NeuroNews: Consciousness Connections Meeting

Austin Center for Spiritual Living
5555 N. Lamar, Suite D115/D117

The Meeting is Free & Open to the Public

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Explorations of Remote Perception, Viewing and Dowsing

Part I – April 26th

• An introduction to remote viewing and dowsing -  video & discussion

The history, development, military involvement, and other aspects of remote Perception will be addressed.

• Selected articles & discussion

Focus may be relevant to “A Comparison of Remote Viewing and Remote Dowsing” and “Telepathy and Recorded and Correlated on an EEG.”

Part II – May 24th

• Dowsing the lottery- video & discussion

Reports are that money has been made using Remote Dowsing and Associated Remote Viewing to determine winning selections. This will be an overview of the techniques used.

• The INACS’ project “Remote Dowsing” – Overview and update

This project initiated by INACS founder Jim King, will use QEEG to brain scan subjects before, during, and after dowsing training, to determine any differences in mental activity.

• Future research directions and practical applications

Using Remote Perceptions in various applications – can differences in brain activity be determined  with EEG, fMRI, and other brain scan methods to determine whether there is a correlation, and what part of the brain is active. Practical applications will be listed.

Remote perception is one segment of a spectrum of ESP related anomalies, from telepathy to telekinesis. The band width includes such diverse phenomena as near death experiences NDE, and out of body travels OBE. Remote sensing protocols and structured training have developed to formalize the field, as opposed to other paranormal happenings such as psychic abilities, which are often ad hoc and not brought forth at will.

These presentations of Remote Perception assumes the validity of the discipline, and hence other paranormal phenomena. So for believers of the gospel, or skeptics in part, this excursion in paraperception should be of interest.

Recommended Reading

Reading the Enemy’s Mind:

Inside Stargate, America’s Psychic Espionage Program

by  Paul H. Smith, Ph.D. / Review by Alex Roslin

When word got out in 1995 that the U.S. Defense Department and CIA had funded efforts to read people’s minds, the news understandably excited all sorts of derision and conspiracy theories. Who would imagine that the story behind the efforts is actually a fascinating tale about the possibilities of human potential? Paul H. Smith tells the story of the U.S. “psychic spying” program in his book Reading the Enemy’s Mind. Smith doesn’t come across as some flaky new-ager. He was a young U.S. Army intelligence officer and Arab linguist who had no previous interest in extra-sensory perception when he was recruited into the program code-named “Star Gate” in 1983. Over the next seven years, he became one of the army’s premier “remote viewers” and the primary author of its training manual on the subject. He also served as a tactical intelligence officer in the 101st Airborne Division in Operation Desert Storm/Shield and got a Master’s degree from the Defense Intelligence College.

In Reading the Enemy’s Mind, Smith reveals that the military and intelligence communities performed hundreds of experiments and operational intelligence assignments using “remote viewing,” the government’s term for ESP. The program’s first big success came in 1979 when a viewer found a downed Soviet bomber in Africa after other intelligence operatives had failed–a coup praised by President Jimmy Carter. The psychics received target assignments from virtually every U.S. national-security agency, and Smith says they produced numerous positive results. Smith’s biggest revelation, however, is that the government research found that almost all people–not merely a gifted few–seem to have the potential of developing ESP skills, with enough practice and a few tips from a pro like Smith. Many readers will no doubt find it hard to know what to make of Reading the Enemy’s Mind and whether to believe any of it, but Smith writes with both color and a measured tone that together produce a captivating yarn even for the non-believers out there.  –Alex Roslin –

NeuroNews – Consciousness Connections Meeting

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2010

6:30p Social, 7:00-9:00p Program

Austin Center for Spiritual Living

4804 Grover

The meeting is free & open to the Public

Location to change in March

A quantum-physics experiment to see if “Human Intention” can reverse the spin of a single electron

A Presentation by Ronald Bryan, Ph.D.

