Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality [Paperback]

Dean Radin (Author)

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Release date: April 25, 2006

IS EVERYTHING CONNECTED?

Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses?

Many people believe that such "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Others don't believe they exist at all. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in.

Albert Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance" -- the way two objects remain connected through time and space, without communicating in any conventional way, long after their initial interaction has taken place. Could a similar entanglement of minds explain our apparent psychic abilities? Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, believes it might.

In this illuminating book, Radin shows how we know that psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are real, based on scientific evidence from thousands of controlled lab tests. Radin surveys the origins of this research and explores, among many topics, the collective premonitions of 9/11. He reveals the physical reality behind our uncanny telepathic experiences and intuitive hunches, and he debunks the skeptical myths surrounding them. Entangled Minds sets the stage for a rational, scientific understanding of psychic experience.

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"From the Einstein of consciousness research comes a work that could change forever how we view the nature of human consciousness and our origins and destiny." -- Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words

"Dean Radin brings parapsychology into mainstream science. The revolution has begun." -- Deepak Chopra, author of The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

About the Author

Dean Radin, Ph.D., is Laboratory Director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California. He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories on advanced telecommunications systems, and for nearly two decades he has conducted research on psychic phenomena in academia (Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada), and in three Silicon Valley think tanks (Interval Research Corporation, Boundary Institute, and SRI International). At SRI he served as a scientist on a highly classified program investigating psi phenomena for the U.S. government. Radin is the author of The Conscious Universe, which was a #1 parapsychology bestseller at Amazon.com. It also won the 1997 Book Award from The Scientific and Medical Network, a Best Book Award from The Anomalist, and it has been translated into eight languages.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Paraview Pocket Books (April 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416516778
• ISBN-13: 978-1416516774
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I played classical violin professionally until age 25, then switched to fiddle and banjo and played in bluegrass bands for a number of years. Along the way I graduated with a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

After graduate school I worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs on advanced telecommunications R&D, and I held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, SRI International and Interval Research Corporation. In 2000 I cofounded the Boundary Institute and since 2001 I've been Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. I also hold an adjunct appointment at Sonoma State University and am on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty for Saybrook Graduate School.

I've spent the majority of my professional career studying the nature of human consciousness, focusing primarily on poorly understood phenomena like intuition, gut feelings and "psychic" phenomena. My interests in these topics were not motivated by personal psychic experiences, but by curiosity. I also found that I enjoyed the excitement and the challenge of exploring the frontiers of science, and that I was comfortable tolerating the ambiguity of not knowing the "right answer," which is a constant companion at the frontier. After 20 years engaged in the scientific investigation of such phenomena, I've become convinced that some psychic experiences are genuine, and as such they will require expansions to prevailing scientific models of who and what we are. I've also learned that those who are most hostile to this topic know little or nothing about it, and that the hostility is often motivated by fundamentalist beliefs of the scientistic or religious kind.

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240 of 263 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book of the First Order That Deserves a Very Wide Readership April 27, 2006

By Dr. Richard G. Petty VINE™ VOICE

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I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Driven by a passion to understand my own experiences, I have over the last 30 years read thousands of books about unusual phenomena and altered states of consciousness, and I thought that I'd seen and read everything. But this book by Dean Radin breaks new ground.

Many of us have become frustrated by the overuse of metaphor by many writers: "Mystics said almost the same thing as quantum physics, so that proves mystical insights," or worse yet "physics says that everything is energy, so that means that we are all energy." People have sometimes taken rare phenomena occurring at the subatomic level and extrapolated from them to make extraordinary claims about human interactions, little realizing that many quantum phenomena cannot occur at the level of a whole organism. Dean avoids such risky approximations and has instead written a precise account of experimental work that strongly supports the existence of parapsychological phenomena, and has created an imaginative model to account for it. It has become quite well known that Carl Jung and the Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli were not only interested in extrasensory phenomena, but also believed that a synthesis of physics and psychology was both possible and necessary. Dean has taken their insights, and many others, run with them, and created a remarkable synthesis.

