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VIRTUAL PRESENTERS
Speaker Bios
Angela Thompson
Dr. Angela Thompson Smith’s primary qualifications are in nursing and social work in the U.K. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1981, where she worked in medical research in New Jersey and volunteered with the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) until being hired by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory. Her five fascinating years at PEAR preceded a move to Las Vegas, NV, where she worked as Mr. Robert Bigelow’s Research Coordinator. In the mid-1990s, while studying for her Ph.D., she also trained in Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) with Paul Smith (RVIS) and Lyn Buchanan (PSI). In 1999, Dr. Smith became a Founding Director and Member of IRVA and has served as a Board Member. Since the early 1990s, she has been training others in remote viewing, consulting on applications projects in the U.S. and abroad, and has written multiple books, including Remote Perceptions, SEER, SCRIBE, and Tactical Remote Viewing.
Christian Wieser
(German Panel) – Christian Wieser, born in 1983 in Hallein near Salzburg, is a self-employed business consultant, coach for personal development, and professional remote viewer. After graduating with a focus on natural sciences, he pursued a degree in International Business Administration in Austria and Canada.
After completing his studies and further training at the University of Vienna, he established his own business as a management consultant in 2009 and has since supported numerous major international projects.
In his late teenage years, Christian began to dive deeply into the field of energetics and personal development. His quest for personal growth and the overcoming of personal setbacks led him to a variety of training courses with renowned trainers worldwide. These included various shamanic traditions, systemic constellations, quantum healing methods, NLP, and remote viewing. Since 2010, he has run his own coaching practice, supporting international clients in their personal and professional development.
Cindy Miller, Ph.D.
Cindy’s interests include the broader topic of anomalous and non-local phenomena of which RV may be a modality and how AI can assist practitioners and users of RV. She is the founder and owner of Enigmatic Technologies, LLC, a scientific and management consulting firm that combines non-local modalities with traditional business approaches. She holds advanced degrees in mathematics, engineering management, and systems engineering, and many hours of graduate work in international relations. Currently the Treasurer the International IRVA, she was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of an internationally focused non-profit organization. Her scientific and analytical experience includes contributing to projects and research in sensor systems, high-energy physics, dynamical systems, modeling and simulation, quantum theory, and artificial intelligence.
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Damon Abraham
Damon Abraham, PhD, is a researcher in affective science and experimental psychology with a focus on emotion, emotion self-regulation, and mental representation. His parapsychological interests include non-local consciousness (out-of-body and near-death experiences), non-local perception (remote viewing and precognition), and non-local influence (REGs, micro and macro PK effects). His work intersects consciousness, psychic phenomena, and artificial intelligence, exploring their relationship to transformative technologies, human potential, and personal growth. He has presented at conferences such as the International Congress on Consciousness, the Society for Scientific Exploration, the International Remote Viewing Association, and the International Association for Near-Death Studies….
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Daqing (Daching) Piao
Daqing (Daching) Piao received his BS in Physics in 1990 from Tsinghua University, an MS in Biomedical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2003 from the University of Connecticut. He joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 2005 and is now a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research centers on applying light-tissue interaction principles for identifying and modulating tissue properties. A significant part of his research involves modeling the interaction between light and complex media. He has a strong interest in understanding the neurophysiological examinability of phenomena associated with non-normal states of consciousness. He recently completed a year-long remote viewing project in which he developed a new rating system and served as a remote viewer himself in all trials, gaining an awareness of what makes more interesting targets. This was published in the Journal for Scientific Exploration.
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David Acunzo
David J. Acunzo, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. After a degree in telecommunications engineering from IMT Atlantique (France), David obtained his PhD in neuroinformatics from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and then occupied research positions at CIMeC – Center for Brain/Mind Sciences, University of Trento (Italy), and the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK. He has worked on a diverse array of cognitive neuroscience topics including vision, attention and semantic processing using various computational and functional neuroimaging techniques including EEG, MEG and fMRI.
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David Harker
David is a remote viewer, trainer, mentor, mystic, magician, host of The Psychic Guys podcast, and moderator of the largest online community of remote viewers. He is particularly interested in the overlap between remote viewing and esoteric spiritual traditions. He has a background in archaeology, software engineering, and life sciences. David lives in North Yorkshire, UK.
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David Morehouse
David Morehouse, Ph.D., is an international bestselling author, speaker, and educator. He served as a Special Operations Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army, commanding the Army’s only separate Airborne Rifle Company, an Airborne Ranger Company, and an (Interim) Airborne Infantry Battalion. General Officers and Commanders at brigade and battalion levels identified him as a superior leader and a consummate trainer of the soldiers serving with him in his units.
