Content area
Full Text
ENTANGLED MINDS: EXTRASENSORY EXPERIENCES IN A QUANTUM REALITY by Dean Radin. New York: Paraview Pocket Books, 2006. Pp. 357. $14.00 (paperback). ISBN 1-4165-1667-8
In Entangled Minds, as in his earlier book The Conscious Universe, Dean Radin gives us a fine synthesis of clear storytelling and sophisticated scientific argument. The book is a keeper not only because of its comprehensive reportage of the evidence from lab and field explaining the subtide, "Extrasensory experiences in a quantum reality," but also because the author is a deeply committed scholar who reads and talks to people who are creating the growing edge of physics, psychology, parapsychology, and other sciences, as well as philosophy and epistemology. His notes and references constitute a rich, deep survey of intellectual achievement useful for anyone with serious interest in the extended capabilities of mind and consciousness.
I should note in the interest of full disclosure that the book presents and discusses my research with care and grace, so I might be especially disposed to a positive view. Actually this gives me a sharply focused insight into the quality of Radin's reportage and the accuracy of his perspective. This is important because this book is really about bringing a powerful and potentially illuminating theoretical perspective into discussion. It is an attempt to connect the mystery of psi (extraordinary mental capacities) to the developing front of physical modeling. Psi researchers have collected a volume of excellent evidence that the mind can reach out for information and interaction through space and time, but there are no satisfactory models or theories to explain this. Radin suggests that entanglement, the linkage of quantum entities, may provide a vehicle for understanding psi. His book is a persuasive invitation to examine this possibility.
Radin is concerned about organized skepticism regarding psi research and about why high quality research is ignored, making it difficult to maintain support...