The conscious universe

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1. SuoDuanDaoMay 2020
   For me, the following are near the top:

   "The Opposable Mind", by Roger Martin

   "Antifragile" by Nassim Taleb

   "The Conscious Universe" by Dean Radin

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2. retreatguruNov 2016
   Dean Radin has published a lot on this topic. He has an interesting list of selected publications 1. A number of meta analysis are listed there. His book "The Conscious Universe" discusses many of the meta analysis in detail. Facinating stuff. He addresses the file drawer effect in depth.

   [1] http://deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm [2] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319012.The_Conscious_Univ...

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3. pitchupsMar 2013
   Another scientist, Dean Radin in his books - "The Conscious Universe" and "Entangled Minds" has compiled a very detailed and persuasive meta-analysis of experiments and phenomena that defy conventional scientific explanations.
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4. fsiefkenFeb 2025
   For some context, from Dean Radin's Conscious Universe book: "...the best-known remote-viewing research in modern times began in the early 1970s, when various U.S. government agencies initiated a program at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), a scientific think tank affiliated with Stanford University. In the late 1970s, SRI became an independent corporation called SRI International, which is the name it goes by today. Physicist Harold Puthoff founded the SRI program. He was joined soon afterward by physicist Russell Targ, and a few years later, by another physicist, Edwin May. When Puthoff took another position in 1985, the program came under the leadership of May. In 1990, the entire program moved to a think tank called Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a major defense contractor. That program finally wound down in 1994, after twenty-four years of support and about $20 million in funding from U.S. government agencies such as the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Army, the Navy, and NASA. Government agencies saw remote viewing as a possible new source of information. Even if it was only partially correct, it might provide valuable clues to help piece together the information jigsaw puzzles that constitute the typical intelligence operation. Moreover, remote viewing potentially provided a unique intelligence technique in that information could be secretly obtained at a distance and through any known form of shielding. The agencies continued to show interest in remote viewing for more than twenty years because the SRI and SAIC programs occasionally provided useful mission-oriented information at high levels of detail. Given that this information was obtained at virtually no expense, and with no risk of life compared to sending agents into the field, and it sometimes provided information otherwise blocked by shielding or hidden structures, it is clear why military and intelligence agencies were interested."

   Here he recounts the Pat Price remote viewing 'leak' from his time at SRI: https://www.instagram.com/demystifysci/reel/DBgnKkKPW9H/

   I wasn't aware there still was government interest. In the non-governmental domain, The Rhine Research Center hosts a monthly Remote Viewing Group. Long ago when I was listening to Alex Tsakoris's Skeptiko podcast I remember hearing about amateur psi research groups. I am pretty sure that with all the technology, insights in methodology, statistics and cognitive biases we are better suited to see if there is such a thing as psi - even though years ago at a congress I heard that one of the ideas of parapsychologists was that the more you want to prove that psi exists the less hard results you are getting. How to account for that? Keep an open mind, not grasping? Coincidentally that's the attitude tantric buddhists and other groups are cultivating.

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