He was President of the Psychic Entertainers Association (PEA) from 2001 – 2005. 
The PEA is  an international organization of psychic entertainers (performers of including mentalism, bizarre magick, hypnotism, cold reading, and allied arts).  He is immediate past President of the California Society for Psychical Study (repeating a run from 1988-92), and was 1989 President of Assembly 112 of the Society of American Magicians, making him the first parapsychologist to have actively served as an officer of both a psychical research group and a magicians’ organization.  
He has been one of the very few parapsychologists active in both psychical research and mentalists
and magicians' organizations --
-- he's also served as Chairman of the San Francisco Bay Area magician/mentalist group Club 53.

  In February 2005, Auerbach – along with HCH Institute in Lafayette , CA – launched a new basic Certificate Program in Parapsychological Studies.  The program, registered with the State of California
, is the beginning of what will hopefully be a new extensive educational program in Parapsychology. 
As of 2006, the program is also available
for distance learning.

Loyd Auerbach has been an Adjunct Professor in Integral Studies (formerly Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies) at JFK University since 1983.  The university, formerly in Orinda , CA ,  moved to Pleasant Hill , CA in 2004. 
He was also a member of the faculty of Rosebridge Graduate School for Integrative Psychology
1996-1998 (that school is now closed). 
He holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Northwestern University (1978), and an MS in Parapsychology from JFK University (1981). 

He serves on the Advisory Board for the
Rhine Research Center in Durham , NC .

A resident of an Eastbay community outside of
San Francisco & Oakland , where he lives with his wife, Professor Auerbach has been teaching Parapsychology and related topics for several years in the Bay Area and, before that, in New York .

Over the last 25 years, he has taught courses in Parapsychology, Anthropology, Altered States of Consciousness, Science Fiction, Magic, Public
Speaking and Mass Media. The main topics of his public lectures are "Professor Paranormal's True Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings," "Exploring the Real-Life X-FILES: Ghosts" "Mind Over Matter:
Do You Have the Power," and "Psychics and Charlatans: Perception, Psi and Magic."

He continues to teach non-credit seminars in the Bay Area and other locations, and is available for
workshops and seminars in other parts of the US and Canada . 
He is mainly represented on the college and university speaking circuit around the country by
Wolfman Productions for the Halloween Season.
He is also available for appearances at Ghost Hunting, and Paranormal, Metaphysical and Science
Fiction and Comic Book Conventions, Conferences and events.

He was Public Information and Media Consultant to the American Society for Psychical Research (http://www.aspr.com) in New York City from 1982 through mid-1983. There he acted as a
spokesperson and as an intermediary to facilitate communication between the media and the parapsychological community. He is still a member of that organization, an associate member of the
Parapsychological Association (http://www.parapsych.org), and a corresponding member of the
Society for Scientific Exploration (http://www.scientificexploration.org).

For 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, a group for people to call when they believe they have a psychic or
paranormal experience or disturbance, and a resource center for Media, businesspeople, scientists, law
enforcement agencies, attorneys and other parapsychologists. While most of O.P.I.'s investigations are
in Northern California, the group has investigators in many other areas of the country.


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.
Most recently he has been involved with shows for the History
Channel, the Travel Channel, KGO-TV, the U.K. ’s LivingTV
and A&E. He keeps tabs on the media's portrayal of Parapsychology
through his constant contact with media people, watching too
much TV and seeing too many movies, and various online tools. 
Most recently, he finished a long association with LexisNexis information services (as a very part-time Special Consultant to
their San Francisco office).

Besides his media work and consulting with other parapsychologists, Auerbach also consults with
other professionals.  For example, in 1984, he was called in as an expert witness in a San Francisco
homicide trial, his testimony dealing with psychic phenomena and the anthropology of belief in the
supernatural. He has consulted with other attorneys and law enforcement officials since then.

His speaking and media expertise is often brought into play as a media and public speaking coach for authors, executives and other businesspeople. He has taught a Media & Presentation Skills course
annually at JFK University for many years, and is featured as an "expert" in PUBLIC SPEAKING
FOR DUMMIES by Malcolm Kushner (www.kushnergroup.com), (IDG Books, 1999; John Wiley &
Sons 2004), and also served as Technical Editor of that book. He occasionally runs corporate public speaking workshops for companies in the Bay Area, and has coached executives on including magic
effects in their presentations. He often works with the San Francisco-based company Speakers World (www.speakersworld.com).

Loyd Auerbach is an accomplished Mentalist and Psychic Entertainer, performing mainly for private parties, corporations, and at colleges and restaurants as PROFESSOR PARANORMAL.
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. As mentioned above, he was President of the Psychic Entertainers Association for four one-year terms, from 2001-2005.  He received a credit as a "Creative Consultant"
to the MAGIC OF DAVID COPPERFIELD X: THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (CBS 1988).

His work as a psychic entertainer has expanded since late 1991 to include a new version of an old idea. SEANCE FICTION THEATER presents a form of what has been called "spirit theater,"
entertainment in the vein of spiritualist séances, though he often performs it with tongue planted firmly
in cheek, and even occasionally as a comedy séance (the latter with performer Madame Molotova,
"the Flamboyant Russian Clairvoyant"; www.madamemolotova.com).
This show is available for groups of 4 to 150 people, though the show for 50-150 people is different
than the one for smaller audiences.

While he loves his séance show, 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!"

Loyd Auerbach's media exposure includes many prominent appearances on paranormal-related
programs for the Discovery Channel, the Travel Channel, The Learning Channel, A&E, the History Channel, the Sci Fi Channel and TechTV. He was Series Consultant for the initial series of America's
Most Haunted Places for the Travel Channel. He was frequently seen on Sightings, and has had other
national exposure on Criss Angel: MindFreak, Larry King Live, the Today Show,  Unsolved Mysteries,
Oprah, Popular Mechanics for Kids, The New Edge, The Next Step, The Joan Rivers Show, Hard
Copy, Evening Magazine, The Late Show, PM Magazine, Hour Magazine, Strange Universe, in publications such as DISNEY ADVENTURES, INTUITION, OMNI and GANNETT NEWS SERVICE, on ABC TALKRADIO, and in the ASSOCIATED PRESS, among others; Bay Area appearances & interviews with KGO RADIO and TV, KPIX-TV, KTVU TV, KHBK TV, KCBS RADIO, KRON TV, the OAKLAND
TRIBUNE, THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE and
EXAMINER, THE CONTRA COSTA TIMES; New York appearances on many television and radio
talk and news shows; and interviews in the NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES.
His is a familiar name around the nation as he has been interviewed on television, radio and in print all
over the U.S. (and in Canada). During October of each year, he is generally interviewed by 30-50 radio
stations all over, and is often featured on national and local television. He has also gained recognition in
Japan, having been featured in six television specials in 1991-94 on Tokyo Broadcasting System, the
most recent shot in the Australian outback. A feature article about him appeared in Southwest Airlines
magazine SPIRIT in March, 1998, and a more recent extensive cover feature appeared in the East Bay
Express in February, 2003.
(go to this url on the web: http://www.eastbayexpress.com and search on his name ).

A few of his more recent appearances include a segment on the A&E special:Mediums: They See
Dead People, two episodes of LivingTV’s Dead Famous and participation in their three day Dead
Famous Live broadcast from Los Angeles in November, 2005, season one of Criss Angel: MindFreak,
and the History Channel’s specials Voodoo Secrets (2005) and Vampire Secrets (2006).