In considering the wave function of an electron, I realized in 2000 that this entity resembles human consciousness in several ways, so I hypothesized that the wave function is conscious (and a human consciousness is a wave function).  Now if an electron’s wave function is indeed conscious, then it might respond to a command from a human consciousness, perhaps as one human can communicate with another human through mental telepathy.  With the help of atomic experimentalists, I have conceived of an experiment to look for such an effect, in particular, can human intention reverse the spin of a single electron.  I describe the experiment and some applications.

The original paper in this research is entitled “Consciousness and quantum-mechanical wave functions” and can be downloaded from my website http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/bryan

Many other papers on the subject also appear there.

Ronald Bryan, Ph. D., recently retired from the Physics Department of Texas A&M University but continues of carry out research there.  He has made contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics, and recently turned his attention to atomic physics.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

NeuroNews: Consciousness Connections Meeting

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

 6:30pm Social, 7:00-9:00pm Program

Austin Center for Spiritual Living

4804 Grover

The meeting is free & open to the Public

How You Can Achieve Peak Brain Performance

Presentation By:

Laurie Romig, Optimal Performance Brain Coach

Dr. Dennis Romig, Psychologist

 
 
Presentation Objectives

The last ten years have seen an explosion of new research on how our brains achieve peak and optimal performance.  A tool for directly promoting these levels of performance is brain wave biofeedback.  At this INACS presentation you will:

• Learn and observe how brain wave biofeedback can improve both low and high functioning areas of work and life performance;
• Understand how brain wave biofeedback can increase receptivity to spirituality and deeper life insights (feelings, body awareness, interpersonal relationship systems); and
• Identify optimal brain performance practices you can use to achieve more successes in your life. 

Presentation Outline:

1. Achieve optimal performance by balancing brain waves in desired areas of improvement: Calmer, Sleep Better, Improve Decision-Making, Improve Memory
2. Complete Optimal Performance Self –Assessment: Short Form
3. Obtain peak performance in Sports, Arts, and Cognitive abilities through brain wave biofeedback like Sean Casey, major league baseball player 
4. Achieve greater receptivity to Spirituality and deeper life insights
5. Identify optimal brain performance practices you can use to achieve more successes in your life on your own
    

Presenters:

Laurie Romig has been doing neurofeedback coaching for optimal brain performance since 2005.  She has provided executive coaching for twenty years.  Laurie completed the four day BCIA Neurofeedback certification course and has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Texas in Education and Sociology.

Dr. Dennis Romig is a psychologist and CEO of Side by Side, Inc., a multidisciplinary “Think and Do Tank” in Austin, Texas. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin and did post-graduate studies in neuroscience and brain wave biofeedback from 1999 to 2009 in Washington, DC.  Romig, his wife Laurie and his colleague Dr. Angelo Bolea are co-authoring a book, How the Brain Heals Itself.

Consciousness Connections Meeting

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

6:30p Social, 7:00-9:00p Program

Austin Center for Spiritual Living

4804 Grover

Note – New Location

Visitors are welcome, the meeting is free.

Book donations are welcome.

Documentary and Panel Discussion

“God on the Brain”

From BBC Horizon (2003)

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.

Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology.

The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them.  80% of Dr Michael Persinger’s experimental subjects report that an artificial magnetic field focused on those brain areas gives them a feeling of ‘not being alone’. Some of them describe it as a religious sensation.

“…a high probability [Ellen White] had temporal lobe epilepsy” says Prof Gregory Holmes, Dartmouth Medical School. His work raises the prospect that we are programmed to believe in god, that faith is a mental ability humans have developed or been given. And temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) could help unlock the mystery.

What side are you on, science or spiritualism? Be prepared to defend your position.

The documentary will be shown followed by a discussion. Is Illumination, cosmic consciousness, Kundalini and various religious sensations a spiritual manifestation, or is it simply the neurological manifestation of the brain? If there are volunteers from the audience, a panel will be selected for a debate and Q & A. Please prepare for a lively debate.

