tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.comments2024-01-26T00:50:50.752-08:00Entangled MindsDean Radinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comBlogger4623125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-70715271692615755582016-07-10T14:50:54.644-07:002016-07-10T14:50:54.644-07:00Here's one such anecdote.
https://youtu.be/Aa...Here's one such anecdote.<br /><br />https://youtu.be/Aan5hiQYlNsDean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10276520036432601306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-1997684326090432472016-07-09T18:20:25.381-07:002016-07-09T18:20:25.381-07:00Hey dean i understand that there are multiple stud...Hey dean i understand that there are multiple studies validating psi phenomena. But on top of those what are some personal anecdotal validations you've had or heard of that may have reinforced your convictions on non physical phenomena. particularity pertaining to remote viewing or validating consciousness being not only in the brain,but if not any strong anecdote will do. I'm sorry to see this blog "retiring sort of" but thank you. Jayjay55https://www.blogger.com/profile/07875583900043879804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-73414581863912309952016-07-07T11:27:50.621-07:002016-07-07T11:27:50.621-07:00Is this blog dead? No new posts in years!Is this blog dead? No new posts in years!Enfant Terriblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363106780909274692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-34568122871235325082016-04-21T20:09:05.430-07:002016-04-21T20:09:05.430-07:00Stop complaining about Wikipedia and start respond...Stop complaining about Wikipedia and start responding to critics. If Dean Radin is uninterested in doing this, then his friends and admirers can publish counter-arguments in alternative publications.Benjamin Steigmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14305345132918618601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-19480011037832995582016-04-21T02:26:38.904-07:002016-04-21T02:26:38.904-07:00"What, pray tell, is a "more direct expe..."What, pray tell, is a "more direct experiment" on telepathy than the ganzfeld experiment, or EEG correlation experiments, or "telephone telepathy" experiments, or DMILS experiments, or ...? "<br /><br />A more direct experiment is an experiment that uses related parties. All experiments are double blinded, which researchers say is necessary. However for the 99% of the population psi is apparent ONLY through relationship. Removing relationship is like saying "if you are not an Olympic swimmer then you can't swim" and then presenting the person with a pool with no water in it to show whether they can swim or not. <br /><br />There are very, very rare individuals who are capable of becoming aware of a stranger's mental suggestions. These are so rare that they fall within the margin of error. This small percentage is used as evidence by many people to say that ESP/psi is a hoax. <br /><br />Recently on a forum I saw a guy saying he is a psychiatrist calling ESP a hoax. What this does is to give him the right to discredit his patient's reality, which he is not privy to because it exists within the patient's interpersonal environment, and not only to label them as mentally ill, but also to drug the patient as a solution for their suffering.Kyrani99https://www.blogger.com/profile/00591360702337139424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-24118536481147819232015-12-22T17:52:06.379-08:002015-12-22T17:52:06.379-08:00The following is beginning of the wikipedia articl...The following is beginning of the wikipedia article on parapsychology:<br /><br />Parapsychology is a pseudoscience concerned with the investigation of paranormal and psychic phenomena which includes telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.[1]<br />Parapsychology research is largely conducted by private institutions in several different countries and funded through private donations,[2][3][4][5] and the subject rarely appears in mainstream science journals. Most papers about parapsychology are published in a small number of niche journals.[6] Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide convincing evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.[7][8][9][10][11][12]<br /><br /><br />It should be challenged by as many informed scientists as possible so that this sort of cheap closure isn't tolerated in wikipedian. SocraticArmenianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975149663226979595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-18821759031078970792015-10-26T17:58:57.665-07:002015-10-26T17:58:57.665-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Robert McPhalenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288797482928891988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-21081582935885097122014-12-06T14:57:59.032-08:002014-12-06T14:57:59.032-08:00David: > Mahatma Gandhi borrowed his ideas of a...David: > Mahatma Gandhi borrowed his ideas of absolute non-violence from this extreme form of pacifism...