Organizations Filed Purposes:
RESEARCH,EDUCATION AND PUBLIC SERVICES The ASPR continues to meet the growing need for accurate and relevant information through its research activities, library, and archival resources, public exhibitions, and educational resources and services. From its inception, the ASPR and its members have collected case reports and have researched extraordinary experiences including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and the question of whether our consciousness may survive death. The ASPR conducts laboratory research. Experiments examine the relationship of creativity to psychic phenomena, as well as the effects of hypnosis, dreaming, meditation, sensory deprivation and other altered states of consciousness. The Society continues to collect accounts of psychic phenomena from people around the world. The ASPR aims to serve as an important educational resource on psychical matters to the general public, including, in particular, to support the education and research activities of students and scholars from various disciplines. Each year we assist numerous individuals in person, by mail, phone and email.
LIBRARY and ARCHIVES The ASPR maintains the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of its kind in the United States. Its collections span historical and contemporary topics in psychical research, as well as relevant information on the earliest history of psychology, psychiatry, mind-body medicine, American visionary traditions, and both Eastern and Western religious philosophy. The library includes thousands of out-of-print volumes, many of them extremely rare. The ASPR holds a vast archive of documents, photographs, drawings, rare manuscripts, reports of experiences, research data, correspondence, and books that date back to the 1600's. They include original letters of William James, Henry James, W.B. Yeats, Upton Sinclair, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Houdini, as well as the archives of contemporary scholars. The archives also house numerous special collections including one of the most important collections in America of manuscripts describing Shaker visionary experiences. The rarity of the archives can be appreciated by noting that the ASPR was previously the recipient of a grant from the National Endownment for the Arts to develop future exhibits. The ASPR has already exhibited portions of its archives in various museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Folk Art Museum, the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, in Paris, the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, and the Drawing Center in New York, as well as the Hammer Gallery in Los Angeles. The ASPR continues to seek out, collect, preserve, protect, duplicate, digitize, and organize these important research documents for its library and archives, some of which will be discussed and used in future publications and on the ASPR website.
PUBLICATIONS-Archival and Library research and reference materials.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Patrice Keane | Executive Director | 60 | $139,955 |
| Barbara Gallagher | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| George Kokoris Md | Trustree/Treas | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Susan Hurley | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Maldonado | Trustee/Secy | 1 | $0 |
| Marie Cooper Janis | Trustee/VP | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Nancy Sondow | Trustee/Pres | 1 | $0 |
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