Resources:

Great article:

www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=24068

Good articles:

www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/neuronewswk.htm
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_3_116/ai_53739125/?tag=content;col1

A few others:
blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/06/this-is-your-brain-on-religion-.html
www.livescience.com/culture/090309-brain-religion.html
www.religionlink.com/tip_050425.php

Recommended Reading…

Why God Won’t Go Away

Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

Authors

Andrew Newberg, Eugene A’Quili, Vince Rause

Over the centuries, theories have abounded as to why human beings have a seemingly irrational attraction to God and religious experiences. In Why God Won’t Go Away authors Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D’Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause offer a startlingly simple, yet scientifically plausible opinion: humans seek God because our brains are biologically programmed to do so.

Researchers Newberg and D’Aquili used high-tech imaging devices to peer into the brains of meditating Buddhists and Franciscan nuns. As the data and brain photographs flowed in, the researchers began to find solid evidence that the mystical experiences of the subjects “were not the result of some fabrication, or simple wishful thinking, but were associated instead with a series of observable neurological events,” explains Newberg. “In other words, mystical experience is biologically, observably, and scientifically real…. Gradually, we shaped a hypothesis that suggests that spiritual experience, at its very root, is intimately interwoven with human biology.” Lay readers should be warned that although the topic is fascinating, the writing is geared toward scientific documentation that defends the authors’ hypothesis. For a more palatable discussion, seek out Deepak Chopra’s How to Know God, in which he also explores this fascinating evidence of spiritual hard-wiring. –Gail Hudson –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Brain in the Soul

The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief

By

Michael R, Trimble, M.D.

“There have been a flurry of books recently on God and the brain, written either from the cold hard world of a neuroscientist or the more abstract but less brain-informed pulpit of a spiritual leader. Trimble tackles this most important topic with his unique knowledge and perspectives gained as a knowing and caring physician, a critical neuroscientist, a gifted historian, and a superb storyteller. He fuses these fields to address the simplest and most important questions: Why do we cry when we listen to music, or pay money to go and weep in the theater? This book is a remarkably new approach to understanding why we behave, think, and feel as we do.” — Mark S. George, Medical University of South Carolina

Inspired by the writings and reflections of his patients — many of whom have epilepsy, psychosis, or affective disorders — Trimble asks how the human species, so enamored of its own logic and critical facilities, has held from the dawn of civilization strong religious beliefs and a reverence for the arts. He explores topics such as the phenomena of hypergraphia and hyper-religiosity, how religious experiences and poetic expression are neurologically linked with our capacity to respond to music, and how neuropsychiatric disorders influence behaviors related to artistic expression and religiosity by disturbing brain function.

NeuroNews – A Toyota Unbash

Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair
The Associated Press

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said in a release Monday.

Past systems required several seconds to read brain waves, but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds , or 125 thousandths of a second. The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program.

Research into mobility is part of Toyota’s larger strategy to go beyond automobiles in helping people get around in new ways. The new system allows the person on the wheelchair to turn left or right and go forward, almost instantly, according to researchers. Coming to a stop still requires more than a thought. The person in the wheelchair must puff up a cheek, which is picked up in a detector worn on the face.

Japanese rival Honda Motor Co. is also working on a system to connect the monitoring of brain waves with mechanical moves. Earlier this year, Honda showed a video that had a person wearing a helmet sitting still but thinking about moving his right hand. The thought was picked up by cords attached to his head inside the helmet. After several seconds, Honda’s boy-shaped robot Asimo, programmed to respond to brain signals, lifted its right arm.

