David Asomaning, Ph.D

SynchroMind • 141 E. 35th St. Suite Ground J , New York NY 10016

(347) 445-6845• info@synchromind.com • www.synchromind.com

Dr. Asomaning is the founder of SynchroMind Leadership Development. He is a graduate of Yale University, and also has graduate degrees from Hartford Seminary and the Yale Divinity School, together with a diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He received clinical training in psychotherapy and spirituality at The Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute, and completed his Ph.D. in depth psychology (psychoanalysis) and religion on the topic of synchronicity and the miraculous at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. David has served in the Episcopal Church, as well as at Riverside Church in New York City.

Robert Aziz, PhD
inquiries@robertaziz.com •  www.robertaziz.com/

Dr. Aziz is a scholar, psychoanalytical therapist, and executive consultant/mentor within the business sector. He has lectured on depth psychology at two Ontario universities. His first book C. G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity (SUNY Press, 1990) includes a comprehensive study of Jung’s theoretical and clinical understanding of synchronicity. His second book The Syndetic Paradigm: The Untrodden Path Beyond Freud and Jung (SUNY Press, 2007) reaches beyond the work of Freud and Jung to explore the theoretical and clinical implications of moving from a closed-system model of a self-regulatory psyche to an open system model of a psyche in a self-organizing totality. He was one of five subject experts invited by The Uehiro Foundation (Tokyo) to author a chapter for their commemorative publication Asian and Jungian Views of Ethics (1999). In 2008 he contributed the Foreword to Synchronicity: Multiple Perspectives on Meaningful Coincidence, a collection of scholarly, clinical and experimental research papers from the foremost experts on synchronicity. Dr. Aziz is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post where he brings his depth psychological perspective to bear on political and cultural issues. He is a Clinical Member of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists and a member of the Canadian Psychological Association and of the Canadian Psychological Association Section on Psychoanalysis.

Joseph E. Cambray, PhD, NCPSYA

23 Temple St. # 1, Boston, MA 02114 • (401) 331-5820  cambrayj@earthlink.net
Dr. Cambray is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School Center for Psychoanalytical Studies. He is a Jungian analyst with private practices in Boston and Providence.  He is a Jungian analyst with private practices in Boston and Providence, a member of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, and the author of numerous articles. Dr. Cambray edited Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis (Brunner-Routledge, 2004) and authored Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe (TAMU Press, 2009). He is President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology; and teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Allan Combs, PhD

c/o Transformative Studies • CIIS • 1453 Mission St • San Francisco, CA 94103 • (415) 575-6100

leslie.allan.combs@gmail.com •  Allan@SourceIntegralis.org •  http://sourceintegralis.org/

Dr. Combs is a transpersonal psychologist, consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist. He is Professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies and holds appointments at the Saybrook Graduate School and the Graduate Institute, where he is and Academic Director for the Conscious Evolution Master's Degree program. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of over one hundred publications on consciousness including Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster (Paragon House, 1990) (second edition with forward by Ervin Laszlo, 1995; third edition with foreword by Robin Robertson, 2001);  The Radiance of Being, forward by Ken Wilber (Paragon House, 2002) which won the Best Book award from the Scientific and Medical Network (UK);  Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality, and Consciousness (Hampton Press, 2003) (coeditor); Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness (Paragon House, 2009);  and forthcoming, The Dreamer of the Earth. His significant work includes his developmental/evolutionary model of the mind using concepts from systems science and the Wilber-Combs Lattice developed with Ken Wilber. He was awarded the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and in the same year the held the UNCA Honorary Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship.  He coedits the Journal of Conscious Evolution, is Associate Editor of Dynamical Psychology, and the serves on the Editorial Board of Science and Consciousness Review.

