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Alternate Perceptions Magazine, November 2018


The Interview Panel

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Dr. Bob Davis in an internationally recognized scientist in his field. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Sensory Neuroscience from The Ohio State University, and served as professor of neuroscience at the State University of New York for over 30 years.  Bob has published over 60 articles in scholarly journals, lectured at national and international scientific conferences, and was awarded several major research grants from the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. Since his retirement in 2014, he has co-authored articles based on his more recent research in the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Dr. Davis has written two books entitled: The UFO Phenomenon: Should I Believe? and Life after Death: An Analysis of the Evidence, and has lectured on these topics at both national and international conferences.




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Russell W. Scalpone, Ph.D. is a licensed Psychologist and adjunct graduate faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University.  He has held positions within three Fortune 500 companies, most recently serving as Corporate Director for one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the U.S.  His work over the past 40 years has entailed survey research, consulting, and training to optimize individual and organizational performance.  He recently analyzed a survey of over 3000 people from 80 countries who reported contact with unidentified aerial phenomena and nonhuman intelligent beings, which led to him co-authoring a peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration.  He holds a B.A. degree from University of Southern California, an M.A. from California State University at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, all degrees in Psychology.  He presently manages his own firm, The Scalpone Group, LLC. His website is www.ideasforinnovators.com.




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Barbara Mango received her MA and Ph.D. in Metaphysics. She researches, writes, and speaks on the near-death experience, connectivity between the brain and consciousness, in addition to related anomalous phenomena. Barbara is a Board Member of the PLR Institute (Past Life Research Institite). She has been published in blogs, print, and is a collaborative author in the book, The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences, by Dr. Penny Satori. Dr. Mango has been a featured guest on numerous radio shows and interviews. She is currently co-authoring a book regarding the interconnectivity of UAP-related Contact, Near-Death Experiences, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Past-Life Recall, which will be published in 2019. Barbara lives in the Northeast with her husband and three quirky cats. Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrBarbara.Mango\




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Lynn Miller started having what she later understood were Out-of-Body Experiences back in her early teens. It wasn’t until decades later that she understood what they were. Throughout her entire life, Lynn was interested in the paranormal. After high school, she started college and majored in Psychology and Biology. She began teaching college biology labs, then entered into the military in 1990. After receiving her MS in biology in 1994, Lynn continued to teach college biology classes, and then she entered into the food industry as a food microbiologist. After having her first and only child in 2002 she got her teaching certification and began teaching high school Science, and then became certified in art and now teaches k-12 art. She has 16 years of teaching experience, including higher education and public education. In the Spring of 2006, Lynn developed an interest in the study of consciousness, and in the summer of 2010, she began the practice of controlled Out-of-Body Experiences.  Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.




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Marcie Klevens is a psychotherapist in Seattle, who specializes in working with paranormal experiencers and earned her masters in Clinical Psychology from Saybrook University. Marcie is trained in both hypnotherapy and EMDR, which are both outstanding tools to help people to process and move through trauma.  She understands the transformative nature of non-ordinary experiences because she’s a life-long experiencer herself. With determination and help, she was able to move through the fear and into empowerment; it’s her mission to help others do the same. She facilitates the Washington State Paranormal/UFO Encounter Support Group and believes in the need for community through these experiences. She is also a psychological consultant for Experiencer Research Team (ERT) of MUFON. Marcie is currently in private practice in Seattle at Open Box Counseling.


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