Rune Soup Travelling Ghosts Bent Spoons and the Science of Magic | Dean Radin
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Sep 24, 2025 Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute for Noetic Sciences and author delving into consciousness, shares fascinating insights about his new book, The Science of Magic. He discusses stunning meta-analyses revealing improbable results and recounts a spooky tale of a hotel poltergeist. Radin also reflects on his personal spoon-bending experience and how belief structures our reality. He explains the importance of intentional influence and connects psi phenomena to modern science, sparking a conversation about the intersection of magic and consciousness.
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Psi Experiences Are Deeply Transformative
- Firsthand psi experiences are profoundly transformative and usually pro-social, rivaling psychedelic insights.
- Radin notes we lack psychiatric methods that reliably produce such rapid, positive personality changes.
Frame Psi Work Through Practical Projects
- For casual conversations, Radin suggests describing applied outcomes (e.g., biotech projects) rather than abstract consciousness research to avoid long debates.
- He writes books to present full arguments so he needn't explain everything in short chats.
Evolutionary Reason For Psi Suppression
- Evolution likely shaped waking consciousness to prioritize local, here-and-now perception, suppressing psi for survival.
- Psi and magic reveal themselves when ordinary awareness is relaxed (dreaming, trance, meditation), explaining ritual practices.
