Life After Death with John Cleese and UVA DOPS Now Open
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Speakers
Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Jim B. Tucker, M.D., the Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, is a child psychiatrist who studies children’s reports of past-life memories. His book Return to Life was a New York Times bestseller.
Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Bruce Greyson, M.D., is Professor Emeritus at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies. Since 1975 his research has focused on near-death experiences, resulting in more than 100 publications in academic journals and three edited books.
ABPP, Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Kim Penberthy, Ph.D., ABPP is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences UVA. Her research interests include studying the mind-body relationship, exploring human consciousness as well as extraordinary human abilities and mindfulness.
Professor of Research, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D., of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies was lead author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015), and is now doing neuroimaging studies of altered states and psi in exceptional subjects.
Assistant Professor of Research, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Emily Williams Kelly, Ph.D., of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies since 1978, has studied many kinds of experiences suggesting survival after death. She is co-author of Irreducible Mind, and editor of Science, Survival, and the Self.
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Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is the oldest and most productive university-based research group in the world devoted exclusively to the investigation of phenomena that challenge current physicalist brain/mind orthodoxy – including...
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