This week I'm talking to Melinda Greer about her chapter in the book 'A Greater Reality Vol 1: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal & the Contact Modalities'.A GREATER REALITY contains articles from over 45 Ph.D. academics, medical doctors, and researchers and over 75 articles from Experiencers of the Contact Modalities. This 4-volume book is the world’s first attempt to explain the nature of our reality by arguing that Consciousness is Primary and not our physical reality and that all of the paranormal Contact Modalities need to be researched as ONE integrated phenomenon. Our 4 volumes contain more than 3,200 pages of academic articles and articles from Experiencers of the Contact Modalities who detail their diverse personal experiences with various forms of Non-Human Intelligence.THE CONSCIOUSNESS & CONTACT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CCRI) seeks to articulate a new paradigm that seeks to integrate the findings of consciousness research and the phenomenology of extraordinary experiences, what we at CCRI call the Contact Modalities. CCRI is an academic research institute comprised of more than 25 Ph.D. academics and medical doctors who are committed to an integrative approach to the entire spectrum of psychophysical anomalies. Members include professionals in the fields of Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, Sociology, Quantum Biology, Information Sciences, Parapsychology, and Medical Doctors.THE CONTACT MODALITIES are all the diverse ways humans are piercing the veil of our multidimensional reality and having contact with Non-Human Intelligence. The evidence for various types of extraordinary experiences suggests that humans may be in contact with higher forms of intelligence. The Contact Modalities are Near Death Experiences (NDEs), Out of Body Experiences (OBEs), Conscious Aerial Phenomena (CAP), commonly called UFOs, Spirit/Ghost Apparitions, Remote Viewing, Hallucinogenic/Psychedelic Experiences, Channeling, Post-Death Communications, Mediumship, Mystical Meditation, Lucid Dreams, Human Initiated Contact Experiences (HICE) and various other forms of altered states of consciousness that allow us to be in contact with transcendent realities.CONSCIOUSNESS IS PRIMARY. CCRI argues that mind and consciousness are fundamental and non-local, and that matter, energy, and information are ultimately grounded in one mind and consciousness. We argue that “Consciousness is Fundamental and that our physical world is a manifestation of consciousness and not our physical reality” -- the philosophical position that the only thing that exists is consciousness. We hypothesize that all of the Contact Modalities are interrelated via a manipulation of space-time and by definition might be interdimensional.ONE PHENOMENON. We argue that there is a range of states of consciousness, the Contact Modalities, where we can access both non-physical and physical realms and interact with perceived higher forms of intelligence via our ordinary senses. For all of these reasons, we assert that the Contact Modalities need to be studied as one phenomenon-- as a manifestation of a single greater source of mind and consciousness.BioMelinda Greer, MD. is a board certified Pediatrician who has been practicing in the American Heartland for over 20 years. She was a Medical Technologist (ASCP) prior to beginning medical school at the age of 33. She is also a closet “Experiencer” who, over her life, became increasingly mystified by an array of strange occurrences. From an early age, she realized that these types of paranormal events did not seem disrupt the life of most of her fellow humans, a revelation that often made her question her sanity, as well as questioning the very nature of reality. Her experiences include multiple UFO sightings of various types of craft, “missing time”, interactions with various invisible NHI (non-human intelligences), “Bigfoot” encounters, Ghosts encounters, and OOB (Out of