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The Dr. Edgar Mitchell FREE Foundation, or FREE, is a 501c3 academic research foundation co-founded by the late Apollo Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, Australian UFO Researcher Mary Rodwell, and Rey Hernandez. FREE is comprised of 12 retired academic professors and lay researchers. FREE is NOT a Ufology organization. Our mission is to research the relationship between Consciousness (the true nature of our multi-dimensional reality and how we as humans interact with it) and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence, which includes UFO Contact.
Over the last 5 years FREE has been conducting the world’s first comprehensive multi-language, worldwide, academic research study on UFO related Contact Experiencers. Before our research study, we actually knew very little about this phenomenon. We have received over 4,200 responses to our 3 extensive surveys from individuals from over 100 countries for our English language surveys. We also have our surveys in other languages. We have also interviewed hundreds of UFO related Contact Experiencers for our research project.
Much of our research findings contradict what is circulating in the field of mainstream Ufology. Why, because the necessary basic research was never undertaken. All we had were hundreds of books written by individual UFO contact experiencers but no comprehensive academic research on this phenomenon. No one has ever attempted to collect this information in a comprehensive and systemic academic manner, developed and directed by retired Ph.D. academics working with lay investigators.
Major Research Findings
- The overwhelming number of contact experiences are mainly positive, between 85-95% depending on the question asked. We asked the question of whether their experience was positive, negative, or neutral in more than 15 different questions.
- The Contact Experience is overwhelmingly NOT a Physical/Material Phenomena– instead, it is a Paranormal/Psychic Phenomena. Dr. Jacque Vallee, Dr. Allan Hynek, and Dr. John Mack hypothesized this more than 30 years ago.
- The Contact Experience is an overwhelmingly Transformative Experience for the Positive. Over 85% of the individuals have become more loving to other humans, more ecological, less materialist, more spiritual, do not fear death, know the purpose of their live, are more consciously aware, less religious, etc.
- Contact involves a manipulation of Space/Time and this in turn leads one to hypothesize that this Non-Human Intelligence might be multi-dimensional. This was also pointed out more than 40 years ago by Dr. Jacque Vallee, Dr. Allen Hynek, Dr. John Mack, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Dr. Rudy Schild, and many others.
We have just published the most comprehensive book on this topic– a 820-page book titled “Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence” which is now available on Amazon.
Rey is one of the 4 co-founders of The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences, or FREE, and one of the 2 co-chairs of the FREE Experiencer Research Committee. Rey is also one of the 3 co-editors of the historic 820-page book titled “Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human Intelligence” based on FREE’s 5-year comprehensive academic research study on UFO related contact experiencers.
Rey graduated with honors from Rutgers College, was a Masters Candidate at Cornell University and was a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California at Berkeley in City and Regional Planning where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship. Rey is currently employed as an Estate Tax Attorney with the US Dept of Treasury. He previously was an Adjunct Professor for six years at the New School for Social Research and at the City University of New York.
Previous to March of 2012, Rey had zero interest in Consciousness, UFOs, the Paranormal, or Non-Human Intelligence. Beginning in March of 2012, Rey, his wife, and daughter began to have conscious physical contact with non-human intelligence in their family home, a series of paranormal experiences and have seen large UFOs, one time for more than 45 minutes, at a distance of less than 30 feet. Rey now devotes an extensive part of his life to understanding the true nature of our reality and writing academic articles for FREE. He has published academic articles in the Journal of Scientific Exploration and the Journal of Consciousness. He has lectured internationally on the topics of Consciousness, UFO Contact with Non-Human Intelligence, NDEs, OBEs, and the Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s Quantum Hologram Theory of Consciousness. His email is: [email protected] and the FREE website is Experiencer.Org and ConsciousnessAndContact.Org