As you look into them in more detail the evidence evaporates.

The people who seem to be most prone to claiming to be psychic are often disturbed or have some personal advantage they get from the claims.

Oddly why would anyone waste energy on claims of psi if you actually were psi?  The benefits of being psychic would so overwhelming you certainly wouldn’t need to talk about it.

Yet most of those who claim it get almost all their benefit from claiming ‘special powers’; they get social benefits more from the claims of being psychic than anything else.

The argument is often presented that everyone has these abilities but the facts do not support this in any meaningful, reliable, or regular way. Just try learning it and doing some psychokinesis or making money with it.  You will be waiting for awhile.

I have had a lengthy exchange with Dean Radin recently, who is one of best known researchers on psi in the world. This is a copy of some of my recent thoughts on psi and on Dean Radin’s book The Conscious Universe:

[Edit:  I have been having an extensive conversation with Dean on his blog.  Things are getting strange.

Yes, strange, and not in a good way.  To summarize briefly he has claimed that a certain person is an example of remote viewing used to make money.  However, when I examined the data it showed conflation of data - essentially the overall score was a mix of the supposed trading along with general Remote Viewing trials.  Also, there was no information presented supporting the actual commodity trading.

I won't get into the details here, but the simple version is it is easy to make $100K trading if you start with 2 million.  Without details you have nothing, no supporting data.

Of course regardless people can make up the data, but in these cases even the data that IS presented is basically disproving the claims.

Later Dean posted another site as an example and again two of the three people involved with this other project involving horse racing and psi said they had not made money with the Remote Viewing.

In both cases the people who were leading the workshops are the ones who were supposedly making the money from psi.  But obviously they have the most incentive to claim this - they make money from teaching workshops.  And in one case the data was not fully supportive of the claims; in the other case the two main other students/practitioners openly said they weren't making money!

I'm worried about a professional researcher who is using these cases as examples of psi, as if it is proven and not just claims.  I am now more skeptical than ever.

I can no longer recommend this book.   I have read it and it is well argued and well written, so I will leave it on my page for now.  But I'm no longer sure about the information contained in the book.  Why are these claims being advanced for psi application in the real world and yet a more in-depth look shows many problems with the claims?]

As I said above:

There is a constant problem with psychic phenomena, claims of the paranormal, and claims of having psychic abilities.

As you look into them in more detail the evidence evaporates.

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How do you get psychedelic consciousness? The obvious way is by using psychedelics. One can connect to these states most directly by using plants and fungi.

This book is an excellent overview of psychedelics. It covers all the major types and how to use them wisely:

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Why use psychedelics? They work. It is that simple.  If you’ve ever had the experience of reading some people’s spiritual experience or reading some spiritual systems like kundalini yoga and done the practices you likely have noticed that those experiences are hard to come by.

But if you practice the meditations and then you take a psychedelic, all of a sudden, WOOSH! You are there. You are in that spiritual world having that intense visionary experience.  And it’s REAL.

In India it was and is common for the holy men to smoke a lot of hash. Shamans around the world use things like magic mushrooms to see into the visionary spirit world.

Now I only recommend taking psychedelics that are legal to take in your area. Also practice safe exploration.  The book above will give you important guidelines.  With that in mind you are set free to explore.