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David Sereda
David Sereda started Lightstream Technologies in Sedona, Arizona, in 2007 with his wife, Crystal Sereda. They developed the company from the ground up with their own designs and technology. David Sereda is the inventor of this technology and a well-known self-taught scientist.
David has studied meditation, yoga, vegetarian diet, world religions, ancient history, physics, math, astronomy, and alternative zero-point energies for over 40 years. He studied physics up to the college level and has continued his studies ever since. In school, he presented his physics teacher with a time dilation theory, which the teacher admitted was beyond anything he had seen since Einstein! In 1990, David began working with MIT physicist Dr. Bogdan Maglich and teamed up with him to promote and fund Maglich’s non-radioactive fusion power technology. David studied fusion power for over 10 years. Maglich appointed David Sereda as Director of the Los Angeles-based “Tesla Foundation,” under which David became a Tesla technology expert and spoke in the United States Congress with Maglich and Company on fusion power. Maglich later appointed David as President of HiEnergy Microdevices, a U.S. defense contractor using novel technology to detect buried landmines and find hidden explosives and other contraband. David managed all U.S. military communications, technology contracts, and accounts, including those with U.S. Customs and the Coast Guard.
Daz Smith
Daz Smith was born and still lives in Bath, Somerset, UK. He is a graphic designer, artist, and photographer. He first trained in Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) in 1996 and has been developing his skills and knowledge in this intuitive art ever since. Daz has grown to become a leading CRV and remote viewing practitioner and is well-respected within this field.
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Debra Lynne Katz
Ph.D.
Debra Lynne Katz, Ph.D. Debra Lynne Katz is the president of the International Remote Viewing Association. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Social Work. She founded the International School of Clairvoyance and has been the lead instructor since its inception. Her remarkable literary contributions include The Complete Clairvoyant: A Trilogy, You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing, Extraordinary Psychic: Proven Techniques to Master Your Natural Abilities, Freeing the Genie Within, and Associative Remote Viewing: The Art & Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Financials, Elections, and the Lottery.
Debra is an accomplished remote viewer, clairvoyant, medium, energy healer, and dedicated parapsychological researcher. For more information, visit debrakatz.com.
Don deCourcelle
Don is a retired software engineer who worked primarily in the field of telecommunications at Bell Labs, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya, and Verizon Wireless. He has also had a long-term interest in spiritual and metaphysical topics and created several YouTube videos, now freely available, about his earlier formative experiences. Later in life, after he took up meditation, he started perceiving phonetic and word-based mental energies during his meditative state. Out of curiosity, he began writing these down, a practice that became a new hobby—an opportunity to study his mind and subconscious over time. Today, his written journal is 26 years deep, a “long-term experiment” that eventually evolved into a channeling practice. It is through these curiosity-driven channelings that new historical information appears to be emerging—data that, if true, fills a huge gap in recorded history; data that simply begs to be validated by the only way possible… through remote viewing!
Gregory C. Radabaugh
Mr. Gregory C. Radabaugh is the President and CEO of Gray Bear Consulting LLC. Before his retirement from government service, he was a member of the Department of Defense Senior Executive Service and served as the Director of the Joint Information Operations Warfare Center (JIOWC), a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Controlled Activity (CCA). He directed over 230 personnel, enabling the application of informational power at the strategic level, executing informational power at the operational and tactical levels, and performing CJCS responsibilities for Joint Enterprise Information Operations proponency, operations security, and military deception in global operations.
Prior to his role as JIOWC Director, he was the Chief of Cyber Operations and Cyber Policy for the then Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency (AFISRA—now the 16th Air Force). He entered the Air Force as an enlisted linguist in 1974, flying reconnaissance missions overseas. He was commissioned in 1979 and served in a variety of service and national-level positions. He left active duty and joined the civil service in 1989, serving in multiple national-level agencies. He remained part of the Air Force Reserve until his retirement in 2004. He was an Intermediate Nuclear Force and Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (INF/START) arms control inspector from 1989 to 1995 and was designated an Intelligence Community Officer in 2003. An expert in information operations, special operations, and cyberspace operations, he has lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, and at numerous conferences both at home and abroad.
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Gunther Rattay
Gunther Rattay is a German researcher, software engineer, and project manager. He was trained in Technical Remote Viewing by Ed Dames in May 1996. That same year, he introduced the Remote Viewing method in Germany alongside two other TRV-trained individuals. Since then, he has trained over 170 Remote Viewing students in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and can be regarded as the “father of RV” in German-speaking Europe. Most RV trainers in Germany have been trained by him. His intense training concept is designed for one or two trainees only within the same training schedule, ensuring that the base concept of the protocol is not diluted. The training includes Technical Remote Viewing in its extended version, trained until the end of the 1990s, and also features the compact LearnRV follow-up offered afterwards. He has special interests in the processing of perceptions.
