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
karen@karenherrick.com and at
(732) 530-8513.
Vice-President: Michael E. Tymn
Editor of The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies
and our news magazine, The Searchlight.
Kailua, Hawaii
Mike is a freelance journalist who has contributed more than 1,500 articles to some 40 publications over the past 50 years. He is the author of five books... Running on Third Wind, The Articulate Dead, The Afterlife Revealed, and The Afterlife Explorers. His new book, Transcending the Titanic, is scheduled for publication to coincide wtih the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. METGAT@aol.com
Executive Director: Boyce Batey, B.A.,
PSI Researcher, Bloomfield, CT
PSI researcher, Executive 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 BateyB@infionline.net
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. Karin56@juno.com
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
Rev. Terri Daniel, Writer, Editor, MarCom Specialist, Sisters, OR
Joy DeHarpporte, St. Paul, MN
Kathy J. DeVito, B.S., Nazareth, PA 18064-1113
Stephen H. Hall, B.GS, retired public education administrator, Altamonte Springs, FL
William E. Stoney, M.S., 11990 Market St., Unit 1101, Reston, VA 20390
William E. Wilson, JD, 85 Pape Drive, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
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.
Advisory Council
Larry Dossey, M.D., physician and author, Santa Fe, NM
Bernard R. Grad, Ph.D., biologist, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Jean Houston, Ph.D., co-director, Foundation for Mind Research, Ashland, OR
Kenneth Thurston Hurst, former President, Prentice-Hall International, Fort Myers, FL
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
