Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources | Podcast #736

Dr. Jon Klimo is widely considered to be the world's leading authority on the subject of channeling and the author of the definitive work on the topic, Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources (1988, 1998), which has been translated into 8 different languages. Dr. Klimo has undergraduate and graduates degrees from Brown University and a doctorate in psychology. He has been continuously teaching in doctoral programs for the past 38 years and is currently starting his fourteenth year as a core faculty member, now as a Full Professor, in the clinical program at the San Francisco Bay Area campus of The American Schools of Professional Psychology, Argosy University. Dr. Klimo has chaired some 200 dissertation committees primarily in mainstream psychology and clinical psychology. Some 20 dissertations chaired have been in the areas of parapsychology (e.g., precognition, psychokinesis, and the near-death experience), consciousness studies, and ufology.

He has done the research, teaching, public presentations, and publishing in the areas of parapsychology, complementary and alternative medicine, consciousness studies, new paradigm thought and 'new science', ufology/extraterrestriology, metaphysics, perennial philosophy, and the transpersonal domain. He has also done over 100 conference presentations and has appeared on more than 120 different radio and 20 different television programs.

Having begun his career as a poet and painter, he was a professor at Rutgers University from 1974-82 as the Founding Director for its large Creative Arts Education Program. As a lifelong multi-disciplinarian, he has also done extensive research, writing, teaching, and presentations in the areas of the arts, creativity, intuition, inspiration, imagination, philosophy, and physics, as well as in the areas already mentioned.

in April 2010, his latest book, Handbook to the Afterlife, co-authored with Pamela Heath, M.D., Psy.D., was published. In 2006, he co-authored Heath, Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife?. He is currently working on a number of other books: Close Encounters of the Inner Kind: Channeling Extraterrestrials; Scientific Information from Paranormal Sources; The Nature of How We Create Our Own Reality (working title) and Helping Those with Anomalous, Paranormal, and Otherworldly Experiences (working title).

Dr. Klimo lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with Jane, his wife of 30 years. His daughter, Elizabeth, is a professor of theater at Swarthmore College.

In this study of channeling, earlier called spirit communication or mediumship, Klimo, who teaches at Rosebridge Graduate School in the San Francisco Bay Area, writes with clarity about "the communication of information to or through a physically embodied human being from a source…on some other level or dimension of reality other than the physical as we know it." He profiles recent channels and their sources, goes back to preliterate societies and the advent of monotheism, and identifies channels such figures as Moses, Solomon, Muhammad, Merlin, Nostradamus, Swedenborg, and Edgar Cayce