About this episode
Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He occasionally gives lectures in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University and has served on doctoral dissertation committees at Saybrook University and CIIS. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For three decades he has been engaged in frontiers research on the nature of consciousness. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, Interval Research Corporation, and SRI International. He is author or coauthor of hundreds of scientific, technical, and popular articles, three dozen book chapters, and three popular books including the award-winning and bestselling The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (Simon & Schuster, 2006), a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities (Random House, 2013), and Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe (Penguin Random House). These books have been translated into 14 foreign languages, so far. His technical articles have appeared in journals including Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Consciousness Studies; he was featured in a New York Times Magazine article; and he has appeared on dozens of television shows ranging from the BBC’s Horizon to PBS's Closer to Truth. He has given over 400 interviews and talks, including presentations at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Princeton, Virginia Tech, the Sorbonne, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Minnesota, for industries including Google, Johnson & Johnson, Rabobank, and for various government organizations including the US Navy, DARPA, and the National Academy of Sciences. In 2010, he spent a month lecturing in India as the National Visiting Professor of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, a program sponsored by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development. In 2013 and 2014, he gave invited lectures in Kuala Lumpur at the International Center for Leadership and Governance, an organization supported by the Central Bank of Malaysia. In 2015 he spoke at the Australian Leadership Retreat, a confidential program of briefings and discussions for Australian government, business, education, and military leaders. Website: deanradin.com Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group. Transcript of this interview Interview recorded Sept. 9, 2017 Second BatGap interview with Dean Radin. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:27 - Writing Papers and the Men in Black 00:07:37 - The Interest in Special Powers and Abilities 00:11:43 - The Fundamental Disagreement about Consciousness 00:15:58 - Idealism and Panpsychism 00:19:26 - The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness 00:22:56 - The Taboo of Psychic Phenomena Discussion 00:27:00 - The Holistic Nature of Consciousness 00:31:01 - The Nature of Reality and Purpose 00:35:21 - Presentiment and Anticipating Danger 00:39:32 - The Unconscious Response to Future Events 00:43:01 - Expanding Conscious Capacity 00:46:33 - The Intelligence that Governs Nature 00:50:20 - Safeguarding Latent Abilities and the Ethics of Enlightenment 00:54:22 - Using Psychic Ability for Extraterrestrial Communication 00:58:09 - The Meaning of Entanglement and its Connection to Coherence in Living Systems 01:01:55 - Subjectivity and the Brain 01:05:39 - Questioning Prior Beliefs and Embracing Mystery 01:09:13 - Supernormal Abilities and Siddhis 01:12:43 - Yogic Flying and Levitation in Siddha Yoga 01:15:34 - Changes in Physical Reality due to Large-Scale Attention 01:19:20 - Statistical Analysis of Events 01:23:13 - The Influence of Consciousness on Random Number Generators 01:26:46 - The Möbius Strip Metaphor 01:30:08 - Brain Responses to Future Events 01:33:25 - Exploring Esoteric Traditions and the Idea of Magic 01:36:59 - The Three Categories of Magic 01:41:06 - The Future of Science and Spirituality 01:44:48 - The Interface between Consciousness and Machines 01:48:56 - The Challenge of Expressing Abstraction Save Save