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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN num: 9780062515025
ISBN number: 0062515020
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: August 27, 1997
Publishing house: HarperOne
Release Date: July 18, 1997
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Recently profiled in the New York Times Magazine. Dean Radin is perhaps the most respected parapsychology authority in the country.An articulate, engaging communicator, Radin wields impeccable credentials, a healthy skepticism and a meticulous scientific method to put 'psi' phenomona like telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and mind-over-matter abilities to the hard test of science. His unprecedented manifesto makes a startingly persuasive case for the truth of psychic phenomena -- and places us on the cusp of what may well be the subsequent great paradigm shift.
Uniting the latest in high-tech experiments, including irrefutable data from his own groundbreaking research, with teachings of mystics and theories of quantum physics, Radin explores myriad phenomena: from ESP to ghosts to psychokinesis. Radin reveals the remarkable extent to which psi is already tacitly acknowledged -- and exploited -- by Fortune 500 corporations and the U.S. government, then analyzes how the inevitable mass acceptance of the mind-matter link will affect social, economic, academic, health and spirtual issues. At once visionary and pragmatic, The Conscious Universe recalls the classics Godel, Escher, Bach and The Holographic Universe, yet transcends mere experiments to offer a bold new vision of the future.
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Holding up such anomalies as ESP, psychokinesis, prayer, near-death experiences, and reincarnation under the cool light of scientific scrutiny can be a daunting task. Dean Radin, director of the Consciousness Research Laboratory at the University of Nevada, rises to the challenge in the pioneering and exhaustively researched The Conscious Universe. Fans of The X-Files will need no further convincing, but for the remaining skeptics, this easy-to-read mix of history, scientific evidence, and proclamations ('When modern science began about three hundred years ago, one of the consequences of separating mind and matter was that science slowly lost its mind.') will authenticate the existence of psychic phenomena.
Radin creates two categories: the perceiving of objects or events beyond our ordinary sense capabilities and the triggering or influencing of action through mental powers. Radin aims to present simply and clearly the basic elements from science, psychology, and physics that prove the existence psychic phenomena. Given the tacit acceptance of psychic phenomena as 'real,' why do both government and mainstream science repudiate the claims and the evidence, yet continue to exploit them?
The Conscious Universe challenges our most basic assumptions about reality, those that exist in both the upper echelons of science and in the basic daily interactions. It’s a mind-bending exploration of how and what we see.
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Dean Radin's book is an excellent work. Unfortunately, this is the second book I've bought over the last year that is printed on very cheap pulp-paper. Only, HaperOne has done something that the other publisher didn't do, and that is print a hardcover book containing cheap pulp-paper.
In the future, I will be looking to make sure that no book I buy is printed by HarperOne. I will not reward this nasty corporate trend with another dime.
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This book is fantastic with anyone with an interest in anomalous phenomena such as psi, read it then read Entangled minds for the full picture. Even radins critics claim that there is some interesting evidence put forward in this book , I even heard a skeptic website review of the book reach the conclusion "in my opinion "The Conscious Universe" is an interesting book, whose subject area deserves closer inspection." if the skeptics received it moderatly well so will you.
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It is funny, I only originally planned to buy Entangled Minds but was told I would get free shipping if I bought this book. I got no free shipping but I got percisely the information I needed from The Conscious Universe. The answer is that, yes, it appears that various forms of extended perception are authentic and are probably distributed among the general population like any other talent.
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There's no question about the reality of ESP for anyone who has ever experienced it. Just the other day, for example, as I was driving cross-country to give a seminar, a student came to mind. I hadn't heard from the person in a long time, and I found myself worrying and full of doubt. As these feelings seemed to erupt out of nowhere and had an obsessive quality about them, I suspected a subliminal telepathic influence. I watched as my obsessive worrying revealed certain themes. Acting as if these feelings were a message of distress from that person, I pulled over at a pay phone by the road and gave a call. The person answered the telephone and was surprised at who was calling. "I had just been thinking about you!" was the student's exclamation. I ventured a guess about the content of those thoughts. It was exactly as I suspected. Needless to say, the student was delighted, impressed, and touched.
Something is real if it makes a difference in your life, a wise philosopher woman once told me. I agree. ESP sure made a difference to that student and I. The fact that I reached out and touched that person at just the right moment made a difference in the way we experienced our relationship and work together.
Coincidence? Well, maybe, maybe not. I've heard many people, for example, tell a story similar to mine, only to exclaim, "It was creepy!" Then they shrug it off as "just a coincidence." When they say the C word, they do so with a sigh of relief. The coincidence defense is often used, I believe, to deny the intimate connection between minds, just like in another context someone might deny intimacy by saying "We're just friends!"
