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. Summary and transcripts of this interview: English Italian Interview recorded November 15, 2020. First BatGap interview with Dean Radin. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Past Interviews 00:04:43 - Psychic Phenomena and Fiction 00:08:57 - Distortions in Perception 00:12:49 - Cultural Bias and Social Acknowledgement 00:16:24 - The Fundamentals of Consciousness 00:20:17 - Quantum Objects and Classical Physics 00:24:37 - Quantum Biology and the Brain 00:28:47 - Storing Information Locally or in the Cloud 00:32:57 - Resistance to Yoga in Schools 00:37:14 - The Limitations of Science and the Importance of Ancient Ideas 00:41:27 - The Value of Laboratory Experiments in Understanding the World 00:45:34 - The Transformative Power of Consciousness 00:49:25 - The Foundation of Consciousness and Knowledge 00:53:43 - The Possibilities of Knowing Everything 00:57:26 - The Continuation of Exploration and Adventure 01:01:22 - The Overlap of Magical Practice and Psychic Phenomena 01:05:20 - The Study of Consciousness 01:09:34 - The Limitations of Knowledge 01:13:29 - The Allure of Magic and Fiction 01:17:53 - The Genetic Difference in Psychic Abilities 01:21:51 - Biomarkers and the Effect of Psychedelics 01:26:01 - Evolution and the Future of Homo Sapiens 01:29:58 - E.T. Channeling and Verification 01:33:58 - Levitation and Miraculous Abilities 01:38:04 - The Authenticity of D.D. Home's Mediumship 01:41:49 - The Power of Collective Consciousness 01:45:42 - The Role of Intervention in Consciousness Experimentation 01:49:55 - Power and Responsibility 01:53:50 - Natural Talents and Extraordinary Abilities in the Population 01:57:51 - The Movement Towards an Esoteric Worldview 02:01:54 - Finding Meaning and Purpose in the Universe