WHO WE ARE
FOUNDER AND RESEARCH DIRECTOR
Julia Mossbridge, MA, PhD
I am ruthlessly focused on developing a deep understanding of love, time, technology, and how these human experiences relate to corresponding physical forces. My most recent relevant projects include: Creating a Socratic GPT to guide intelligence analysts through the critical thinking process, leading a diverse team of technologists and designers to create a scalable, self-guided digital tool that increases overall wellbeing and is now being developed further within Native American communities, and leading an international group of AI developers and roboticists toward creating an unconditionally loving robot that reduced anger and cognitive load in humans. Some current affiliations include: Co-founder and Board Chair of the 501c3 nonprofit TILT: The Institute for Love and Time, Senior Distinguished Fellow in Human Potential at Center for the Future Mind (Florida Atlantic University), Senior Data+Intuition Consultant at Tangible IQ, a member of the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the Stimson Center, Human Potential Research Lead for The Telepathy Tapes, the founder of Mossbridge Institute and an author and co-author of numerous books and scientific articles, including Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness with Imants Baruss (2017), the first American Psychological Association textbook on consciousness to not assume consciousness is reducible to brain activity.
My postdoctoral work in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition program at Northwestern University led to my pursuing the mechanisms of precognition – the ability to perceive seemingly nonpredictable events. My PhD was in psychoacoustics in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Northwestern University, my MA is in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco), and I was awarded my BA with a minor in computer science and Highest Honors in Neuroscience (Oberlin College).
VISITING SCHOLAR
Ryan Boudinot
Ryan Boudinot is the author of four books of fiction, including Blueprints of the Afterlife (Grove Atlantic), a finalist for the Philip K Dick Award. He founded Seattle City of Literature, the organization that successfully applied for membership to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. His career in the tech industry has spanned twenty-five years and included work with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Expedia, and numerous startups. He was an inaugural member of the University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs Virtual Reality startup incubator and developed content strategy for audio tech R&D lab Immersion Networks. For eight years, Ryan taught graduate-level creative writing, and has led numerous workshops on fiction, essay writing, and literature at organizations including Richard Hugo House and Antioch College.
Ryan’s interests lie in the fertile territory between fiction and the innovations that technology can actually make possible. His proposal for the World Integration Loop, a conceptual framework for integrating earth data with cycles of human motivation and reward, was included in the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence Global Top 100 list of 2021.
Ryan holds an MFA from Bennington College and a BA from The Evergreen State College. He lives in Seattle, across the street from a yoga studio where he spends much of his time.
VISITING SCHOLAR
Cyndi Coon
Cyndi Coonis a time traveler and rule-bender, nerding out for good using data, science and curious questions as an Applied Futurist, author, creative, ecosystem builder, facilitator, producer, researcher, storyteller and publisher for private partnerships, enterprise, governments, the military, higher education, and industry. Cyndi is the Founder and Principal Futurist at Applied Futures Lab, Founder of Laboratory5, and Co-founder of Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab and Press, and is the co-Founder & Director at Threatcasting.ai Cyndi is the co-author of Threatcasting (2021) and the author of numerous reports, articles and book chapters. Founder and Publisher at Turkey Hill Press. She is an Affiliate at the Center for Emergency Management & Homeland Security, a visiting scholar at the Mossbridge Institute, Co-Chair of the Human Wisdom Committee IEEE Planet Positive and Chief Media Officer for Content Evolution. She leads the i4j (global innovation for jobs workforce) and Coolabilities communities, promoting inclusive and forward-thinking solutions. She is a Web 3 advisor and a Generative AI Mindset trainer. Cyndi Coon is a subject-matter expert on Threatcasting, Futurecasting, information shaping, Coolabilities, AI Mindset, and creative entrepreneurship. Her use of imagination, combined with her experiential approach to research, drives her passion for human-centered, self-powered actions.
