More and more people and organizations around the world are joining WISE and working with WISE to collaborate and coordinate research and other activities related to scientific anomalies, alternative, complementary and traditional medicine therapies, new and alternative energy concepts, unsolved mysteries, and unexplained phenomena of all kinds. The following are some of the major projects and programs we have established for the benefit of our members:
1. Research Grant and Funding Program: With this service, WISE enables and helps its members to apply for and acquire research grants, research contracts, and other funding for their research projects. For example, WISE has recently helped members to receive research grants of US $35,000.00 and US$30,000.00, with other larger grants and funding in the works.
2. Journal Publishing Services Program: WISE has established a program to help researchers, authors, and writers to get their articles prepared for publication and then published in journals and periodicals, and made available for the world to see online. We want to enable anyone in the world to publish his or her research and other creative works, without the traditional frustrations and impediments to publication that authors have historically faced, especially researchers and authors in developing nations, who have sometimes been discriminated against by editors and peer reviewers of journals published in Western countries.
3. CV-Resume Enhancement Program: All WISE “members” are not just members of an organization, but have the official status of Directors, Faculty members, Fellows, Advisers, Research Scientists, or Research Associates, depending on their prior accomplishments and appointments within WISE. As such, WISE members can note their position on their resume or CV, on business cards, letterheads, on job applications, or in other appropriate place.
4. Compensation and Commissions Program: All WISE members can earn extra money for themselves, because for every new WISE member you recruit to WISE as a paying member, you will be paid US$20.00. Thus, if you have recruited 5 new WISE members, you will receive US$100.00, or if 10 new WISE members, then you will receive US$200.00, and so on. You may recruit as many WISE Faculty members, Fellows, Advisers, Research Scientists, or Research Associates as you want. And you may use any form of print or broadcast media, as well as, Facebook,Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, text messages, discussion groups, mailing lists, and other social networking services.
In addition, you may also recruit WISE members by distributing the attractive WISE promotional handout at any and all meetings you attend around the world. This handout is a Word document, so just add your name and contact information to the bottom of the handout, print as many as you want and hand them out, or put them on one of the tables for such items, usually near the entrance to meeting lecture halls. The handout is available at: http://instituteforscientificexploration.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/April.doc
5. Divisions, Departments, and Projects Covering Every Anomalies Subject You Are Intereted In: WISE has 29 Research Divisions, each with several Departments, covering all existing subject areas of scientific anomalies, alternative and traditional medicine therapies, alternative energy, alternative scientific hypotheses and speculations, paranormal phenomena, and unexplained mysteries of all kinds in science, technology, history, religion, folklore, and many other fields. So whatever interests you have in these subjects, we have a place for you, with on-going projects you can participate in, or you can initiate your own project, and others will join to help you.
6. WISE Online Worldwide Resource Center: The online Worldwide Resource Center (WRC) was established to provide a single source to which people worldwide could go to in order to find information about any person, organization, periodical, subject, or activity in any country of the world dealing with alternative and traditional medicine therapies, scientific anomalies, alternative energy, paranormal subjects, and unexplained mysteries and phenomena of all kinds. By providing this Worldwide Resource Center, WISE hopes to promote and enhance cooperation and collaboration among researchers and others worldwide who have an interest in these subjects.
The online WRC is a gigantic database, directory, encyclopedia, and library with pages for thousands of people, organizations, periodicals, books, articles, and subjects of all kinds, and digital resources for research use.
7. WISE Local Branches and National Advisory Councils Worldwide: WISE has already established official WISE Branches and/or National Advisory Councils China, India, Russia, Canada, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Latvia, Laos, Japan, and the United Kingdom, with Branches and National Advisory Councils in various stages of development in many other cities around the world.
Because there are people in every city of the world who have an interest in scientific anomalies, alternative and traditional medicine, and unexplained phenomena of many kinds, WISE wants to establish branches and chapters in the major cities of all countries and nations of the world, as well as, at colleges and universities, so that everyone can collaborate, network, and work together to further the research on these subjects. So please let us know if you would like to establish a WISE research branch or chapter in your city, and we will help you set it up.
8. Speakers Bureau and a Professional Booking Office: WISE has recently established a Speakers Bureau and Professional Booking Office for WISE members who wish to be available for professional speaking engagements, radio and TV appearances, or other public events and venues. In addition, this service is also for WISE members who may wish to have assistance in booking their other professional services such as those related to special healing abilities, special mental abilities, special training services, or other special services that members provide.