Sanford L. Drob, PhD

Fielding Graduate University, 2112 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105-3538

forensicdx@aol.com or sdrob@fielding.edu • www.newkabbalah.com/sanford.html

Dr. Drob deeply explores the notion of synchronicity in the context of Jungian and Kabbalistic perspectives. He is currently involved in a study of the coincidence of opposites in philosophy, psychology and mysticism, and in writing a commentary on Jung’s Red Book. He was the Senior Psychologist and Director of Psychological Assessment at Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward from 1984 to 2003, and is now a core faculty member in the Clinical Psychology doctorate program of Fielding Graduate University and on the clinical faculty of New York University Medical School. He holds doctorate degrees in Philosophy from Boston University and in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University, has a longstanding interest in the psychological, social, and spiritual roots of criminality specializing in assessing the state of mind of offenders at the time

of their criminal acts, and has testified in numerous homicide and other criminal trials. In 1987 he co-founded and for several years served as editor-in-chief of the New York Jewish Review, a publication addressing the interface between traditional Judaism and contemporary thought. He is the author of Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives and Kabbalistic Metaphors: Jewish Mystical Themes in Ancient and Modern Thought (both Jason Aronson, 2000), as well as Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialog (Peter Lang Publications, 2009) and Kabbalistic Visions: C.G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism (Spring Journal Books, 2009).

Alan S. Haas, PhD

Waltham MA

alan@psychobiophysics.org •  www.psychobiophysics.org

Dr. Haas currently conducts research in the relation between psychology and physics, involving new approaches to basic physics including relativity and gravity, applying physical sciences to psychology in the same way they are applied to the understanding of biology, given that psychological and social experiences may be modeled using basic scientific principles. He is the founder of the online Psycho-biophysics Research Organization, a consequence of his training in distinguished laboratories and formal study of biophysics/biochemistry, molecular biology, physics, and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. In his final year of work for a Masters degree in Liberal Studies at Harvard, he is currently engaged in an experimental study of synchronicity, focusing on the possibility of a strictly naturalistic (psychological and biological) interpretation of synchronistic phenomena, involving an experimental demonstration of the synchronicity effect. His new book The Interconnectedness of Reality (available pre-publication at his website; see above) explores synchronicity as a possible gateway into the study of psychology using concepts in physics and chemistry rather than positing quantum mechanical effects or causes involving telepathy or other paranormal effects.

Wm. Dale Harrison, PhD

2850 Campus Box • Elon University • Elon, NC 27244 • (336) 278-5542   dale.harrison@elon.edu

5308 Springview Ct. • Burlington, NC  27215 •(336) 222-6873 •  WmDaleHarrison@aol.com

http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/communications/ncopengov/

Dr. Harrison is assistant director of the Sunshine Center at Elon University, the educational arm of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition, and a member of Elon’s School of Communications adjunct faculty. He earned his PhD in journalism from the University of Georgia and MA in political science from the University of Tennessee. His interest in synchronicity, dream interpretation, and the nature of the divine began in 1993 when he studied under Joyce Rockwood Hudson, author of Natural Spirituality, which asserts that synchronicity and dreams serve as the chief means of divine communication with humanity. Since 2004, Harrison has been a team leader for an annual Natural Spirituality conference in Georgia established by Hudson, which explores synchronicity, dream work, and related topics such as the I Ching. Most recently, he reviewed Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God for the spring 2010 edition of The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture. Harrison was chairman of the Department of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University from 2002 to 2005. He served as President of the Alabama Center for Open Government from 2005 to 2006. He is also a freelance magazine writer and former newspaper editor, reporter, syndicated columnist, and radio host and producer. His work has appeared in USA Today and on NPR and the BBC, among other media. In the late 1990s, he founded the journalism major at Youngstown State University in Ohio.

Roderick Main, PhD

Room 4SB.6.18, University of Essex • Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK • 01206-87-4842

RMain@essex.ac.uk •  http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/publications/RMpapers.htm

Dr. Main is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex (UK), teaching about the historical, philosophical, religious, and cultural contexts of Jungian analytical psychology as well as on the application of analytical psychology to the study of myth and religion. His studies focus on a deep treatment of the relationship of synchronicity and the paranormal, especially in regard to Jungian perspectives, as shown in his article "Religion, Science, and Synchronicity” in Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies (2000). His research has two main aspects: the emergence of analytical psychology out of tensions between secularising and sacralising currents in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Western culture; and the resultant distinctive character of analytical psychology and how it might account for the socio-cultural analysis of religiousness and its transformation under conditions of modernity, looking especially at science and religion interactions, religious fundamentalism, and ‘New Age’ spirituality. He is the editor of Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal (Routledge/Princeton, 1997) and the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung's Critique of Modern Western Culture (Brunner-Routledge, 2004) and Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (SUNY, 2007). He holds an MA in Classics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Religious Studies from Lancaster University (UK).