Website: trv-training.de
Email: gunther-rattay@gmx.de
YouTube: Remote Viewing Training – DACH
Henrike Herbold
(German Panel) – Henrike Herbold, born in 1977, has been working at various German universities since 2004. As a lecturer, research assistant, and quality manager, she has 20 years of experience in science and the organization of universities. Since 2015, she has also been a self-employed alternative practitioner, ethnomedical practitioner, and systemic coach in Bamberg.
Due to her particularly pronounced ability to perceive the condition and well-being of a person and their environment very precisely, she has always sought and learned new techniques to further develop this ability.
Her vocation in remote viewing began in 2017 with Coordinate Remote Viewing with Gabriele Eckert, a student of David Morehouse. In the same year, she learned Extended Remote Viewing with Gabriele Eckert. Since then, she has continued to deepen and expand her remote viewing skills. She became certified in Technical Remote Viewing with Thomas Tankiewicz and completed Controlled Remote Viewing with Theo Fischer. She has been independently leading her own remote viewing practice groups since 2022.
In addition to operational work, she uses remote viewing particularly in her health practice and coaching. For her, the use of remote viewing in the health sector is precise, goal-oriented, and forward-looking. The same applies to remote viewing and science. She uses remote viewing as a tool in her teaching and sees the combination of remote viewing and the academic field as an extraordinary area of application for the coming decades.
E-Mail: rv-herbold@online.ms
Jon Knowles
Jon Knowles has been a remote viewer, trainer, and project manager since 1999. He has been active in TransDimensional Systems, the Aurora Remote Viewing Group, and the Applied Precognition Project. Knowles is the author of Remote Viewing from the Ground Up (2017) and co-author of Associative Remote Viewing: The Art and Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Politics, Finances & the Lottery (2021). He has published seven articles in Eight Martinis magazine and has presented at several Applied Precognition conferences, as well as at the IRVA conferences in 2022 and 2023. Jon co-authored “UFOs and Remote Viewing in Russia and the USA” with Daz Smith, published in Nexus magazine, July-August 2023, Vol. 30, No. 4.
Jon holds a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. His internet portal is https://www.jonknowles8.com, and he can be reached at jonknowles8@yahoo.com.
Lyn Buchanan
Lyn grew up in a family that moved frequently due to his father’s work on the railroad. This upbringing exposed him to many cultures, personal paradigms, and a wide range of people, leading to a development that was both polycultural and multilingual.
After high school, he joined the military and became a computer specialist in the emerging field of computer-directed guided missile systems. He then had a 12-year break in service, during which he served as a Methodist minister while earning two Master’s degrees—one in linguistics and the other in psychology. Upon re-entering active military service, Lyn aimed to become a chaplain; however, due to his linguistic abilities, he was instead utilized as a Russian, German, and Mongolian linguist for military intelligence. An incident that was classified at the time, occurring just eight years before his retirement, led to his involvement in the U.S. military’s “Controlled Remote Viewing” unit, where he served as a remote viewer, database manager, property book officer, and ultimately, as a trainer for incoming personnel.
After retirement, Lyn worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency for several years before forming his own company, Problems > Solutions > Innovations. This organization now trains and employs Controlled Remote Viewers for police work, space and technical research and development, business, economic, medical, and personal applications. He currently resides in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he trains military personnel in Controlled Remote Viewing for the public online.
Lyn is the author of two books. One, The Seventh Sense, discusses Controlled Remote Viewing and its military applications. The other, Gravity Can Be Your Friend – (It Can Also Get You Killed), is a science-based fictional book that examines and predicts police work in space. Lyn was also portrayed by George Clooney as the character “Lyn Cassidy” in the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, a comedic take on the U.S. military’s remote viewing unit.
Marcus Boldt
(German Panel) – Marcus Boldt is an IT consultant and an accomplished specialist in Remote Viewing, with extensive experience spanning several decades. In 1996, he was one of the pioneers who introduced Remote Viewing to Germany. His interest in Remote Viewing began in the 1980s, driven by a documentary on “PSI TECH” and Ed Dames’ commentary on “Remote Viewing: Espionage from the Desk.”
