Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

by Dean Radin

Is everything connected? Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses?

Many people believe that such "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Others don't believe they exist at all. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in.

Albert Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance" -- the way two objects remain connected through time and space, without communicating in any conventional way, long after their initial interaction has taken place. Could a similar entanglement of minds explain our apparent psychic abilities? Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, believes it might.

In this illuminating book, Radin shows how we know that psychic phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis are real, based on scientific evidence from thousands of controlled lab tests. Radin surveys the origins of this research and explores, among many topics, the collective premonitions of 9/11. He reveals the physical reality behind our uncanny telepathic experiences and intuitive hunches, and he debunks the skeptical myths surrounding them. Entangled Minds sets the stage for a rational, scientific understanding of psychic experience.

Genres: Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Philosophy, Physics, Metaphysics

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the neuroengineering company, Cognigenics. He earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.

Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 830 talks and interviews worldwide, is co-inventor on 12 patents, and is author or coauthor of 350+ scientific and popular articles, book chapters, and five books, all of which have been translated into foreign languages, 15 so far: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), Real Magic (2018), and The Science of Magic (2025).

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been studying Quantum Physics since I read Fritjof Capra’s “Tao of Physics” about 35 years ago. I have also studied C.G. Jung’s Psychological books for the past 40 years and when you compare the thoughts of both writers there is a definite correlation between Quantum and ESP. The simplest source of this phenomena is that in Quantum Physics it is possible for neutrons that are a universe apart that if one stops spinning in one direction and changes it’s course the exact redirection will happen virtually 1000’s of light years apart to the twin. So the concept that as humans we do have entanglements between each others minds is a real possibility according to one of the basic laws of Quantum Mechanics. C.G. Jung investigated Synchronicity for that last 50 years of his life convinced that there are no such of a thing called coincidence but that signals do travel throughout the consciousness universe that relays information to other beings. Both concepts have been proven enough for me to take a very serious look at the possibility that there is a highway at a deep level of consciousness that we all should be watching for events that may seem like extreme coincidence when we actually have been duped into thinking that they are random coincidences instead of an internal Quantum highway of information that makes us feel like we are experiencing deja vu all over again.

[Paul Clark · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have to start by saying that I am not a scientist but just someone who likes to read popular science books.
The book starts with an introduction that aims to whet the appetite for a lengthy exposition of the evidence for psi. It finishes with an attempt to outline a possible explanation for psi based on quantum entanglement.
Radin believes that the evidence for psi is overwhelming, and he has certainly gathered a mass of it. I decided to Google every person and every study cited in the book to see whether his evidence really is as strong as he claims.
Let's start with the people. Several of those cited by Radin seem to be conscientious and trustworthy researchers about whom nobody has a bad word to say. With others it's not so clear cut:
Montague Ullman's "successful" results have been criticised as pure chance.
Daryl Bem, Robert Jahn, Charles Honorton and Rupert Sheldrake have had their statistics picked apart - more of Sheldrake later.
Rene Warcollier and Brenda Dunne have been accused of "creative judgement".
Hans Bender, Eileen Garrett, Eusapia Palladino, Joseph Rhine, Harold Sherman and Daniel Dunglas Home have been accused of out-and-out fraud. How Radin can describe such a blatant fraud as Home as a "genuine enigma" is beyond me.
Whatley Carington collaborated with the alleged fraudster SG Soal.
Carington and Sir William Barrett had their interest in psi ignited when they were duped by mediums, while Frederic Myers had an affair with a medium.
Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ tested and endorsed Uri Geller.
Three were or are leading Theosophists (Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater and Radin's colleague Wallis Harman).
Sir Oliver Lodge and Charles Richet became spiritualists.
Puthoff and the "renowned psychic" Ingo Swann are Scientologists (Puthoff apparently staffed his lab with Scientologists).
Leanna Standish is a naturopath who allegedly advocates detox rather than conventional drugs for patients with HIV.
The Johrei are a new religious movement that rejects all conventional medicine.
Roger Nelson claimed that Princeton alumni could wish away rain for their reunions - I am not joking here and I don't think he was.
And last but not least, Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum claimed that he could fly.
Of course, there may be objections to all of the above. Perhaps the allegations of fraud, dodgy statistics etc are not justified. And maybe Scientologists and spiritualists can display exemplary intellectual honesty and sound judgement in the lab. Perhaps Puthoff and Targ were right to endorse Uri Geller. And possibly Grinberg-Zylberbaum really could fly.
Another objection is that one shouldn't criticise the people, one should criticise the science. Fair enough, but a combination of Google and patience reveals that, almost without exception, the studies in this book have been subjected to detailed criticism. I am not competent to judge these criticisms; I merely note them below. Any reader with access to the internet can find the criticisms and follow them up, though you will have to dig as sceptical reviews rarely appear on page one of Google.
Radin, for the most part, presents his evidence without engaging with its critics, and the unwary reader could easily be overwhelmed by sheer the quantity of evidence without regard to its quality.

