tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post4818162286331056470..comments2024-01-26T00:50:50.752-08:00Comments on Entangled Minds: Mediumship study publishedDean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-66875480194668147302014-01-13T12:14:20.521-08:002014-01-13T12:14:20.521-08:00Psi does not appear to be mediated by electromagne...Psi does not appear to be mediated by electromagnetism. Besides experimental tests that have specifically looked for such an effect (and not finding it), transtemporal phenomena like precognition cannot be explained by EM. <br /><br />That said, I think it's likely that today's theoretical understanding of EM is incomplete, so perhaps in the future a more comprehensive understanding will be relevant. But given today's models, it is insufficient to explain psi.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-33452441586762375822014-01-09T14:35:14.495-08:002014-01-09T14:35:14.495-08:00dear radin, do you think psi can be explained for ...dear radin, do you think psi can be explained for electromagnetic fields? and why you think that?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303673985087600429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-31027713568268335842014-01-03T11:31:02.700-08:002014-01-03T11:31:02.700-08:00Yes, I've heard this too. But I don't know...Yes, I've heard this too. But I don't know any of these details. It seems that authors are usually the last to know. A few years ago I discovered that one of my books had been translated into Turkish, and no one had bothered to tell me!Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-59488541883963056152014-01-03T02:41:07.078-08:002014-01-03T02:41:07.078-08:00Hello,Dr Dean , I heard that a Chinese publisher i...Hello,Dr Dean , I heard that a Chinese publisher is translating your book:Entangled minds , is this true ? when will it finish? Which publisher? Which translator?<br /><br />Thank you in advance!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208953390095547403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-30210047571478648322014-01-02T18:17:17.726-08:002014-01-02T18:17:17.726-08:00Many thanks to Obiwan. It was indeed Carl Wicklan...Many thanks to Obiwan. It was indeed Carl Wickland, and a large PDF of the relevant research is available online at:<br /><br />http://www.new-birth.net/booklet/30_years_among_the_dead.PDF<br /><br /><br />For example, Page 16 reads :<br /><br />The transference of the mental aberration or psychosis from a patient to the psychic<br />intermediary, Mrs. Wickland, is facilitated by the use of static electricity, which is<br />applied to the patient, frequently in the presence of the psychic. Although this electricity<br />is harmless to the patient it is exceedingly effective, for the obsessing spirit cannot long<br />resist such electrical treatment and is dislodged.<br />Induced by our invisible helpers the spirit may then entrance the psychic, when it<br />becomes possible to come into direct contact with the entity, and an endeavor is made to<br />bring him to a realization of his true condition and of his higher possibilities. He is then<br />removed and cared for by the advanced spirits and Mrs. Wickland again returns to her<br />normal self.<br />In many cases remarkable evidence that discarnate entities were the offending cause of<br />aberration has been obtained by a system of experimental concentration in a psychic<br />circle. Obsessing spirits have been dislodged from victims frequently residing at a<br />distance, conveyed to the circle by the co-operating intelligences and allowed to control<br />the psychic. Such spirits often complain of having been driven away, yet are ignorant of<br />being spirits, or of having controlled or influenced anyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-45251999791588424942014-01-02T07:34:01.525-08:002014-01-02T07:34:01.525-08:00Warm wishes for a Happy New Year 2014 to Dr Dean R...Warm wishes for a Happy New Year 2014 to Dr Dean Radin and family and co-workers at IONS. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352687687582954266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-88061016732909151722013-12-29T14:47:12.877-08:002013-12-29T14:47:12.877-08:00I think dataquerent may be referring to the resear...I think dataquerent may be referring to the research of Carl Wickland. If so, my reading is that they didn't force the 'attached entity' (if such it was) to enter the medium (Mrs Wickland) but rather to detach itself from the person it was affecting.<br /><br />It sometimes subsequently communicated through Mrs Wickland. <br /><br />Obiwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13273501189089388324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-30967896186639888742013-12-28T09:54:50.705-08:002013-12-28T09:54:50.705-08:00I believe that consciousness survives death and it...I believe that consciousness survives death and it is non-material, therefore it has no individual aspects vibrating at different frequencies and which separate and disappear. I think the ideas about "individual energies" are likely to be inadequate attempts to express things about the non-material in terms that can be communicated to other people, which are almost inevitably linked to our experience of the physical universe. I doubt that consciousness is susceptible to the same rules and laws which were put together into science, it being not like the physical objects and their movements that those rules and laws were formulated to address. I do, though, think that it is possible to use science and mathematics to rule out aspects of consciousness and experience being due to physical causality, I doubt that those can adequately define any aspect of consciousness that exceeds the limits of our address of the physical universe. <br /><br />If you ask me to prove that, I can't, it is a belief just as any talk about "disembodied energies" "vibrating at frequencies".