1. A look at the future and an open call: A manifesto

What we call science is the systematization of information obtained from nature.  Nature has had its own laws from the beginning.  Some of these laws are easy to express, while others stretch our understanding and even our sense of logic.  Our efforts to understand nature and its workings, that is our production of scientific knowledge, will never end.  We may never truly understand the workings of nature, or get close to the real truth.  Therefore, it is ridiculous to behave as if we knew all of the workings of nature and to say “this is not scientific, it is in conflict with the (known) laws of science”.  The clearest example of this is when we see the workings of quantum physics in biological structures.  When nature is working, it does not know the laws of our science and doesn’t even take notice of them.  Nature even sometimes winks at us with “anomalies”.  We learn from nature but we cannot impose on nature the laws we have learned from it.

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2. THE PARANORMAL: THE EVIDENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSCIOUSNESS

Those who recognise that significant discoveries in science are very often prompted by observations that do not fit expectations will find a stimulating challenge in accumulating evidence that it is possible to elicit psychic functioning in experiments with ordinary volunteers acting as subjects. Even more convincing results occur with specially selected subjects.

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3. The Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind a DHS Contract

The future of U.S. anti-terrorism technology could lie near the end of a Moscow subway line in a circular dungeon-like room with a single door and no windows. Here, at the Psychotechnology Research Institute, human subjects submit to experiments aimed at manipulating their subconscious minds.  Elena Rusalkina, the silver-haired woman who runs the institute, gestured to the center of the claustrophobic room, where what looked like a dentist's chair sits in front of a glowing computer monitor. "We've had volunteers, a lot of them," she said, the thick concrete walls muffling the noise from the college campus outside. "We worked out a program with (a psychiatric facility) to study criminals. There's no way to falsify the results. There's no subjectivism." 

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4. Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications on Psi Research

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications on Psi Research From Dean Radin's Web Site Downloadable articles published mainly in the 21st century, with some papers of historical interest and other resources. Click on the title of an article to download it.   Healing at a Distance Astin et al (2000). The Efficacy of “Distant Healing”: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial Krucoff et al (2001).Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events. Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study Benson et al (2006).  Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and Health: Review, Meta-Analysis, and Research Agenda Radin et al (2008).  Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of  cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system.   Physiological correlations at a distance Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al (1994). The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the Brain: The Transferred Potential Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring. Standish et al (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains. Wackermann et al (2003). Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses Radin (2004).  Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects. Standish et al (2004). Electroencephalographic Evidence of  Correlated Event-Related Signals Between the Brains of Spatially and Sensory Isolated Human Subjects Achterberg et al (2005). Evidence for Correlations Between Distant Intentionality and Brain Function in Recipients: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis. Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study. Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology. Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using Neuroimaging to Resolve the Psi Debate Ambach (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects − a replication study. Schmidt (2012). Can We Help Just by Good Intentions? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Distant Intention Effects   Telepathy & ESP Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding. Puthoff & Targ (1976). A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distance: Historical perspective and recent research Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans. Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist? Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton Bem (1994). Response to Hyman Milton & Wiseman (1999). Does Psi Exist? Lack of Replication of an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer Storm & Ertel (2001). Does Psi Exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's (1999) Meta-Analysis of Ganzfeld Research Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001) Sherwood & Roe (2003). A Review of Dream ESP Studies Conducted Since the Maimonides Dream ESP Programme Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and Correcting Flawed Research Literatures Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard Radin (2007). Finding Or Imagining Flawed Research? Storm et al (2010).  Meta-Analysis of Free-Response Studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the Noise Reduction Model in Parapsychology Storm et al (2010). A Meta-Analysis With Nothing to Hide: Reply to Hyman (2010) Tressoldi (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidences Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental Connection at Distance: Useful for Solving Difficult Tasks? Williams (2011). Revisiting the Ganzfeld ESP Debate: A Basic Review and Assessment Rouder et al (2013). A Bayes Factor Meta-Analysis of Recent Extrasensory Perception Experiments: Comment on Storm, Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010) Storm et al (2013).  Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis Using Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches: Reply to Rouder et al. (2013)   General Overviews & Critiques Utts (1996). An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning Alcock (2003). Give the Null Hypothesis a Chance Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A Compendium of the Evidence for Psi Delgado & Howard (2005). Finding and Correcting Flawed Research Literatures Radin (2007). Finding Or Imagining Flawed Research? Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win.   Survival of Consciousness van Lommel et al (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection. Facco & Agrillo (2012).   Near-death experiences between science and prejudice Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable)   Precognition & Presentiment Honorton & Ferrari (1989). “Future telling”: A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments, 1935-1987 Spottiswoode & May (2003). Skin Conductance Prestimulus Response: Analyses, Artifacts and a Pilot Study Radin (2004).  Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions.  McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process? Radin & Lobach (2007). Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor. Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see? Bem (2011). Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect Bem et al (2011). Must Psychologists Change the Way They Analyze Their Data? Bierman (2011). Anomalous Switching of the Bi-Stable Percept of a Necker Cube: A Preliminary Study Radin et al (2011). Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and non-meditators. Radin (2011). Predicting the Unpredictable: 75 Years of Experimental Evidence Tressoldi et al (2011). Let Your Eyes Predict : Prediction Accuracy of Pupillary Responses to Random Alerting and Neutral Sounds Galek et al (2012).  Correcting the Past: Failures to Replicate Psi Mossbridge et al (2012). Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis   Theory Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an Observational Theory of Paranormal Phenomena Bierman (2003). Does Consciousness Collapse the Wave-Packet? Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems Henry (2005). The mental universe Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can Mind Affect Matter Via Active Information? Lucadou et al (2007). Synchronistic Phenomena as Entanglement Correlations in Generalized Quantum Theory Rietdijk (2007). Four-Dimensional Physics, Nonlocal Coherence, and Paranormal Phenomena Bierman (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS ): A psychophysical theoretical perspective Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition. Tressoldi (2012). Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or “elusive” statistical power?   Mind-Matter Interaction Crooks (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism Crooks (1874). Notes of séances with DDH Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective. Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for Consciousness-Related Anomalies in Random Physical Systems Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of Consciousness on the Fall of Dice: A Meta-Analysis Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in Random Event Measures Associated with a Healing Practice Freedman et al (2003). Effects of Frontal Lobe Lesions on Intentionality and Random Physical Phenomena Bosch et al (2006).  Examining Psychokinesis: The Interaction of Human Intention With Random Number Generators—A Meta-Analysis Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis: Commentary on the Bösch, Steinkamp and Boller meta-analysis. Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction. Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge.   Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events. Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments   Potential Applications Carpenter (2011). Laboratory psi effects may be put to practical use: Two pilot studies Schwartz (1980/2000).   Location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure … [by remote viewing] Books Radin (1997). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena Radin (2006). Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality Irwin & Watt (2007). An Introduction to Parapsychology Mayer (2008). Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind Kelly et al (2009). Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century Tart (2009). The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together Carter (2010). Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death Van Lommel (2011). Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience Alexander (2012). Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife Carpenter (2012). First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life Carter (2012). Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics Targ (2012). The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities Radin (2013). Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities   Websites with access to more articles Daryl Bem: Click here   Brian Josephson: Click here Edwin May: Click here    Stephan Schwartz, Click here Rupert Sheldrake: Click here James Spottiswoode: Click here Charles Tart: Click here     Russell Targ: Click here   Patrizio Tressoldi: Click here Jessica Utts: Click here Richard Wiseman: Click here Journal of Scientific Exploration: Click here Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory: Click here or here. Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia: Click  here   Videos Greyson (2008). Consciousness Without Brain Activity: Near Death Experiences (United Nations) Radin (2008), Science and the taboo of psi (Google TechTalk) Sheldrake (2008) The extended mind (Google Tech Talk) … more to be added …  

