My research investigates the edges of human perception: the anomalous, the mystical, and the ordinarily overlooked. What these experiences reveal about the structure of consciousness itself.
Doctoral Research
My dissertation develops a new instrument, the Exceptional Experience Integration & Impact Measure (EXIM), for measuring how exceptional experiences integrate into a person's identity, worldview, relationships, and behavior. The same experience can produce a healer or a cult leader. I'm investigating what shapes the difference.
World Futures, 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick
An analysis of the semantic structure and correspondence of prospective trance-channeled communications attributed to extraterrestrial intelligences.
Journal of Consciousness Studies, January 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Michael Kriegsman
A large-scale study validating the Noetic Signature Inventory (NSI) and mapping patterns in how individuals experience and report intuitive and noetic phenomena.
Journal of Scientific Exploration (forthcoming), 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Erik Brinsmead, Sitara Taddeo, Ryan S. Wood
A computational analysis comparing trance-channeled ET communications with a 750,000-page ufological archive, identifying striking areas of thematic convergence and divergence across independent sources.
Journal of Scientific Exploration, December 2025
Helané Wahbeh, Sitara Taddeo, Beth Glick
A case study examining whether a structured hypnotic protocol can reliably induce trance channeling, suggesting that the capacity may be both trainable and linked to out-of-body states.
Anthropology of Consciousness, August 2025
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Juliette Gallo, Garret Yount
A mixed-methods study of Reiki sessions investigating reports of non-physical entities and their perceived influence on healing processes.