Dr. May has managed complex, interdisciplinary research projects for the US federal government since 1985. He presided over 70% of the funding ($20M+) and 85% of the data collection for the government’s 22-year involvement in parapsychological research. His responsibilities included fund raising, personnel management, project administration and planning, and he was the guiding force for the technical research effort. Currently, Dr. May is the Executive Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, which now resides within the Laboratories for Fundamental Research.

He accumulated over 12 years experience in experimental nuclear physics research, which included the study of nuclear reaction mechanism and nuclear structure. Dr. May’s accelerator experience includes a variety of tandem Van de Graaff generators and cyclotrons operating under 50 million electron volts. Other specialize experience includes four years of ?-ray spectroscopy, one year of trace-element analysis (x-ray, and a-particle techniques), numerical analysis, Monte Carlo techniques, digital signal processing, and cardiac blood flow research. In addition, he has conducted physiology research through the careful investigation of the efficacy of biofeedback in a clinical setting.

Dr. May is fluent in a variety of 3-GL and 4-GL computer languages including C, FORTRAN, IDL, Visual Basic, various machine codes, and SQL.

Dr. May’s eclectic background has provided him with significant expertise in a variety of seemingly unrelated disciplines; thus, he is ideally suited and experienced to direct interdisciplinary research. His Dissertation was “Nuclear Reaction Studies via the (p,pn) Reaction on Light Nuclei and the (d,pn) Reaction on Medium to Heavy Nuclei.” B. L. Cohen, advisor. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (1968). He is the author or co-author of a total of 130 reports: 16 papers in experimental nuclear physics: 30 papers presented at technical conferences on anomalous cognition; 19 abstracts presented at professional conferences on physics; 79 technical or administrative reports to various clients; and 14 miscellaneous reports and proposals. The Parapsychological Association, an affiliate member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, granted him the Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution for research excellence. He was President, The Parapsychological Association for 1997.

For more detailed information on Stargate, go to Cognitive Sciences Laboratory website.

Further Reading:

The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary by Edwin May

May, E. C., Utts, J. M., Humphrey, B. S., Luke, W. L. W., Frivold, T. J., and Trask, V. V. (1990). Advances in Remote-Viewing Analysis. Journal of Parapsychology, 54, 193-228.

May, E. C. and Vilenskaya, L. (1992). Overview of Current Parapsychology Research in the Former Soviet Union. Subtle Energies, 3, No. 3, 45-67.

May, E. C., Spottiswoode, S. J. P., and James, C. L. (1994). Managing the Target-Pool Bandwidth: Possible Noise Reduction for Anomalous Cognition Experiments. Journal of Parapsychology, 58, 303-313.

May, E. C., Spottiswoode, S. J. P. and James, C. L. (1994). Shannon Entropy: A Possible Intrinsic Target Property. Journal of Parapsychology, 58, 384-401.

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I shall close this page with a few personal comments on my overall perspective.

Everything that I want to say about love hinges in one sense or another upon the question "Does psi (ESP) occur as a scientific reality?"

I have two logically independent scientific reasons for believing in the reality of psi. I shall present the first reason, which I shall then lay aside so that we can consider the second reason, which is more interesting.

The first reason for believing in the reality of psi might be facetiously summarized as "because McConnell says so." Seriously, however, you may want to believe in psi because McConnell tells you so much about himself that you cannot escape the conviction that he is correct when he says "Psi is real."

McConnell tells you about himself in Part I of his book Joyride to Infinity, to which are provided itemized references in his letters to Dr. Fisher in "The Dual Nature of Romantic Love." (www.ramcconnell.com/romanticlove.pdf). Meanwhile, I shall lay aside this first reason for believing in psi.

To understand the argument for the "second reason," the reader will need hard copies of this page ("www.parapsych.org/members/r_a_mcconnell.html"), as well as hard copies of its first three listed "Selected Publications" and a copy of Helen Fisher's book.

The second reason for believing in the scientific reality of psi follows indirectly from the independent and simultaneous publication of several experimental facts in my essay "The Dual Nature of Romantic Love," as will now be explained. The publication of these facts compels two additional conclusions which are more important than the simple conclusion that psi is real.

