President and Chief Counsel Consciousness & Contact Research Institute, CCRI

Rey graduated with honors from Rutgers College, was a Masters Candidate at Cornell University and was a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California at Berkeley where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship. He previously was a Professor for six years at the New School for Social Research and at the City University of New York. Rey is currently the Director of the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute, or CCRI, an academic research institute comprised of more than 25 Ph.D. academics, medical doctors, and researchers whose mission is to explore a new paradigm that seeks to integrate the findings of consciousness research and the phenomenology of extraordinary experiences, what Rey coined in 2013 as the “Contact Modalities”.

He has written several books, beside others the recently published 360-page book on his personal experiences and a full feature 2-hour documentary, featuring over 25 PhD academics and medical doctors and over 50 Experiencers of the Contact Modalities. Both are titled “A Greater Reality: One Man’s Journey of Discovery”.

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Rey Hernandez at Venus Spirit Events

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Ultimate UFO Disclosure Conference 2.0
May 2026 in Kirchheim, Germany