Adept Friends

Freedom Fund conceptualist

Christopher Almida

Having held key positions in various tech startups and established companies, Chris’s long experience spans leadership, business development, fund raising, operations management, strategic planning, relationship building, stakeholder management, and governance. Chris is known as a progressive, driven, and down-to-earth leader and business development expert who consistently delivers results. With a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by businesses in managing their digital assets, he strives to provide tailored solutions that unlock their full potential.

His current and past roles include as freelance CTO of The Grand Return, CEO of PicsVault, Co-founder of Surfing.com, CEO of ARK Crystals, CEO of Torus Tech LLC, Executive Director of Resonance Science Foundation, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, key contractor to Microsoft rolling out its Small Business Server, CTO and Project Manager of The Molnick Group, Consulting Network Engineer for Appalachin Technologies, Technical Sales Consultant for Limotta Internet Technologies, CEO and CIO of i2Corp, and Vice President and CTO of Home Gambling Network.

Soul Rider cloud data visualization expert

Kevin Cain

Assists Soul Rider in leveraging the most current methods to mine and interpret data amid large-scale cloud database visualizations in crowd sourcing scenarios. He has worked at the intersection of spatial sampling and computer vision as co-founder for several start-ups, including plexus, plnar, and Photon Factory. Aiming to cross-pollinate computer vision with traditional archaeological techniques, Kevin co-founded has led INSIGHT since 02000.

For INSIGHT, Kevin has organized digital cultural heritage projects in collaboration with La Mission Archéologique Française de Thèbes-Ouest (the French Mission to Thebes-West), École française d’Athènes (The French School in Athens), The National Science Foundation, United States National Parks Service and California State Parks, and more than a dozen other partners listed here.

Kevin has contributed to dozens of papers, and for five years served as Director of the Graduate Computer Arts Program at the Academy of Art University. Under Kevin’s direction, the program grew into the largest visual computing program in the United States, comprising more than 1,500 students. Kevin has collaborated with artists including Kiran Akal, Scott Stark, Anish Kapoor, Jamie Hyneman, and Laura Duke. Kevin was founder for the yearly New Media Colloquia whose lecturers include: Brenda Laurel, Joseph Lambert, Nick Philip, Chris Landreth, Charles Ostman, and Paul Debevec.

Kevin graduated with Highest Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley and admitted to the honor society Phi Beta Kappa. While at UC Berkeley, Mr. Cain was awarded, among others, the Mask and Dagger award for Design Excellence.

Soul Rider scientific advisor

Dr. Dean Radin

Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), which was founded by the sixth man to walk on Earth’s Moon, astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell. Dr. Radin’s invited talks in industry have included Merck, Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank. His government talks have included the US Navy, US Army, the Naval Postgraduate School, DARPA, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (India), the International Center for Leadership and Governance (Malaysia), and the Australian Leadership Retreat (Australia). In 2017 he was honored as one of the 100 most inspiring people in the world by the German magazine, OOOM. As of 2018 his filmography on IMDB lists 18 documentaries in which he has appeared.

He is author or coauthor of hundreds of scientific, technical, and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and four popular books including the Scientific and Medical Network’s 1997 book award, The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006), a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal (Random House, 2013), and Real Magic (Penguin Random House, 2018). Supernormal and Real Magic are available as paperback, e-books, and audio books. These books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Latvian, Turkish, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic.

His 90+ academic articles appear in peer-reviewed journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin, Psychology of Consciousness, and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. A profile of his work was featured in a New York Times Magazine article and he has been interviewed by dozens of television programs worldwide. His 400+ talks have included presentations at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Princeton, Columbia, University of San Diego, University of Minnesota, University of California at Davis and Irvine, Wake Forest University, Virginia Tech, Northern Arizona University, Louisiana State University, University of Amsterdam, University of Paris, University of Padova, University of Allahabad, Andhra University, and University of British Columbia.

Dean’s original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001 he held appointments at Princeton University, SRI International, and other academic and industrial facilities.

advisor emeritus

Nikhil Jacob, M.B.A.

Is an experienced professional with 21 solid years of progressive roles in emerging financial industries, as Chief Financial Officer, Fund Principal, Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst, and Senior Auditor. From startups to Fortune 500s and investment funds in more than 60 countries, Mr. Jacob established early successes to build financial and operational competencies within high performance organizations.

As the Vice President at his boutique investment firm in Los Angeles, Vin Prime Capital, Mr. Jacob constructed and managed a proprietary index fund to capture 90% of market capitalization within a basket of the top 20 cryptocurrencies, designed to deliver risk-adjusted beta to Bitcoin performance. For the venture capital arm of the fund, he managed a portfolio of blockchain-enabled projects across protocol infrastructures and emerging technologies including cybersecurity, IoT, quantum computing, AI, B2C platforms, big data, scaling, privacy, and distributed computing.

Within the rigors of multi-strategy investment funds, his prior role at top consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was Emerging Technologies Portfolio Manager. In this role Mr. Jacob managed a global portfolio of early-stage ventures (Seed to Series-A) across the industries of energy distribution, big data, B2C platforms, and health care. He also developed an investment framework for internally-developed ventures which coached internal talent on venture life cycle, key investment criteria, investor considerations, unit economics, and hypergrowth.