Lisa Jane Miller, PhD

(212) 678-3852

drlisamiller@gmail.com • http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/index.htm?facid=lfm14

Dr. Miller is Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College (Columbia University) and immediate past president of the American Psychological Association’s 2,600-member Division of Spirituality, Religion, and Psychology. She is currently Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (which includes a chapter by Gary Schwartz, a key advisor of the Synchro Project) as well as Associate Editor of the APA journal "Psychology of Religion and Spirituality."

Her BA is from Yale, and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarly interests involve religion & spirituality, depression and substance abuse, and related risk and protective factors. She is considered a leading scholar in the area of spirituality and wellness and has authored over fifty scholarly articles and chapters on spirituality, resilience, and mental health, as well as having spoken internationally and to US Congressional policy makers on spirituality and wellness in youth. Her research includes school-based spiritually oriented interventions for children and adolescents, teacher training on a spiritual stance to teaching, and pedagogical models around spiritual awareness, and the ongoing use of spiritual awareness in therapy and coaching. Dr. Miller speaks publicly and though the media on spirituality, the spiritual awareness and wellness.   In June her work meeting with children around the country who believe they have had psychic experiences was featured in the A&E television documentary series, “Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal.” Her work aids children and their families make therapeutic use of such experiences, much as dreams are used in traditional psychotherapy – an idea that builds directly from her work with spirituality in therapy.

Jeffery Martin

233 Atlantic St., #3, Quincy, MA, 02171

Jeffery is a Harvard trained social scientist who researches personal transformation. He specializes in bringing rigorous empirical research and testing to transformational techniques and theories that have previously been supported anecdotally. Jeffery is a leading expert on intentionality and non-symbolic consciousness. He hold several graduate degrees and specializes academically in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and transformative studies. A bestselling author and award winning educator, Jeffery has co-edited, authored, or co-authored over 20 books and numerous other publications; appeared in a wide variety of media; and lectured broadly in both academic and public forums.  Jeffery is currently the director of the Center for the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness (www.nonsymbolic.org), and the Center for the Study of Intent (www.centerforintent.org). Portions of his research on Power of Thought and Non-Symbolic consciousness are also available in the popular novel, The Fourth Awakening (www.fourthawakening.com). In addition to his research and academic interests, Jeffery is a highly successful entrepreneur, technologist, and business leader who has founded and sold dozens of companies in the technology, media, real estate, and wellness sectors. He currently serves in a variety of equity-based advisory positions for a wide range of companies within these industries.

Ginette Nachman, MD, PhD

Rhine Research Center

2741 Campus Walk Avenue, Building 500

Durham, NC  27705

Ginette Nachman, MD, PhD  received an A.B. in psychology from Bryn Mawr College, and holds doctorates in medicine (Medical College of Pennsylvania) and clinical psychology (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).  Her areas of specialization include research and presentations in mind/body medicine and nonlocal aspects of consciousness and healing. She has served as a Board Member and Director of Education for the Rhine Research Center, where she is currently a Research Associate.  She is also Director of Research for the International Association for Near Death Studies and is a member of their Physicians Advisory Board. She has a lifelong interest in synchronicity, prompted in part by numerous remarkable synchronicity experiences.  Dr. Nachman gives public presentations on synchronicity (most recently as a participant on a panel hosted by the Nour Foundation),  contributed the article "Clinical Implications of Synchronicity and Related Phenomena" to the May 2009 issue of Psychiatric Annals, and is currently writing a book on synchronicity.   

Frank Pasciuti, PhD

Dr. Pasciuti is a private-practicing clinical psychologist in Charlottesville, Virginia., studying and conducting research on synchronicity and the I Ching. In his research he collaborates with the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D in clinical psychology in 1981.  He is a certified Hypnotherapist with a longstanding interest in altered states of consciousness, parapsychology, and the occurrence of synchronicities especially during times of transformation. In the past three years, after an exhaustive review of the hypnosis and psi literature, he has come to focus on synchronicity and in November will embark on research designed by him under the guidance of Dr. Bernard Beitman of the Division of Perceptual Studies, the plan for which has been provided to the Rhine Research Center at Duke University for research there. His review of Dr. Lance Storm’s anthology on synchronicity, published last fall, is scheduled to appear in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. (Dr. Storm was invited to the Synchro Summit but declined due to a previous commitment.) He has collaborated with and has been a participant in Robert Perry's recent research on CMPE (Conjunction of Meaningful Parallel Events) phenomena.

