Dr. Jim Garrison is currently the Director of the Washington DC office of the New Paradigm Institute, a nonprofit organization founded by acclaimed civil rights and Constitutional attorney Danny Sheehn. The Institute is a leading advocate of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act; UAPs are more commonly known as unidentified flying objects. This piece of legislation demands that the government release information concerning its held secrets about UAPs, which include sightings, UFO crashes and projects to reverse engineer such foreign technologies.  Jim is also the founding President of Ubiquity University and the Wisdom School of Graduate Studies, an international school of higher education built upon transformational principles of whole brain and whole systems learning. Earlier as the co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation, Jim was instrumental in the founding of the State of the World Forum  to lay a template for a  more sustainable global civilization.  In the late 80s he served as the executive director of the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange, and founded the International Foreign Policy Association in collaboration with Secretary of State George Schultz and Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze. He holds graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. The organization’s website is NewParadigmProject.org