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WELCOME
The VERITAS Research Program of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (formerly the Human Energy Systems Laboratory) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona was created primarily to test the hypothesis that the consciousness (or personality or identity) of a person survives physical death.
STATUS
As of January of 2008, the post-doctoral fellowship position of VERITAS Research Program Co-Director Julie Beischel, PhD, is completed. Dr. Beischel continues to perform survival and mediumship research as well as medium certification at the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential. Directed by Dr. Beischel, the Windbridge Institute will have more freedom and flexibility in the direction and scope of research than is possible within the University system.
In January of 2008, the VERITAS Research Program, as it existed prior to 2008, was closed and the research was expanded into a broader, more comprehensive, spiritual communication project named the SOPHIA Research Program. In June, 2006, funding was obtained to create the SOPHIA Research Program, directed by Dr. Gary Schwartz.
The SOPHIA Research Program investigates claims of communication processes involving various spiritual levels, from deceased individuals, through guides and angels, to purported communication with a higher power or divinity. Its focus is on healing and life-enhancement. The IRB research approval process was completed in the summer of 2007 for the first major experiment. Details regarding the Program and its protocols will be forthcoming.
INVESTIGATORS
GARY E. SCHWARTZ, Ph.D.,
Director of the VERITAS Research Program, is a professor of Psychology,
Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of
Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and
Health and its Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science. After
receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as a
professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of
the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral
Medicine Clinic. Dr. Schwartz has published more than four hundred
scientific papers, edited eleven academic books, is the author of
The Afterlife Experiments, The G.O.D. Experiments, and
The Truth About Medium, and is the co-author of The Living
Energy Universe. JULIE BEISCHEL, PhD,
Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program, received her Ph.D. in
Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and
Immunology/Immunopathology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Beischel
was the first ever recipient of the William James Post-doctoral
Fellowship in Mediumship and Survival Research and, as of January of
2008, will continue performing mediumship and survival research at the
Windbridge Institute
for Applied Research in Human Potential. MICHAEL BIUSO
is a University of Arizona undergraduate currently working as a Research
Assistant with the Program. MARK BOCCUZZI
is a Research Assistant with the Program and a Research Technician with
the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.
PUBLICATIONS
Rock AJ, Beischel J, and Schwartz GE. (accepted). Thematic analysis of research mediums' experiences of discarnate communication. Journal of Scientific Exploration
Beischel J, Schwartz GE. Methodological advances in laboratory-based mediumship research. Proceedings of the Rhine Research Center 2007 Conference: “Consciousness Today,” March 23-25, 2007.
Beischel J, Schwartz GE. Anomalous
information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel
triple-blind protocol. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing.
2007;3(1):23-27.
Beischel J, Schwartz GE. Are research mediums real? A triple-blind study of anomalous information reception. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, April 4-8, 2006. Schwartz GE (with Simon WL). The Truth about Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the Real Allison DuBois of NBC’s Medium and Other Remarkable Psychics. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company; 2005.
Schwartz GE, Beischel J. Survival is in
the Details: Emerging Evidence for Discarnate Intention from
Mediumship Research. 2005 Parapsychology Foundation International
Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 28-30, 2005.
(Proceedings not yet published.)
Schwartz GE. 2003. How Not To Review
Mediumship Research: Understanding the Ultimate Reviewer's Mistake.
Schwartz GE, Chopra D. 2002. Nonlocal
Anomalous Information Retrieval: A Multi-Medium Multi-Scored
Single-Blind Experiment.
Schwartz GE (with Simon WL). The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death. New York: Pocket Books (division of Simon and Schuster); 2002.
Schwartz GE, Chopra D, and Grenard S. 2002. Evidence of Accuracy and Specificity for Long-Distance Mediumship: The “Double-Deceased” Multi-Medium Paradigm.
Schwartz GER, Russek LGS, Barentsen C. Accuracy and replicability of anomalous information retrieval: replication and extension. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 2002;66(3):144-156.
Schwartz GER, Russek LGS. Evidence of
anomalous information retrieval between two mediums: telepathy,
network memory resonance, and continuance of consciousness.
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.
2001;65(4):257-275.
Schwartz GER, Russek LGS, Nelson LA, Barentsen C. Accuracy and replicability of anomalous after-death communication across highly skilled mediums. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 2001;65(1):1-25.
Schwartz GE. 2001. Accuracy and
replicability of anomalous after-death communication across highly
skilled mediums: a call for balanced evidence-based skepticism.
The Paranormal Review: 20.
Schwartz GE, Russek LG. 2001.
Celebrating Susy Smith’s Soul: Preliminary Evidence for the
Continuance of Smith’s Consciousness After Her Physical Death.
Journal of Religious and Psychical Research 24(2): 82-91.
Schwartz, Ph.D., Gary E. R., Linda G.
S. Russek, Ph.D., Donald E. Watson, M.D., Susy Smith, Elizabeth H.
Smith (hyp), William James, M.D.(hyp), Henry I. Russek, M.D.(hyp), and
Howard Schwartz, M.S.(hyp). 1999. Potential Medium to Departed to
Medium Communication of Pictorial Information: Exploratory Evidence
Consistent with Psi and Survival of Consciousness. The Noetic
Journal 2(3): 283-294.
If it is real, it will be revealed. If
it is fake, we'll find the mistake.
We study human
communication; one of the people just happens to be dead.
Extraordinary
skepticism requires extraordinary accuracy.
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