About the Authors

Gary W. Duncan

Gary W. Duncan began his career in industrial chemistry where he spent five years as a research polymer chemist. Another five years he worked in a variety of settings conducting behavioral and social science research. Following his research career, he spent the next twenty-one years in private practice as a psychotherapist, counselor and sex therapist and was a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in the State of Ohio.

For thirty years, Gary has conducted independent research in sexology, consciousness studies, psychic phenomena and western esoteric traditions. He also taught at the University of Cincinnati, Southern Ohio College, The Union Institute, Guilford Technical Community College, Central Piedmont Community College and Duke University. Gary lectured and taught courses on topics that ranged from English, English as a second language, mathematics, psychology, sociology, sexology, sacred and esoteric sexuality, Western and Eastern esoteric traditions, reincarnation, the soul, death and dying, near death experience, parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, dream work, the Gnostic religion and spirituality.

Gary holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Counseling from the University of Cincinnati. Gary also has a Masters degree in Corrections from Xavier University and postgraduate work in Social Psychology from the University of Cincinnati and ABD in Counseling from the University of Cincinnati. He has specialized training in chemistry from ICS (International Correspondence School) and USI Chemical. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy training from the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. Specialized studies in Jungian Analytical Psychology from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Jung Association and the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Sexology and Sex Therapy training from The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati Central Psychiatric Clinic and the Masters and Johnson Institute. Gary also has specialized training in transpersonal psychology, imagery and hypnosis from the University of Cincinnati and the American Imagery Institute. He has theological training from the Gnostic Catholic Apostolic Autocephalous Church of North America, North American Seminary. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the College of Neotarian Philosophy in Applied Metaphysical Psychology.

Over the years, Gary has written academic papers and articles for various magazines: This Week in Texas, The Cincinnati Gay Yellow Pages, The Greater Cincinnati Resource Directory, Journal of Counseling and Human Service Profession and 50-Plus Magazine. Twin Souls Merging is Gary’s first book and he is in the process of writing a novel as well as a thesis on mysticism, which includes his own mystical and spiritual experiences. At present, Gary is an ordained Gnostic minister, a writer, lecturer, spiritual facilitator, consultant, educator, esoteric researcher, independent paranormal researcher and investigator. He presently lives in North Carolina.

Jean A Cline has been a registered nurse for over thirty years. She has an Associate Degree in Nursing from Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois and an Associate Degree in Medical Records from Cincinnati Technical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. She continued to study nursing at Edgecliff College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jean lives in Amelia, Ohio. Her son, George Matthew, and his wife Lisa live in Northern Kentucky. Her daughter, Amy lives in Maryland with her husband, Keith and daughter, Allison and son Alex. Jean co-authored several medical studies for the University of Cincinnati and was involved in two independent studies. From 1977 to 1979, she was involved in isotope research for Triangle Research Institute, Duke University and from 1980 to 1982, she continued her involvement with isotope research for E L Sanger, Cincinnati, Ohio. Jean currently works in nursing for a major Cincinnati Hospital. Twin Souls Merging is her first book.

Daryl I. Coston is a sales representative for specialized nutritional and natural health products. He conducts staff trainings and consumer lectures throughout the Carolinas on the use and benefits of Essential Fatty Acids. Before moving south, Daryl operated a business in Ohio, which retailed nutritional supplements and provided natural health consultation. Daryl’s work as a natural health consultant helped him recognize that a total person is composed of mind, body, and spirit.

In 1994, a Dayton, Ohio psychic named Carolyn Shilt told Daryl he would lose his job within nine months. This surprised him, but within six months he was out of work. This prediction lent credibility to Carolyn’s psychic abilities and Daryl set up a second appointment.

Carolyn’s second reading indicated that within two years a woman from the medical profession would come into Daryl’s life with issues around death and dying, and Daryl would be involved in a project that would make him a pioneer in some new area. Daryl asked how he would meet this woman and Carolyn indicated he would meet her in a class he would be teaching.

Almost two years later, Jean A. Cline enrolled in a psychic phenomena course taught by Daryl’s life partner, Gary Duncan.

Despite the fact it was his life partner teaching the class and not himself, Daryl nonetheless realized Jean was the woman Carolyn had foretold. Jean was from the medical profession. She was a nurse and had been one for decades. Jean came to Gary with issues surrounding the death of her friend. By agreeing to be the manuscript editor for this book, Daryl became a pioneer in a new area of research, just as Carolyn had predicted.

Daryl holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati and presently resides in North Carolina.