grew up at the Parapsychology Lab at Duke University, where her father's famous ESP card
tests with selected Duke students led to “Extrasensory Perception” becoming a popular
household word in America. She and her siblings served as test subjects in the earliest
child ESP experiments conducted at the Lab. As a teenager, Dr. Feather's first job was
serving as her father's assistant, rechecking experimental test data. She served as a
research assistant both before and after college, meeting most of the well-known
parapsychologists and various visiting dignitaries who came through the Duke
Parapsychology Laboratory.
After obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Biology, Dr. Feather returned to her father's
laboratory to work on experiments exploring possible ESP exhibited by animals, as well as
research into the relationship between memory and ESP and the effect of emotional moods
on psychokinesis (mind over matter).
She subsequently went on to earn a Doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Duke
University. Dr. Feather's current parapsychology focus is developing the Rhine Research
Center's research program investigating the possibility of applying psi ability to the health
and healing field. She is an active member of the Parapsychological Association
Dr. Feather is also a licensed clinical psychologist, completing her postdoctoral fellowship
in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina. Today she brings these skills to
the investigation of ESP and its effects on people who have had spontaneous psychic
experiences. She founded the Psychic Experience Group (PEG) at the Rhine Research
Center which functions as a support group allowing people who have had spontaneous
psychic experiences to meet and share those experiences without fear of ridicule or
judgment. In her PEG group, she has heard hundreds of remarkable stories, told by
sincere and honest people, describing unusual and often disconcerting psychic
experiences
Although The Gift: ESP is her first book, Dr. Feather is a frequent guest on local and
national radio and TV shows dealing with the subject of ESP. In addition to her work as a
director of the Rhine Research Center, Dr. Feather maintains a psychotherapy practice in
Hillsborough, North Carolina where she lives with her husband Bill.
