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Dr. David Shorter is a tenured professor at UCLA, where he has taught “Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts” for over a decade. He has been researching how science helps and doesn’t help us understand the paranormal.
He is also the Director of the Archive of Healing, having been raised by a curandera, and learning with healers in Indigenous communities as well as in Japan. Most recently, Dr. Shorter has been named the Editor in Chief for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, a leading scholarly journal in the field of Indigenous Studies. He has published scholarly essays in anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and the history of the sciences. He has produced films, created digital content, and curated art exhibits. Below is some of the most recent press on David's work. The menu at top provides a categorical view of his range of projects. For students, or students aiming to study with Dr. Shorter, please click on "more" to see his page for academics. To quickly get a range of the visual media available to the public, feel free to click HERE to see his YouTube channel. |
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How Do We Heal?
In the Fall of 2022, Dr. David Delgado Shorter was asked to answer of the of world's most pressing ten questions at UCLA: How Do We Heal? Based on his work with healers in Indigenous communities in Mexico, his research with psychics and mediums, and his own growing up in the home of a curandera (his great-grandmother), Dr. Shorter is able in this video to create a short list of necessary components to healing. He asks us to rethink what counts as healing and health in our contemporary society. Dr. Shorter is the Director of the Archive of Healing at UCLA, and a full professor of World Arts and Cultures. You can check out this presentation HERE. |
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"The language of expansion, frontiers, and conquest reflects a long history of settlers taking Indigenous land and trying to eliminate Indigenous cultures; therefore, these scholars say, this rhetoric and way of thinking should be scrutinized when applied to efforts to reach outer space."
On April 4, 2022, journalist Doug Johnson published an essay in UNDARK magazine that addresses the recent scholarly essay by Dr. David Delgado Shorter on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. To read the essay, click HERE. |
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On September 15, 2022, The New York Times Magazine published "The Search for Intelligent Life is About to Get A Lot More Interesting." Dr. Shorter's research was cited as changing the shape of current searches for extraterrestrial intelligence.
In this far-reaching essay, Jon Gertner writes about one of the leaders in the field of SETI, that "He and some of the CATS members have been influenced by critiques of the search for extraterrestrials — chronicled, in part, in a recent issue of The American Indian Culture and Research Journal — that challenge our tendency to view industry and gadgetry as the primary indicators of “advancement.” Frank pointed out that some Indigenous cultures regard the whole natural world as intelligent." You can read the full article HERE. |
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Coming off his revelatory hypnosis in the first two episodes, producer and actor Bryan Dattilo welcomes UCLA Professor Dr. David Shorter to his YouTube channel. "The esteemed UCLA Professor and author shares his views on aliens including his theory that not all aliens are necessarily from another planet." To see David's interview with Bryan, click HERE. |
In Sum
Dr. David Delgado Shorter is Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California Los Angeles. The author of an award-winning book and the recipient of the University's top teaching award, Dr. Shorter has created three digital publications, produced and directed an ethnographic film, and curated exhibits both on-line and in Los Angeles. His research includes over two decades of collaboration with an Indigenous community in Mexico and studying the borderland between the objective and intersubjective sciences. He has been interviewing psychics, mediums, and ufologists for the last decade, joining others to expand our definition of truth and knowledge.
In 2016, Shorter became the Director of the Archive of Healing, a database of medicinal folklore from around the world. The database is drawn from six university archives, over 3,200 books, and over thirty years of first hand and second hand anthropological data, spanning seven continents. Working with a team of students at UCLA studying healing across cultures, Dr. Shorter aims to develop an active archive where people and communities can benefit from the sharing of healing practices.
Dr. Shorter has been certified as having been attuned to Gokui Kaiden, the highest level of Gendai Reiki Ho, by Hiroshi Doi Sensei (Ashiya, Japan). His students include both those graduate students at the University of California, as well as those studying reiki from his private practice.
At the University, Shorter teaches Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts; Colonialisms and Resistance; Healing/Ritual/Transformation, The Philosophy of Martin Buber; Language, Culture, and Ontology; Data Management, Research Methodologies, and Introduction to Meditation. Potential advisees and students should visit the "Academia" section of this site.
In 2016, Shorter became the Director of the Archive of Healing, a database of medicinal folklore from around the world. The database is drawn from six university archives, over 3,200 books, and over thirty years of first hand and second hand anthropological data, spanning seven continents. Working with a team of students at UCLA studying healing across cultures, Dr. Shorter aims to develop an active archive where people and communities can benefit from the sharing of healing practices.
Dr. Shorter has been certified as having been attuned to Gokui Kaiden, the highest level of Gendai Reiki Ho, by Hiroshi Doi Sensei (Ashiya, Japan). His students include both those graduate students at the University of California, as well as those studying reiki from his private practice.
At the University, Shorter teaches Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts; Colonialisms and Resistance; Healing/Ritual/Transformation, The Philosophy of Martin Buber; Language, Culture, and Ontology; Data Management, Research Methodologies, and Introduction to Meditation. Potential advisees and students should visit the "Academia" section of this site.