Neither Honda nor Toyota said it had any plans to turn the technology into a product for commercial sale as each said they are still developing the research.

www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/features/high_tech/49426247.html

INACS News…

Benefits of an INACS membership include but are not limited to Quickstart grants, the NeuroNews newsletter, monthly meetings related to consciousness (Consciousness Connections), and attendance at quarterly research and educations meetings. Membership is $25 a year and can be paid through Paypal on the INACS website  www.INACS.org

For those of you that have a project that is consistent with the INACS mission, and need financial assistance, a Quickstart Grant might be available.

The INACS NerveCenter space is available for classes and lectures. Call 704-8167 for information.

INACS The Organization…

The Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, Inc.

Or INACS, is an Austin-based, 501 (c) 3,

nonprofit, scientific, Research, and educational institute,

incorporated in the State of Texas.

Vision

Our vision is to contribute to the positive development of our local, national, and international communities, as well as the other-than-human communities with whom we share the earth, by supporting scientific inquiry and hosting educational opportunities for the study of consciousness in all its forms.

Mission

INACS’ mission is to expand, deepen, and enrich our understanding of brain functioning and the phenomenon of “consciousness,” and to develop innovative, practical applications of this understanding for public benefit. INACS will pursue its mission by:

• Conducting scientific research on the human mind/brain system.
• Promoting closer cooperation among consciousness researchers through publications, conferences, and similar activities.
• Offering educational opportunities to mental health professionals and the public.
• Investigating PSI and related phenomena

Current Research Projects

EEG correlates of Human Subtle Energy Vibrational States

Robert F. Price PhD

Psycho-Grapho Correlation Study

Raymond Hawkins PhD, Marcus Barnes

QEEG Correlates to Motor Tasks – Baseline Studies

James King, Jan Six, PhD

Finding the Golden Key to Every Kid (Quick Start Grant)

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, ATR-BC

12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302, Austin, Texas 78759   www.INACS.org

The Consciousness Groups…

ACA (Austin Creativity Association)

A forum for professionals seeking to explore and develop creative ideas and technologies.

www.amcreativityassoc.org

Austin IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences Community Group)

Consciousness research & education group founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell

www.ionsaustin.org 258-9878

Anomaly Archives

Library of scientific anomalies located in the INACS Nerve Center

www.anomalyarchives.org

INACS (Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies)

Consciousness research and education group located in NW Austin on Research Blvd.

www.INACS.org 425-0822

Jung Society Austin

Promoting the study of Carl Jung’s psychological works

www.jungsociety.com 366-2357

MUFON – Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects

www.austinmufon.org 250-1167

What if it Really Works

Internet radio featuring the spiritual and metaphysical

www.whatifitreallyworks.com 673-7051

NeuroNews

Consciousness Connections Meeting

Tuesday April 14, 2009 7:00p-9:00p

Unitarian Church, Room 11

4700 Grover

Visitors are welcome, the meeting is free –

Book donations are welcome

Stalking the Wild Pendulum:  Remote Dowsing Baseline Studies

Description:

In the 1970s, physicist Harold (Hal) Puthoff, engineer Russell Targ, and psychic Ingo Swann were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to do research on psychic abilities with the general intention of verifying the phenomenon and adapting some methods of eliciting it to military purposes.  After several years of research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), a process termed Remote Viewing was developed and eventually adopted by the United States Army Intelligence service.  Based in Fort Meade, Maryland, military remote viewers carried out a program of intelligence gathering which proved quite successful in obtaining information about activities and personnel in known, remote, often inaccessible, locations.  An active program was carried on by Army Intelligence for over 20 years.

One aspect of the program proved problematical, however:  while information was readily available from known locations, it proved exceedingly difficult to obtain the location of a person or persons known, but at an unknown location.  Likewise, it was almost impossible to remote view numbers.  A complementary method was eventually developed by the scientists at SRI which allowed the intelligence officers to obtain information revealing the required locations and/or numbers.  This method was termed by the military “Remote Dowsing”.

