Owen McAleer, President;  Owen is currently the owner of Photon Graphics, a layout design and publication company.  His business experience served him well in his past position as Treasurer on the INACS Board of Directors.  Owen's interest in consciousness research was originally sparked in the early 80's by authors such as: Carlos Castaneda, Jane Roberts, Richard Bach, and Robert Monroe.  Through techniques outlined in these and other books, Owen experienced a variety of nondrug-induced altered states of consciousness.  His fascination about the capabilities of the mind spurred him on to change the direction of his life. After a successful career in real estate sales and development, Owen returned to college in 1990.  He received degrees in journalism, psychology, and biology.  He was the editor of his college newspaper and literary magazine.  His senior research project in a neuropsychology lab was presented at a national conference.  After graduation in 1994 from the University of Denver, he spent two years doing research in a neurobiology lab.  In 1999 he moved to Austin to be closer to his children.  He connected with the INACS group through a presentation by Bob Price on lucid dreaming-one of Owen's favorite subjects. 

Robert F. Price, Ph.D., Vice President and Research Director -- Bob received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in June, 1992. He completed his pre doctoral internship at the University of Virginia Health Science Center in 1990, and a postdoctoral fellowship in 1992 at Austin State Hospital, where he currently serves as Senior Psychologist of the Adult Psychiatric Service. 

Bob managed the University of Texas? Sleep Laboratory from 1981 to 1991, where he conducted sleep and dream research for over 10 years. During that time, he examined the narrative structure of dreams, lucid dreaming, and frequent nightmare experience. He has published several articles on these subjects, including a chapter on lucid dream induction and his dissertation on frequent nightmares, psychopathology, and creativity. He has frequently presented his research at international scientific conferences on dream research, and is personally acquainted with many of the prominent sleep researchers in the United States. Bob is fully devoted to both the scientific and educational missions of INaCS, and is very excited to begin preliminary investigations. 

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, MFA, ATR Trustee, INACS Secretary - Roberta is a registered practicing clinical art therapist. For over 25 years she has worked to develop the inherently curative benefits of expressive arts experiences, in a variety of clinical settings, including psychiatric, chemical dependency and adolescent centers and as a consultant in private practice. 

She served for 4 years on the Executive Board of the American Art Therapy Association and was Editor of the first AATA Proceedings: Creativity and the Art Therapists Identity. Her early writings were focused on the evolution of consciousness, in relation to evolving visual development, including the Guidelist of Observable Dimensions in Artwork. This work paralleled the documentation of a psychophysiology of color, related to the evolving awareness of the Rainbow Phenomenon, which reflects a wholistic evolution of development. 

She served on the Board of the C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans, where she began writing the Creative Expressive Journal  and research on the "temenos," the Greek concept of sacred space.  This work has lead to workshops across the country building labyrinths and a chapter in Dr Jim and Roberta Swan's book, Dialogues with the Living Earth. Currently she and her husband are living in a valley near Wimberley Texas, where they are developing an environmentally sensitive place called Hidden Creek, which will become a center for the teaching and living out of their discoveries and beliefs. 

Treasurer - Don Switlick.

James L. King - Co-founder - A former independent computer consultant, Jim has had a lifelong interest in the study of consciousness. His efforts currently focus on lucid dreaming, neurofeedback, and brain-computer interfaces. He has had a lifelong interest in anomalies associated with consciousness, as well as their implications for understanding physics and the natural world. 

Jim received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Houston in 1972, and has completed 15 graduate level hours in psychology and education. He has fifteen years of experience data processing and computer programming, and has owned his own consulting business. He has also been involved in community volunteer activities, including past service on the Board of Directors of another non-profit organization, where his leadership empowered a nearly bankrupt corporation to restore its fiscal integrity. 

Jim originated the concept of INACS, recruited the Board of Directors and Research Director, and has enthusiastically championed the project from its inception. He has devoted much time and energy into planning activities, funding, strategic planning, and budgetary matters. Jim considers the facilitation of consciousness research his life's calling and intends for INACS to make a major contribution to the scientific understanding of the human mind. 

