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Title: The Conscious Universe : The scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena by Dean Radin ISBN: 0-06-251502-0 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 27 August, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A paradigm-shifting book
Comment: This book is a delight to read for anyone who knows that reality isn't what it seems to be... or who is willing to take a very honest look at the nature of reality in all its wildest glory. Radin presents an excellent scientific case for the truth of psychic phenomena, using statistics to examine "psi" -- the phenomenon that includes the three broad categories of anomalous phenomenon of psychokinesis (mind-matter interaction), extra-sensory perception, and survival after bodily death. Radin excels at presenting memorable stories along with his clear, concise, and comprehensible statistics in such a way that one feels compelled to either accept or reject his findings and the implications they suggest. This is an excellent book for reading when you're ready to do your own thinking... and change the way you view the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book on psi
Comment: To be honest, as a somewhat skeptical physicist, I wasn't expecting to find this book very convincing about the reality of psi. However, I must say, after reading the book, I found it convincing. Something real and repeatable is going on here.
To be more exact, The Conscious Universe experimentally demonstrates the existence of at least some psychic (or "psi") phenomena. Using the statistical technique of meta-analysis, Radin clearly displays the results from about century of increasingly sophisticated experiments. Radin concludes that this meta-analysis strongly implies the existence of "maybe" all of the following: telepathy (mind-to-mind perception), clairvoyance (perception at distance), precognition (perception through time), psychokenesis (mind-matter interaction). I say "maybe" all because some (like David Ray Griffin -- see below) claim precognition is better explained by other types of psi, whereas Radin seems to imply precognition may be the main psi ability. (I think I like Griffin here. But this is an open question.)
Radin discusses a number of theories and possible metaphysics that might explain psi. This discussion wasn't as focused or convincing as the other parts of Radin's book, at least to me. Here I prefer the discussion and metaphysics offered by David Ray Griffin in his book: "Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality : A Postmodern Exploration." Griffin is a follower of the famous philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and proposes a "process metaphysics" as the best explanation of psi. Radin comes close briefly to agreeing with this when he talks about Michael Lockwood's "naturalistic panpsychism," on p. 294. But it's not clear Radin prefers any metaphysics or theory of psi.
In any event, Dean Radin's book I think is a must read for anyone interested in psi. It is a book that will satisfy even most skeptical scientists who are willing to give it (and psi) careful and open-minded consideration.
Rating: 5
Summary: Shocking
Comment: I never believed in psychic phenomena. I still don't. But I also can't casually dismiss the results of hundreds of experiments indicating that something peculiar is going on that certainly looks like psychic phenomena. This book led me to track down and read a number of the original journal articles reporting experiments on psychic phenomena, especially those from the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory. If these results really are what they appear to be, then some psychic effects are real. Accepting this idea would have such a shocking impact on science that it's no wonder parapsychology is relegated to the far fringe (at best). This book summarizes a large body of experimental data from a scientific point of view and, as such, it probably wouldn't appeal to someone looking for ghostbusting stories. But for the scientifically minded, this book is far more mind-blowing than ghost stories because it just might be true.
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