The object of INACS‘ Remote Dowsing study will be to develop methods of understanding the cognitive functions involved in the process, elicit event-related potentials accompanying successful practicing of the dowsing skills and to develop methods of automating the process so that real-time tracking of moving targets may be accomplished.  The current presentation will describe the initial  portion of that study – baseline analysis.   Jim will discuss the rationale behind performing such an analysis and the advantages of having such information available prior to performing the actual dowsing experiments.

NOTE:  Dr. Puthoff was one of the founding board members of INACS when it was originally chartered as the Center for the Study of Consciousness (CSC) in 1990, and he is on our Advisory Board.  He is currently an advisor on this research project.

Presenter: James King

Founder and Trustee of INACS - A former realtor and independent computer consultant, Jim has had a lifelong interest in the study of consciousness.  His personal research interests currently focus on mental imagery, cortical scanning, remote dowsing and viewing 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 20+ years of experience in data processing, computer programming and technical writing, and has owned his own consulting business.  He has also been involved in community volunteer activities, including past and present service on the Boards of Directors of other non-profit organizations.

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 work and intends for INACS to make a major contribution to the scientific understanding of the human mind.

Project Principal Investigator: James King

Scientific Consultant: Jan Six

References: See the attached – reviewing the references will prepare for a more interesting discussion.

The meeting will consist of a 30 to 45 minutes synopsis of the subject matter, with the remainder discussion and Q & A. This will be a great opportunity to learn about Dowsing and its applications in addition to finding water.

Recommended Reading_______________________________________

The Art of Dowsing

The Complete How-TO Book on Dowsing

by

Richard Webster

With plenty of expert guidance and inspiration you’ll better your life in dozens of practical ways by dowsing. Locate valuable hidden items, detect harmful radiation in you environment, diagnose and treat ailments, develop your intuition – dowsing’s applications are nearly limitless. You’ll even learn to dowse anywhere for anything in the world without leaving your living room by using the most versatile dowsing technique around – map dowsing. Healing, hidden treasure, answers to difficult questions, discover the many ways dowsing can help you, then put it to work for you instantly. From the book jacket.

My favorite concept in this book is –It is not like the sticks move by themselves. The implication of this is that anyone using dowsing as a diagnostic tool, to find water or to find a particular dysfunction in the body of someone who is ill, already knows where the water or problem is. They are just using the sticks, a pendulum or their hands to amplify what on some level they already know. For more information on using dowsing as a diagnostic health tool see. Kimberley Burnham (West Hartford, CT)

The INACS project will attempt to determine whether dowsing is a real phenomenon, and the effects of a subject dowsing as determined by EEG changes on the brain.

INACS News_______________________________________________

Nerve Center II

In January INACS moved into a new headquarters in Northwest Austin on Research Blvd (183) between Oak Knoll and McNeil. The new NerveCenter II is more spacious and will better serve the needs of INACS. The libraries of the Scientific Anomaly Institute (SAI) and the Jung Society of Austin (JSA), have been moved to the Consciousness Center and will be ready for lending shortly. INACS members are excited about the change and look forward to expanded research and education.

The Center is available for activities to INACS members. The meeting room can accommodate 15 people, a maximum of 20. Use of the space is free for Non-profits – a nominal fee will be charged for use for income generating activity. For information call 258-9878.

International Conference on Science and Consciousness

INACS members Bob Price, President, Owen McAleer, past President, and myself have made several road trips to the International Conference on Science and Consciousness in Santa Fe, NM. In each case we have encountered certain anomalies or unexpected happenings. This would include but not be limited to subtle energies in the body evoked by a Yahweh chant played at one of the presentations, and the unfortunate stabbing at the Conference of renowned lecturer Rupert Sheldrake. The latest trip and conference experience is related by Bob Price.