<br /><br />I've had exactly two experiences in six decades in which I sensed what I could only call "ghosts" which I had a feeling were human and conscious, in places where I am absolutely no people may have died in the past century (on my family farm). I don't know what that was but they weren't like anything I've ever experienced before or after. Other than one time when one of my sisters and I had the same dream during the same night, distant from each other, on a theme that neither of us could account for during the previous month, they are the sum total of my experience with of these kinds of things. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-60313915807507963232013-12-25T11:52:12.687-08:002013-12-25T11:52:12.687-08:00> has it been considered that human consciousne...> has it been considered that human consciousness itself is one entity ...<br /><br />Yes.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-57509363917126517862013-12-24T22:48:53.504-08:002013-12-24T22:48:53.504-08:00Dean, I just watched a documentary that had you in...Dean, I just watched a documentary that had you in it and had to find a way to get in touch with you. When discussing the intertwining of each others realities, has it been considered that human consciousness itself is one entity. With each human having the ability to manipulate and create the world we live in. Thats why each individual action alters the big picture for everyone. Furthermore if the principle of every action has an equal and opposite reaction holds true, with each action we are constantly redefining reality across all facets of life. From how we shape the environment, to how our diets and ways of life shape out genetics. Everything is intertwined because the human conscious( un conditioned decision making) is what builds the reality. Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03845842508428095971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-52675020772011213062013-12-15T21:10:10.326-08:002013-12-15T21:10:10.326-08:00Mediums invite communications. They don't (and...<b><br />Mediums invite communications. They don't (and as far as I can tell they can't) force it. <br /></b><br /><br />I believe there is some documented evidence that mediums can compel spirits who have chosen to enter them.<br /><br />I believe there was at least one spiritualist group - a husband-and-wife-team - who were capable of compelling spirits to experience unpleasant sensations, after the spirits had made the decision to enter the medium.<br /><br />They made the habit of "rescuing" deceased persons of low moral character. First the deceased miscreant - e.g. a heroin-addicted murderer - would enter the medium. Then the husband would read it some kind of Riot Act, giving the medium electric shocks if necessary, which the spirits perceived as pain. In most cases, the spirit agreed to mend its ways in the future.<br /><br />I'm sorry I don't have their names to hand - I can research this - they are well-documented.<br /><br />But I suppose very few mediums have reproduced those effects.<br /><br />As for other ethical concerns - seances have been going on in the modern world since the Fox sisters. If there were ethical problems, I think Crookes and Kardec and Myers would have written something about the grave ethical challenges. <br /><br />There are some trivial ethical concerns that barely warrant mention - for example, the experimenter must observe some code of ethics to avoid improper relationships with assistants. But that's standard operating procedure - and that's a concern with living-to-living relationships, not living-to-discarnate relationships. Now, I believe that one Trevor H. Hall has unjustly slandered Crookes by claiming that Crookes had some kind of improper relationship with his medium, but I think Crookes is reliable and those who slander Crookes are not reliable.<br /><br />Maybe I'm not well-acquainted with the literature, but I really can't think of any serious ethical objections.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-7379865096803287932013-12-13T13:53:06.156-08:002013-12-13T13:53:06.156-08:00I've finished the analysis of Burning Man 2013...I've finished the analysis of Burning Man 2013, but I haven't written it up formally yet. After I do that I can provide more details. In brief, this year we had 6 RNGs on the playa, based on 3 different sources of randomness. For the analysis we examined cross-correlations among the 6 data streams. We saw a very significant rise in the average cross-correlation that peaked within seconds of the beginning of the Burning Man ceremony. <br /><br />BTW the study this year was sponsored by NHK, the Japanese Public Broadcasting network. They will include the experiment in a special TV program focusing on psi research around the world. I'm told it will be shown in the form of two 90-minute program segments. I'm hoping that the programs will be picked up by other distributors, so an English version may become available.