<br /><br />Yes, and he was extremely successful without causing bloodshed. In any case, Gandhi was not a pacifist.<br /><br />> I have perused the link but the results are not convincing ...<br /><br />I'm afraid that this is the same type of cavalier dismissal of evidence as climate change deniers who fail to notice that they are up to their hips in water.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-88519220410882036252014-12-06T14:36:16.870-08:002014-12-06T14:36:16.870-08:00Anthony - see Expt 4 in my 2012 Physics Essays pap...Anthony - see Expt 4 in my 2012 Physics Essays paper, available on this page:<br /><br />http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm<br />Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-47426523998263955982014-12-06T08:08:01.037-08:002014-12-06T08:08:01.037-08:00Could I ask a question? I hope it isn't a tota...Could I ask a question? I hope it isn't a totally silly question but I'm struggling to work this one out from the literature.<br /><br />Has anyone conducted a version of the double slit experiment where which way information was collected and stored in a potentially observable form ( e.g. on a computer hard drive). The interference pattern or lack of it is observed and then a decision is made to delete or observe the which path information. What would happen to the interference pattern?<br /><br />In some ways this sounds a bit like a quantum eraser experiment in which the interference pattern would be there if the which path information is erased. In a decoherence approach however the interactions of the wavefunction with the apparatus would limit the degrees if freedom, tending the system towards a classical outcome, i.e. no interference.<br /><br />Would you be able to point me in the right direction? The original interest is in pondering the interconnection of the results of your own double slit experiments and how they relate to various interpretations of QM. I am not a trained physicist so my apologies for any silly errors and no doubt lack of basic knowledge revealed by the above!<br /><br />ThanksAnthony Muganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09500170864254300321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-22703435465524418612014-12-05T14:02:45.983-08:002014-12-05T14:02:45.983-08:00DEAN - Till now scientific experiments in mind-mat...DEAN - Till now scientific experiments in mind-matter have not corroborated the existence of psychic phenomena... electromagnetic field effects ...<br /><br />Common but incorrect belief. Read www.deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm<br /><br /><br />DAVID - I have perused the link but the results are not convincing and can be attributed to other non-psi sources of influence and statistical jugglery and besides the so-called lab tested psi effects are too feeble and too highly evanescent to be counted as something of a genuine nature. Sorry for saying so. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006060340304646985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-17211188241890254602014-12-05T13:58:49.826-08:002014-12-05T13:58:49.826-08:00DEAN - A genuine mystic, one who realized the esse...DEAN - A genuine mystic, one who realized the essential unity of reality, would never do this. <br /><br /><br /><br />DAVID: Not necessarily. <br /><br /><br />That kind of absolute pacifism is the Christian or the Buddhist idea which will not act against evil even when the truth is threatened by the adverse forces representing evil. Mahatma Gandhi borrowed his ideas of absolute non-violence from this extreme form of pacifism. Such a pacifist kind of mysticism is basically a great obstruction to the advancement of the truth and to the further evolution of the human consciousness. <br /><br /><br />A genuine mystic who has realized the essential unity of things may decide to weed out evil from the world and act like Krishna or Moses. <br /><br /><br />Why, even a great pacifist-yogi like Sri Aurobindo is supposed to have put his Force behind Winston Churchill against the Nazis thereby causing much destruction among the rank and file of the advancing German army. <br /><br /><br />A genuine mystic is aware of his responsibility towards advancing the truth and would employ his Force to wipe out the molesting elements from society.