To destroy the plausible deniability of ESP, I recommend the book, The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (HarperSanFrancisco). The author, Dean Radin, Ph.D., is Director of the Consciousness Research Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His name appears often in my Psi Research column because of his wide ranging and innovative research and his book reflects his impressive scope and grasp of the field.
The major strength of the book, and what makes it stand out as a unique and important contribution, is his treatment of the technical details defining the evidence for ESP. People are confused by statistics, for example, and in the absence of a dramatic psychic phenomenon, like spoon bending, we can easily dismiss an ESP effect that is largely statistical in nature. Radin gives some good examples of statistical realities that are more familiar in our culture to help the reader better comprehend the nature of the evidence for ESP. To take one example, perhaps you've heard about the studies showing that aspirin can prevent heart attacks. A long term study by Harvard Medical School was in progress when the results were so dramatic, the investigators made the unusual move of going public before the study was completed. They felt that the information was so important, the public had to be informed because of the lives that could be saved. What is less known is that the strength of this effect, the change in your odds of getting a heart attack if you take aspirin, and the strength of the statistics backing up those odds, are weaker than the statistics that underlie the laboratory evidence for ESP! It's more likely, in other words, according to accepted mathematical canons of science, that ESP exists than it is that aspirin reduces heart attacks. Moreover, ESP has a stronger effect on laboratory data than aspirin has on medical data. If I may say so, ESP is stronger than aspirin!
If ESP is so strong, why doesn't it work in Las Vegas? Radin, strategically located in the gaming capital of America, is in position to give us some new information on this perennial question. The answer is, it does! He was able to obtain normally top secret information concerning casino payoffs. He presents graphs that show, with the visual vividness we usually associate with scientifically secure phenomena, that casino profits fluctuate with the strength of the earth's geomagnetic field. As other studies show, when geomagnetic field is weak, people show greater psychic ability, and the Las Vegas casinos are not exempt from this influence.
We are being affected psychically, and exerting psychic effects, according to the studies Radin presents, on a national, international and global scale. At the moment the verdict in the OJ trial was announced, when more people were glued to the boob tube than in any other moment in history, electronic random number generators in several laboratories registered an unprecedented lack of randomness. When minds are joined, it matters. Over a thirty year period, to give another example, on the afternoon of the outdoor graduation ceremonies at Princeton University, the weather was sunnier than normal, even when it was raining in nearby localities! Just a coincidence? Don't bet on it. ... Read More
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I must confess that this book is written for people who are much smarter than I am. The author has gone into great detail and analyses of many situations of psychic phenomena. I am familiar with much of what he has written because this subject is interesting to me, and I watch television documentaries concerning this subject. Edgar Cayce and his readings are especially of interest.
I wanted the author to give me the answer to something that happened to me, but so far he has not done so. Last fall, I saw a locust on its back. I knew it did not have long to live so I walked by and started to go in my house. Then it was as though something hit me as I thought, "This might be his time to die but he does not have to die right now this minute. If I helped him to get over on his feet, he could live a while longer."
I picked up some plastic ties that are used to tie garbage bags together and touched the locust's feet with the ties. His tiny brain in that tiny body knew that help was coming to him from some place. He held on as I slowly turned my hand over, bringing him back to his feet. I slipped out the ties and said, "Okay, bud, you're on your own." I went into the house and forgot about him.
On the following day I was standing at my mailbox gathering my mail. I heard the buzz before I saw him. When I looked up, the locust was bombarding me. He came directly toward my hair, buzzing all the way. I shook him away from my hair, and then I thought, "I'll bet that this is the same locust I helped. He recognizes me and this is his way of saying 'Thank you.'"
I walked back to where I had seen the locust on his back and looked around the area. I could not find him anyplace. About two weeks later I saw a locust buzzing around my bushes, and I would imagine it was the same locust.
About the same time I noticed a orange butterfly on the outside of my car window as I was driving into my garage. I thought, "If I shut the door, he will die because he cannot fly freely and will have no food." I reversed the car, drove outside the garage, tapped on the window causing him to fly away, and then drove back into the garage.
These are two occasions where I have had contact with the insect world where I felt that there was some sort of communication going on between us. I do not know if these two situations fit into Dr. Radin's book, but I bought his book hoping that there would be a section explaining this phenomena. I have not found any explanation so far, but I have not finished the book.
Does anybody who reads this have an answer? Are we connected in our universe?
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