The common themes and details pointed out in this book will develop or enhance your understanding of our supernatural awareness and connection with our interactive universe.

The challenges of examining the subjective experience of supernatural events prompted me to write this book. In these pages, I present some of my personal history with supernatural experiences and mention key people who influenced me. I talk about my earliest experiences with hypnosis, the study of consciousness, and how I evolved as a professional, as well as how I developed deeper connections to my heritage. I discuss how I improved my understanding of supernatural awareness and forged stronger connections with the universe - a universe alive with invisible beings, energies, and information that can interact with us.

Dr. Fredrick Woodard is a clinical psychologist and certified hypnotherapist who conducts original research on the supernatural/paranormal, hypnosis, and psychotherapy. His research stems from his dissatisfaction with general psychological explanations of hypnosis and altered states, which have not reflected his own personal and clinical experience.

His first book, Perceptual Hypnosis: A Spiritual Journey Toward Expanding Awareness (Schiffer Publishing, 2017), describes his theoretical approach to perceptual awareness, spirituality, and hypnosis. He first presented his approach in his doctoral dissertation in 2001 and in a series of eleven peer-reviewed articles in Psychological Reports between 2003 and 2014. His first journal article, “Hypnosis and Phenomenological Perceptual Psychology,” was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology in March 1996.

He has used his approach to developing enhanced awareness in his clinical practice,
with well-adjusted individuals seeking to explore and expand their human potential and achieve self-growth.

Dr. Woodard’s private practice is located in Milford, New Hampshire. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the New Hampshire Psychological Association, the Society of Psychological Hypnosis (Division 30 of APA), and the Society of Scientific Exploration.

He received a doctor of philosophy (PhD) in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Fresno, California, an APA accredited school, in 2002. He also attained three master’s degrees in different areas of psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, American International College (Springfield, Massachusetts), and the University of West Georgia (Carrollton, Georgia).

He trained in hypnosis at the Milton Erickson Institute in Phoenix and has also done extensive training in clinical hypnotherapy as part of his training in psychotherapy.

Dr. Woodard is a direct great-grandson of Chief Madockawando, a grand sachem of the Abenaki nation in the 1600s. He is also a descendent of Charlemagne and a distant cousin of Alanis Morissette, Celine Dion, Ernest Hemingway, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like those of his ancestors who demonstrated creative thinking or fought for individual freedoms and rights, Dr. Woodard emphasizes freedom of thought in his writings, as he has devoted himself to examining subjective experiences in supernatural awareness and altered states of consciousness.