VISITING SCHOLAR
Dave Green
Dave Green is an artist from London who creates simple line drawings in his lucid dreams that he then re-creates upon waking up. Informed by the latest sleep and dream research, Dave uses this unique process to explore various aspects of the dreaming mind. His work has garnered widespread acclaim, earning him features in publications such as BBC Science Focus, proto.life and Dreamtime magazine. He is also the winner of the 2022 award for artistic merit presented to him by the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
Born in London in 1985, Dave graduated from the Fine Art course at Sheffield Hallam in 2007 but quickly left the art scene behind to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian. He started making art again during the Covid pandemic when the isolation of lockdown allowed him to rekindle his childhood interest in lucid dreaming. Following this spurt of productivity, in just a few short years he quickly established himself as one of the world’s leading artists working within the field of lucid dreams.
In 2021, still keen to scratch that live performance itch Dave began combining his stand-up skills with his artistic talents and started to give live talks about his work. He has done so at prestigious platforms including Tate Modern Lates, where he was a featured speaker as part of the Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition. And audiences at Skeptics in the Pub and The Psychedelic Society have also been captivated by Dave’s unique approach to the subjects of dreams, art and creativity.
One of the cornerstones of Dave’s practice is his ongoing collaboration with Professor Antonio Zadra of the University of Montreal. A leading expert in the study of lucid dreams, Antonio encouraged Dave to experiment with dream characters: the people who inhabit your dreams that aren’t you. In this study Dave has been giving his pen and paper to dream characters and asking them to create drawings for him, and in this way Dave and Antonio have been exploring to what extent these alternate personas have their own inner lives, shedding new light on the creative potential of lucid dreams.
In 2022 his collaboration with Professor Zadra paved the way for Dave to appear in The Dreaming Pen – a documentary produced by the World Science Festival. This short film which has over one million YouTube views follows Dave as he creates a portrait of the world-renowned physicist Brian Greene in his lucid dream.
Continuing his interest in science and art collaboration, In 2025 Dave was the co-author on a paper for the International Journal of Dream Research with Julia Mossbridge and Goldsmiths’ Chris French on the subject of precognition – the ability to perceive seemingly unpredictable events. This experiment was covered in Chris French’s book The Science of Weird Shit published by MIT press.
Dave is currently working on a book about his time-bending adventures in lucid dreaming and Art due for release in spring 2026.
VISITING SCHOLAR
Natalia Meehan
Natalia Meehan brings an interdisciplinary perspective as a visiting scholar, grounded in her academic background in Environmental Science and Psychology from Tulane University. With over a decade of experience supporting autistic and neurodivergent individuals with apraxia, she is clinically trained in herbalism, specializing in teaching and supporting nonspeaking individuals—known as spellers—with regulation and communication. Her integrative approach as a practitioner draws on her training in the sciences and holistic health to bridge neuroscience, embodiment, and alternative communication methods. She has a commitment to honoring the full complexity of the human experience, especially in populations whose voices are too often marginalized or misunderstood.
Natalia’s work is deeply personal as well as professional. Inspired by her relationship with her nonspeaking sister, she became a dedicated advocate and consultant for families and caregivers seeking meaningful, respectful support for their loved ones. She is the co-founder of Flowering Futures, a center dedicated to spelling-based communication, regulation support, and holistic care for nonspeaking individuals. Her work aligns closely with the institute’s mission to explore innovative pathways in consciousness, healing, and human connection.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER & WEBSITE SUPPORT
Mica Fishman
Mica Fishman is a freelance graphic & web designer. She’s designed for nonprofits, political campaigns, publications, schools, and more. She’s also worked full-time as an in-house graphic designer for a genetic testing company and a wholesale distribution company.
She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts (right outside Boston) with four friends, lots of board games, and an inexplicably large amount of tinned fish. When not adjusting margin sizes and font colors, she likes to cook dinner, go contra dancing, listen to folk music, and draw pictures of very small insects.