As a daily yoga and meditation practitioner of 15 years’ experience, Mr. Jacob believes that tapping into inner consciousness can enable new modalities for all learning with practical applications, well beyond the capabilities of narrowly-focused intellect and logic. He appreciates that this inner awareness is encouraged by stillness and meditation, and that the higher self can guide the mind to new sources of creativity and inspiration for continual growth. These things drew Mr. Jacob to the methods of remote viewing, which consistently transcend intellectually-limited methods of technology for deployment in fund management.

Beyond finance and innovation, Mr. Jacob has a passion for nature and culture through photography, travel, and fitness. He has traveled and worked in 60+ nations. Mr. Jacob received his M.B.A. from INSEAD Singapore, and his B.A. in International Management from Pepperdine University.

Soul Rider scientific advisor emerita

Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D.

Focuses on teaching and learning about love and time, and she pursues this by speaking and writing widely about them, leading projects, conducting research, and coaching technology executives and engineers. Her research and study in the applied science of precognition is discussed in a 2018 book she co-authored with Theresa Cheung, The Premonition Code.

In addition to being the founder and research director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, Dr. Mossbridge is a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Science Director at Focus@Will Labs, and an Associated Professor in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

She is currently engaged in four love-centered projects: 1) LOVING AIs, a project designed to bring unconditional love into artificial intelligence (especially artificial general intelligence) which is also an entrant in the IBM Watson Xprize competition, 2) a project in which she is examining whether hypnosis can be used to induce a state of unconditional love, 3) The Calling, her new book project about how love gets translated into life purpose, and 4) consciously bringing unconditional love into the lives of the tech workers and executives she coaches.

Dr. Mossbridge’s interest in how time is perceived by unconscious and conscious processes has led her to examine aspects of both cognitive and perceptual timing as well as controversial reverse-temporal effects covered in ABC News 20/20, Wall Street Journal Ideas Market, Fox News and other mainstream media outlets. She is the 2014 winner of the Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions award for this work.

Her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders is from Northwestern University, her M.A. in Neuroscience is from the University of California at San Francisco, and she received her B.A. from Oberlin College.

Soul Rider social change ambassador & investor

Laila Selk

Laila Selk is an adept connector of socially-conscious stakeholders and an investor in Soul Rider’s unique enterprises. Selk was a native northern Californian who devotes significant time to the study of nonlocal consciousness and spirituality including near-death experiences (NDEs). She is a retired 12-year veteran firefighter and emergency medical technician of the Palo Alto, California Fire Department, and a 10-year veteran firefighter of the King’s Mountain Fire Brigade.

Her additional 15 professional years, in for-profit business, include 13 in customer development with FailSafe Testing’s unique acoustic emission ladder testing for fire departments in the western U.S. She assisted in the 2015 production of a teaching conference on science, death and consciousness for U.S. medical professionals and caregivers titled, The Final Transition.

Selk has trained in the methods of Dannion Brinkley’s Twilight Brigade, a hospice volunteer organization devoted to working with dying U.S. military veterans. She volunteers regularly for nonprofits including Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth, an elementary school, and the Sunnyvale Support Network for Battered Women. Selk co-founded the California Women in the Fire Service nonprofit, and was a member of both the California State Firemen’s Association and the International Association of Fire Fighters.

She has journaled her dreams for much of 36 years and had also been an artist of hand-made costume masks, fashion design and stained glass. She mothered an unusually creative 20-something. Her grandfather, M.A. Mansoor, was a licensed heritage antiquities dealer appointed to the Egyptian crown by its last monarch, King Farouk. She attended College of San Mateo for her degree in Fire Science.

Soul Rider scientific, psychology, and remote viewing advisor and ambassador

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

Is a grand master psychologist, researcher and teacher in consciousness. Dr. Krippner is professor emeritus of psychology of Saybrook University, and is a Fellow in five APA divisions, and past-president of two divisions. Formerly he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, Kent OH, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY.

He is co-author of Extraordinary Dreams (SUNY, 2002), The Mythic Path, 3rd ed. (Energy Psychology Press, 2006), and Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans (Greenwood, 2007), and co-editor of Healing Tales (Puente, 2007), Healing Stories (Puente, 2007), The Psychological Impact of War on Civilians: An International Perspective (Greenwood, 2003), Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (APA, 2014), and many other books.

Dr. Krippner has conducted widely renowned workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, and at the last four congresses of the Interamerican Psychological Association.

He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Indian Psychology and Revista Argentina de Psicologia Paranormal, and the advisory board for International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership (St. Petersburg) and the Czech Unitaria (Prague).

Dr. Krippner holds faculty appointments at the Universidade Holistica Internacional (Brasilia) and the Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avanzada de la Conducta (Ciudad Juarez).

He has given invited addresses for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and the School for Diplomatic Studies, Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams.

Soul Rider advisor emeritus

Michael Duane Archer

continues to be fascinated by worldwide financial markets after his 46 distinguished years among them as trading house owner, trader, and computerized financial programming systems designer. He has worn many hats and has seen, as he says, “just about everything!” He estimates his single biggest financial project to date was his trading a total of $20M in assets over 7 years for gains averaging 48% annually, and compounded during that time.

