Julie Beischel, PhD, is the director of research at the Windbridge Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Beischel co-founded the Center with her husband, Mark Boccuzzi in July 2017. The Center took over the peer-reviewed research on the topics of life after death and after-death communication that had been conducted at the Windbridge Institute, LLC, since 2008. The Center added outreach and educational activities to complement its research programs.
For over 15 years, Dr. Beischel has studied mediums who experience communication with people living in the life after this life. Her studies began with testing the accuracy and specificity of the information reported by mediums during phone readings performed under controlled laboratory conditions. She considers alternative explanations for the source of their statements such as fraud, cueing, and overly general information.
Dr. Beischel has had her findings about mediums’ psychology, physiology, business practices, demographics, and experiences published in peer-reviewed journals and anthology chapters. She describes the potential therapeutic application of mediumship readings during bereavement.
Dr. Beischel’s research interests include the similarities and differences in the content of four types of afterlife communications:
- spontaneous communication
- facilitated communication
- assisted communication
- requested after-death communication experiences
In the YouTube video that follows, Dr. Beischel summarizes the findings of the Windbridge Research Center’s research on mediumship.