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.
Journal of Anomalistics / Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Michael Kriegsman, Beth Glick, Arnaud Delorme, Dean Radin
A study examining high-performing participants in a forced-choice clairvoyance task, with a focus on individual differences and patterns associated with unusually strong performance.
Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Erik Brinsmead, Sitara Taddeo, Ryan S. Wood
A mixed-methods study comparing 52 trance-channeled ET communications with a 750,000-page ufological archive, looking for areas of overlap and difference across the two independent sources.
World Futures, 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick
A prospective study comparing trance-channeled communications across three experienced channelers, asking whether independently produced accounts attributed to the same and different ET intelligences show meaningful patterns of similarity.
World Futures, 2026
Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick
A reflexive thematic analysis of prospectively collected trance-channeled communications, examining recurring themes and shared frameworks of meaning across channelers and the ET intelligences they describe.
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, 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.