<br /><br />I haven't seen any of the iclif presentations posted yet. In fact I'm not sure they will be posted. But if they are I'll repost on this blog.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-12138630515878854172013-12-13T13:14:10.242-08:002013-12-13T13:14:10.242-08:00> the ethical aspects of communicating with di...> the ethical aspects of communicating with discarnate beings.<br /><br />Mediums invite communications. They don't (and as far as I can tell they can't) force it.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-86744226324679563192013-12-13T03:41:51.918-08:002013-12-13T03:41:51.918-08:00Dean, on a different tack, I wondered if you would...Dean, on a different tack, I wondered if you would be so kind as to share the results of the latest Burning Man RNG expt? The previous one revealed interesting data. Also, is there a recording of your recent ICLIF talk?<br />Best,<br />Michael.MickyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798927295708682347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-72239021206033147452013-12-12T00:35:50.012-08:002013-12-12T00:35:50.012-08:00>You must consider the ethical aspects of commu...>You must consider the ethical aspects of communicating with discarnate beings.<br /><br />I submit that the ethics have been considered at length by the ancients.<br /><br />[quote]<br /><br />The very mechanics are desirous of fame after<br />death. Why did Phidias include a likeness of himself in the shield of<br />Minerva, when he was not allowed to inscribe his name on it? What do<br />our philosophers think on the subject? Do not they put their names to<br />those very books which they write on the contempt of glory? If, then,<br />universal consent is the voice of nature, and if it is the general<br />opinion everywhere that those who have quitted this life are still<br />interested in something, we also must subscribe to that opinion. And if<br />we think that men of the greatest abilities and virtues see most<br />clearly into the power of nature, because they themselves are her most<br />perfect work, it is very probable that, as every great man is<br />especially anxious to benefit posterity, there is something of which he<br />himself will be sensible after death.<br /><br />http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14988/pg14988.txtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-33966761922243507562013-12-10T03:23:12.558-08:002013-12-10T03:23:12.558-08:00Leaving Joel's style of discussion aside, he h...Leaving Joel's style of discussion aside, he has a point: You must consider the ethical aspects of communicating with discarnate beings.Klaushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06032082123976960330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-8179577513512699262013-12-04T13:26:17.609-08:002013-12-04T13:26:17.609-08:00That should have been "unexamined presupposit...That should have been "unexamined presuppositions", of course. :-( Marcus T. Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15015648874488332379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-18079419988235126622013-12-04T03:18:45.388-08:002013-12-04T03:18:45.388-08:00> given that memories are a product of neural a...> given that memories are a product of neural activity ...<br /><br />Right.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-52271939028111663852013-12-03T21:08:28.350-08:002013-12-03T21:08:28.350-08:00A fascinating study, Dean.
On a related but slig...A fascinating study, Dean. <br /><br />On a related but slightly-off topic-note, did you see this article on the Scientific American site about the NDE of Eben Alexander? It's written by Michael Shermer, so you can guess the line of argument before reading. http://ow.ly/rqAAA What fascinates me is the circularity of the reasoning, and the examined presuppositions which underpin the arguments. e.g. Shermer asked Alexander the following question: "I asked him how, if his brain was really nonfunctional, he could have any memory of these experiences, given that memories are a product of neural activity?" Marcus T. Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15015648874488332379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-26604226868547403332013-12-03T01:53:18.385-08:002013-12-03T01:53:18.385-08:00> Gatekeeper ...
You cannot be sure.> Gatekeeper ...<br /><br />You cannot be sure.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-13102794304592236892013-12-01T14:44:39.161-08:002013-12-01T14:44:39.161-08:00Just to say if communication with the decease was ...Just to say if communication with the decease was possible, how can you actual confirm who you are talking to?Gatekeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15228120312374586686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-54470543710456438772013-11-23T12:02:38.701-08:002013-11-23T12:02:38.701-08:00Seriously? The above note is the last I will allow...Seriously? The above note is the last I will allow from Joel given the negativity and bizarre content of his comments.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-63120033116840744972013-11-23T05:55:50.010-08:002013-11-23T05:55:50.010-08:00JOHN FLYNNE: "I have to agree with Dean about...JOHN FLYNNE: "I have to agree with Dean about the disparaging nature of your comments." <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JOEL: Are you Dr Radin Radin's pet spokesman that you're rushing to his defense? Had I been in Dr Radin's place and had my work been in mind-matter studies and had I been into meditation (as he claims), I would have welcomed any kind of statement - polite or impolite. