Our guest in this episode is Dean Radin, the author of “Real Magic”. He is the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. We invited Dean on the show to share some of his findings from more than 40 years of research.
We talk about how esoteric and magic traditions connect with modern studies of parapsychology, and the growing body of scientific evidence for what people think of as psychic phenomena. We also discuss how we could practically apply consciousness studies in science, technology and daily life.
Within scientific world of view, it is exceedingly difficult to figure out why psychic phenomena can exist. The only reason why these phenomena are considered strange is because they are not constrained by the usual limitations of space and time. – Dean Radin
In this episode of Future Thinkers:
- Dean’s involvement in U.S. Army’s Stargate Project and how it informed his research on consciousness capacities
- What is remote viewing, and how such experiences engage the intuitive and analytical mind
- The compatibility between esoteric ideas and psychic phenomena, and introducing this link to academic research
- Why it is challenging to explain consciousness from a scientific worldview
- How esoteric traditions see consciousness and why that’s relevant
- The surprisingly high frequency of experiences one would call psychic among general population, backed by scientific research
- Will future science become more compatible with esoteric ideas?
- How consciousness studies can integrate into technological development and daily life
- The technology of intention and its practical applications
Curiosity is provoked by having people say, “that’s impossible”. -Dean Radin
Links and Resources:
- Dean Radin’s website
- Saybrook University and University of West Georgia, which offer residential degree programs with opportunities to study parapsychological topics
- Superhumans: The remarkable brain waves of high-level meditators
- MRI brain scans of nondual states of consciousness (aka enlightenment)
- Ken Wilber controls his own brain waves
- Rupert Sheldrake
We are on the convergence course where some of ideas from esotericism and some of the present science will converge to something which is the mixture of both. At that stage it won’t be seen as a superstitious nonsense because we will understand well enough to start having practical applications of it. – Dean Radin
Book Recommendations:
- Dean Radin – Real magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science and a Guide to The Secret Power of the Universe
- Larry Dossey – One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
- Mitch Horowitz – The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality
- Shinzen Young – The Science of Enlightenment
- Rupert Sheldrake’s books
More from Future Thinkers:
- FTP060, 061: Don Roberto – Ayahuasca and Shamanism
- FTP037 – Dr. Kirby Surprise – The Science Behind Synchronicity
- FTP043 – Daniel Schmachtenberger – Neurohacking and Neurogenesis
- FTP042 – Daniel Schmachtenberger – Neurohacking
Worldwide, we are seeing more of a pressure from everyone who is paying attention to the state of the world and we are getting a collective sense that we better do something different because otherwise we are not having a future. This may be the evolutionary pressure to open a whole bunch of doors and break a whole bunch of taboos that have held us back. – Dean Radin
