LOYD AUERBACH is Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and was recently appointed to the faculty of Atlantic University, where he’s involved in developing an online MA program in Parapsychology for launch in the Fall of 2011/Winter 2012.  He is the author A PARANORMAL CASEBOOK: Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium (Atriad Press, 2005).

 

His next book is co-authored with renowned psychic  Annette Martin: The Ghost Detectives’ Guide to Haunted San Francisco (Quill Driver Books, April 1, 2011). 

 

His 2004 releases are GHOST HUNTING: How to Investigate the Paranormal and HAUNTINGS & POLTERGEISTS: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide (Ronin Publishing).  His first book, ESP, HAUNTINGS AND POLTERGEISTS: A Parapsychologist’s Handbook (1986, Warner Books) was named the “Sacred Text”` on ghosts by NEWSWEEK (in August, 1996).  PSYCHIC DREAMING (1991, Warner Books; 1999 Barnes & Noble Books), deals with the current understanding of dreams in general and psychic dreams in particular.  His third book, REINCARNATION, CHANNELING AND POSSESSION, was published by Warner Books in April, 1993.  MIND OVER MATTER (Kensington Books, 1996) focused on the limits human beings set for themselves and on psychokinesis.  In 1999, he released the first video on "The Haunting of the USS Hornet" (a haunted WWII era aircraft carrier in Alameda, CA).

 

Later in 2011, another book will have him jump topics & genres to Chocolate (just call him the “Chocolate Maven”). Look for Haunted by Chocolate: How to Go from Chocoholic to Chocolate Gourmet in mid 2011.  In 2009, he finished a Professional Chocolatier course and began selling his own unique chocolate products (“Ghost Drops”) in late 2010, with more to come, including his chocolate fortune system, The Cocoa Oracle. Information about the book, chocolate tasting sessions and his own chocolates can be found at www.hauntedbychocolate.com.

 

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC, and was a featured speaker at their May 2006 conference “After Death: What Do We Know?” at Duke University.  He is on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Forever Family Foundation and the Windbridge Institute. He was a Consulting Editor & columnist for FATE Magazine, a 50+ year old national publication dealing with the “unexplained,” from 1991 to December 2004. 

 

Auerbach is the creator and principal instructor of the Certificate Program in Parapsychological Studies at HCH Institute in Lafayette, CA.  This California state-registered program started in 2005, and has been available for Distance Learning since 2006. For more information, visit www.hypnotherapytraining.com/parapsych.cfm

 

Loyd Auerbach has been an Adjunct Professor in Integral Studies at JFK University since 1983.  The university, formerly in Orinda, CA, now resides in Pleasant Hill, CA.  He also served on the faculty of Rosebridge Graduate School for Integrative Psychology  1996-1998.  He holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University (1978), and an MS in Parapsychology from JFK University (1981).  In January, 2011, he began teaching Parapsychology (online) through Atlantic University of Virginia Beach, VA and is helping develop their MA in Parapsychology program, to launch Fall 2011 or Winter 2012.

 

He has lectured for 20 years on the college speaking circuit and continues to do so. He is also available for appearances at Ghost Hunting, and Paranormal, Metaphysical and Science
Fiction and Comic Book Conventions, Conferences and events. Contact him at profparanormal@gmail.com for booking information.

 

A married resident of Martinez, California, Prof. Auerbach has been teaching Parapsychology and related topics in the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York for three decades. He has taught courses in Parapsychology, Anthropology, Altered States of Consciousness, Science Fiction, Magic, and Media.  He lectures to colleges and on occasion to corporate audiences around the United States.

 

His first job in the field was as Public Information and Media Consultant to the American Society for Psychical Research in New York from 1982 through mid-1983.  While there, he acted as a spokesperson and as an intermediary to facilitate communication between the media and the parapsychological community.  Auerbach is an associate member of the Parapsychological Association, and a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration.

 

For over three decades, he has been investigating cases of reported paranormal phenomena, helping people understand what may (or may not) be going on in their lives.  In 1989, he founded the Office of Paranormal Investigations (OPI), an outgrowth of the JFK University graduate program, which is a group for people to call when they believe they have a psychic or paranormal disturbance, and a resource center for Media, businesspeople, scientists, law enforcement agencies, and attorneys.  While OPI’s main investigations are in the Bay Area, the group has affiliated investigators in many other areas of the country through its own network. In addition, he is currently working with several others to establish an organization to help connect parapsychologists and the growing paranormal community (amateur and hobbyist paranormal investigators and ghost hunters).

 

Auerbach was President of the Psychic Entertainers Association (PEA) from 2001-2005, and again for a short time in 2006.  The PEA is an international organization of psychic entertainers (performers of including mentalism, bizarre magick, hypnotism, cold reading, and allied arts). He currently serves on their Board of Directors. He has been one of the very few parapsychologists active in both psychical research and mentalist/magicians' organizations.

Loyd Auerbach is an accomplished Mentalist and Psychic Entertainer, performing as Professor Paranormal for private parties, corporations, at colleges and restaurants.  His knowledge and interest in magic began while he was a graduate student, through a course he took intended to introduce the would-be researchers to the methods of phony psychics.  He has since taught that same course a number of times.  He is a member of the Academy of Magical Arts, has served on the Occult Investigations Committee of the Society of American Magicians, and was 1989 President of Assembly 112 of the Society of American Magicians.  He received a credit as a “Creative Consultant” to the Magic of David Copperfield X:  The Bermuda Triangle (CBS 1988).

His work as a magician shifted to Mentalist in late 1991 with his main focus is performing for small, intimate groups (dinner parties, and the like) and his one-man show for the corporate, association and college markets, "Professor Paranormal's Psychic Mind Theater!"  And he loves to weave his love and knowledge of chocolate into it all (yes, it can be done).


Loyd Auerbach is very interested and concerned with media portrayals of the phenomena and the science of Parapsychology. He has been a consultant to various television producers and writers in the United States, Japan, and Great Britain, providing both scientific and creative input, as well as help in promotion.
Loyd’s media exposure includes many prominent appearances on television, including THE VIEW, Ghost Adventures, Ghost Stories, Criss Angel: MindFreak, Larry King Live, the Today Show, Unsolved Mysteries, Oprah, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Mediums: We See Dead People,The New Edge, Dead Famous, The Joan Rivers Show, Hard Copy, Evening Magazine, The Late Show, PM Magazine, Hour Magazine, Strange Universe,  Late Night with David Letterman, Voodoo Secrets, Vampire Secrets, Science of the Impossible, and frequent appearances on Sightings.  He’s often seen on paranormal programs for the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel, The Learning Channel, A&E, the History Channel, the Sci Fi Channel and TechTV. His appearances on radio, podcasts and in print have numbered in the thousands.

Loyd Auerbach, M.S., is available as a consultant and lecturer, for interviews, and of course, as Professor Paranormal. He can be reached via email at profparanormal@gmail.com, by phone through the Office of Paranormal Investigations at  (415) 249-9275, or through his chocolate website, www.hauntedbychocolate.com and info@hauntedbychocolate.com .