> From: Jed Rothwell > I cannot judge, but some of this research seems impressive.
I have been following Dean Radin for almost a decade now. Actually, he used to work in the Princeton Psychology department and had a falling out over his research. Where he now works, the Institute of Noetic Science: http://www.noetic.org/ was founded by Astronaut Edgar Mitchell as a result of an epiphany while in space. He described it as a overwhelming feeling of "connectedness" with the universe. One of Radin's most impressive experiments involved precognition: http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20040715-000008.html "We may be highly skilled at detecting and connecting anomalous events, but that doesnt help us understand events so spectacular that they are readily noticedbut not easily explained. I have no argument with people who suggest that very unusual events happen every so often and have no intrinsic significance, says Dean Radin, author of The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena,and senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, which studies psychic phenomena. I just dont accept that this explanation is correct 100 percent of the time. For instance, in laboratory studies hes found that people seem to know when theyre going to view upsetting photos. A measurement of electrical activity on their skin rises before viewing disturbing photos randomly selected by a computer. The same changes do not occur before neutral or calming photos appear. Science makes assumptions about the way things work, and yet we still under! stand so little. Im willing to dance with the mystery without requiring the whole answer ahead of time, says Radin." <end quote> (The article also mentions Russell Targ, co-worker of Harold Puthoff at SRI. The character played by Harold Ramis in the 1984 film, "Ghostbusters", is allegedly modeled after Targ.)