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5. U.S. government adopts Russian "mind-reading" technology for counter-terrorism

In this article from Wired, Sharon Weinberger discusses "mind-reading" technology that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security hopes to use to identify terrorists. The DHS is interested in Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology (SSRM TEK), which has been developed at the Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow. SSRM Tek is a software package which can, according to those who developed it, measure peoples' responses to subliminal messages presented to them in a computer game. Terrorists' responses to scrambled images (of, say Osama bin Laden or the World Trade Center) are apparently different to those of innocent people. 

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6. The Conscious Universe, Chapter 1: Introduction

In science, the acceptance of new ideas follows a predictable, four-stage sequence. In Stage 1, skeptics confidently proclaim that the idea is impossible because it violates the Laws of Science. This stage can last from years to centuries, depending on how much the idea challenges conventional wisdom. In Stage 2, skeptics reluctantly concede that the idea is possible, but it is not very interesting and the claimed effects are extremely weak. Stage 3 begins when the mainstream realizes that the idea is not only important, but its effects are much stronger and more pervasive than previously imagined. Stage 4 is achieved when the same critics who used to disavow any interest in the idea begin to proclaim that they thought of it first. Eventually, no one remembers that the idea was once considered a dangerous heresy.

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7. African-Americans and Predictive Dreams

Belief in psychic events such as precognitive dreams runs quite high in the general population of the U.S.—between 25% and 50% in most surveys. But among blacks here, the rate of belief is still higher. Belief in predictive dreaming was affirmed by 92% of the 116 African-Americans I interviewed (as well as by 84% of 25 black male prisoners who responded to questionnaires), but by a much lower 57% of a matching white sample of 80. Thus in my samples all but a small percentage of blacks believe in predictive dreams, while only something over half of whites do.

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8. The Limits of Experimenter Influence on Psi Test Results: Can Any Be Set?

This is the second in a series of articles on the role of the experimenter and additional personnel (other than the subject) taking part in parapsychological experiments. It reviews the evidence for psi-mediated experimenter effects, or the communication of experimenter bias, when all normal (i.e., sense-based) channels of communication are eliminated. Experiments in two broad categories are reviewed: (a) nonintentional psi experiments in which the subjects are unaware of certain important aspects of the test situation, or may not even know that they are taking part in a psi test; and (b) experiments in which the experimenter deliberately tries to influence the results by means of his own PK or ESP. When significant results are obtained in the first category, they may be due either to telepathy from the experimenter and/or his associates (psi-mediated experimenter effects) or to clairvoyance of the testing situation on the part of the subject (psi-mediated experimental effects). Significant results in the second category suggest either a direct influence of the experimenter upon the subject's responses by means of PK or an indirect influence by means of ESP. It is concluded that in psi research it may not be possible to differentiate between the experimenter and his experiment, and, therefore, between psi-mediated experimenter and psi-mediated experimental effects.  

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9. Imaging Pinpoints Brain Regions That 'See The Future'

Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there's been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel -- the ability to clearly imagine or "see" oneself participating in a future event.

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10. Extra-Sensory Perception Fact Sheet

Many believe there are some people ("sensitives" or "psychics") who can receive the thoughts of others, and even transmit their own thoughts to others. This direct mind-to-mind communication is often said to be instantaneous and independent of distance. Proponents sometimes claim all people have this ability to some degree, and that this explains many curious events in daily life, such as apparently pre-cognitive dreams. The catch-all term for this alleged ability is extra-sensory perception, or ESP (sometimes called "psi," like the Greek letter). Parapsychology is the term used for the serious study of such claims. So far, parapsychology seems to be a science that cannot even demonstrate that its subject matter exists, let alone offer explanations for it.

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