Marcus Barnes, BS, PE, Past President - Proprietor Aerodyne Laboratories. Twenty year professional involvement in EMF Health Effects. Registered Professional Engineer with a 1965 BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. Now retired from a State agency, he maintains in-depth knowledge on several aspects of the EMF issue ? state of the science, public health, economic and political implications, risk perception, public concern, and litigation. Served on various panels and task groups at both the state and national levels. Expert witness courtroom and deposition experience. Published several articles and papers and conducted workshops and seminars on EMF epidemiology, health effects, and risk perception. Qualified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator counselor. 

He has serious interests in music, abstract art, science, psychology, and literature. His rigorously incisive mind, sense of humor, open-mindedness, and critical faculties are an invaluable asset for our group dynamics. 

Ray Hawkins, Ph.D., ABPP (Clinical Psychology), Board Member -- Ray received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, after completing a one-year pre-doctoral internship at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. From 1975 to 1982 he was an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he co-edited two books and published several articles on addictive behavior and biofeedback applications. In 1979 he co-founded the Austin Stress Clinic, the first private clinic in Austin to specialize in  biofeedback and clinical health psychology.

In 1982, Ray joined the Austin Regional Clinic as a staff psychologist, where he continued his clinical research on addictive behaviors and began new research on the relationship between Jungian personality types, addictive behaviors, chaos theory, and other behavioral health issues, including chronic pain. He is now staff psychologist at Integrated Mental Health Associates. In 1998 he returned to the University of Texas at Austin, Psychology Department, on a part-time basis as a lecturer and clinical supervisor. In 1998 he also was appointed an adjunct professor in the Master of Arts Program in Pastoral Ministry at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. Ray's current clinical research interests are in individual differences in personality, consciousness, and spirituality.

James Beal, Trustee - Mr. Beal was a Staff Engineer in the Advanced Processes Technology Department while at Martin Marietta Manned Space Systems, which occupies the NASA Michoud Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was responsible for determination of new nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies and processes (Digital X-ray, eddy current, electrostatic cooling) which may be applied to improve performance of current Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank materials and welds. He is co-owner of patent 4,924,937, "Enhanced Electrostatic Cooling Apparatus," a process to cool and strengthen thin aluminum welds on the External Tank. 

For many years he has been investigating potential applications of electromagnetic field (EMF) effects for environmental improvements to enhance long-term mental and physical health, and improve the healing process. Recently he has been supporting research about toxic elements in our breathing, eating, sleeping and working environments which can cause health-stress in system metabolic functions related to electrical and chemical sensitivities, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and a host of other problems not responding to current medical treatment (and primarily affecting women's health). 

Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D., Advisory Board - Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin. A theoretical physicist specializing in fundamental electrodynamics, he pursues research on fundamental issues in physics, such as the properties of quantum vacuum states as they apply to the stability of matter, gravitation, and cosmology. A 1967 graduate of Stanford University, his early research was in the area of electron beam devices and lasers. He has published over 25 technical papers in these areas (including a fundamental paper on the free electron laser), holds a laser patent, and is co-author of a textbook, Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics (Wiley, 1969), published in English, French and Russian. 

His professional background includes three years active duty as a Naval officer with the Dept. of Defense, receiving a DOD certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Performance; appointments at Stanford University (Research Associate), and Stanford Research Institute (Project Director). He has served on a number of national and international committees and advisory groups including adviser to members of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future. 
 

Stephen Miles Lewis, Secretary, Webmaster / Librarian; Audio Production Administrator for the Texas State Library Talking Book Program. Past State Section Director for the Travis and Williamson County chapters of the Mutual UFO Network. Web designer and print publisher of E.L.F. Infested Spaces Journal of Possible Paradigms. 

Miles served as facilitator for Austin's UFO Experiencer Support Group for nearly ten years and has spoken to local and national radio/TV/print media. In 1995 he spoke at the national Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference on the subject of UFOs as a transformative paradigm. His interests in both the physical and folkloric research of parapsychology and ufology have led to his collecting and archiving of over 600 books on these and other topics relevant to consciousness research.