At “I-D-Publishing,” he worked as a journalist and editor for “Transition 3000,” authoring numerous articles on perception and consciousness research. The goal of “Transition 3000” was to capture the zeitgeist and public behavior related to frontier science and develop methods for authentic information discovery and implementation.
In 1995, Marcus participated in “Dialogue with the Universe in Kaast,” meeting figures like Edward Arthur Dames of “Psi Tech Inc.” and John E. Mack, a pioneer in human experience research. These encounters deepened his interest in Remote Viewing and consciousness research.
Marie Priebusch and Timo Feret
(German Panel) – Marie Priebusch and Timo Féret jointly lead the German Remote Viewing company named Into the Matrix.
Marie Priebusch, born in 1983, is a trained hypnosis and regression therapist, practitioner of conflict and trauma therapy, and expert in Biologisches Heilwissen according to Rainer Körner. She places significant importance on a holistic view of humans. In her work, Marie integrates Controlled Remote Viewing to identify the traumas and conflicts of her clients and provide them with support.
Timo Féret, born in 1981, completed his Master of Science in Computer Science at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. In addition to his activities at Into the Matrix, he is currently employed as a Data Scientist at an IT consulting company.
Marie and Timo met through Remote Viewing after both began their initial steps as Remote Viewers in Germany in 2018….
Marina Weiler
Marina Weiler is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia. She is a trained neuroscientist with a background in neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and basic neuroscience. Marina’s contributions to the field have earned her prestigious awards from institutions such as the Fundação Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brazil), the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, the National Institutes of Health (NIH, U.S.), the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Research.
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Pam Coronado
Pam Coronado is the star of the popular television series Sensing Murder and has been involved in psi criminal work since 1996, consulting as a psychic detective for government and private agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on some of the nation’s highest-profile crimes. A constant advocate for victims and their families, she is also search-and-rescue certified and volunteers with the Fowler-O’Sullivan Foundation. Additionally, Pam provides training for those interested in assisting with psychic detective work. She is a former president and vice president of the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA). For more information, visit Pam Coronado’s website.
https://pamcoronado.com/
Simeon Hein
Dr. Simeon Hein received his degree in sociology from Washington State University in 1992. His main areas of interest include nonlinear research methods, complexity theory, and technology and society. He first learned Remote Viewing in 1996 and has pursued crop circle research since then. Dr. Hein has been teaching Remote Viewing at the Mount Baldy Institute in Boulder, CO, since 1997. His books include Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance and Black Swan Ghosts: A Sociologist Encounters Witnesses to Unexplained Aerial Craft, Their Occupants, and Other Elements of the Multiverse. Since the publication of Opening Minds in 2002, Dr. Hein has given over 400 radio and TV interviews. His new book, Dark Matter Monsters: Cryptids, Ball Lightning, and the Science of Secret Lifeforms, explains why Bigfoot creatures sometimes cause electrical disturbances, battery and camera failures, space-time anomalies, and are often seen near light orbs and other luminous phenomena. His blog can be found at NewCrystalMind.com.
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Theo Fischer
(German Panel) – Theo Fischer is an entrepreneur and a leading figure in the field of remote viewing. Born on August 1, 1978, in Berlin, Germany, Theo’s journey into the realm of non-local perception began more than five years ago. With a passion for pushing boundaries and expanding horizons, he co-founded the PSI.vision Institute and has been at the forefront of pioneering advances in remote viewing methodology ever since.
As Managing Director of PSI Core | Precision Strategic Integration, Theo leads remote viewing contract work and utilizes his expertise to deliver precision and insight to clients around the world. His entrepreneurial spirit has also led him to establish his own training company specializing in Controlled Remote Viewing, where he empowers people to unleash their innate perceptual abilities..
Tobias Krieg
Born in 1979, Tobias Krieg is a mechanical engineer with vast experience in the aviation industry. His passion for the aeronautical field began as a child when he dreamed of becoming a pilot—a dream he ultimately fulfilled.
Throughout his professional career, Tobias recognized his natural talent for anticipating future events and the intentions of those around him. Highly interested in expanding these abilities, he began studying Coordinate Remote Viewing in 2018 with Gabriele Eckert, an early student of David Morehouse and an accomplished Remote Viewing trainer. He has continued to develop his Remote Viewing skills by completing Controlled Remote Viewing training with Theo Fischer and Technical Remote Viewing training with Thomas Tankiewicz.
Tobias soon gained interest in sharing his experiences with Remote Viewing and exploring it with like-minded individuals. Together with his Austrian friend Christian Wieser, he founded the online training platform RV-Trainer.com in 2022 to motivate trainees after their initial Remote Viewing education, encouraging them to continuously progress and practice their RV skills.