About the Author

Bio

Pamela Heath has a BA in psychology from the University of Missouri in Columbia, an MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and a PsyD from the American School of Professional Psychology and Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology. Dr. Heath has performed case investigations with the Office of Paranormal Investigations alongside Loyd Auerbach since 1996. Dr. Heath is a full member of the Parapsychological Association, an Associate of the Society for Psychical Research, and co-founder of the Paranormal Research Organization. She has published journal articles and textbook chapters on psychokinesis, place memory, experiential research, and the survival of bodily death. Her current books include The PK Zone and Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? (now also available in Spanish) and she has two new books coming out in 2010: Handbook to the Afterlife (with Jon Klimo) and Mind-Matter Interaction: Historical Reports, Research and Firsthand Accounts. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and devotes the bulk of her time to writing. For more information, please go to her main website at: www.pamelaheath.com.

 


Academic History

  • B.A. in Psychology (with a minor in Chemistry), Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1976.
  • M.D. from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1980.
  • Certified Master Hypnotherapist from the Institute for Educational Therapy in 1996.
  • Psy.D. in Parapsychology from Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Studies and the American Schools of Professional Psychology (now Argosy University) in 1999. 

Work Experience

  • Practicing Anesthesiologist from 1983 until retirement in 2008.
  • Anesthesia Department Chief for Humana Hospital at Abilene (Texas) in 1986.
  • Director of Education for the Department of Anesthesia at Orlando Regional Medical Center from 1987 until 1989.
  • Member of the Surgery Department faculty at Orlando Regional Medical Center.
  • Assistant Faculty for the Anesthesia Department of the University of Miami in 1990.
  • Chief of Anesthesia at Chinle Hospital from 1993 until 1995.
  • Director of the Department Respiratory Therapy at Chinle Hospital in 1995

Professional Affiliations

Television Experience

  • Dead Famous: Al Capone and the Mob (episode 1.1), original air date June 15, 2004.  I appeared as a parapsychologist.
  • CBS Evening Magazine, original air date February 16, 2005.  I appeared as a psychic.
  • Mediums: We See Dead People original air date October 14, 2005. I appeared briefly as a parapsychologist.
  • Dead Famous: Rita Hayworth, original air date April 11th, 2006. I appear briefly as a parapsychologist.
  • View From the Bay on the ABC station KGO, original air date October 31, 2006. I appear as a parapsychologist.
  • Supernatural Investigator on VisionTV in Canada, original air date March 17, 2009. I appear uncredited as Lyn Buchanan's monitor during a CRV session.
  • Star Rovers, original air date July 22, 2009.  I was interviewed as an artist.
  • Ghost Lab, original air date October 20, 2009.  I was interviewed as a parapsychologist.
  • Ghost Stories, original air date June 25, 2010.  I was interviewed on the ghosts of the USS Hornet for the Travel Channel.
  • I have also been involved with other shows for the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, and New Zealand's TV3.
Radio and Podcast Experience

(from most recent to earliest)

Publications

  • "Instruction and grouped presentation in free recall." Co-written with David Brunts and John Mueller. Published in the June 1977 (vol. 90, no. 2) issue of American Journal of Psychology. This article may be read here.
  • "Treatment of tension and migraine headaches with biofeedback techniques." Co-written with F. Fried and J. Lamberti. Published in the June 1977 (vol. 74, no. 6) issue of Missouri Medicine. This article may be read here.
  • "Fin de siècle." Co-written with Robert Boice and Peter Hertli. Published in the December 1977 (vol. 32, no. 12) issue of American Psychologist. This short article (which starts part-way down the page) may be read here.
  • Into the PK Zone: A Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Performing Psychokinesis. Published in 1999. This dissertation was an initial look at what the experience of performing psychokinesis was like for those that do it. It is available for order as UMI # 9940063 at Bell & Howell Information & Learning.
  • "Into the psychokinetic (PK) zone: a phenomenological study of the experience of performing PK." Presented during the Parapsychological Association Convention at Stanford University in August 1999 and published the same year in the Parapsychological Association 42nd Annual Convention Proceedings of Presented Papers.
  • "The PK zone: a phenomenological study." Published in the January 2000 (vol. 40, no. 6) issue of Iridis. This talk was also presented at the California Society for Psychical Research. Videotapes of the talk are available from that organization.
  • "Into the PK zone: a phenomenological study." Published in the March 2000 (vol. 64, no. 1) issue of the Journal of Parapsychology. This article can be read courtesy of the Journal of Parapsychology as a PDF file here.
  • The PK Zone: A Cross-Cultural Review of Psychokinesis. Published in 2003. It is rated 5 stars at Amazon, and is the winner of the Editor's Choice award and Reader's choice award. This book covers stories of mind over matter from cultures around the world, the research, and what the experience of performing psychokinesis is like for those who do it. 
  • "What is psychokinesis?" Published in the November 2000 (vol. 46, no. 3) issue of Iridis. This talk was also presented at the California Society for Psychical Research.
  • "The possible role of psychokinesis in place memory" in the December 2004 (vol. 4, no. 2) issue of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology. This article may be read here.
  • "Experiential research." Published in 2005 as the last chapter in Parapsychology in the 21st Century.
  • "A new theory on place memory" in the June 2005 (vol. 5, no. 1) issue of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology. This article may be read here.
  • Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? Published in June 2006 by North Atlantic Books and co-written with Jon Klimo, the world's foremost expert on channeling.
  • "What the channeled messages of suicides tell us about the afterlife" (pp 207-221) in  Lance Storm and Michael Thalbourne's The Survival of Human Consciousness: Essays on the Possibility of Life After Death. Published in October 2006 and co-written with Jon Klimo. You can read more about the book here.
  • Suicidio: ¿Que Sucede Realmente en el Otro Lado? Published in September 2007 by Palmyra Libros. This is the spanish language version of the suicide book.
  • "The Afterlife as an Extension of Lifespan Development." Published in Spring 2010 (vol. 3, no. 1) issue of Winds of Change - a newsletter for Windbridge.
  • Handbook to the Afterlife (in press). Will be released April 20 2010 by North Atlantic Books and co-written with Jon Klimo.
  • Mind-Matter Interaction: Historical Reports, Research and Firsthand Accounts (in press). Will be released in Summer 2010 by McFarland.
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