THE EVIDENCE
All page numbers below come from the 2006 Paraview Pocket Books paperback edition.
Page 48: Ingo Swann's remote viewing of Jupiter was debunked by James Randi and Carl Sagan.
Page 59: Emanuel Swedenborg's vision is of course anecdotal evidence. He was prone to visions, including one in which the creator and sustainer of the universe graciously took the time to tell him not to eat too much.
Page 62: Daniel Dunglas Home was caught cheating at least twice.
Page 68: Warcollier's picture experiments - allegations of creative judgement, claiming matches where there were none.
Page 69: Rhine's research - allegations of fraud.
Page 70: Sherman's clairvoyance experiments - allegations of fraud.
Page 72: Bender's Belmez Faces - allegations of fraud.
Page 73: What is Sir John Eccles doing here? I can find no evidence that he was ever interested in parapsychology.
Page 74: Leonid Vasiliev - claims that his Soviet research was halted because of a lack of results.
Page 75: Ullman's dream telepathy - claims that his results were due to chance.
Page 76: The Apollo 14 experiment - claims that this was a fiasco. Because an attempt to detect ESP was mistimed, it suddenly became an experiment about pre-cognition.
Page 78: Bierman's Star Lab research - claims that the results were due to expectation bias.
Page 82: The Van Dam telepathy experiments - claims that these have been comprehensively debunked. To be fair, Radin does allude to these criticisms and says that more recent tests by others have answered the critics.
Page 84: Rhine's card experiments - claims that Rhine more or less admitted fiddling his results, though he did attempt to justify his actions.
Page 86: The Pearce-Pratt distance telepathy test - Martin Gardner claimed to have debunked this. (This is one of very few occasions where Radin attempts to debunk the debunkers.)
Page 90: Upton Sinclair - Martin Gardner notes that these tests were not done under controlled conditions and that Sinclair identified only 65/290 hits. Einstein, who was a friend of Sinclair's, wrote a preface to his book that can be read as somewhat arms-length.
Page 92: Warcollier's picture matching - attacked for creative judgement.
Page 93: Carington's picture drawing - allegedly, when the timing was good, it was evidence of telepathy, when mis-timed, it became evidence of pre-cognition. A case perhaps of having your cake and eating it.
Page 95: Remote viewing - one remote viewer "found" a vast but unfortunately completely non-existent mountain range on Jupiter.
Page 95: PEAR Lab - their statistics have been criticised, not by sceptics but by other parapsychologists.
From Chapter Six on, Radin supplies meta-analysis data for most of the studies he mentions. Meta-analysis is a problematic technique that tends to exaggerate the number of positive results. The main dangers are the file-drawer problem (positive results are more likely to be reported than negative) and the quality problem (including poor quality studies in the meta-analysis).
Radin discusses these problems and the statistical techniques that have been developed to overcome them. I checked out what he said in Wikipedia, where a not very well sourced article confirmed much of what Radin said. However, according to Wikipedia, there are those who assert that meta-analysis remains intrinsically flawed despite these techniques.
There is also the quality problem. If you include poor studies in your meta-analysis, your results will be unreliable. Given Radin's penchant for uncritically accepting contentious data, I would regard his meta-analyses with caution.
Page 106: Psi in dreams - these experiments involved Eileen Garrett, a known fraud.
Page 107: The Maimonides dream studies - I am sorry, but the degree of creative judgement detected here is quite shocking. Images pertaining to the crucifixion of Christ were "sent" to a sleeping subject. When the sleeper reported a dream about Winston Churchill, this was rated a hit. (Church-hill, get it? Christ was crucified on a hill.)
Page 115: The Ganzfeld Studies - these receive a full ten pages and Radin describes them as being as close to perfect psi experiments as you can get. However, they have been fairly comprehensively mauled by Ray Hyman and others who have criticised their methodology, procedures, controls and statistics, saying that other studies have either been inadequate or have failed to replicate. Radin does refer to the lengthy debate that rages over Ganzfeld.