He has conducted research on synthetic currencies using the new correlation techniques of T-Sets and Vectoring. He has lectured on AI (artificial intelligence) in the context of expert financial systems and cellular automata applied to trading. Before the Internet was even a thing on the public’s mind, in 1991 at the University of Chicago’s Artificial Intelligence Symposium he presented about trading commodities using expert systems.

At the University of Chemnitz’s Ninth annual Conference on Machine Learning in 1997 in Chemnitz, Germany, he presented about using binary cellular automata (CA) to trade currencies. And at the 14^th workshop of the International Federation for Information Processing’s Automata 2008 conference in the Bristol, England he presented, A Simple Cellular Automata Model for FX Market Forecasting about his new program using binary CA to forecast currency prices and that paper is available by request at ResearchGate.

In 1972-1976 Archer became one of the first people to develop and test financial trading systems using a then state-of-the-art Data General Nova scientific minicomputer at University of Colorado’s Physics Department. He has programmed in Smalltalk, Prolog and Visual Basic.

In the early 1980s as a commodity trading advisor (CTA), Archer wrote and refined a computer program acknowledged as the first successful application of artificial intelligence (AI) to commodity and currency trading on the planet: his proprietary “Jonathan’s Wave” expert system which was completed in 1986. Jonathan’s Wave is also one of the earliest uses of what is now referred to as ‘algorithmic trading’.

Harvey Newquist, considered by many as an early dean of AI, described Jonathan’s Wave in July 1988 (in Newquist’s magazine “AI Expert: The Magazine of Artificial Intelligence in Practice”) as a combination expert system and neural network of a type not ‘officially’ developed until the early 1990’s. Jonathan’s Wave was featured twice in Futures magazine (July 1987, July 1988), as well as in Registered Representative and Financial Planner magazine. Jonathan’s Wave was researched and executed using three microcomputers at Superfund, Commodities Corporation, Refco and other companies.

Using Goodman Wave Theory as its main theoretical and knowledge base, Jonathan’s Wave computer programs generated an average 48% ROI with extremely conservative risk parameters, and a high Sharpe Ratio, with $20M in assets under Michael’s management. Jonathan’s Wave is also surmised to have been one of the earliest uses of what is now referred to as ‘algorithmic trading’.

Archer published the Artificial Intelligence Timing Letter for investors from 1984-1986.

Inspired by an idea from his cherished mentor, Charlie Goodman, Archer also developed his Market Environments methodology (ME) during 1985-2009, which evaluates financial trading performances. Using his ME he has been very successful in predicting the successes or failure of numerous trading systems.

Archer is an accomplished author on financial trading. First launched in 2005 by the venerable John Wiley & Sons, academic publishers of books, journals and encyclopedias, he has authored and co-authored paperback, hardback and Kindle books. His editions on his methods and practices in currency trading and Forex include:

The most popular of these titles, “Getting Started in Currency Trading”, has been through four editions and a fifth is planned for 2019.

Michael started his financial trading career in 1973 under the wing of a renowned financial trader from Eads, Colorado, Charles B. Goodman. Michael’s compendium of Charlie’s expert teachings in Kindle books present and refine his mentor’s methods and are called, “Goodman Wave Theory”. Michael eagerly absorbed Charlie’s Goodman Wave Theory with its holistic approach to financial trading, and he then began successfully applying it very successfully to the trading of stocks, commodities and Forex. Archer’s Goodman Wave Theory books are:

Goodman Wave Theory: The Simple System Setup (3s)
Goodman Wave Theory, Goldilocks, The ‘Just-Right’ Trading Setup for Forex, Futures and Stocks
Goodman Wave Theory: The 6 & 6 Setup: The Final Frontier
The Goodman Codex
Charlie’s Secret Notebooks in volumes One, Two and Three
The Goodman Method Mentoring Course: Lesson One

In the time-honored style of a teacher selecting a favorite student for his most valuable knowledge and insights, Mr. Goodman taught his financial trading methods to only Michael. Although having more than one personal skill set is now desirable in our day and age, Goodman also maintained a distinct but separate and accessible, informal practice in which he provided personalized intuitive advice from his Heart. Charlie thus counseled hundreds of people in many evenings from his favorite Eads coffee shop.

Archer’s skills at financial trading success became well-known over the next few years, and management brokers soon began promoting him and bringing new clients’ capital into Archer’s trade management services. Thus Archer has often been registered as a CTA, a CPO and an SEC Investment Advisor.

Archer moved then to Hawaii where he co-owned a commodity brokerage house between 1980 and 1985 for Heinold Commodities, the world’s largest futures broker-dealer company of its time.

Passing along the expertise he first learned with initial coaching from his long-time friend and mentor, Goodman, Archer conducted his own mentoring program from 1998 to 2015. He taught over 100 hand-selected students the Goodman Wave Theory passed down to him by Charlie.

Archer has called Colorado home for decades, and now lives in Golden and Steamboat Springs. He is married, and has four grown children and eight grandchildren.