[Edit on April 16, 2010 : I have had 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 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.
Of course regardless people can make up the data, but in these cases even the data is basically disproving the claims.
Later Dean posted another site as an example and again two of the three people involved 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 and in one case the data was not supportive and in the other case the main other students 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, so I will leave it here. But I'm no longer sure about the information]
Dean Radin is a scientific psychic researcher who has been working in the field for many years.
His book, The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
The Conscious Universe is a superb overview of what is possible and what has been discovered so far, backed by solid research and clearly explained. I highly recommend this book and it’s available via Amazon for a very affordable price:
The good news is psi – psi is short for psychic phenomena – is real. The bad news is that no one is psychic in the way that movies, fiction, or ‘psychic consultants’ advertise themselves to be. Yet.
One day, however, psychic abilities may become more and more pronounced as we find out more about them.
I will be covering this subject in more detail on this blog later on. Psychic abilities are the key part of a much larger story involving evolution, humanity, and the esoteric forces that shape history.
