Dean Radin

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Dean Radin (born February 29, 1952) is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, USA, on the Adjunct Faculty at Sonoma State University, on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, and former President of the Parapsychological Association.[1][2]

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[edit] Biography

Radin worked as a professional classical violinist for five years,[3] and later earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as both a master's degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3]

Radin describes his work experience as including AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs consulting on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, as well as appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute engaging in basic research on exceptional human capacities, principally psi phenomena.[3]

He was elected President of the Parapsychological Association in 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2005 and has published a number of articles and scientific papers,[4][5] as well as two books directed to a popular audience: The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds.

As of 2006, The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins) was in its 16th printing. It has been translated into Turkish, Korean and French, with further translations under way. In January, 1998, Nobel Laureate physicist Brian Josephson wrote in The Guardian: "If asked to nominate the most significant scientific event of 1997, I would cite the publication of this book.".

As of December 2006, Entangled Minds was being translated into Romanian, Portuguese and Japanese. Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis has added Entangled Minds to his list of recommended books on his website.[6]

While popular, Radin's books have drawn mixed reviews.[7][8][9][10] A strongly critical review of The Conscious Universe was published by Nature,[11] to which Dean Radin objected due to what he described as factual inaccuracies.[12]

[edit] Research

Radin has conducted parapsychological research in several areas, drawing the personal conclusion that psychic phenomena exist. However, Radin's research has failed to capture the attention of mainstream science and the scientific community as a whole, who support mainstream models incompatible with, and often contradictory to, Radin's conclusions. Some of this research includes:

  • Psi (parapsychology) effects: Other publications report analytical studies on how lunar cycles may affect psi and winning at one gambling casino. Winnings on slot machines rise 2% during a full-moon.[13]
  • Presentiment experiments: Experimental tests of presentiment effects in the autonomic and central nervous system.
  • Intention research: Radin's research concluded that intentionally enhanced chocolate significantly decreases stress, increases calmness, and lessens fatigue in those who eat it. [7][14] "If the Pope blessed water, everyone wants the water. But does it actually do something?" Radins asks. "The answer is yes, to a small extent."[15]
  • Remote healing: Subjects constructed clay dolls of themselves. His research showed that the subjects' blood and nerve activity increases when a "healer" 100 yards (91 m) away massaged the dolls.[16] Radin also tested Umbanda mediums in Brazil, who attempted to send healing thoughts to American subjects at UNLV. These healing thoughts were not only sent to specific individuals but also back in time.[17]
  • Kinesiology: Radin ran double-blind and triple-blind trials with 58 adults using vials of sugar and sand and a dynamometer, which measures a hand's grip strength. The results seemed to show that people's muscle strength decreased significantly when they held vials of sugar.[18]
  • Robotics: Subjects attempt to manipulate a robotic arm to pick up an M & M. Unobserved, the robotic arm can complete the job in 25 steps. With a human's mental attention to the task, the job can be done in two steps.[19]
  • Psychics: "The best psychic averages about 3 in 10, like the best baseball hitters .300," says Radin, "the rest of us bat about 1 or 2 in 10." [20] According to Ed May, remote viewers in the Stargate Project were wrong 80 percent of the time and correct 20 percent of the time. Radin wrote that the probable reality of remote viewing was scientifically established by the US government's Stargate Project.[21]
  • Remote viewing and future machines: While Dean Radin was at the Conscious Research Laboratory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas he worked with remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle. Radin conceptualized a future machine that as yet did not exist. McMoneagle used his remote viewing into the future in an effort to obtain information concerning this machine to produce patentable ideas.[22]
  • Historical: About the famous Indian rope trick Radin, says," There are all these classic cases of the fakirs throwing the rope in the air and the little boy climbs up to the top and disappears and all kinds of magical things happen. All the Easterners see it and will swear up and down that they saw it, whereas the Westerners see nothing. They were watching the fakir just stand there with his arms folded and the little boy standing there and the rope is on the ground and nothing happened." Radin's explanation is the fakir "melted minds."[23] In a lecture to the New York Theosophy Society, Radin described the claims ancient sutras made about the powers gained when mystical union with an object was achieved in mediation. According to these sutras, Eastern yogis could see into the past, present and future, read another person's mind, and levitate. Radin asked his audience,"What do they know that we don't know?" [24] Radin also has a positive interest in using remote viewing for psychic archaeology, his preferred name now being "intuitive archaeology."[25][26]