9. Professor Research Assistance Program to (PRAP): WISE has recently established the Professor Research Assistance Program (PRAP) to help busy professors with their research on scientific anomalies, alternative and traditional medicine, parapsychology, and research in other anomalies field with their research. Professors are notorious for having many ongoing projects, but too little time or help to do them. And this is especially so with research on the above subjects, where the professor can expect little or no help or sympathy from his or her university department. So with this program, WISE will help find volunteers who can assist professors with their most daring research projects.
10. Author Research Assistance Program (ARAP): WISE has also established an Author Research Assistance Program (ARAP) to help authors of books and articles on scientific anomalies, alternative medicine, parapsychology, and related subjects. Research materials on such subjects is frequently difficult to find, sin e such literature in often not in even the largest of libraries, and may not be indexed in even the most comprehensive indexes of conventional scientific, and social science literature. Authors therefore frequently need specialized research assistance, which WISE will help to provide.
11. Anomalies Literature Preservation Program (ALPP): WISE has established an Anomalies Literature Preservation Program to track down, acquire, and preserve personal and organization collections and libraries of anomalies literature, alternative and traditional medicine literature, parapsychology, and related literature. Many collections are at risk for loss, especially the collections and files of defunct or dying organizations and periodicals, as well as, the collections of people who have passed away.
WISE, will preserve such at risk collections, as well as provide a place where individuals can have their own personal collections and papers preserved, within the WISE National Library of Anomalies and Unexplained Phenomena, and in the National Complementary, Alternative, and Traditional Medicine Library (NCATML)
12. National Library of Anomalies and Unexplained Phenomena (NLAUP):WISE has established this national library network , with the main library at WISE headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, and with a branch in Colorado, and others planned in various other parts of the country. This library network houses thousands of hardcopy books, periodicals, articles, and archival materials related to anomalies, unexplained phenomena, alternative science, alternative energy, parapsychology, and paranormal subjects of all kinds. It also provides space where individuals may house their own private collections, files, notebooks, and papers, so that they can be preserved and made available to researchers.
13. National Complementary, Alternative, and Traditional Medicine Library (NCATML): This library has hundreds of books, periodicals, and articles on all subjects related to alternative and traditional medicine, including: acupuncture, alternative AIDS therapies and theories; aura field and Kirlian medical diagnostics; alternative cancer therapies; energy medicine therapies; magnetic and electromagnetic field therapies; homeopathic therapies; mental and faith healing; naturopathic medicine; music and sound therapy; nutritional and nutraceutical therapies; phage therapies; radiesthesia, radionics, medicinal plants, traditional and folk medicine; shamanic medicine, and many other subjects. In addition, the library has a large collection of books and materials on anti-aging medicine.
14. WISE Digital Library (WDL) to Complement the WISE Library and Archives: WISE has established a Digital Library to complement its existing large library of several thousand books and periodicals on anomalies, alternative and traditional medicine, parapsychology, and other subjects. WISE has also begun to digitize anomalies and alternative medicine journals and periodicals in order to make this literature available to researchers around the world.
15. International Coalition of Anomalies Libraries and Private Collections (ICOALPC) and the International Coalition of Complementary, Alternative, and Traditional Medicine Libraries and Private Collections (ICCATMLC)These coalitions were organized to establish coordination and cooperation among the libraries, organizations, and private individuals who maintain collections of materials related to anomalies, unexplained phenomena, alternative science, alternative energy, alternative, complementary, and traditional medicine, and similar subjects.
16. Monthly WISE Newsletter: WISE publishes a monthly newsletter to keep you up-to-date and well informed on all WISE activities. But the WISE Newsletter is also a forum whereby all members can report their significant accomplishments and activities, such publishing articles or books, delivering presentations at conferences and meetings, conducting significant research projects or field investigations, or doing anything else of significance.
17. Extraordinary Services and Technologies, Inc. (ESTI): This corporation was established to provide a vehicle to market the various extraordinary products and services that are being developed through the research and development activities of the World Institute for Scientific Exploration (WISE), and includes various alternative science, alternative energy, and alternative and traditional medicine products and services. In addition, ESTI was also established to provide a vehicle for other non-profit organizations, independent researchers, inventors, and others to market the extraordinary products and services that they may develop as well. And finally, ESTI was established to help provide entrepreneurial services, such as venture capital funding, business “angel” funding, and related services for those developing extraordinary products, services, and technologies that are based on scientific anomalies or phenomena that may not yet be fully explained by conventional science.