About Us
The Academy is governed by a Board of Directors composed of people of academic stature holding a post-graduate degree or the equivalent in outstanding activity relevant to the interests of the Academy. The Directors are the only voting members of the Academy.
ASPSI Officers
President: Rev. Karen E. Herrick, Ph.D.
PhD in Spiritual Psychology, LCSW, LMSW, CADC, Interfaith Minister and Author
Rev. Karen E. Herrick has shared her clinical expertise for
twenty-four years in her private practice by lecturing throughout the United States
on dysfunctional and addictive homes, dissociation, grief and loss. Karen was ordained
in 1995. Her ministry is to be actively involved in Spiritual Psychology specifically
in naming spiritual experiences. Her book You’re Not Finished Yet is available through
Amazon.com, Authorhouse.com and on Kindle. She is available for private therapy in her
office in Red Bank, NJ on Skype and FaceTime. She can be reached at
[email protected] and at
(732) 530-8513.
Vice-President: Steven H. Hall
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Stephen is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with degrees in General Studies and Psychology. Now retired, he had built a career working as a children's services social worker and public school system administrator for the State of Florida. Stephen also served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve. During the Vietnam era, he spent his active tour of duty on a submarine out of Charleston, South Carolina. Within the last two decades, Stephan was introduced to paranormal research and the study of the survival of consciousness, and has pursued his interests in a variety of fringe sciences. He can be contacted at [email protected]
Executive Director: Paul J. Hauser,
B.S. Management, J.D. Employment Law , Wellington, FL.
Recently retired, Paul has had a successful career in finance and management, where he was a pioneer in developing numerous improvement programs on Wall Street. Among them was the development of the first computerized market-related budget program, the installation of the first video switch, real-time government bond trading system and the design of Wall Street’s first product line profitability report. His interest in the paranormal began with Edgar Cayce in the late 1970’s. He can be reached at [email protected]
Boyce Batey, B.A.,
PSI Researcher, Bloomfield, CT
KPSI researcher, Managing Director of The Academy of Religion and Psychical Research and the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc. for the past 33 years. Bloomfield, CT [email protected]
Karin Nemri, CSC
Secretary/Treasurer and Webmaster, Bloomfield, CT
Karin is a Certified Spiritual Counselor, Domestic Violence Counselor, Aiijii Healer, hospice volunteer, and chairperson of the Connecticut Affiliate of the Twilight Brigate: Compassion in Action. [email protected]
Board of Directors
Miles Edward Allen, President of AECES, author of "The Survivor Files: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Compiled for the Survival of Your Soul", PA
Rev. Louis Richard Batzler, Ph.D., pastor, author, and counselor. Kill Devil Hills. NC
Stafford Betty, Ph.D., Professor of Religion Studies at California State University, Bakersfield, CA
Kathy J. DeVito, B.S., Nazareth, PA 18064-1113
Roberta A. Grimes, JD, Writer, Business Attorney
Stephen H. Hall, B.GS, retired public education administrator, Altamonte Springs, FL
R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., Director of the Business Writing Center and co-author of Induced After-Death Communication, Normal, IL
Lee E. Lawrence, CPA, taught tax law at Pennsylvania State University and is known internationally as a medical/psychological intuitive, Sunbury, PA.
William E. Stoney, M.S., 11990 Market St., Unit 1101, Reston, VA 20390
Patricia Thoms, RN , St. Paul, MN
William E. Wilson, JD, 85 Pape Drive, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
Advisory Council
Larry Dossey, M.D., physician and author, Santa Fe, NM
Jean Houston, Ph.D., co-director, Foundation for Mind Research, Ashland, OR
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., psychology, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, CA
Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D., author and psychologist, New York, NY
Raymond A. Moody Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Near-Death Researcher, author and lecturer, Anniston, AL
Vernon M. Neppe, M.D., Ph.D, BN&NP, FRSSAf, DFAPA, Director, Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute, Seattle, WA. neuropsychiatrist, behavioral neurologist, consciousness researcher, psychopharmacologist, phenomenologist, dimensional biopsychophysicist, psychiatrist, professor and author.
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., author and transpersonal psychologist, and professor at Berkeley, CA
John W. White, M.AT., author, educator and writer, Cheshire, CT
