Honora Finkelstein

Honora Finkelstein has been an intelligence officer with the U. S. Navy, a college professor, and a prize-winning newspaper editor for ARCOM newspapers in Northern Virginia. She has published over 140 articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals and has taught writing and self-development workshops across the United States and Canada. She is a part-time editor with EEI Communications in Alexandria, Virginia, and has worked for such companies as the Public Policy Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Cook County Law Enforcement Agency, the World Bank, and the American Institute of Architects. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and the International Women's Writing Guild; she was a workshop director for the latter organization for 15 years. She has also been a contributing editor and columnist for Pathways magazine in Washington, D.C. for 12 years. She has a Ph.D. in English and currently teaches Western culture and literature at the University of Southern Indiana as an adjunct associate professor.

Her interest in ghosts and metaphysical subjects goes back to childhood, and in the 1990s she produced and hosted a talk show called Kaleidoscope for Tomorrow on metaphysical and futurist topics on community cable television in Fairfax, Virginia. She has interviewed such notable writers and thinkers as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (On Death and Dying), P. M. H. Atwater (Beyond the Light, Future Memory, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near Death Experiences), and Laurie Monroe of the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. In the summer of 2004 she presented a lecture at the 2nd International Conference on the Future of the Humanities in Prato, Italy, entitled “A New Model for Expansion of Individual Consciousness: Ego Death in Literature, Religion, and the Phenomenon of Near-Death Experiences.