IPC2 Presenters

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis in more than twenty five countries and at four congresses of the Interamerican Psychological Association. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Indian Psychology and Revista Argentina de Psicologia Paranormal, and is on the advisory board for the International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership (St. Petersburg) and the Czech Unitaria (Prague).

Stephan A. Schwartz is the Scholar-in-Residence at Atlantic University, and Research Associate of Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. He is one of the world's experts on the practical applications of remote viewing and other aspects of extraordinary human functioning. For almost twenty years he was the research director and chairman of the Mobius Society laboratory, where he carried out research into remote viewing, creativity, therapeutic intent, and meditation. Subsequently he was the Director of Research at the Rhine Research Center.

Roger's professional degrees are in experimental cognitive psychology, with a special focus on the lesser known aspects of perception. His primary work in design and analysis is supplemented by a background in physics, statistical methods, and multi-media production. Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR <http://www.princeton.edu/~pear>) lab, directed by Robert Jahn in the School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.

Amit Goswami, Ph. D. is a professor of physics (retired) at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR where he has served since 1968. He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called science within consciousness an idea he explicated in his seminal book, The Self-Aware Universe where he also solved the quantum measurement problem elucidating the famous observer effect.

Dr. Uma Krishnamurthy has been exposed to spiritual teachers and yoga philosophy from early childhood. She is a psychiatrist by training from India with many years of experience in the field of healing, yoga psychology, and transformation of emotions that are currently her main areas of interest and research. She is the author of an upcoming book on Yoga Psychology.

Dr. Tarlacı is born in Rize, in 1970. He finished medical school in 1995 and specialized in neurology in 2000. He is awarded Research Encouragement Award by the Society of Brain Research in 2000, Research Encouragement Award by TUBITAK Society of Brain Research in 2001 and Sedat Simavi Health Sciences Award by the Society of Turkish Journalists in 2003.

Dr. Tarlacı is a study member of the Neurology Intensive Care and Cognitive Neuroscience Group.

Dr. Erkin is one of the first female graduates of the Bornova Anadolu High School. She was graduated from the Ege University School of Medicine in 1977 and specialized in Clinical Biochemistry. She had various trainings abroad in the field of Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Erkin is an advanced level practitioner of Emotional Freedom Techniques, EmoTrance, Nei-Gong (Chinese acupressure technique) and a Reiki master and teacher.

California Institute of Integral Studies, Ph.D. East-West Psychology, 1996
University of West Georgia, M.A. Humanistic Psychology, 1991
Emory University
B.A. Psychology, 1989

A certified engineer of geology and radiesthesist, Dr. Gultekin is born in 1959, Ankara and after receiving a scholarship from TUBITAK’s undergraduate basic science scholarship, he graduated from Istanbul University, Engineering Faculty in 1982. He worked as a research associate between 1984-1993 in Istanbul University, Faculty of General Geology.

He is born in 1960, Gaziantep. He is graduated from Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Stage and Visual Arts.

He is introduced into Metapsychical Investigations and Scientific Research Society in 1981. Starting with spiritual healing and metapsychical research, his activities within the society has widened to include certifications in Acmos Therapy, Reiki, EFT (Aamed), regression therapy (WRE) which he practices.

Tarık Arıkdal is born in 1966, in Istanbul and graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1990. In 1989, he graduated from Boğaziçi University Information Technology Department, System Analysis and Programming.

M. Resat Guner graduated in 1987 from State Conservatory of Dokuz Eylul University, in Izmir. He is one of the founder members of Izmir Spiritual Investigations Society which is founded in 1990 and since 1991, Guner continues to give lectures and do workshops and write articles on spiritualism, parapsychology and human consciousness.

Guner has master practitioner certificate in the field of NLP and been trained by Janet Cunningham, Ph.D and Jeffrey Ryan in the field of regression therapy.