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Survival of Bodily Death
An Esalen Invitational Conference
May 22 to 27, 2005

On the Nature of Entangled Minds
Dean Radin

In May 2005 Dean Radin joined the Survival conference for the second time. Radin is a parapsychology researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Petaluma, California. He has participated in several different conferences at Esalen over the years, such as the Subtle Energies and Psi conference series in 1999 and 2000.

For the sake of clarity, Radin started his presentation by briefly describing some common terms that are used by parapsychologists and consciousness researchers. The term telepathy signifies non-local (and non-physical) mind-to-mind communication or transfer of recognizable information or images. The term clairvoyance signifies the ability to perceive, or imagine accurately, objects that exist at far distances (sometimes called remote viewing). The term psychokinesis (called PK for short) signifies the ability of the human mind to influence physical objects at a distance without touching them (so-called mind over matter). And, lastly, the term pre-cognition is the ability to foresee the future (which often happens in the form of pre-cognitive dreams). Sometimes all of these terms are grouped together and called "psi phenomena" or "psi abilities."

Next, Radin showed a striking and humorous video that demonstrates what is called "inattentional blindness." This means that the quality of our attention can focus our minds so completely in one direction or another that we can miss information that is literally right in front of our faces. After showing this short video, Radin used its larger message as a segue into describing his own research. As Radin knows all too well, there is well-researched and well-documented evidence for psi. He wrote a full-length book summarizing the data on these abilities called The Conscious Universe (Harper Collins, 1997). Yet, most mainstream scientists simply refuse to consider this data as authentic. In short, they suffer from a horrible case of inattentional blindness.

Radin and another IONS researcher, Marilyn Schlitz, have conducted several experiments to test psi abilities and effects. Radin has an extensive lab with a 2,000 lb. solid steel chamber that is shielded from electro-magnetic and acoustical waves. For the interested reader, there is a longer description about the history of this research in the 2003 conference summary for the Evolutionary Theory conference, which can be found at the www.esalenctr.org/index.cfm website. The reader is welcome to go to that conference summary and find more information under Marilyn Schlitz’s presentation.

During his presentation at this conference Radin drew upon several ideas in his forthcoming book Entangled Minds (Paraview Pocket Books, 2006). He also embellished upon some of the details and statistics from his presentation during the 2004 survival meeting. Thus, the reader is thus encouraged to see the summary from 2004 for more details on Radin’s fascinating research into the non-local properties of the human mind and how that applies to the survival hypothesis.


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