Episode 1416 · Aug 24, 2015 · 2h 15m
August 24, 2015: Global Consciousness - Dean Radin
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Open transcriptThree trillion to one against chanceRadin updates the headline result of the Global Consciousness Project: the cumulative odds against chance have grown from a billion to one to roughly three trillion to one, and the effect strengthens as more data accumulates.
The tsunami detector metaphorRadin explains the GCP's network of random number generators as a tsunami detector for consciousness: thousands of buoys tinkling randomly until a collective wave of human attention forces them into coherence.
Quantum noise generators at Burning ManRadin describes a new generation of quantum noise generators tapping electron tunneling at the diode itself, deployed at Burning Man during the burning of the Man and Temple to capture phase coherence among 30-50 devices.
Art's experiments and unintended consequencesBell recalls his earlier on-air mass-intention experiments - moving the Richter scale, calling rain to Texas that arrived as a flood, and listener requests to redirect hurricanes - and explains why he stopped: you cannot predict unintended consequences when you dabble at the edge of the known.
Psychic peak at age four and yoga's real purposeRadin reveals that developmental studies place peak psychic ability at roughly age four - before children learn they are not supposed to do these things - and ties this to evidence for reincarnation. He then reframes yoga itself: the asanas exist solely to make the body strong enough to sit and meditate toward samadhi.
Drawing from his book Supernormal, Radin frames telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis as inherent human capacities. Laboratory research consistently shows weak but significant effects, while the strongest practitioners have powerful incentives to stay hidden. He describes experiments where remote influencers measurably affect concentration, and tests where skin conductance changes depending on whether someone watches via closed-circuit video. A caller recounts premonitory visions for two months before September 11, waking that morning beside Building 7. Radin notes the Project detected a trend three hours before the attacks, and reveals his team conducts genome analyses comparing psychic families to controls, searching for gene networks that could be targeted pharmacologically.
Art Bell signs off calling Radin "years ahead of the scientific community with regard to consciousness."
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