Page 125: The sense of being stared at - this question has become associated with Rupert Sheldrake, a brilliant and controversial figure lionised by some and regarded as a charlatan by others.
These tests tend to work if carried out by a believer but not if carried out by a sceptic. It has been suggested that this is because scepticism interferes with the morphic fields. A simpler explanation could be experimenter effect. (Incidentally, some parapsychologists have claimed that the difficulty in replicating psi results is due to the fact that the more a psychic phenomenon is examined, the weaker it gets: a kind of morphic resonance in reverse.)
Sheldrake's statistics have been criticised by parapsychologist Dick Berman. Sheldrake (allegedly) has form for misinterpreting his statistics. He collaborated with Steven Rose on an unrelated experiment in the late 1980s but they disagreed about how to interpret the statistics. Rose arranged an independent assessment, which validated his interpretation and criticised Sheldrake's.
In 2004, the Psychological Association ran three studies on this question, the third designed in collaboration with Sheldrake. These studies found no evidence of a sense of being stared at.
Page 131: The DMILS studies - these have been heavily criticised for experimenter effect. Critics allege that the lower quality the study, the better the results.
Page 137: ECG studies - we start off with "flying man" Grinberg-Zylberbaum and naturopath Standish, who reports her experiments in the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. These studies have been criticised for post-hoc data mining and the "psi assumption" - anything that is not chance is seen as evidence of psi, with no effort to exclude other possibilities before making this claim.
Radin's graph on page 141 is one of his least convincing. I have no idea what it is supposed to demonstrate. (His use of graphs in The Conscious Universe has been criticised statistically by Bob Carroll. I am not competent to judge these criticisms or to say whether they apply to Entangled Minds.)
Page 142: Gut feelings - I find this his most confusing and confused chapter and the graph on page 144 particularly opaque. Unable to comment.
Page 147: Psychokinesis with dice - Radin's meta-analysis has been criticised for including studies so small that they are statistically meaningless.
Page 154: The PEAR studies - there are serious disputes about statistics here. Radin talks about replication in 258 studies and 127 controls. CEM Hansel says that 71 studies provide support and 261 provide no support, but these have been bundled together in a meta-analysis that - hey presto! - provides support.
One operator in the PEAR studies took part in 15% of trials but produced 50% of hits. If you exclude him, the results are pretty negative. Perhaps he was particularly psychic. Perhaps he intuited the pattern behind the random number generator (which is only pseudo-random). Or possibly there is another explanation.
Page 161: Presentiment - one of the two meta-analyses presented here has been criticised.
Page 164: Presentiment - Bob Carroll disputes Radin's interpretation of the results.
Page 171: Worms "very nearly" have presentiment. Doesn't very nearly = not?
Page 172: Presentiment in the heart - this study was published in the journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. I recognise that this is a reason to raise an eyebrow rather than to dismiss the study outright.
Page 176: Bierman's brain - this was first published in the Daily Mail (raised eyebrow) and has been criticised as due to expectation bias.
Page 183: Field consciousness experiments - these were inspired by the extraordinarily creative effects of group brainstorming. But of course recent research indicates that individual brainstorming is more creative.
Page 185: Healing experiments - I have been unable to track these down and have only come across similar studies where the same researchers posted negative results.
Page 195: The Global Consciousness Project - here we have eleven pages of what Bob Carroll calls the psi assumption. What evidence is there that RNG fluctuations were in any way associated with events like Diana or Mother Teresa's funerals? If RNG fluctuations occur during an event, they are evidence of psi. If they occur before, they are evidence of psi (precognition). Is this not unfalsifiable data mining?

