Marilynn Hughes founded The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation in 2003 (Mission: Reduce Spiritual Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has experienced, researched, written, and taught about Out of Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out of body experiences.

Marilynn Hughes has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions, as well as Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical and Moral Theology. She has also studied Individual Schools of Theology, to include Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, and Benedictine.

Marilynn has trained as a Remote Viewer in Transdimensional, Controlled and Associative Remote Viewing and is a Hypnotherapist. She received certifications in various psychological and therapeutic modalities including NLP, REBT, CBT, ACT, DBT, MBCT, EFT, TFT, SFBT and NBA Therapies. (Educational Details Here.)

Marilynn has authored 104 books, 40 magazines and 18 CD's on Out of Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism including her seminal classic The Mysteries of the Redemption: A Treatise on Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism, which is now in signed with Ubiquity Entertainment and Dean Lyon of 'The Lord of the Rings' to create a feature film/tv series based on her experiences shared in this work. Marilynn also joins James Van Praagh in development on the board for The Afterlife Uncovered, a television project.

Marilynn was featured in the documentary film, The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary, and in video productions: The Grand Phases of the Soul, The Stairway from Earth to Heaven, How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience, The Tao of Mysticism, The Initiations into the Mysteries, The Rites of Passage and At the Feet of the Masters.

Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages (In Twelve Volumes). Her out of body travel work has been featured in The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World, by Constance Victoria Briggs and in Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness, (along with Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Ingo Swann) by Dr. Thomas Streicher. KC Armstrong, (Former Producer of the Howard Stern Show), in his book named Marilynn as one of thirteen Simply Amazing Women.

Marilynn has been the subject of several Out of Body Travel Research Studies including The Out-of-Body Experiment by Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko. Marilynn Hughes and Dr. Rudy Schild (Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard) co-authored a chapter entitled The Science for Moral Law which was included in Volume III of The Change. She has been featured on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell among others. Her books have received ‘College Textbook’ classification, she received Two Global Media Mentions Awards in Four Countries, Two Editor's Choice Poetry Awards, have been inducted into Forbes Magazine Book Club, are listed on Google Scholar, Academia, Stanford and David Hume Texts Online.

Marilynn Hughes spent two years on the original board of The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraordinary Experiences now known as the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute, working to define the Consciousness Modalities which were explained in detail in Marilynn's book The Hammer of Mysticism: Encyclopedic Journey into Out-of-Body Travel, Mystical Processes and Terms, and contributed the chapters entitled Out-of-Body Travel, Astral Travel and Remote Viewing: Definition, Similarities, Differences, Spiritual Potential and Related Hierarchies and The Progression of Out-of-Body Experiences to their books, A Greater Reality Volumes II and III.

Out of Body Travel Author, Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound out of body experience wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels which led to the throne of God. In this out of body experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission to fulfill in relation to out of body travel. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience in adulthood completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out of body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades.

Rev. Michael JS. Carter is an ordained interfaith minister who received his BA Degree in Letters from the College of New Rochelle and his Masters in Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary. While serving various Unitarian Universalist Congregations in New York, Michael was trained as an anti-racism trainer and has been recognized by President Clinton for his efforts. Michael now serves as minister for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swanannoa Valley.

Dr. Charles Emmons has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago and was a
Professor of Sociology at Gettysburg College for 45 years.  His research is mainly in the area of
the sociology/anthropology of science, religion and the paranormal.  His latest book, co-authored
by his wife, Penelope Emmons, is Science and Spirit: Exploring the Limits of
Consciousness (2012). They also collaborated on Guided by Spirit: A Journey into the Mind of the
Medium  (2003).  Other publications by Charlie include Chinese Ghosts and ESP: A Study of
Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences  (1982), Hong Kong Prepares for 1997 (1987) and At the
Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age  (1997).  He also appears in the TV documentaries
“Ghosts of Gettysburg.”  He is active in Exploring the Extraordinary, is an honorary member of
the Board of Reviewers of the journal Paranthropology, and a member of The Society for
Scientific Exploration.

