Radin, Dean (Dean I. Radin)

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Radin, Dean (Dean I. Radin)

PERSONAL:

Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, B.S.E.E. (magna cum laude); University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, M.S., Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Institute of Noetic Sciences, 101 San Antonio Rd., Petaluma, CA 94952. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Scientist, engineer, writer, educator, and musician. Boundary Institute, cofounder, 2001; Institute of Noetic Sciences, senior scientist, 2001—;Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, adjunct faculty member; Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, CA, distinguished consulting faculty member. Previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, GTE Laboratories, SRI International, and Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto, CA; held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and the University of Nevada. Former professional classical violinist; later played fiddle and banjo in bluegrass bands.

MEMBER:

Parapsychological Association (president, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2005), Society for Scientific Exploration (counselor, 1986-94; program chair for annual conference, 1987 and 1997).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Parapsychological Association's Outstanding Achievement Award; Rhine Research Center's Alexander Imich Award for advances in experimental parapsychology; Special Merit Awards, GTE Laboratories and Bell Labs; grants recipient from the Richard Hodgson Memorial Fund Grant at Harvard University, the Bial Foundation in Portugal, the Parapsychology Foundation in New York, the Society for Psychical Research in London, the Swedish Society for Psychical Research in Stockholm, the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology in Germany, and the Bigelow Foundation.

WRITINGS:

(As Dean I. Radin) The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, Harper-Edge (New York, NY), 1997.

Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, Paraview Pocket Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Also author of the blog Entangled Minds, and technical reports; contributor to journals.

SIDELIGHTS:

Dean Radin is a scientist who has conducted research into psychic phenomenon for nearly three decades. He has written extensively about his research, including the books The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, and Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality. In The Conscious Universe, Radin provides "a wonderfully fresh presentation of parapsychology's best data through the careful use of meta-analysis techniques," according to Journal of Parapsychology contributor Richard Broughton. Organized into sections titled Motivation, Evidence, Understanding, and Implications, the book covers some of the basic issues concerned with parapsychology, the different classes of psychic phenomena, research into psychic phenomena, and the scientific evidence for such phenomena. In Broughton's review of the book, he noted: "For the academic, this book is copiously annotated, making [it] easy for anyone to check the original reports or follow up on practically any claim the author makes, but the high level of scholarship does not get in the way of a good read."

Entangled Minds once again explores psychic research with an emphasis on what is called quantum entanglement, a physical resource, like energy, that is associated with peculiar nonclassical correlations that are possible between separated quantum systems. In the process, Radin explores the idea of extra sensory perception (ESP) and experiments that the author believes meet strict scientific requirements. He also writes of the theoretical basis for ESP. "This is a fascinating book and is certainly another important contribution to ‘new paradigm’ thinking (and diplomacy) by Dean Radin," wrote a contributor to the Daily Grail Web site. The reviewer went on to note that the author "manages to keep the reader interested by providing thought-provoking ideas, and a number of anecdotes which are sure to surprise."