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
Radin believes that quantum entanglement is the most likely explanation for psi. His argument is that our brains are entangled with the rest of the universe. I have zero expertise in quantum mechanics and can only note that this is not the standard view, which is that quantum entanglement only happens under carefully controlled conditions when very small numbers of particles are isolated from random interaction with the rest of the world. Under less controlled conditions, entanglement breaks down.
Radin's world view is holistic and entangled and has quantum effects at the macro level. This is what Victor Stenger has described as "quantum quackery". According to Robert Novella, the conventional formulation of quantum mechanics does not violate a view of the universe which is reductionist, discrete, local and non-holistic at the macro level with no fundamental role for human consciousness.
Radin is at pains to stress that he is not at the whacky end of the psi community. He is not arguing for the existence of poltergeists, levitation, thetans or whatever. He sincerely seeks genuine scientific proof of the existence of psi and believes that it has already been found and that it is clear, unambiguous and overwhelming. Only the dogmatism of the so-called sceptics prevents them seeing this.
As a non-scientist armed with only Google, I have found evidence that this is not the case. Almost all of the studies in this book have been contested. In many instances, I am not competent to judge the arguments, but in some instances, I know enough to see Radin's willingness to accept evidence that is, frankly, dodgy. Only his own confirmation bias prevents him from seeing the poverty of this evidence, and the fact that he presents it brings his judgement into question.
He fails to respond to the sceptical evaluation of the evidence for psi by figures like Bob Carroll, who at attacked his previous book The Conscious Universe in great detail in Skeptical Enquirer (Carroll has also reviewed this book), and Ray Hyman, David Marks, Jim Allcock, Susan Blackmore and CEM Hansel, who have critiqued individual studies.
Radin also ignores those parapsychologists who disagree with him and openly admit that the evidence for psi is inconsistent, almost impossible to reproduce and fails to meet normal scientific standards. Dick Bierman writes of correlations that are difficult to replicate. Walter von Lucadou says parapsychologists are faced with "an erosion rather than an accumulation of evidence". For JE Kennedy, there are "a few very impressive cases among a much larger number of unsuccessful results".
Susan Blackmore spent decades searching for evidence of psi until she came to believe that the reason why the evidence is so poor is that it doesn't exist.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was really neat. Reading study after study after study after study, all of which demonstrate that the universe and consciousness are NOT random drives home with scientific evidence that impossible things are not only possible, but common and replicable under scrutiny. Psi (psychic) phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis are explored in the laboratory and grounded in hard science. (Seriously, read it yourself). It serves to point out that the views we have acquired and accepted as "of course that's the way things are" are really not that way. The author says, "Something very interesting is going on here." Which of course begs the question--WHAT? How can our minds know and respond to things beyond the constraints of sensory stimuli and beyond time?