Don Switlick

A Question Answered

As I abruptly awoke to the sound of my chattering teeth and peered out the car window at the still falling snow, I wondered aloud whether this trip would prove worth it.  I briefly recalled some of the great talks I had attended at last year’s International Conference on Science and Consciousness in Santa Fe.  Then I recalled last night’s journey from Austin—nightfall in Lubbock, the barrage of horizontally hurtling tumbleweeds in Clovis, the first of the snowfall as I turned north at Fort Sumner, and the rapidly deteriorating blizzard-like conditions on I-40 as the traffic slowed to a crawl and then a complete stop.  After an hour the traffic had started to once more creep along on the ice, and I had managed to get off the highway and into the truck stop at Cline’s Corner, but with no motels nearby, sleeping in the car rapidly became the only viable option.

Sunrise was slow to appear as I awoke every 20 minutes to start the car and blast the heater for a few minutes.  But it did finally appear, and after brushing several more inches of snow off the windshield, I hit the trail once more.  The rutted ice and snow were still treacherous, but once the sun came up, the gorgeous scenic mountains covered in new-fallen snow reflecting the sunlight lent a mystical quality to the remainder of the journey.  Within a couple more hours I arrived at the Buffalo Thunder Resort on the northern edge of Santa Fe, and quickly showered before heading downstairs to the volunteer orientation.

Over the coming five days, I would once again attend many excellent presentations by leaders in the field of consciousness—Peter Russell, Judith Orloff, Jean Houston, Russell Targ, Freddy Silva, Raymond Moody, and Richard Moss.  I would be inspired to translate their insights into practical research studies examining the nature of human consciousness.  I would be entertained by that merrily musing musical mystic himself, Greg Tamblyn.  I would dance like my tribal ancestors must have danced around the roaring fire to the ancient West African drum beats of Onye.  I would receive the healing quantum energies of Richard Bartlett, and would walk away amazed that the chronic pain in my right arm and shoulder had vanished.

On the last night of the conference, I would watch with tears in my eyes the moving video tribute to the founder of the Message Company, James Berry, who had developed the consciousness conferences and who had succumbed to a serious illness this past year.  His brother Ken and Ken’s wife Marcia have decided to carry on the conferences in James’ memory, but it will require much determination, drive, help from other like-minded souls, and a bit of luck to keep the conferences going.  (I encourage you all to help out by attending any of the three conferences whenever you can.)

As I made the long drive home to Austin the day after the conference ended, and recalled the question that had formed in my mind that stormy night a week ago, I realized—yes—it had certainly been worth it!

Bob Price

President, INACS

The Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, Inc.,

Or INACS, is an Austin-based, 501 (c) 3,

nonprofit, scientific, Research, and educational institute,

incorporated in the State of Texas

TRUSTEES

Robert Price PhD

Miles Lewis

Don Switlick

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal

James King

James B. Beal

Marcus Barnes

Dillon McKinnsey

OFFICERS

President:  Robert Price PhD

Vice-President: Miles Lewis

Treasurer: Don Switlick

Secretary: Roberta Shoemaker-Beal

STAFF

Research Director:  Robert F. Price, PhD

Webmaster: Miles Lewis

Education & Executive Director:

Don Switlick, BS

Research Associate: James King

ADVISORS

Barry Beyerstein, PhD

Leonard Bough, PE

Ravi Brijbassi, PhD

Betty  Sue Flowers, PhD

Raymond Hawkins, PhD

Raymond Hyman, PhD

Stanley Krippner, PhD

Harold E. Puthoff, PhD

Jan Six, PhD

Jason Worchel, MD

Sirley Bonham, PhD

Current Research Projects

EEG correlates of Human Subtle Energy Vibrational States

Robert F. Price PhD

Psycho-Grapho Correlation Study

Raymond Hawkins PhD, Marcus Barnes

QEEG Correlates to Motor Tasks – Baseline Studies

James King, Jan Six, PhD

Finding the Golden Key to Every Kid (Quick Start Grant)

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, ATR-BC

12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302, Austin, Texas 78759 www.INACS.org