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John
Marett Knowles, M.A. Econ. (Ottawa), Canadian philosopher
and parapsychologist, was born in New York in 1923. Pilot and
Intelligence Officer, Royal Canadian Air Force (1941–45). A pre-Pearl
Harbor American volunteer, he flew “Hurricane” fighters on 146
Squadron, Royal Air Force and was a “Chindit” officer under General
Wingate, attached to a British infantry column behind enemy lines
in Burma, 1944. He was a post-war, career Public Servant with
the Canadian Government (diplomat, consul, trade official) and
United Nations (consultant, project manager, senior adviser to
governments), serving in many countries worldwide over many years.
A lifelong student of philosophy following a life-transforming
mystical experience at the age of eight, his first published philosophical
work, Advanced Concepts of Management, was written as part
of a training program that he designed for trade commissioners
of the People’s Republic of China and taught in Beijing in 1986.
Other philosophical essays have since appeared in appropriate
British, American and Cypriot journals. He speaks English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish and has a working knowledge of Greek
and several other languages.
Linda
Anne Leblanc, was
born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1953. Beginning in 1977, she accompanied
her husband, John Knowles, in his assignments around the world
with the United Nations. She also worked in various United Nations
organizations in Geneva, Switzerland. She is an accredited Outreach
Trainer of The Monroe
Institute, facilitating Hemi-Sync®
and other workshops. Both a lecturer and a writer, her articles
have appeared in magazines and publications in Cyprus and the
USA. She speaks English, French and has a working knowledge of
Greek.
Following
their retirement to the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus
in 1989, they continue to pursue lifelong interests and studies
in philosophy, consciousness, the paranormal, including the UFO
phenomenon, sacred sites and ancient civilizations. They have
attended many residential programs at The Monroe Institute in
Virginia and completed the Summer Study Program at the Institute
for Parapsychology (Rhine Research
Center), Durham, N.C. In 1999, they founded PSYCHOGNOSIA,
a not-for-profit organization based in Cyprus, for the study and
the dissemination of scientifically accurate information on the
paranormal.
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