Luminary: Julie Beischel

Luminary: Julie Beischel

Julie Beischel, Ph.D., is Director of Research at the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential, which she co-founded. Dr. Beischel also served as Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program in the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health in the department Psychology at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology/Immunopathology from the University of Arizona and was the first ever recipient of the William James Post-doctoral Fellowship in Mediumship and Survival Research.

Between June 2003 and December 2007, Dr. Beischel performed full-time laboratory mediumship research at the University of Arizona. During that time, she and Dr. Gary Schwartz created a unique and intensive procedure for screening research mediums, developed a scoring system used to acquire both item and summary accuracy scores for mediumship readings, designed methods for formatting and pairing research readings, and developed a quintuple-blind email study protocol. One of the studies run by Dr. Beischel during her time at the University was published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2007 [EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing. 2007;3(1):23-27].

Starting in January 2008, the VERITAS Research Program will close and Dr. Beischel will continue performing afterlife and mediumship research as well as medium certification at the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential. As an independent organization, Windbridge is able to perform scientifically rigorous investigations and foster extensive peer review without being susceptible to large overhead costs or biases based in conventional scientific paradigms. This flexibility will allow Dr. Beischel and her research team to make and report important discoveries quickly.

Dr. Beischel has presented mediumship findings at academic meetings including Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, Rhine Research Conference: Consciousness Today, and the 2007 Spring Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness.

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