One scientific theory that really stuck with me was an extension of the Quantum wave experiment (which shows that particles behave differently when they are observed. When they are not observed they behave like waves instead of particles--so all outcomes are real in a state of probability). The theory in this book likened neurons firing from the narrow channels in the brain across synapse gaps to the quantum wave experiment. Essentially, the neurons we pay attention to becomes particles, and all the other millions of firing neurons in our brains are probability! After all, if we don't KNOW and aren't PAYING ATTENTION and WATCHING -- does this shadowy netherworld outside of our attention exist???

So incredible! I love this book. It's clear and easy and kind of quietly mind-blowing in its ordinary presentation the data and the data's implications.

[lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

It could have been an intriguing book, however he spent too much time "proving" the point, and not enough time on the theories behind the proof. Boring!

[Christy Stewart · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sparknotes version: Science be trippin'

Too much commentary and not enough substance. Still, worth reading if you don't like reading text books and haven't yet read anything on this subject.

[Karl · Rating 5 out of 5]

In his book, “Entangled Minds”, Dean Radin blends his experience as a scientist with his sincere desire to present readers with easily understood and timely information about quantum mechanics and Psi research (Psi as it is used here can be defined as, “A means by which information can be gained from a distance without the use of the ordinary senses.”)

After a brief, but thorough, look at the history/origins of Psi, dating all the way back to 2000 BC when the Egyptians used a practice known as ‘dream incubation’ to connect with oracles, Dean takes us through many of the most recent studies into the nature of Psi and then connects this to the realms of science via the world of quantum physics.

As science progressed from Newtonian physics into the world of quantum physics in the early 1900s, many of the traditional views and beliefs that were held for hundreds of years started to be re-examined. In spite of assertions made by people like physicist Albert Michelson, the first American to win a Noble prize, who claimed that the laws of physics had all been discovered (by the end of the 19th century), we see that the five basic assumptions in classical physics: reality, locality, causality, continuity, and determinism are now being questioned under the new rules of quantum physics. Non-locality, entanglement, the Observer effect, and even retroactivity are terms now being used that at one time would have been considered preposterous, nonsensical and even heretical.

Scientific research, conducted over many decades, in different labs around the world, with different research teams and participants, has proven that various forms of Psi do indeed exist; however, the precise mechanisms of how these phenomena work is still a mystery and the topic of much debate. In spite of this, various hypotheses do already exist and one underlying fact that they all seem to have in common (in my layman’s opinion) is that the mechanisms of Psi cannot be explained with traditional, Newtonian physics: it seems that the answer lies in the quantum world.

It is this possibility that Dean explores with a sense of wit and optimism in “Entangled Minds” and I believe a comment that Dean makes sums up perfectly the views that scientists must take if they do wish to discover the nature of the universe. Dean states that, “My prejudice is that it’s more important to promote the serious study of novel ideas than it is to worry that some of those ideas might be wrong. I feel this way because history shows that virtually all exciting breakthroughs in science come from entertaining “crazy” ideas.”

Perhaps one day in the not too distant future, scientists like Dean Radin will have conquered the unfounded fears of Flat Earth folks who refuse to accept that there might truly be “spookiness at a distance” and perhaps at that time it will be common sense that the field of science and, heaven forbid, psychic phenomena are indeed children of the same parents.

[Krista · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without overstating the case, this books rolls out in logical order a volume of legitimate scientific research on extrasensory perception and links it to quantum physics, including Einstein's action at a distance observations and Bell's theorem. I intended to skim this book, but I ended up reading every word of every experiment and every argument for and against. You can't really read this book and ignore the implications. Fascinating.

[Lext · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book can be roughly divided into two halves. In the first half, the author primarily talks about parapsychology experiments and the scientific/mathematics reasoning behind them (to prove that they're real and not random). Although the math is sound, the reading can get a bit boring and repetitive, especially if you're already familiar with parapsychology books before.

The second half is what I find much more interesting. Here the author talks about quantum-related or quantum-oriented phenomenon that are remarkably similar in behavior to what's happening in parapsychology. There's no link of course: no one has yet been able to show a link between quantum physics and these otherwise non-physics phenomenon. But the similarity between them is remarkable, and does make one wonder about the possibilities.

The second half while interesting is also very complex. Even though you can understand a paragraph or even an experiment, it's easy to lose track of the big picture and get confused the next time you reread. So this will be more appropriate as a book for you to keep and go back again and again until you're totally familiar with everything the author wants to say. I didn't have that chance because I only borrowed it from the library, so in a few months time I'll probably forget what the experiments were about. So be prepared to exercise your mind a bit (unless you already have a PhD degree in math/physics) and spend some quality time with it. It's not for the casual reader for sure.

[Nuno R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This books achieves different (very important) things at once. That probably haven't been presented as substantially in one single work before, or even separately. It goes through the history of the most scientifically relevant studies in psychic phenomena, since their inception. It investigates and presents evidence (reserch, not just arguments) about why psychic phenomena have been traditionally regarded as an exotic, to say the least, field of research, and usually there is very little, close to zero funding and "serious researchers" avoid getting close to it, so their careers and reputations don't get contaminated. It goes on showing what are now the main fields of research, in psychic phenomena, the names and findings to look for. And it gives a clue for a theory that can explain, in a global way, extrasensory experiences. That is where the name came from. Entagled Minds came from the quantum physics expression "entaglement" and it sugests that, since particles are entangled, entaglement is what could explain such things as telepathy.