Lesley Roy, Synchro Project Director

845 Whalley Avenue, New Haven CT 06515 • (203) 389-7410

lesleyroy@synchroproject.com •  www.lesleyroy.com   •  www.synchroproject.org

Lesley Roy is the founding Director of the Synchro Project, an activity of Yale’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology, and coordinator of the Synchro Summit. She is an independent scholar who has studied and exhibited at the Yale School of Art.  While at the Yale Art Gallery, Lesley was inspired by an early Italian Renaissance triptych and had the intense desire to replicate the beautiful crackled appearance. After two years of research into historically correct pigments, crackle processes and gold leaf, Lesley incorporated her original artwork into a proprietary process she named, “reverse glass art” lead to the founding of Lesley Roy Home Couture, LLC. For over a decade, from her New Haven factory, she designed, manufactured and trained teams of artisans to supply every Neiman Marcus in the country with seasonal collections of hand-made dinnerware, and home accessories.  Featured in major high-end retailers such as Harrods in London and Geary’s in Beverly Hills, it was naturally acquired by royalty, the affluent and the elite throughout the world, even including Pope John Paul II, making her one of the world’s most successful commercial artisans and the recipient of several important awards celebrating female entrepreneurs.

As she stated at the time, “Our lifetime journey is to travel toward higher consciousness. The creative process is the vehicle artists use to make that journey.” 

In 2005, Lesley’s life-long study of art and how it impacts human development sent her headfirst down a path filled with extraordinary synchronicities.  She accepted the invitation to London to photograph the artwork of Dr. Ala Bashir, Iraq’s best-known and most spiritually attuned artist, who prior to the US invasion was also one of the world’s greatest hand surgeon, for the PBS History Channel Biography, “The Insider” and was so impressed and inspired by the profound body of work, she founding of the Corvus Art Center and spent the next five years collecting the surviving paintings, works on paper and sculptures, all the while garnering International news in the art world.  Over the next five years, major worldwide publications flocked to the Corvus Center (aptly named for the genus of Raven and Crow); BBC London Film Producer, CNN, Anderson Cooper360, the Charlie Rose Show, ABC, MSNBC, Associated Press all made the trek to visit her New Haven facility. The Corvus Art Center was the subject of several documentaries, but after one aired to an audience of 80 million worldwide, her long-held question, “Can art and the creative imagination have the force to effect change?” was answered with a resounding ‘yes’ when she received a call from the United Nations twenty minutes later.

Navigating the international art world, Lesley has written extensively about the importance of art in our life, and how it is intermingled in sociology, psychology, politics, religion, and arranged a record sale of seven monumental 3x4 meter painting to the Museum of Modern Art in the Middle East, but as curator, she most enjoys arranging loans of painting and sculptures for such exhibitions as, “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” at the American Visionary Art Museum, the DH Lawrence Festival Exhibition at the Durban House Heritage Centre, dedication ceremony for the magnificent oil painting, “From Eastwood to the World”, which now hangs there as a permanent tribute to DH Lawrence, and writing for the May 2010 solo exhibition publication book; an interview with Professor Douglas Tallack, Dean of College of Art at Leicester University & Professor of American Art History, and Professor Ala Bashir, at the University of Leicester’s Richard Attenborough Centre.

Lesley Roy Home Couture was her second successful manufacturing company, the first launched during the 15 years she lived in NYC, two doors down form the CG Jung Institute.  While attending the many lectures and events at the Jung Center, Lesley read extensively and immersed herself in dream therapy and dream journaling.  “I considered myself a citizen scientist on a quest for knowledge and understanding and I was only 19!”  The stage was set long ago for what would be an over-three-decade, search for the deeper meaning behind what Jung termed, “Synchronicity.”

“All of the paths have lead to the first, Synchro Summit being hosted at Yale University this October, and with great enthusiasm, I am certain it is a journey, which has come full circle.”