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A certain level of maturity and equanimity is called for. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Every experience - good, bad, mixed or neutral - should serve as a learning experience without egoism or megalomania coming into the picture. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And, as for you, John, based on a superficial understanding of any issue, don't rush to take sides. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It's callow and biased. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JOHN FLYNNE: "Your posts on this blog contain several bold, elitist assertions that are entirely baseless and unjustified." <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JOEL: Yes, the very nature of the supraphysical ranges/subtle phenomena put the subject beyond the scope of crass materialistic methods of scientific investigation though of course at times there occur physical manifestations of the same....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JOHN FLYNNE: For instance, "Your face, talk, movements and if I may add your energy field shows such 'contamination' coming from these 'possessed' subjects. This is quite a deprecating thing to say."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JOEL: I have spoken the truth based on my yogic perceptions of Dr Radin's persona and force fields.<br /><br /><br /><br />Is Dr Radin a yogi? <br /><br /><br /><br />Obviously, not. <br /><br /><br /><br />Reading books on spirituality, knowing mathematical equations, learning to operate lab equipment, measuring electrical outputs of brainwaves and getting patted on the back by peers does not make one a yogi. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />How many supersenuous experiences has Dr Radin had till date? <br /><br /><br /><br />Obviously, none. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />As for the culture of "pop meditation" that billions resort to, well, all I can say is that it is not yoga and cannot open one's force fields to the supraphysical ranges of consciousness. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yoga in its experiential form is very different when compared to its popular understanding. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The fact that Dr Radin's working in such a sensitive field of research like mind-matter (albeit employing superficial material methods of evaluation that reveal almost nothing expect vague results that're open to interpretation) brings him on a regular basis into direct contact with very many "psychic" persons, who, in a vast majority of cases, have disordered energies vibrating in them. <br /><br /><br /><br />Most psychiatrists and most psi researchers who deal with such "possessed" persons get "affected" themselves by transfer of the disordered energies and as such nearly all of the professionals affected in this interactive manner, being non-yogis and highly desensitized to the finer sensations, are not even aware of the "adverse influence" until the symptoms begin overtly manifesting and then too they tend to equate the depression, failed relationships, blocks in work, ill-health, mental or emotional uneasiness, obsessions, excess exhaustion, premature deaths, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, excess sensuality (sexual promiscuity), tremors of nerves, exaggeration of personality flaws and other such negative symptoms as being due to germs, lack of emotional control, weather changes, natural ups and downs as part of life or the like, while the yogi simply sits back and "sees" the disordered energies at work in the person's force fields and knows the root cause...<br /><br /><br /><br />I like Dr Radin and so I gave out the warning with the best of intentions but well it's been badly received and this is the reason why I usually never warn a person in these matters even when I perceive what is going on in his/her circumconscient (aura), subliminal, surface consciousness and subconscient. I just keep silent knowing my warnings or hints will be badly received and expectedly sooner or later misfortune strikes the affected person. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Shalom-Namaste,<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JoelAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352687687582954266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-8231661391275793742013-11-22T12:09:30.131-08:002013-11-22T12:09:30.131-08:00The EEG accuracy findings in that one medium were ...The EEG accuracy findings in that one medium were not confirmed in the others, so this one case does not imply a generalized result. However, the significant results within that one medium were, of course, adjusted for multiple comparisons.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-62339367752578324412013-11-22T11:39:10.724-08:002013-11-22T11:39:10.724-08:00Thanks. I should have asked about the electrocorti...Thanks. I should have asked about the electrocortical data. You found a strong relationship for one medium with accuracy, what was the overall finding between these two measures across the four mediums and would the individual or collective effects survive multiple corrections? Ps, I find Joel's comments beyond bizarre and unwarranted. MickyDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05798927295708682347noreply@blogger.com