[Laine Cunningham · Rating 2 out of 5]

The title of this book promises to delve into the connections between quantum physics and ESP. While it provides a wealth of information about the history of ESP research, including studies that prove that it's real, the book deals only lightly with the quantum side.
It's not that the explanations of quantum theories aren't there; they are, in a way that is easily understood by folks like me who aren't scientists. There just isn't a whole lot of it.
Because of this lack, I was disappointed in the book. It made for some interesting reading about ESP alone but I wasn't looking for that. If the title had been different, it wouldn't have been disappointing because my expectations would have been different.

[Rick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Warning: Although well written, this is a hard book to read with a lot of statistical analysis.

This is essentially the follow-on of Dean Radin's earlier book "The Conscious Universe". Personally, I think it is one of the most significant books I have ever read. Chapter 13 (Theories of Psi) is especially thought provoking....and sometimes hard to grasp...I had to read it twice. Chapter 14 (Next) is kind of fun to read, especially when he takes the skeptical scientific community to task...well deserved in my opinion :-)

[Ron Wroblewski · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have met Dean during either an IONS conference or an ISSEEM conference and I believe in what they are researching. I have had personal experience in dreams that foretold the future and some experience with entangled minds. He wrote about detailed experiences and small movements which is fine, but didn't cover as much about looking into and seeing the future or telepathy that I would like to have seen.

[Aliemms]

MATERIAL WORLD PARANOIA

Dehumanization through Industrialization
Bring fear to the masses of reincarnation
Manic frustration deterioration
Nature fights back for its own preservation

Concrete coffin breeds lunacy
Cold steel skeleton, desperation in the factory
Crank out oblivion

Power's illusion brings global confusion
A foregone conclusion of mind's evolution
Nature's destruction through massive production
A blatant example of mindless construction

Material world paranoia
Corporation rule the earth
Enslavery begins at birth

Don't dream about how life can be experience your dreams
Before this prefab culture wastes your life
Stay on the straight and narrow course
Material wealth is yours but the promise of a better future is a lie

The promise of a better future's nothing but a lie!

[Sharon Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was fascinating! I read it a few years ago when doing research for my novel ECHO 8 (which will be published next year by Tor). Clear, easy to understand, and engaging. An informative read for anyone interested in psi, and a must read for those who also have an interest in quantum physics.

[Bold Move · Rating 2 out of 5]

Majority of the book is just lists and lists of experiments that the author suggests demonstrate an existence of psi.
Only the final two chapters attempt to explain psi phenomena using quantum physics.

[Alexandre Milouchev · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had A LOT of fun with this book. I think I've listened to some passages ten times over. I took pages upon pages of notes. Also, throughout reading it, I'd tell family members about it on our daily walks, and it always sparked amazing conversations.

I picked it up randomly from the library. I had no idea what I was in for. The author painstakingly goes over a huge amount of research on paranormal phenomena, also called "psy". Things like reading minds, knowing that someone is watching you, or getting a gut feeling that a loved one is in trouble.

Here's an example of an experiment they ran. Two twins are brought in and seated in separate rooms. They have no traditional means of communication. The rooms are even Faraday cages. Both twins put on an EEG. They shine a light in twinA's eyes, and measure the expected response on the EEG. But guess what? TwinB's EEG also shows a response at the same time!

Another one was to have person A flip a coin, and if heads, look intently at person B from behind. Person B then records whether they think they were being watched. The result was wildly above chance, something like 58% correct guesses. This is across thousands of runs with a large pool of test subjects.

How crazy is that? There are so many more. For example, if you are looking at the output of a random number generator (RNG) in real-time, if you think "go higher", you can make it significantly deviate from the expected distribution. Even crazier, you can take RNG data generated in the past, and if you observe it while thinking "show me more 1's than 0's", you'll get what you're asking for! Meaning that the bits were somehow still in an indeterminate state, until you performed the observation.

There's so much more. But, you could say it's all due to some fluke in the experimental setup, or someone is lying, or some other issue. That's where the book gets really heavy: it tries to show that any issue you can think of has already been addressed. The author goes on and on about possible alternative explanations, and how they've been accounted for. I must say, while it's admirable, this part was extremely tedious.