Gary E. Schwartz, PhD

PO Box 210068 • Tucson, AZ 85721-0068

(520) 318-0286 • gschwart@spamarrest.com

Dr. Schwartz is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona and Director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.  He is also Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.  Gary received his PhD from Harvard in 1971, was an Assistant Professor at Harvard, and was a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University and director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center before moving to the University of Arizona in 1988.  His research integrates mind-body medicine, energy medicine, and spiritual medicine. He has published more than 450 scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science, co-edited 11 academic books, and is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (Atria; Reprint edition August 2008), The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science Is Discovering God In Everything, Including Us (Attria, 2007), The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death (forward by Deepak Chopra) (Atria, 2003), The Truth about Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the Real Allison DuBois of NBC's Medium and other Remarkable Psychics (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2005), and The Living Energy Universe: A Fundamental Discovery that Transforms Science and Medicine (Hampton Roads Publishing, 1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives will be published in January 2011.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

www.thesevengoddesses.com

Agapi Stassinopoulos was born and raised in Athens, Greece.  At age 18, she entered the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.

She moved to the United States to do film and television, and later attended the University of Santa Monica where she completed her Master’s in Psychology.

Doing the preparatory research with her sister Arianna Huffington on a book about the Gods and Goddesses of Greece ignited Agapi’s love for the gods and a passion to do more work on the subject. She then developed her own work around the Goddesses and was asked to present it at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles around the antiquities. Subsequently, she was asked to write the book on the subject called Conversations with the Goddesses (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), which had four printings.  Her presentation has been seen by audiences at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, the Soho Rep in New York City, and many conferences, colleges and universities around the world.  Her presentation of the goddesses was also produced by PBS and has aired nationwide.

She recently co-produced and co-hosted a documentary shot in Greece called “Quest for the Gods” which will aired in April, 2010 as a PBS special.  Agapi has spoken at various international events, including the Women’s Global Conference in Milan, the American Express Women & Business Conference in Salt Lake City, as well as made TV appearances on CNN’s “Business Unusual,” among others. She has also spoken about health and well-being for The Spirit of Women organization, which represents hundreds of hospitals around the country. Her second book Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You, was published in August of 2004 by Pocket Books of Simon and Schuster and has been translated into seven languages. With her insightful understanding, her passion and her humor, she stirs our imagination, enriching our understanding of ourselves and each other.

Currently, Agapi is working on her third book for Hay House, Unbinding Your Heart: How to Heal the World One Heart at a Time, to be released in 2012. Agapi lectures and conducts seminars worldwide for both men and women, empowering them to become more connected to their individual gifts. She empowers individuals to awaken their ability to know that they are co-creators and access their higher potential.

Peter H. Van Ness, PhD, MPH

265 College Street • (203) 752-2514

http://geriatrics.yale.edu/people/peter_vanness.profile • peter.vanness@yale.edu

Dr. Van Ness is a social epidemiologist specializing in the impact of sociocultural factors such as gender, race, age, and religion on various health outcomes. Currently he holds the rank of Research Scientist at the Yale University School of Medicine, a Lecturer in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, and the Associate Director of Biostatistics at the Program on Aging at the Yale School of Medicine. Since 2005 he has been a key advisor of Yale’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology and has helped lead its main working group exploring the science-religion encounter, guiding both scientific and philosophical inquiries, and has co-taught the science-religion seminars offered at the Yale Divinity School during that time. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School, enabling him to bring a deep knowledge of religious studies to his biostatistical analyses and to reflect on the forces at work behind the hard data of his health-related studies. A former philosopher of religion and the Dean of Academic Affairs at Union Theological Seminary and a Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University, he became intrigued by the connections among religion, ethics, and health. He decided to study epidemiology and biostatistics as a post–doctoral fellow at Yale, with emphasis on religion and health issues.

