Ccbb: Dr. Bernard Beitman, Md

James Clement van Pelt co-founded and led Yale’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology from 2003 to 2012 and since 2003 has made presentations at conferences and symposia relevant to science-religion and consciousness studies. He has co-produced ten international conferences at Yale and has authored, edited, and contributed to various scholarly articles and books. He has co-taught science-religion courses at Yale, and holds the Master of Arts in Religion (magna cum laude) from the Yale Divinity School, where he was a research fellow from 2003 to 2005 and an instructor/lecturer from 2005 to 2007. Currently he is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Society for Consciousness Studies, and the Society for Scientific Exploration, and is also a Board member and Shapley-Booth Fellow of the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science.He has been the co-founder and director of alternative institutions such as the Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo, the Miccosukee Land Cooperative i