BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Angela Thompson Smith was born in 1946 in Bristol, England. After gaining
professional qualifications in nursing and social work, Dr. Smith worked with Voluntary
Service Overseas at the Paraiso Infantil Orphanage located in Villavicencio, Colombia
(1972-1975) . There she ran the orphanage nursery where she began a remedial program
for abandoned babies and children, and helped prepare the children for adoption. She
followed the progress of the children for 20 years after adoption and published her work in
the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. She returned to the UK to attend the
University of Wales, Cardiff in 1975 and received her Bachelors degree in 1978.
Dr. Smith then worked as a Research Nurse with the Faculty of Medicine of Manchester
University (1978-1981) where she also studied towards her Master degree at the Institute
for Child Development at Manchester University. Her research, studying the lateral
development of newborn infants and their families at St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, was
published in Cortex.
It was during her stay in Manchester, England that Dr. Smith began studying alternative
philosophical, religious, and parapsychology topics. She had Out-of-Body Experiences
(OBEs) since childhood and wanted to learn more about this phenomenon. She attended
parapsychology courses and conferences where she learned about the scientific research
into OBEs and other parapsychological phenomena. She also studied Buddhist meditation
with Dr. Vladimor Zakian. Dr. Smith also took part in OBE and lucid dream research. as an
external participant, with the Psychophysical Institute in Oxford, England.
In 1981 Dr. Smith emigrated to the United States and held several administrative jobs
before gaining a research position with the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New
Jersey (1985-1988). She worked there as a researcher, with the Institute for the Study of
Child Development, studying mothers and their premature infants at St. Peter's Hospital in
New Brunswick, NJ.
In 1986, Dr. Smith's interest in human consciousness prompted her to become a research
participant in parapsychological studies at the Psychophysical Research Laboratories
(PRL), located in Princeton, NJ. She then volunteered at the Princeton Engineering
Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory at Princeton University, NJ, through 1988, when
she was hired as a member of the research staff. Dr. Smith worked at PEAR until the Fall
of 1992. PEAR was involved in many different research projects during that time,
including: Precognitive Remote Perception (PRP) and Human-Machine Interaction (REG)
studies.
In 1991, while working at PEAR, she enrolled as a student with Saybrook Graduate School,
a distance-learning graduate program, located in San Francisco, CA., to work towards her
Ph.D. degree in Psychology. She received her degree in 2001.
During her Ph.D. training, Dr. Smith traveled to Moscow, Russia, where she interviewed
mathematician and mystic, Vasily Nalimov. Her biography of Nalimov was published in the
Journal of Humanistic Psychology. She also traveled to England and to Kenya during the
time she was employed at Princeton University.
Dr. Smith is a writer and published Remote Perceptions with Hampton Roads Publishing
Company in 1988. Her second book, Diary of an Abduction, was published in the spring of
2001 by Hampton Roads. She is currently working on a historical fiction novel, River of
Passion, that tells the story of the village where she grew up, Shirehampton, in England.
In 1992, Dr. Smith relocated to Las Vegas, NV, to work as Research Coordinator for the
Bigelow Foundation. Her work with the Foundation preceded the Consciousness Research
Laboratory and the Chair in Consciousness Studies that were ultimately established at
UNLV. She left the Foundation in 1994 to continue her graduate studies and to write.
From 1993-1996, Dr. Smith was employed as an Instructor for the University of Nevada's
Professional Development Program that offered professional and business courses to
adult students for industrial clients within the Las Vegas area
Between 1997 and 1999, Dr. Smith received CRV training with Paul Smith of Remote
Viewing Instructional Services and with Lyn Buchanan of Problems Solutions Innovations.
She also audited SRV training with Dr. Wayne Carr of The Western Institute of Remote
Viewing. Dr. Smith attended the Gateway Program at the Monroe Institute and became a
founding director and member of the International Remote Viewing Association. From
1991 she carried out remote viewing consulting work for many organizations including Psi
Tech (1991-1994) and Intuition Services (1992-1999).
In 1997, Dr. Smith began teaching remote viewing courses in Las Vegas. Between 1997
and 2002 she traveled across the country and abroad to give courses including: California,
Montana, Vermont, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Dr. Smith has now relocated to Boulder City, NV, a small town outside of Las Vegas where
she continues to write and teach.