Stanley Krippner Ph.D. is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in the scientific investigation of human consciousness, especially in areas such as creativity, psi phenomena and altered states of consciousness. Prior to joining the Saybrook faculty in 1972, Dr Krippner directed the Dream Laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center in New York and was Director of the Child Study Center at Kent State University. He has served as President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and the Association for the Study of Dreams. He is also a Charter Member of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, the American Psychological Society, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Dr Krippner received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Northwestern University. He has written over 500 articles and several books, including: Human Possibilities, Song of the Siren, Dream Telepathy (co-author), The Realms of Healing (co-author), Spiritual Dimensions of Healing (co-author), Personal Mythology (co-author), Healing States (co-author), Dreamworking (co-author), A Psychiatrist in Paradise (co-editor), Dreamtime and Dreamwork (Ed.), Advances in Parapsychological Research (Ed.), and Varieties of Anomalous Experience (Ed.). Dr Krippner’s diverse academic interests include clinical, educational and health issues. At Saybrook he is responsible for development and teaching courses in the area of consciousness studies.

Lecture: The Varieties of Anomalistic Experience

Carlos S. Alvarado (Ph.D.) - USA - grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has a BA in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, two master’s degrees from John F. Kennedy University and Duke University, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Edinburgh.
His work has centered on survey research (involving depersonalization and dream experiences, out-of-body experiences, and other psychic experiences) and studies about the history of psychical research.
Alvarado is currently Scholar in Residence and Faculty at Atlantic University, Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Virginia, and Adjunct Research Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Near-Death Studies and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Alvarado was the recipient of the 2010 Harold and Sherry Crasilneck Award for Best First Paper on Hypnosis published in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.
His scientific and scholarly papers have appeared in such journals as Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Imagination, Cognition and Personality, History of Psychiatry, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Near-Death Studies, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

Lecture: Exploring the variety of human experience: contributions from psychic research
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3.2 INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS

Ravil Sedreev, (B.Sc.) - Russia - Psychologist at the Bashkir State University, Russia, with a specialization in counseling psychology, also works with Erickson, family and Gestalt therapy.

Lecture: Anomalistic Psychology in Russia

Hideyuki Kokubo (B.Sc.) - Japan - is Research Director, of the International Research Institute (IRI), Japan. He studied biophysics at Nagoya University. He is Managing Director and Executive Editor: International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS). Director: Society for Mind-Body Science.

Lecture: Biophysical measurements of bio-field around a human body

Joan H. Hageman, (Ph.D.) - USA - achieved her psychology doctoral degree in 2005 at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California. She is currently the Chair of Research with the PSYmore Research Institute, Florida and is mentor teaching faculty at Northcentral University for their online doctoral program in Behavioral and Health Sciences.

Lecture: Anomalistic Psychology and Neuroscience

David Luke (Ph.D.) - UK - is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich,UK, where he teaches an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experiences. He is also Research Associate at the Beckley Foundation, Oxford, UK, which promotes research into the neuroscience of consciousness and its altered states.

Lecture: Psi research and anomalistic psychology in UK

Roger Nelson, (Ph.D.) - EUA - Roger Nelson, Ph.D., is an experimental psychologist with a special interest in the lesser known aspects of perception and cognition. He is the director of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international, multi-laboratory collaboration founded in 1997 to study collective consciousness. From 1980 to 2002, he was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University. His professional focus is the study of consciousness and intention and the role of mind in the physical world.

Palestra: Global Consciousness Project

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