Julie Beischel PhD

Dr. Julie Beischel (www.juliebphd.com), a recognized world-leader in empirical consciousness research, received her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona. She uses this interdisciplinary training to apply the scientific method to controversial topics. Following the suicide of her mother and an evidential mediumship reading, Dr. Beischel forfeited a potentially lucrative career in the pharmaceutical industry to pursue rigorous scientific consciousness research full-time. For over 17 years, Dr. Beischel has worked full-time studying mediums: individuals who report experiencing communication with the deceased and who regularly, reliably, and on-demand report the specific resulting messages to the living. Her studies began with testing the accuracy and specificity of the information reported by mediums during phone readings performed under controlled, more than double-blind, laboratory conditions that address alternative explanations for the source of their statements such as fraud, cueing, and overly general information. She has also examined mediums’ psychology, physiology, business practices, demographics, and experiences and published peer-reviewed journal articles and anthology chapters discussing these factors and the potential therapeutic application of mediumship readings during bereavement. Her research interests also include spontaneous, facilitated, assisted, and requested after-death communication experiences. Dr. Beischel is the author of the e-books Among Mediums, Meaningful Messages, and From the Mouths of Mediums and the paperback book Investigating Mediums in addition to numerous anthology chapters. Dr. Beischel is currently the co-founder and Director of Research at the Windbridge Research Center (www.windbridge.org), a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to easing suffering around dying, death, and what comes next by performing rigorous scientific research and sharing the results and other customized content for free with practitioners, clinicians, scientists, and the general public. Her non-research-based interests include her husband, comic strips, stand-up comedy, and crafts of almost any type but mostly beads. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her research partner and husband Mark Boccuzzi and their two dogs.