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Parapsychology and consciousness with Dr. Dean Radin, author and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS)

Expanding on Consciousness

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The Resistance to Psychic Healing

There seems to be resistance in the scientific community to seriously look at this evidence. Why do you think it is? What's with the resistance? Do you have any clues there? Oh yeah. So part of it is that the resistance largely comes out of the academic world and the academic world is an ideological world in a literal sense, it's all about ideas. If somebody challenges the ideas it is as though you were physically attacking them because they identify with their ideas. And so you attack somebody's ideas, it feels like you are being attacked and people will defend it a lot. Another issue is that if psychic phenomena were real it's actually quite frightening Because suddenly secrets which you may not want

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