This community Zoom discussion with Dr Edwin C May. I would like to thank Dr May for taking the time and effort to share his answers, experiences, and knowledge with the community and for answering a raft of questions.

Dr Edwin C May:

Edwin C. May spent the first part of his research career in his chosen Ph.D. discipline, Low Energy, Experimental Nuclear Physics, which he earned in 1968 at the University of Pittsburgh. Before leaving that career, he had published 10 papers in the peer-reviewed physics literature including his report of the first measurement of the singlet state of the deuteron which appeared in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.

He became interested in serious research of psi phenomena in late 1975 when he joined the ongoing U.S. Government-sponsored work at SRI International (formerly called Stanford Research Institute). In 1985, he became that program’s director, but in 1991, he shifted the effort to Science Applications International Corporation, another US Defense Contractor. His association with the government-sponsored psi research ended in 1995, when the program, then called STAR GATE, was closed by the US Government.

When the research was finally declassified in 2000, Dr. May could publish ground-breaking results and theories in the peer-reviewed literature.

Dr. May has managed complex, interdisciplinary research projects for the US federal government since 1976. He presided over 70% of the funding ($20M) and 85% of the data collection for the government’s 22-year involvement in parapsychological research.

Dr. May and his colleague Dr. Sonali Bhatt Marwaha have published four-volumes of The Star Gate Archives. The Honorable William S. Cohen, former Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, wrote a foreword to this collection.

Links:

https://www.lfr.org/lfr

Books:

A Link to the books; is here: https://www.lfr.org/book-store The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972–1995. Volumes 1-4 Extrasensory perception: Support, Skepticism, And Science, Volumes 1 & 2. ESP wars: East and West.An account of the military use of psychic espionage as narrated by the key Russian and American players.