), and instrumental transcommunication (ITC) and
he is the recipient of a research grant from the Helene Reeder
Memorial Fund for Research into Life after Death. Mark's research
has been presented at the Toward a Science of Consciousness
and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies
and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) conferences and published in the
Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Adam
J. Rock, PhD, Adjunct Research Fellow 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, The University of New South Wales,
and 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 the Windbridge Institute,
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, MA, Research Assistant at the Windbridge Institute,
received his Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Prescott
College. He currently works as a child and family therapist
as well as a 500-hour certified yoga and meditation teacher
in Tucson, Arizona. Michael has been assisting research into
the survival of consciousness since 2006. He studies Tibetan
Buddhism and practices group and solitary meditation retreats
within this tradition.
...and
growing!
For Windbridge
Institute Investigator reading recommendations, please see the
Windbridge
Institute Bookstore.
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