The new experimental facts are (1) that the subjective description of the ecstatically pleasurable experience associated with romantic love, associated, in turn, with the functional magnetic resonance imaging of specific hormonal brain networks (as described by Helen Fisher in her book Why We Love), matches the subjective experiences of paraprofessional psychics (as reported by R. A. McConnell in Psi Bonds: What Are They?), and (2) that these descriptions of pleasure were independently gathered and could not have been copied from one to the other. This compels the conclusion that the experiences were identical and hence that the processes are identical, i.e. that the hormonal process is identical with the psychic process even though this statement is, prima facie, paradoxical.

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Mr. McMoneagle has 34 years of professional expertise in research and development, in numerous multi-level technical systems, the paranormal, and the social sciences. Experience includes: experimental protocol design, collection and evaluation of statistical information, prototype design and testing, Automatic Data Processing equipment and technology interface, management, and data systems analysis for mainframe, mini-mainframe, and desktop computer systems supporting information collection and analysis for military and civilian intelligence purposes.

He is currently owner and Executive Director of Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., which has provided support to multiple research facilities and corporations with a full range of collection applications using Anomalous Cognition (AC) in the production of original and cutting edge information. He is a full time Research Associate with The Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, where he has provided consulting support to research and development in remote viewing for 16+ years. As a consultant to SRI-International and Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. from 1984 through 1995, he participated in protocol design, statistical information collection, R&D evaluations, as well as thousands of remote viewing trials in support of both experimental research as well as active intelligence operations for what is now known as Project STARGATE. He is well versed with developmental theory, methods of application, and current training technologies for remote viewing, as currently applied under strict laboratory controls and oversight.

During his career, Mr. McMoneagle has provided professional intelligence and creative/innovative informational support to the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Drug Enforcement Agency, Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Customs, the National Security Council, most major commands within the Department of Defense, and hundreds of other individuals, companies, and corporations. He is the only person who has successfully demonstrated his ability as a remote viewer more than two dozen times, live, double-blind, and under strict scientific control while on-camera for national networks and labs in four countries.

Mr. McMoneagle has also been responsible for his Military Occupational Specialty at the Army Headquarters level, to include control and management of both manned and unmanned intelligence collections sites within the Continental United States and overseas. He was responsible for all tactical and strategic equipment, tasking, including aircraft and vehicles, development of new or future technology as well as current technology, planning, support and maintenance, funding, training, and personnel. He has performed responsibly as a primary in international and intra-service negotiations and agreements in support of six national level intelligence agencies, and has acted as a direct consultant to the Commanding General, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), Washington D.C., as well as the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), Pentagon.

Other past employment has included Assistant to the Security Officer for a multi-billion dollar overseas intelligence facility, with responsibilities that included physical plant communications, personnel, and technology security and defense; as well as counter-terrorist and counter-intelligence operations at home and abroad. He has served as the Detachment Commander at two remote intelligence collection sites overseas, providing field intelligence collection, analysis and reporting at theater, region, country, and city levels. He has also served on an Air and Sea Rescue team, in Long Range Reconnaissance, as a Quick Reaction Strike Force team leader, and rifleman in war zones.

He has earned 28 military decorations and numerous awards, to include a Legion of Merit for his Anomalous Cognition and Remote Viewing support to the Nation’s Intelligence Community. He holds the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of St. Stanislas, which is now a charitable organization. Originally established in 1765 by the last King of Poland, predominantly for military and medical professionals, it is now concerned with raising the standard of living in Eastern Europe. The Order’s current responsibilties include; support to numerous charitable foundations in Warsaw, provides support to the Pulaski Monument Restoration, the Medical University in Warsaw, as well as aid and assistance to children survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.

Mr. McMoneagle is currently a full member of The Parapsychological Association, a Life Member of the Disabled American Veterans, a performing member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), is a Retired Chief Warrant Officer in the Regular Army of the United States of America, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center, New York, as well as the J. B. Rhine Research Center, Durham, North Carolina.

Concurrently he is the author of the following books published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., of Charlottesville, Virginia:

MIND TREK, Exploring Consciousness Time and Space through Remote Viewing, 1993 (revised 1997)

THE ULTIMATE TIME MACHINE, A Remote Viewer’s Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium, (1998)

REMOTE VIEWING SECRETS, A Handbook (2000)

THE STAR GATE CHRONICLES, Memoirs of a Psychic Spy (Summer 2002).

