Luminary: Paul Von Ward

Luminary: Paul Von Ward

Paul Von Ward, an interdisciplinary cosmologist and independent scholar, in addition to The Soul Genome: Science and Reincarnation, is author of Gods, Genes, & Consciousness and Our Solarian Legacy. His interest in personality development involved graduate work at Harvard and Florida State University. Paul is a frequent writer and speaker for the Association for Humanistic Psychology, International Conferences on Science and Consciousness, and IONS community groups.

As a cosmologist, Paul combines philosophy, the physical and natural sciences, psychology, and prehistory. He writes the "emerging new story" of the universe and its Homo sapiens. In the role of The Puzzle Master he seeks to fill the blanks in our knowledge of the "crossword puzzle of the cosmos".

Paul has focused on the human psychological reaction to perceived interventions from more advanced beings or other dimensions of consciousness, rediscovering humanity's natural spiritual path based in traditional wisdom and natural science.

Paul's received degrees from Harvard University (MPA in 1974) and Florida State University (MS in 1962), from which he also received his BA (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1961. From 1962 to 1965, he served in the U.S. Navy as a line officer. As a State Department Foreign Service Officer from 1965 until 1980, he served in diplomatic posts in France, Martinique, Sierra Leone, and the Dominican Republic. He also served in policy and management positions in Washington, DC. Paul founded the Washington-based nonprofit Delphi International (CEO from1980-1995) to provide cross-cultural exchanges, professional training, and overseas development.

He traveled professionally to one hundred countries for the State Department and Delphi. His professional languages are Spanish and French. Paul trained in clinical psychology and started his professional career as a Protestant minister. He then devoted thirty years to public service as naval officer, diplomat, and nonprofit leader. He has published four major books.

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