<br /><br /><br />I have heard of certain practitioners of tantra who claim to be capable of teaching a severe lesson to anti-existence guys like Randi by simply staring at their photographs. The effects of this willed-assault executed by the tantric by simply staring at the photo of a person are said to be disastrous as the results are actually manifested in the force fields of the person who may live miles away and who will be unaware that his force field is being damaged in this manner. <br /><br /><br />The essential unity of things can be experienced only in the so-called absolute field of consciousness and energy that is said by the mystics to exceed every feature of organization which then places this absolute field even beyond the quantum vacuum level where well organized EM fields and virtual particle pairs swamp the vacuum and keep popping in and out of it. <br /><br /><br />The absolute is said to be even more primal than the so-called vacuum state. <br /><br /><br />The highest mystics treat consciousness as a thing and not as an activity of energy. They say that since energy can be known only through its phenomena or through its workings and never through its basis thus consciousness stuff is at the root of energy. <br /><br /><br />This idea of consciousness being a thing and not merely an activity of energy in various states of organization tallies well with modern findings by which we know what energy can do and not what energy actually is in its essence.<br /><br /><br />The essence of this energy is the consciousness stuff or the celebrated brahman (absolute field of consciousness-energy) of the Vedas.<br /><br /> <br />The absolute is said to be so subtle and so remote that it is out of reach of a vast majority of the most advanced mystics. <br /><br /><br />Most mystics experience the first stage of the essential unity of things in the psychic grade of consciousness or in the soul which is supposed to be the grade of consciousness in the body that organizes the mind, emotions and physical frequencies of energy. <br /><br /><br />The consequences of the psychic realization are of a nonlocal nature. <br /><br /><br />The psychic (soul) is essentially seen as the same in every living being. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006060340304646985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-91047060637320719462014-12-05T09:20:45.420-08:002014-12-05T09:20:45.420-08:00> I would be mighty excited if a mystic decides...> I would be mighty excited if a mystic decides to teach Randi a serious lesson by maiming him or killing him from a far off distance with just one directed thought accompanied by the Force.<br /><br />A genuine mystic, one who realized the essential unity of reality, would never do this. <br /><br />> Till now scientific experiments in mind-matter have not corroborated the existence of psychic phenomena... electromagnetic field effects ...<br /><br />Common but incorrect belief. Read www.deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-11577665829039469952014-12-05T08:30:46.637-08:002014-12-05T08:30:46.637-08:00DEAN RADIN - What would interest me is a prize to ...DEAN RADIN - What would interest me is a prize to demonstrate what has been learned from scientific experiments.<br /><br /><br /><br />DAVID - Till now scientific experiments in mind-matter have not corroborated the existence of psychic phenomena as a valid discipline that employs levels of energy and consciousness other than those in ordinary use. <br /><br /><br />Scientific experiments in this subject have other valid explanations that are not necessarily of occult or of mystical origin but are related to simple causes like excess or directed electromagnetic field effects at work or chance happenings once in a while and besides these effects which appear to be paranormal are too feeble and fleeting and their explanations depend on statistical manipulations to a great extent. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006060340304646985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-12260528714987125862014-12-05T08:23:25.357-08:002014-12-05T08:23:25.357-08:00DEAN RADIN: The Randi prize might be a legitimate ...DEAN RADIN: The Randi prize might be a legitimate way to test the claims of popular psychics, many of whom vastly overestimate their abilities. So it isn't surprising that no one has won the prize. <br /><br /><br />DAVID - Genuine mystics are a rarity and besides they are busy perfecting themselves to bother about James Randi's challenge. <br /><br /><br />Now, assuming a mystic with higher order mystical powers decides to take up Randi's challenge and demonstrates in full public view a healing of an incurable diseases with a glance or if he resurrects a corpse with a word or a touch the moot question is whether this demonstration will serve any constructive purpose apart from the cheap sensationalism that it will generate in the world media. <br /><br /><br />With respect to the paranormal feat executed by the mystic - would the onlookers, including the scientists, understand the causal mechanism at work, or would they be able to investigate it using the usual physicochemcial methods, or would they be capable of replicating it? <br /><br /><br />The answer to all these questions is a big NO. <br /><br /><br /><br />However, I would be mighty excited if a mystic decides to teach Randi a serious lesson by maiming him or killing him from a far off distance with just one directed thought accompanied by the Force.