Rhine Center

Founded by J.B. Rhine, "The Rhine Research Center is an integrative center for the study of consciousness." "Smaller programs and social events are regularly held in the Rhine Center’s Alex Tanous Research Library that was initiated and supported by a gift from the Alex Tanous Foundation of Portland, Maine."

"When Joseph B. and Louisa Rhine joined Professor William McDougall at the newly founded Duke University in 1927, the field of investigation into psychic phenomena was known as psychical research. At that time psychical research was mainly concerned with working with mediums in the search for evidence of an afterlife. J.B. Rhine recognized that answering the survival question depended first on investigating the ability of the living to gain psychic or psi information by other than sensory means (telepathy and clairvoyance), an ability for which he used the term extrasensory perception (ESP). Rhine began testing Duke students with specially designed cards to study ESP and later used dice machines to study psychokinesis (PK), the movement of objects by mental intention alone.

"By 1935 Rhine’s experiments into the unexplained powers of the mind had shown sufficient promise to justify the creation of a special unit, the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, where under his guidance and with help of a growing team of graduate students and colleagues, a new science was born, the experimental science of parapsychology. In 1937 the Journal of Parapsychology was founded as an independent peer-reviewed professional journal to provide an outlet for reporting the findings from the Duke research as well as from other laboratories at home and abroad...

"In 1965, with the help of benefactors such as Chester Carlson, the founder of Xerox, J. B. Rhine started the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man (FRNM) and moved it off campus where the work continued with broader connections to other workers on both a national and international scale. For the next thirty years FRNM served as a parent organization to the Institute for Parapsychology, its major research and education institute, and the Parapsychology Press, its publishing branch. In 1995, the centenary of J. B. Rhine’s birth and 15 years following his death, the FRNM was renamed the Rhine Research Center to honor the Rhines and their unique contributions to parapsychology."


 * John G. Kruth - Executive Director
 * Sally Rhine Feather, Executive Director Emeritus
 * James Carpenter - President (2013)

Board
Accessed November 2011:


 * President: Bonnie Albright
 * Vice-President: William F. Higgins
 * Executive Director: John Kruth
 * Treasurer: Benton Bogle
 * Secretary: Thomas Hardison
 * Barbara Ensrud
 * Bill Joines
 * John A. Palmer
 * Pamela St. John
 * Nancy L. Zingrone

Advisory Board
Accessed November 2011:


 * Carlos S. Alvarado
 * Richenel Ansano
 * Lloyd Auerbach
 * Julie Beischel
 * Daryl Bem
 * Larry Dossey
 * Athena A. Drewes
 * Sally Ann Drucker
 * Dale E. Graff
 * Stanley Krippner
 * Seymour Mauskopf
 * Joseph W. McMoneagle
 * Jeffrey Mishlove
 * Vernon M. Neppe
 * William Roll
 * Michael Schmicker
 * Stephan A. Schwartz
 * Rupert Sheldrake
 * Jerry Solfvin
 * Evanne Solvinto
 * Cynthia Lee Shore-Sterling
 * Susan Tanous
 * Wakine Tanous
 * Charles Tart
 * Larry Trevarthen

Contact
URL: http://www.rhine.org

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