From personal experience and a thorough review of the literature, I am in no doubt that Dean's central hypothesis - that our minds are interlinked - is absolutely correct. If enough people were to realize and understand the implications of this interconnectedness, our world would be transformed in an instant. For this is no academic exercise: these are insights that cut straight to the heart of our personal relationships, the interactions of businesses and governments, and even such moral and ethical issues as free will and the consumption of animals.

The book is well written, and interspersed with a great many illustrations. I hope that it is extremely widely read, and that we all ponder the implications of what Dean has to say.

Highly recommended.

Richard G. Petty, MD, author of Healing, Meaning and Purpose: The Magical Power of the Emerging Laws of Life

103 of 115 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Essential PSI Research Primer May 10, 2006

By Cynthia Sue Larson TOP 1000 REVIEWER

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ENTANGLED MINDS takes us on an exciting journey into the most cutting-edge scientific research pertaining to psychic phenomena, or "PSI." Not only does author Dean Radin present a thorough history and analysis of experiments in the fields of telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis, but he does so with such brilliant clarity that these otherwise occult topics are illuminated sufficiently for any layperson to begin to see that these metaphysical areas of research have far-reaching consequences that none of us can afford to ignore. If PSI is proven to be a real, rather than an imaginary phenomena, we will be well advised to take PSI into account in fields of history, scientific research, medicine, and every form of social dynamics, including sporting events and international conflicts. The quantum entanglement that Albert Einstein called, "spooky action at a distance" may just be the key to comprehending how we may all be interconnected at a very deep, fundamental level.

Radin is uniquely suited to describing what we now know about PSI, since he is currently employed as laboratory director of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is one of less than 50 conventionally trained doctoral level scientists currently engaged in full-time PSI research.

My favorite part of ENTANGLED MINDS is reading about how Radin and other PSI researchers were quick to note the tremendous opportunity available to them to track world-wide psychic responses to significant events. I also love the way this book describes how some of the more mysterious phenomena, such as presentiment, or responding to a stimuli in advance of physically experiencing it, are currently being scientifically studied. ENTANGLED MINDS truly shines when it describes meta-analysis results for a wide variety of research topics, in which previous scientific analyses are analyzed.

ENTANGLED MINDS is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in a more complete understanding of how humans interact with the world. While PSI may currently be considered a controversial "fringe" topic, Radin explains that, "History shows as the scientific frontiers continue to expand, the supernatural evolves into the paranormal, and then into normal." ENTANGLED MINDS is a truly courageous book that inspires all of us to consider a rational, scientific view of psychic experiences... and imagine what kind of world we can create together when we understand just how interconnected we really are.

61 of 67 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Shifting the Scientific Paradigm April 17, 2006

By Stephen Dinan

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What will it take to shift the current scientific paradigm to include work at the frontiers of consciousness, such as evidence of psychic abilities?

Your first answer might be evidence. But, as it turns out, we have more than a century of scrupulously-controlled scientific evidence for psi (the technical term) that cumulatively deliver results far beyond trillion-to-one-against-chance. In this book, Entangled Minds, you'll get an expert and entertaining tour of hundreds years of work studying these as-yet-unexplained abilities of mind. You'll learn about evidence for psychic precognition before 9/11, changes in randomness in response to collective events like the O. J. Simpson trial, as well as the inside story on some of the most famous psychics in history.

All of this makes for great reading and gives the sense that we're at the cusp of a revolution with Copernican-like implications. But by itself does it shift a paradigm?

Evidence is important but not sufficient. An explanatory framework is required that accounts for the new data and bridges to our existing scientific understanding of reality. That's what Dr. Radin begins to provide in this book, demonstrating how the concept of quantum-entangled minds can be compatible with the concept of quantum-entangled particles, an already established fact. Our consciousness may be literally linked so that even small perturbations in one mind instantaneously jostle other minds. This bubbles up to our conscious awareness in the form of intuitions, gut feelings, images, or knowings. Nothing is transmitted: We're simply interconnected at the root of consciousness in something beginning to resemble a global mind.

Very weird, but perhaps true. And it gets even weirder when we bring in the data on precognition indicating that this entanglement is not dependent on time.

What you have in your hand, then, goes beyond intellectual entertainment. It's a vital tool for creating a paradigm shift in science.