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, four-time President of the Parapsychological Association.^[1][2]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Research 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Biography

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

Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and then held appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on exceptional human capacities, principally psi phenomena.^[3]

In 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2005 Radin was the elected President of the Parapsychological Association, an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published numerous scientific papers,^[4] as well as articles and books written for a popular audience: The Conscious Universe (1997) and Entangled Minds (2006).^[5]

The Conscious Universe (1997, HarperCollins) was awarded Amazon.com's 1998 Category Bestseller Award, the Scientific and Medical Network 1997 Book Award, and the Anomalist's 1997 Book Award, and as of 2006 it is in its 16th printing. It has proved to be popular and has been translated into Turkish, Korean and French, with several other translations under way. In January, 1998, Nobel Laureate physicist Brian Josephson wrote in the (British newspaper), the Guardian: "If asked to nominate the most significant scientific event of 1997, I would cite the publication of this book." Entangled Minds is being translated into Romanian, Portuguese and Japanese (as of December 2006). Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis has added Entangled Minds to his list of recommended books on his website.^[6] Radin's books have drawn mixed reviews. ^[7][8]

[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:

• RNGs and world events: Events which capture the attention of many people may affect random number generators.^[9] Other publications report analytical studies on how lunar cycles may affect psi and winning at gambling casinos. Winnings on slot machines rise 2% during a full-moon.^[10]

• Presentiment experiments: Experimental tests of presentiment effects in the autonomic and central nervous system.^[11]

• 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.^[12]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.^[13]

• Psychokinesis: In 2000 Radin attended a spoon bending party. To his surprise the spoon he was holding started to bend. The bowl momentarily felt like putty. Using one finger and thumb he easily pinched the end of the bowl over, nearly bending the bowl to half its length. Dean had decided in advance that the only bend he might find interesting would be of the bowl of a spoon, because to do this without tools and/or leverage is beyond the capability of most people, including himself. The silver-plated soup spoon he held bent as he had previously desired. ^[14]

• 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.^[15]

• 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.^[16]

• 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." ^[17]

• 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.^[18] Radin wrote that the probable reality of remote viewing was scientifically established by the US government's Stargate Project.^[19]

• 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.^[20] Radin also has a positive interest in using remote viewing for psychic archaeology, his preferred name now being "intuitive archaeology."^[21][22]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Parapsychology
• Joseph Banks Rhine, a pioneering researcher in parapsychology
• Mental Radio, a book by Upton Sinclair about psychic abilities

[edit] External links

• Dean Radin's official website - Contains a blog and various resources to do with his work
• Dean Radin articles & MP3 audio provided by Shift in Action, sponsored by the Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Book review of The Conscious Universe by Morten Monrad Pedersen on the SkepticReport.com website.