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15006060340304646985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-3733164950106457602014-12-03T19:44:56.994-08:002014-12-03T19:44:56.994-08:00I recall that Dick Bierman attempted to apply for ...I recall that Dick Bierman attempted to apply for the Randi Challenge using a presentiment system but JREF suddenly stopped responding to his emails.<br /><br />Even if I had the resources to take the Randi Challenge, I do not trust them enough to believe they'd keep their side of an arrangement. Would JREF suddenly cancel my challenge? Or change the rules midway? Or find an excuse to invalidate results post-hoc? A challenger has no real protection against any such shenanigans.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271590627156281186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-9644765956896329102014-12-03T10:53:45.555-08:002014-12-03T10:53:45.555-08:00Ryan's question is a common one. The Randi pri...Ryan's question is a common one. The Randi prize might be a legitimate way to test the claims of popular psychics, many of whom vastly overestimate their abilities. So it isn't surprising that no one has won the prize. I recommend reading "The Randi Prize" by Robert McLuhan to learn more about this.<br /><br />Scientific experiments show under controlled conditions that psi is real, but the effect sizes these studies reveal are much smaller than what most psychics claim. A small effect size means the underlying phenomenon would be exceedingly difficult to demonstrate in a short, one-off demonstration, which is what the Randi prize is all about. <br /><br />Psi experiments generally require hundreds or thousands of repeated trials, by lots of participants, to gain confidence that the effect is genuine and not some sort of subtle artifact. As a result, to create an experiment that would produce reliable odds against chance sufficient to win the Randi prize (say, a million to one), and also be sufficiently secure and transparent so that anyone could examine the entire experiment in detail to gain confidence that the results were genuine, would be a very expensive effort. E.g., I once calculated what it would cost to create and run such an experiment using the ganzfeld telepathy design. It would end up costing more than the prize. And even if such an experiment were successful, all it would do is inflame skeptics who insist that the results could not be real, and thus somehow the Randi people were bamboozled. <br /><br />Bottom line: A prize for an individual to demonstrate a claimed psychic ability is a great idea. But I'm not a psychic. What would interest me is a prize to demonstrate what has been learned from scientific experiments.Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-54732032814154386002014-12-03T05:06:40.219-08:002014-12-03T05:06:40.219-08:00Hey Dean. Why can't your pre-stimulus skin con...Hey Dean. Why can't your pre-stimulus skin conductance response experiments win Randi's $1m prize?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315449767798134466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-75105119867446981062014-11-13T04:58:15.541-08:002014-11-13T04:58:15.541-08:00"Extended Mind" EM phenomena is a very v..."Extended Mind" EM phenomena is a very valid concept to all those out there who consistently experience what some people may call hallucinations or delusion. <br /><br />I am going to venture and say that often an EM is the result of manipulation by an "Intelligent Mind" be it celestial, alien, angelic, divine or extraterrestrial.<br /><br />At the beginning of a "mystical" journey, for lack of a better word, one is not yet aware of being poked into a certain direction until much later when telepathy, clairaudience, clairvoyance, prophecy, spontaneous visions, out-of-body experiences and so on, fully develop. It is at that point that one no longer feels the need to validate one's experiences. The mystical journey which could be called EM is often considered private and personal at that point in time.<br /><br />I wish for the day when one no longer fears the government, the church and people in general for, eyes and ears should never be closed to past history.CarmentaJD293https://www.blogger.com/profile/13890238479488356264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-4681152200019202702014-10-12T17:46:32.851-07:002014-10-12T17:46:32.851-07:00"whacky conspiracy stuff in science and polit..."whacky conspiracy stuff in science and politics"<br /><br />"If Wikipedia honestly advertised that its goal was to reflect interpretations of the status quo by people who have no expertise, then I'd have no problem with it. It would then be clear to all that the point of Wikipedia was to be a ridiculously large, amateur version of The Onion. Which it is."<br /><br />The Army War College document "constant conflict", as interpreted by one who some might term a "conspiracy theorist",provides insight into what Wikipedia is facilitating, perhaps more in other fields, by pursuing that strategy: http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_826_Psychological_Operations__Your_Brain_They_Penetrated__When_Your_Eyes_Were_Fixated_May052011.htmlBenjamin Steigmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14305345132918618601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-7788449980821949132014-10-04T12:25:59.380-07:002014-10-04T12:25:59.380-07:00@ Simon - Very good point. It is extraordinarily o...