Ruth Ann has experienced all of the Contact Modalities which include the following: a Near Death Experience, has seen hundreds of humanoid beings, has seen at least 7 different deceased humans who frequently appeared at her home in physical form, has seen hundreds of UFOs, has had hundreds of Out of Body Experiences, has been brought to other multidimensional realities, and has even seen Arch Angels in a physical form. She constantly communicates with her deceased son, David, and many times uses David as an intermediary with communications with the heavenly realm, including deceased human souls. This is a tiny fraction of her experiences. Rey Hernandez has stated that she is one of the top three major experiencers that he has ever met.

Mary Rodwell is the Founder and Principal of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN) an the Co-founder & Director of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research Into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE). A midwife, counselor, hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, and former nurse, she is also an international speaker, researcher, and author of two books. She has produced two award winning documentaries and a series of meditation CDs.

As one of Australia’s leading researchers of encounters with non-human intelligences, she's lectured in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia. Mary is also featured in several documentaries, including a personal one with her son, "My Mum Talks to Aliens," produced in Australia by SBS. Her research explores the encounter phenomenon from a multidimensional perspective and suggests that Star ‘Visitors’ have orchestrated many complex multidimensional programs to ‘upgrade’ and activate the consciousness of Homo sapiens.

Joseph Burkes MD
is a board certified specialist in internal medicine with four decades of experience in patient care. Dr. Burkes has been a volunteer UFO contact/disclosure activist since 1992 working with the CE-5 community, MUFON, and the Peruvian contact network now called Rahma. He is co-author of a chapter on UAP healings drawn from the FREE Experiencer Survey. The chapter appears in the compendium "Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence" edited by Reinerio Hernandez

On this 3rd edition, we discuss the Consciousness aspects of the Contact Modalities (NDEs, UFOs, OBEs, Astral Travel, Remote Viewing, Mediumship, After Death Communications and more. I have already interviewed Dr. Rudy Schild and Dr. Michael Grosso, two of the editors of my new book, A Greater Reality, and I have also scheduled Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, Dr. Eben Alexander, Dr. Jeffrey Long, Dr. Charles Emmmons, and Dr. Joseph Burkes. All of these academics and/or MDs have contributed to the phenomenon is very impactful ways. All focus on the relationship between Consciousness and the Contact Modalities and thats what we do here. This isa great talk with one of the most respected personalities in the study of it all...

After a 45-year career at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard
University, and over 300 peer reviewed academic publications, Rudy has been recognized as one
of the leading proponents of MECOS, an alternative to black hole theory. Rudy was also a
pioneer in gravitational lensing and matter structuring of the universe. Rudy’s most recent
research activities involved comparison of gravitational microlensing, brightness fluctuations
with black hole models to study quasar inner structure. Rudy is also the Editor in Chief of the
Journal of Cosmology which has published many academics articles on the relationship between
Consciousness and the Contact Modalities. Rudy was also one of the four co-founders of the Dr.
Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation (FREE), co-editor of FREE’s book “Beyond UFOs: The
Science of Consciousness and the Contact Modalities”, and is one of five co-editors of the book
“A Greater Reality”.
Website: http://www.rudyschild.com/

On this 1st edition of Consciousness & Contact, Rey Hernandez talks with Dr. Michael Grosso. Dr Grosso got his Ph.D. in philosophy and also studied classical Greek at Columbia University. He has taught philosophy and humanities at New Jersey City University, City University of New York, and elsewhere. His main focus has been on philosophy of mind, with an emphasis on paranormal, creative, and mystical states of consciousness.
Michael has authored numerous books, the latest being Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief. Michael was for many years affiliated with the Division of Perceptual Studies at theUniversity of Virginia where he has contributed chapters for their books titled Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21 st Century and Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation ofScience and Spirituality. Michael is no longer affiliated with any academic institutions. He is an independent scholar, researcher, and artist, into the interface between painting and the paranormal. Michael is one of five co-editors of the book “A Greater Reality”.