Other Worlds, Other Universes: Playing the Reality Game

Brad Steiger was born Eugene E. Olson in Fort Dodge, Iowa on February 19, 1936. He graduated from Iowa's Luther College in 1957 and the University of Iowa in 1963. He taught high school English before teaching literature and creative writing at his former college from 1963 to 1967. His first book, Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Peculiar People, was published in 1965. He became a full-time writer in 1967. He wrote or cowrote over 150 books including The Johnny Cash Story, The Country Music Scrapbook, The Hypnotist, The Chindi, Alien Rapture: The Chosen, Atlantis Rising, and Four-Legged Miracles: Heartwarming Tales of Lost Dogs' Journeys Home written with Sherry Hansen Steiger. He wrote biographies on Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, and Rudolph Valentino. Valentino served as the basis for the 1977 motion picture Valentino and Unknown Powers was adapted into a documentary, which won the Film Advisory Board's Award of Excellence for 1979. He received several awards including The Genie for Metaphysical Writer of the Year in 1974 and the Dani for Services to Humanity in Philadelphia in 1977. He was inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame in 1987 and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena Conference in Minneapolis in 1996. He died on May 6, 2018 at the age of 82. JOHN WHITE is a writer and teacher engaged in the exploration of consciousness and higher human development. From 1972-74 he was associated with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell as director of education for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an organization founded by Dr. Mitchell to investigate the nature of consciousness and human potential. Born in 1939, Mr. White has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree from Yale University. He is editor of The Highest State of Consciousness, Frontiers of Consciousness, What Is Meditation? and Toward a Science of Consciousness. He also edited Psychic Exploration for Edgar Mitchell. His writings have appeared in many popular and professional journals, including Reader's Digest, Saturday Review, World Psychic, Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, Journal for the Study of Consciousness, and Fields Within Fields. He has taught in high school and college. He is an editor of Psychic and Human Dimensions magazines, and is on the editorial board of "Journal of Altered States of Consciousness." His articles have been reprinted in textbooks on linguistics, biology, and education. He lives in Cheshire, Connecticut, with his wife and has four children.