@ Simon - Very good point. It is extraordinarily outrageous and - not to mention - an entirely unscientific attitude. Individuals like that really need to be called out on their parochial, dogmatic attitudes. <br /><br />Dean - I recently picked up a copy of your recent book Supernormal (while I mostly read primary sources - that is, scientific articles published in peer reviewed journal, both authored by yourself and others - I always enjoy and appreciate your novels which are accessible to a popular audience). After reading the section on meditation and psi, I was wondering if there are any ongoing attempts to investigate the relationships between different Eastern contemplative disciplines (e.g., meditation, forms of yoga) and psi functioning that you're aware of? For example, any research like that of your 2011 paper on nondual meditation and presentiment. This might include any research you or your colleagues are currently engaged - like IONS study of Shaktipat, of which you presented the prelimary findings at Toward a Science of Consciousness.<br /><br />I would really appreciate it if you could let me know the status of some of this research, or point me in the right direction. Do you plan on publishing the findings for that Shaktipat reasearch anytime soon?<br /><br />Thanks, and best wishesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254926939687289008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-18002360565821381112014-09-24T00:54:49.102-07:002014-09-24T00:54:49.102-07:00Stanley Krippner noted, in "Advances in Parap...Stanley Krippner noted, in "Advances in Parapsychological Research, Volume 1: Psychokinesis" (1977 Plenum Press, New York), on p. 6 of his "Introduction", "By 1940, the active methodological controversy was over, with the exception of occasional critiques of specific experiments. The issues raised since 1940 center upon possible anomalies in probability theory and the hypothesis of fraud. Spencer Brown (1953) has suggested that card-guessing experiments provide evidence not of ESP but of fundamental defects in probability theory. For example, Brown stated that tables of random numbers, used frequently by parapsychologists, have been revised before publication to remove certain nonrandom features. This practice, according to Brown, makes such sequences memorandum and invalidates the use of standard statistical significance tests. Christopher Scott (1958) published an examination of Brown's allegations; he stated that the maximum error due to edited sequences of random numbers would not effect interpretations of results unless they were marginally significant and, in that case, would usually lessen the possibility of confirming the ESP hypothesis."<br /><br />He also noted on that page, contrary to current Orwellian fabrications, "If the Rhines had been the only ones able to produce above-chance results with card-guessing and dice-throwing experiments, there would have been little need to take their results seriously. Between 1934 and 1939, however, 31 ESP studies were reported from other laboratories. Of this number, 21 produced statistically significant results supporting the ESP hypothesis."Benjamin Steigmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14305345132918618601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-39757201725790839702014-09-20T07:49:59.263-07:002014-09-20T07:49:59.263-07:00"The author shows no familiarity with the rel..."The author shows no familiarity with the relevant psi literature"<br /><br />It's pretty outrageous how somehow in this field people can get away with that sort of thing. In any other discipline, be it in science, social science, or the humanities ignorance would be eviscerated. For instance, I know little about evolutionary biology. But I would never say to an expert in the field that they were wrong, or were deluded.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791854711303345266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-4086555513011262412014-09-16T19:22:42.160-07:002014-09-16T19:22:42.160-07:00The article in Mother Jones is nonsense. The autho...The article in Mother Jones is nonsense. The author shows no familiarity with the relevant psi literature. Dean Radinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16131263574182645280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16158865.post-84347421931568094152014-09-16T14:25:58.454-07:002014-09-16T14:25:58.454-07:00Has anyone read this? What is your opinion?
http:...Has anyone read this? What is your opinion?<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/inquiring-minds-william-poundstoneAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025148823781079734noreply@blogger.com