From the heart of Cascadia, and the edge of the world, you from that presence, night drift,

Jim Perry, live on alternative talk 1150KKNWAM in worldwide at ufamette.com. I'm Jim Perry and you are listening to night drift, presented by Ufamette.

Tonight broadcasting from my home studio in the hinterlands of the Oregon coast, at the edge of the world.

Tonight, there are things that many people experience that are beyond belief, ghosts, psychic impressions, communication from the other side.

But what if these things could be explained?

Tonight, a ghost investigator shares stories of chilling encounters while in the field looking for those explanations, context, a reason for the strange.

Guest Amanda Paulson in our second segment. But first, Eleanor Chriswell, a pioneer in sigh research tells us what cutting edge research is suggesting about Sy genes.

And tonight we're going to jump right into it, with Eleanor Chriswell.

Professor of Psychology and Former Chair of the Psychology Department, Sonoma State University, founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute, now Saberok University.

She is editor of Somatics Magazine, the magazine journal of the Mind Body Arts and Scientists, and director of the Navato Institute for Somatic Research and Training.

Her books include Biofeedback and Somatics, Toward Personal Evolution, How Yoga Works and Introduction to Somatic Yoga.

She is the originator of Somatic Yoga and Equine Hanna Somatics.

Her research interests include Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, Psychophysiology, Yoga, Mind Body Practices, Somatics, and Meditation.

Eleanor is also an institutional review board member of the Institute of Neuatic Sciences.

Eleanor, welcome to the program tonight.

Jim, thank you so much. I'm so pleased to be able to participate in your program.

Yeah, well, it's fantastic to meet you. It was great to look back on your career in which we hope I hope we get to dive into a little bit here in a second.

But, you know, listen, the article you wrote for the Institute of Neuatic Sciences called How Psychic Suppression May Impact the Heredity of Sy genes.

Wow, it really blew my mind. And let's see if we can walk through some of the research ideas and experiences described in that, but maybe first we can start with you.

So, how would you describe your career in the study of psychic abilities?

Well, I have been experiencing a certain part of it, probably all my life. So, as I became a psychologist and a professor at Sanoma State University, and it was congruent with the times.

In the early, early 70s and so forth and so on, I became aware of the fact that there were people to showed up in my psychotherapy practice where there were people coming to see me who had psychic abilities.

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