Journal Publications: J.W. McMoneagle, PERCEPTIONS OF A PARANORMAL SUBJECT, The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 61, June 1997.

Article: J.W. McMoneagle, JULES VERNE: WRITER, PSYCHIC, OR REMOTE VIEWER, The Anomalist, No. 5, Summer 1997. (translated) Julio Verne: Visionario o Vidente? Ano 4, No 3, Jan 1998.

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1987 - Present, Chairman, Thinking Allowed Productions.  Thinking Allowed Productions is a corporation that has produced and broadcast hundreds of television interviews, shown via satellite on public television stations throughout North America.  Over 400 colleges and universities use videotapes produced by Thinking Allowed.  In 1988, IONS agreed to serve as a sponsor for the first satellite uplink of the Thinking Allowed television series.   

1999 – Present, Dean of Programs, University of Philosophical Research.  The University of Philosophical Research is approved by the State of California to offer masters degrees in consciousness studies and transformational psychology through a distant learning program.  Among the courses taught is Psi Research.  This course is also available to ministers in training with the United Church of Religious Science through the Holmes Institute.   

Education
B.A., Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1969.
Master of Criminology, University of California, Berkeley, 1972.
Ph.D., Parapsychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1980,

Publications
“Steps Toward a Scientific Theory of Consciousness,” with Saul-Paul Sirag.  In Trish Pfeiffer and John Mack (Eds.), The Primacy of Consciousness.  Cambridge, MA: Center for Psychology and Social Change, to be published. 

“Intuitive Principles Put to the Test.”  Online Journal of Psychology and Social Change.  (Article originally posted to the Intuition Network’s Inpresence e-mail list on September 11, 2001.)

“Interpretive Introduction.”  In F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.  Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2001.

The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter.  Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2000.   

“Appendix:  Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove, A Televised Interview.” In Huston Smith, Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals.  New York: Putnam, 2000. 

“Foreword.”  In Moriah St. Claire, 365 Empowering Ways to Move beyond Abuse: A Daily Healing Companion for Survivors.  Pathways United Publications, 2000.

“Foreword.”  In Timothy Leary, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.  Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1999. 

“Intuition: A Link Between Psi and Spirituality.”  In Charles Tart (Ed.), Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality.  Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 1997. 

 “What Is Intuition?”  In Roger Frantz and Alex N. Pattakos (Eds.), Intuition At Work: Pathways to Unlimited Possibilities.  San Francisco: Sterling and Stone, Inc./New Leaders Press, 1996. 

The Roots of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies Revised and Expanded.  Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, 1993.  New York: Marlowe and Company, 1997. 

 “Trends in Consciousness: Mainstream Research Supports Studies,” NAPRA Trade Journal, Winter 1994. 

“Intuition: The Source of True Knowing.”  Noetic Sciences Review, #29, Spring 1994. 

“Intuition: The X-Factor in Business.”  Journal of Creatia, Issue No. 2, September 1994.

Thinking Allowed: Leading Thinkers of our Time in Conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD. Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, 1992. 

“Spirituality and Psychology: An Interview with Frances Vaughan.”  Noetic Sciences Review, # 10, Spring 1989. 

“Psionics: The Practical Application of Parapsychology.”  In Betty Shapin and Lissette Coly (Eds.), Current Trends in Psi Research.  New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1986. 

Psi Development Systems.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1983.  New York: Ballantine, 1987. 

“Security Implications of Applied Psi: An Historical Summary,” with Barbara Honegger.  Applied Psi Newsletter, 1(5), November/December 1982. 

“An Emerging New Discipline,” with William Kautz. Applied Psi Newsletter, 1(1), March/April 1982. 

“Psi-Development Systems: Structures and Strategies,” Parapsychology Review, 1981. 

“The Schism Within Parapsychology,” Zetetic Scholar, No. 8, 1981, pp. 78-85. 

“Scientific logic, Irrationality and Subjectivity in Parapsychology,” Zetetic Scholar, 1981, No. 8, pp. 105-13. 

“Paranormal Claims within the Transcendental Meditation Program: An Evaluation.”  In W.G. Roll, R.L. Morris & R.A. White (Eds.), Research in Parapsychology 1981. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1982, pp. 181-182. 

“Parapsychology Research: Interview with Ray Hyman,” The Skeptical Inquirer, Fall 1980, 5(1), pp. 63-67.

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