The book saves the best for last. After discussing the myriad of experiments that have been carried out over the last decades, it gets into the actual physics of how all of this could work. Not knowing anything about quantum physics, I was in for a treat. We started out with the standard two-slit experiment demonstrating particle-wave duality. Then, he explained how shooting single photons still showed an interference pattern. How?!

Then it gets truly insane. If you have a really quick way to shut one of the two slits, you can let the photon go through both slits and then close one *before the photon hits the measurement screen*. Guess what? Although the photon went through both slits and you should see an interference pattern, you don't! Closing the slit changed the pattern, even though it happened *after* the photon had already passed. Now your observation is changing events that happened in the past!

I also learned about the Quantum Zeno Effect, and how it may be related to the functioning of the mind. If you observe a quantum object repeatedly in quick succession, you can prevent it from flowing to the next state. This has been experimentally demonstrated. It may be that our brains are quantum computation devices, and we hold onto a thought using the Quantum Zeno Effect. When we stop observing the state so intently, it is free to flow. Maybe that's why when we get stuck on a problem, we often solve it later while on the toilet or in the shower.

Lastly, he presented Bell's inequality. Apparently this is referred to as "the most beautiful result in physics." Einstein postulated that quantum entanglement wasn't real - that there was some hidden variable that explained it. The hidden variable may not even be measurable. How could you test something that is unknown and may not be measurable? Well, leave it to Bell to figure it out. He came up with a setup in which hidden variables would yield one outcome, whereas a true quantum effect would lead to a different outcome. Spoilers: the result was that the quantum effect is real. There are awesome videos on Bell's inequality on YouTube.

You need to take this book for what it is: it presents a ton of "scientific" studies that have been done on psy, then tries to convince you that there's no flaw and psy really exists. Personally, I find this plausible, and I had an amazing time learning about something I had never even heard of. And if even one tenth of the stuff in this book ends up being true... Boy, do we live in an exciting universe.

The future is wonderfully exciting :).

[Joshua J · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing and thorough piece that presents so much scientific data supporting strong evidence of Psy events and quantum entanglement within our species. It can be a bit of a dry read, but it'd be difficult to present it in any other fashion.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the forerunner to Radin's more recently published book, Real Magick. These are complementary explorationsinto metaphysics. The older book, Entangled Minds, addresses PSI (also known as ESP in other circles). The recent book addresses abilities, primarily accessible to yogis, that have been attributed as super-normal.

Dean Radin has established in his books (there are others) his thesis, which goes something like this. Read my books to get acquainted with the legitimate hard science of various aspects of metaphysics. I will explain the context in the front part of my books, then take 80% of the interior of my books methodically going through the experiments that have been conducted to date. I will wrap up my books in a standalone chapter with some of my own new thoughts on the topic that opens the window to a whole new point of view.

As in Real Magick's chapter 8, it is chapter 13 in Entangled Minds that is the real gem for me.

[Ahmed Abdelsattar · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a must here to understand and study statistics to determine if the experiments show evidence of PSI
In the first part of the book Dean Radin wants to prove that Psi really exits
I think the relationship between Psi and Quantum physics must be more studied to be more clear
I also think that the author want us to think in a new way about reality , what it is and how we see it.
The best part is the part of the book that shows all the theories that can explain Psi phenomena and presents them one by one.
The part that show the myth and the fact near the end of the book is written in a difficult unclear language , I think it can be more explained.

[Shelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely one of the more readable books I've read about quantum physics that still provides loads of scientific evidence. If you've ever wondered why you just "know" that someone you care about is in trouble, this book does a good job of explaining the phenomenon of entanglement. Don't let the "paranormal" label put you off...this is not about ghosts, demons, or anything like it. This is scientific evidence from multiple studies that shows how we are connected, and Dr. Radin explains entanglement and psi phenomena in a very accessible way. Interesting reading.

