December 1, 2016
The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) is a not-for-profit co-founded by the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14 Astronaut), Dr. Rudy Schild (Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University), Australian researcher Mary Rodwell and Rey Hernandez, a US federal tax attorney and Experiencer. The Executive Director of FREE is Dr. Rudy Schild. Shortly before his death, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, in a video recording, expressly gave his permission to allow FREE to be named for his legacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9X6WRITn0
FREE has a 12 member Board of Directors comprised of Ph.D. Physicists, Ph.D. Scientists, Ph.D. Psychologists, Ph.D. Neuroscientists and lay researchers. FREE is researching “What is Consciousness?”; what is the nature of our multi-dimensional reality, by undertaking the world’s first comprehensive multi-lingual academic research study on individuals that have had UFO related contact experiences with non-human intelligent beings (NHIBs) - and the associated paranormal activity - from a grounded and rigorous scientific foundation.
Eventually, we want to compare this UFO related contact group with individuals that have had other types of “paranormal” contact experiences through the following “Contact Modalities”: Near Death Experiences, Out of Body Experiences, Shamanic Hallucinogenic contact, Mystical Meditation contact, Channeling, Lucid Dreaming, Remote Viewing, and other types of human encounters with non-human intelligence, and the related paranormal contact experiences.
The majority of our FREE Board of Directors, including the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell (one of the world’s leading experts on “The Physics of Consciousness”), Dr. Rudy Schild, a Harvard University Professor and Editor of the Journal of Cosmology, Dr. Claude Swanson, a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University and author of “The Synchronized Universe”, Dr. Bob Davis, a retired professor of Neuroscience, and Dr. Jon Klimo, a retired professor of Psychology and one of the world’s leading academic experts on the “paranormal”, hypothesize that all of these diverse "Paranormal Contact Modalities" (NDEs, OBEs, UFO visitations, Remote Viewing, ESP, Channeling, Spirit Interactions, etc) might be interconnected through an advanced physics theory, the Quantum Hologram Theory of Physics and Consciousness, as developed by the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild.
All of these so-called “paranormal” contact phenomena should not be studied separately but as one whole interrelated phenomenon. Unfortunately, today, almost all researchers are studying these contact modalities as separate and distinct from each other.
FREE is undertaking the WORLD'S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ACADEMIC MULTILINGUAL RESEARCH STUDY on Individuals having UFO related Contact with Non Human Intelligent Beings (NHIBs) - The FREE Experiencer Research Study. The Co-Chairs of this research study are Dr. Jon Klimo, a retired Professor of Psychology and one of the world’s leading academics on the “Paranormal” and Dr. Bob Davis, a retired Professor of Neuroscience at the State University of New York. Our primarily focus will be on scientific investigation, through 3 lengthy surveys and a formal interview, of individuals who have had UFO related contact experiences with NHIBs.
METHODOLOGY: Our research study involves two comprehensive quantitative surveys, Phase 1 and Phase 2 - totalling more than 600 questions - and two qualitative research instruments, Phase 3 and 4. Phase 3 involves written responses to 70 open ended questions. It is meant for major experiencers with multiple contact events. Phase 4 involves a multi-day formal structured interview that will be audio recorded and transcribed. We expect to interview 200 of the major experiencers from the more than 3,000 that have participated. All 4 phases will be completely anonymous and based solely on conscious explicit memories and not lucid dreams or hypnotic regressions.
LANGUAGES: Our surveys are being administered in English, Spanish, German, French, and soon will be in Slovak, Farsi and Mandarin.