Dean Radin - Does ESP Make Sense?

Parapsychologists are sure ESP is real. Skeptics are sure it is not. But if ESP is real, must explaining ESP go beyond physical laws, into unknown non-physical realms? Nothing repels scientists more than forays into the non-physical. But human concepts of reality keep expanding. We do not know any limits and, due to ESP, it may be foolish to impose them.



Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and has taught at Sonoma State University and the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.


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[lucasrooney]

Regarding non-locality and the objection that brain cells are way bigger than subatomic particles, we really don’t know how big a thought is, we only understand the generators and receptors of the thought. We have no idea what a thought actually is physically, or whether it is non-physical (whatever that means).

[robertlouden]

Great video! I grew up in a family where we recognized pre-cognitive dreams as a fact of life. I experienced a few in my teenage years which were well documented as the dreams were shared with 3rd parties in advance of the actual events occurring. I was long frustrated with the dismissive attitude of physics to these experiences and I agree that non-locality gives us a doorway to understand the physics of these experiences.

[davidgodchilla]

It's Dr Dean Radin. PhD. It's funny how his title is lost because he researches an unpopular field. Love this channel for talking to him, not saying it's true but his math shows statistical improvements above the norm. Meaning there is something extra happening during these studies above normal statistical variables. Interesting research.

[birhan]

One thing that repeatedly happens to me is that out of the blue I start thinking about people who I know but haven't seen for a long while. Then, lo and behold, I will see them very soon after that.

[anthonykelly]

Had several esp experiences in my life. Can’t produce anything on demand but when it happens it’s happens. Usually when I’m relaxed in a passive mood.

[-by-_Publishing_LLC]

I had a feeling this video was going to show up today!

[KpxUrz]

Remote seeing, implying perhaps some entanglement, is one thing. But it seems vastly more inexplicable when it comes to precognition. I have witnessed some amazing examples that defy explanation.

[andymelendez]

I think the keyword here is connection. If you need an operative principle, resonance. My own personal experience supports the concept but I am by no means an expert. The information just pops in independently of internal narratives and linear/analytical thinking. It comes from what I call ‘KNOWHERE’ pun intended.
Perhaps there are brain states (frequencies) involved. Perhaps not. To use a musical principle often talked about, it’s the space between the notes.

[nateureo]

Love the talks in these videos, I watched the Sheldrake ones years ago and they were thought-provoking

[nickehood]

Fundamental to reality seems to be the quality of a part and a whole simultaneously. This is why the mere act of observation changes reality from a probability to a particle. Many scientists seem unable or unwilling to relinquish a material paradigm. The implications of quantum mechanics are immense. Trying isolate science from metaphysics doesn't really work.

[Gregoryhouse]

I feel like my thoughts are not mine. I don't make them. They come to me from somewhere. I keep getting these "original" ideas only to find out others had them before me.

[jamesruscheinski]

Do smaller effects have greater importance in quantum mechanics, where fields and wave functions are smaller scale? Also, does statistical analysis have more relevance for phenomenon related to quantum fields, which themselves are statistical in nature with probabilities?

[varunafernando]

Why was Robert pushing the argument that it needs a theory to be valid. I was disappointed that Robert was unable to clear his mind and accept there were solid experiments being conducted in a rigorous manner, following scientific best practice, with repeatable results, which were worthy of further investigation. Dean Radin nailed it when he said Observation is what matters, and theories come later. Most of science came from observations that did not fit expectations, which eventually led to new theories which we accept today as obvious, but they were radical, even insulting, when first proposed. ESP could be yet another of those. Robert struggles to be objective in this interview. We all have bad days, I suppose.

[stephencarlsbad]

Robert is so nervous talking about ESP as if he's afraid to have his ego displaced by what he considers an upstart science.

[Solarimeshari]

I like how this channel explores unpopular opinions and hosts speakers with radically different views. Thanks 🙏

[longcastle]

Has anything he's saying here ever been published as a result or finding suggesting ESP is real in a peer reviewed accredited scientific journal?

[terrywallace]

Dean Radin is one smart man. More people should should listen to him.

[jamesruscheinski]

Can conscious awareness and subjective emotion be considered sensory perception, even if somewhat different from touch, taste, smell, sound and sight? Or is conscious awareness and subjective emotion somehow of greater degree or kind than usual senses?

[saeiddavatolhagh]

This is a very illuminating discussion about the ESP. I think the professor has nailed it. The non-local nature of the quantum physics and the observer effect must be indeed the two central principles on which the ESP resides. It must be added that although the quantum realm is normally the microscopic world but quantum effects have also been observed macroscopically such as the topological quantum numbers (TKNN quantum numbers) that govern the macroscopic conductivity in variants of quantum hall effect, superconductivity, and superfluidity. So quantum effects must be able to manifest themselves in biology as well.

[somethingyousaid]

A better question is, does ESPN make sense?