James Clement van Pelt, MA-R

Box 478, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511 • (203) 624-0122

James.vanpelt@yale.edu •  http://www.yale.edu/religionandscience/whos_who.html

Mr. van Pelt co-founded Yale’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology (IRST) in 2003 and since then has served as its program coordinator, bringing nearly a hundred prominent speakers to Yale and sponsoring working groups and conferences in relevant subject areas. During that time he has co-taught the science-religion seminars offered at the Yale Divinity School and has served as the Yale presence at the major U.S. science-religion conferences. His academic specializations include spiritual anthropology, theologies of technology, and consciousness studies, and since 2000 he has made presentations on those topics at numerous academic gatherings. He majored in Religion at Duke University and “received his MA in Religion” (magna cum laude) from the Yale School of Divinity in 2003. There he was a Research Fellow from 2003 to 2005 and Lecturer in science-religion studies in 2005 and 2007. He has been a seminar leader at Yale’s Center for International and Area Studies and in 2007 presented the annual conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (AAA). He has authored, coauthored, and contributed to various books and articles, most recently a chapter of Different Cultures, One World: Dialogue Between Christians and Muslims on the Role of Technology in Our Global Society (Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, March 2010). He holds a B.A. in religion from Duke University, has studied Christianity and culture at St. Andrews Presbyterian College and Earlham College, and co-founded the Center for Participant Education at Florida State University. His technologist positions have included Senior Technology Advisor for Connecticut public school districts; Director of Advanced Solutions for Dun & Bradstreet; and personal technology consultant to American Express and other corporations and non-profits.

Gibbs A. Williams, PhD

41   5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003 • (212) 254-1084

gwilliamsny11@aol.com •  http://www.gibbsonline.com

Dr. Williams is a psychoanalyst who has practiced in New York City for the past 46 years, during which time he has investigated the perplexities of synchronicity phenomena. His research is detailed in his published book Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process. (Jason Aronson Imprint, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, March 2010), an original naturalistic theory of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) as well as a blueprint for identifying, decoding, interpreting, and utilizing their embedded self-generated messages in ways that are intellectually innovative and experientially useful, derived from research in synchronicity studies, speculative philosophy, depth psychology, the esoteric occult, spirituality, and the philosophy of science. By inserting a dated synchronicity into an experiencers' flow of experience (contextual analysis), that which appears initially mysterious is viewed as the logical outcome of a given person's idiosyncratic creative process. His papers on this and related topics may be found at his website.

Beverley Zabriskie

bevzab@aol.com  •

Address • 952 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10075

Phone.  212- 570-0959

Dr. Zabriskie is the author of "A Meeting of Rare Minds," the preface to Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Correspondence (Princeton University Press, 2001), and also ”Synchronicity and the I Ching: Jung, Pauli, and the Chinese Woman” in the Journal of Analytic Psychology (50, 2005).

She practices as a Jungian analyst in New York City, where she is a founding and faculty member and former President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA), where she teaches on emotion, the psychological interpretation of Egyptian Mythology, and Jung’s interpretations of alchemical imagery. She was the 2002 psychoanalytic educator of the year for the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education and the 2007 Fay Lecturer at Texas A&M University, presenting the lecture series "Emotion and Transformation: From Myth to Neuroscience". She is  Associate Editor of  the Journal of Analytic Psychology, in which she has published “Jung and Pauli: a Subtle Asymmetry” (40, 1995) and a variety of other articles on psychology and mythic and other themes. She has also published “When Psyche meets Soma: the question of incarnation” in  About A Body (Routledge, 2006) and most recently,  "The One and Many Souls of New York" for Psyche and City, The Soul's Guide to the Modern Metropolis” (Spring Publications, 2010.) She is a member of the board of the Philemon Foundation, which is producing the unpublished works of Carl Jung, and is a past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She has a particular focus on emotion in synchronicity, art, and numinous experience, and is currently writing a book on emotion for Texas A&M Press.

Synchro Project Advisor and Liaison to the New York Academy of Sciences

Adrienne Burke

7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St, 40th fl, New York, NY 10007 • (212) 298-8655

aburke@nyas.org •  www.nyas.org/AboutUs/WhoWeAre/burke.aspx

Ms. Burke, who is unable to participate in the Synchro Summit, is former Director of Public Outreach for the New York Academy of Sciences and Executive Editor of the Academy’s member magazine. She directed Science & the City, a program of public events, podcasts, and a website forwarding the Academy’s mission to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals in society. Previously, she was the founding editor of Genome Technology magazine. She has been a guest teacher in science, health, and environmental reporting at New York University’s graduate school for journalism and has won awards for her reporting, writing, and editing work.  Ms. Burke has recently taken a position at Yale University and we will update her bio accordingly.

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