[Roberta Grimes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dean Radin is an academic parapsychologist whose interest lies in the workings of psychic phenomena in a quantum reality. Dubbed by some “the Einstein of consciousness research,” he never quite says that everything springs from consciousness. But his books are filled with evidence of the primary role of consciousness, and they are well done and fascinating reading.

[Amina Fellan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think the interpretation provided in this book to explain the paranormal/psychic experiences some people usually have is very plausible and even somewhat logical, well if you try to grasp the new concepts in quantum theory. I really enjoyed reading this book, not to mention it was my first on quantum reality and definitely won't be the last!

[Stefanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Please believe me that psi is real" - a book by Dean Radin.

(This isn't necessarily to say that I don't believe in the existence of psi, or that the content of this book is at all superfluous - just that this particular book focused on telling its messages more than showing.)

[Mayda Ochoa]

Entangled Minds
Fascinating book, which make us to realize that we are not so crazy when we feel and see or hear things that seems impossible or spooky.
A little bit difficult to follow, so you have to read it very slowly and carefully, but it’s all worth it!

[Jennifer Nearents · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the book that STARTED answering questions regarding enmeshed energies/thoughts. LOVE this book!

[X-Man Francis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super interesting book. A bit too scientific and obscure at times. It once again reminded me that western science is ignorant to the discoveries that ancient cultures knew centuries ago.

[Carlo Fabrizio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Folle e affascinante, quasi pericoloso

[John-Randall "J.R." Hofheins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This guy, though. Radin come across as a completely thorough, almost anal retentive-seeming scientist/researcher/practitioner. Hearing him interviewed, we know that he is reporting what he practices and whatever he writes, he is experiencing in some part or degree- Intentionally.

Earlier he wrote Conscious Universe
Then Entangled Minds- Everyting is EVERYTHING,
Then SuperNormal
Then Real Magic

All of which contain truck loads of highly convincing research data/reports, often citing "odds-against-chance" that are probably unrecedented. 17000 Trillion to 1 was the largest one I came across in the Real Magic Book.

Entangled Minds is no exception, the upshots are magnetic in their call to attend to them, the research portions are bog-walking for the non-scientific, but at least its good to know the strength of the source of the information.
The information is what I call life-giving, adds clarity and guidance to living effectively in joy.

I recommend Entangled Minds- maybe the audio version might be better for non-scientifics, (I'm trained in some of this, but not oriented to the details!). That way they can dissociate through those parts and hear the easy-reading parts for their life-clarification.

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book, and I'm glad that I listened to it by audiobook. The material was quite dense going, with hundreds of studies reviewed by the author, and explained quite well. I particularly enjoyed the linkage to quantum theory, and was quite fascinated with that. I'm used to reading medical studies (retired physician), and was curious to hear the "odds-vs.-chance" method used consistely to address statistical siginificance, rather than p-value. I was also curious about the criteria for enrolling subjects in the various studies. They were mentioned as volunteers, but what was often unmentioned was if the volunteers felt that they had some "psy" gifts. It would make more sense to test people who felt that they had some abilities in that area rather than purely random volunteers (such as an undergraduate student taking a psychology class). At the end of this book, I feel very open to the posibility that "psy" gifts are real for some individuals, but I don't think that everyone has such abilities. The same thing can be said of elite athletes, or those with aptitudes for other areas such as the law or in medicine. Higly recommended if you're interested in a deep dive into the world of "psy".

[Catherine Puma · Rating 2 out of 5]

Parapsychologist Dean Radin discusses his field's work in the context of some quantum mechanics facts about our world. I chose this because the subject is interesting, but I cannot give this book more than 2 stars because it is not written well.

The parapsychology chapters and quantum mechanics chapters are so different and kept separate from each other. They are not integrated into one cohesive discussion. The author is extremely defensive when talking about his career, it's like he's attacking the reader for all the times other people didn't take him seriously.

He is also quite insensitive about how he mined online forum responses before 9/11 and then during Princess Diana's funeral to assess what premonitions or global consciousness might have been taking place. He doesn't set up or phrase the discussions around these emotionally charged tragic events with any kind of respect, and it was a real turn off.

This should have been a better book. The quantum mechanics chapters--though late and few they were--were good, and it could've been a better read overall if the author had given every chapter the same professional attention.