Evidence for Extra-Human Intelligence: Les Velez, EP 242

Reality is often stranger than fiction. If you have ever seen or experienced something innately other-worldly, you are not alone. Our conversation today will go into discussions of how we are all connected, and how humanity is not alone in this endeavor of life.    Our guest, Les Velez is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, as well as US Army veteran, and former VP of Luscombe Engineering.  In 1991, Les joined MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, and has held the following positions:  Field investigator, Training Coordinator for field investigators, the Assistant State Director in Northern California, Chairman of the A.E.R.C. (Abduction Experiencer Research Committee), and team leader of the A.R.T. (Abduction Response Team) (Experiencer Resource Team) and presently holds the position of research consultant for the Experience Resource Team. In 1994, Velez co-founded the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support. He is the author of The Unknown Other and the Existential Proposition of Alien Contact. Learn more at opusnetwork.org   Connecting with Coincidence with Bernard Beitman, MD (CCBB) is now offered as both an audio podcast--anywhere that podcasts are available--and in video format on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE to our channel to be notified when future episodes are posted! Also available, there are 138 archived episodes of the CCBB podcast available, HERE [https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bern...]     Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity, and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com