ESP WARS
East and West
An Account of the Military Use of Psychic Espionage as Narrated by the Key Russian and American Players
By Edwin C. May, Ph.D.
Victor Rubel, Ph.D.
Joseph W. McMoneagle
Loyd Auerbach, M.S.
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Meet the Authors
Edwin C. May, Ph.D.
Ed Mays interest in serious research of parapsychological phenomena in 1975 when he joined the on-going U.S. Government-sponsored work at SRI International (formerly called Stanford Research Institute). Having spent the first part of his research career in the discipline for which he earned his Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Pittsburgh, Parapsychology was a bit of a leap. Before leaving that career in Low Energy Experimental Nuclear Physics, he had published 16 papers in the peer-reviewed physics literature including his report of the first measurement of the singlet state of the deuteron, which appeared in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.
He did advance studies in his new area, and in 1985, he became the SRI programs director. In 1991, he shifted the effort to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), another US Defense Contractor. His association with government-sponsored parapsychology research ended in 1995, when the program, then called Star Gate, was closed by the US Government.
When the research was declassified in 2000, Dr. May was able to publish groundbreaking results and theories in the peer-reviewed literature -- the latest of which appeared in an abstracted medical journal.
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 governments 22-year involvement in parapsychological research. His responsibilities included fund raising, personnel management, project administration and planning, and he was the guiding force for and active in the technical research program. Currently, Dr. May is the Executive Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, which now resides within the Laboratories for Fundamental Research.
Dr. Mays approach has earned him an international reputation for his research rigor and excellence even though the topic is considered highly controversial. He is the author or co-author of a large number of papers, reports, proposals and presentations from both of his career activities.
He recently was honored to give a public talk about intelligence collection at the World War II famous site, Bletchley Park, in the UK. His presentations mostly to skeptical audiences have been accepted worldwide, including such venues as Harvard University, the Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Davis, Stanford University, the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Cambridge, Etvs Lornd University, the University of Stockholm, and Imperial College London to name but a few.
The Parapsychological Association, an affiliate member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, granted him the Outstanding Achievement Award in 1996. For his contribution and research excellence and the Association presented him the Outstanding Career Achievement award in 2007. He was President of The Parapsychological Association in 1997 and has served often on its Board of Directors.
To learn more about the Star Gate era and the research since then, including the complete set of publications, please visit www.LFR.ORG.
May, Paulinyi & Vassy (2005). Anomalous Anticipatory Skin Conductance Response to Acoustic Stimuli: Experimental Results and Speculation About a Mechanism. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine . , 4, 695-702.
Victor Rubel, Ph.D.
Victor Rubel, Director of the Media Laboratory for the Laboratories for the Fundamental Research, was born to librarian parents in Stavropol, a southern region of Russia, in 1959. In 1976, he enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (the Russian equivalent of MIT) and in 1982 graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, School of Physics. Following that, he served 2 years in the Russian Army as an officer with the rank of lieutenant.
After his military service, he taught physics and mathematics at the Pedagogical College and then was offered a position as a head of the Professional Orientation Laboratory at the Moscow Department of Education. In 1986, he enrolled in the post-graduate course (on methodology of science) at the Moscow State University, where he also taught students philosophy at the Departments of Physics and Mathematics.
From 1989 to 1992, he travelled to the US several times and started his further education in transpersonal psychology with Stanislav Grofs Transpersonal Training. Being certified in 1992, he established the Moscow Transpersonal Center and became its Director, providing Holotropic Breathwork training and transpersonal psychology seminars for psychologists and medical doctors in Russia.
During that time, he also established one of the first private companies in Russia and worked in the Russian TV and film industries, producing and managing a number of projects. The biggest one was an attempt to establish the first digital TV-movie studio in Russia in collaboration with Japan, which was halted by the collapse of the USSR in the 1991.
In 1993, Rubel immigrated to the US, where he worked as a manager of the Russian Cultural Center of San Francisco. In 1997, he enrolled in the Ph.D. course in the California Institute of Integral Studies. He earned his degree in Humanities in 1999 and began working as a consultant at the Laboratories for the Fundamental Research in Palo Alto, California. In 2003, became Director of the Media Laboratory there, managing a number of projects, including the Holographic Cinema Technology, in collaboration with the Russian Cinema and Photo Research Institute.
Victor Rubel is the author of three books: Astrology without Astrologers and Horoscopes (Sophia Publishing House, 1998 ) ; The Principles of Forecasting Systems (Ripol Publishing House, 2009) and a fairy tale written with his wife, Nina Wiese, The Secret of the Enchanted Christmas Tree (MediaVremia Publishing House, 2012) published in Russia.
Loyd Auerbach, M.S.