[edit] Books

  • Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (2006)
  • Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living With Guidance (2001), with F. Holmes Atwater, Joseph McMoneagle, Skip Atwater
  • The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (1997, HarperCollins). Amazon.com 1998 Category Bestseller Award, Scientific and Medical Network 1997 Book Award, and Anomalist 1997 Book Award.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://parapsych.org/history_of_pa_presidents.html History of the PA Presidency Retrieved January 5, 2007
  2. ^ IONS homepage, IONS staff directory retrieved on August 14, 2006
  3. ^ a b c Biography on Dean Radin's own website retrieved on November 6, 2007
  4. ^ Dean Radin - Entangled Minds
  5. ^ http://www.deanradin.com/NewWeb/activities.html Bibliography on Dean Radin's website retrieved August 14, 2006
  6. ^ [1] Mullis, Kary. Recommended Reading
  7. ^ Pedersen, Morten Monrad. Book review of The Conscious Universe. SkepticReport.com
  8. ^ Nelson, Roger. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (Book review). The Journal of Parapsychology. March 22, 2006
  9. ^ http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/radin1.html
  10. ^ http://skepdic.com/refuge/entangledreview.html
  11. ^ Good, I. J. (1997). "Where has the billion trillion gone?". Nature 389 (2): 806–807. doi:10.1038/39784.  edit
  12. ^ "Comment on Nature review of Radin". http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/doubtsregood.html#bdj. 
  13. ^ Seeking psi in the casino. Radin, C.I. & Rebman, J. M. (1998), Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 62 (850), 193-219
  14. ^ Radin DI, Hayssen G, Walsh J. (2007). Effects of intentionally enhanced chocolate on mood, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. , Volume 3, pp. 485-492
  15. ^ Mind over Chocolate by Alana B. Elias Kornfeld, TIME magazine, April 6, 2009, page 58
  16. ^ [2] The scientific edge, UNLV professor explores the link between mind and matter by Mary Manning, LAS VEGAS SUN, 14 Sep 1996.
  17. ^ [3] David Jay Brown Interviews Dean Radin
  18. ^ [4] They Laughed at Galileo Too by Chip Brown, 1996 The New York Times Company August 11, 1996, Sunday, Late Edition - Final Section 6; Page 41; Column 2; Magazine Desk
  19. ^ [5] They Laughed at Galileo Too by Chip Brown, 1996 The New York Times Company August 11, 1996, Sunday, Late Edition - Final Section 6; Page 41; Column 2; Magazine Desk
  20. ^ The scientific edge, UNLV professor explores the link between mind and matter by Mary Manning, LAS VEGAS SUN, 14 Sep 1996, [http.//www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/1996/sep/14/505088006.html]
  21. ^ Weird Science. A post on Radin's blog on 12 Jun 2006
  22. ^ The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads, Publishing Co., Inc., 1998, p.109
  23. ^ [6] Enlightenment Interview with Dean Radin See: The Weight of Credulity
  24. ^ See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5395328394840268986 25:28
  25. ^ http://deanradin.blogspot.com/ Monday 18 Jun 2007, Two Recommended Books:Opening to the Infinite by Stephan A Schwartz, also the author of The Secret Vaults of Time: Psychic Archaeology and the Quest for Man's Beginnings and The Alexandria Project
  26. ^ Also see note#4 and references 1 & 2 at remote viewing

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