S5-E2 – Science meets Magic-Dean Radin

​Our guest today, DEAN RADIN, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS), Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and a science adviser for several startup companies. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering (magna cum laude and with honors in physics) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then a Masters in electrical engineering and PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over three decades he has been engaged in research on the frontiers of consciousness. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International (formerly known as Stanford [University] Research Institute).

DEAN RADIN is author or coauthor of over 250 scientific, technical, and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, two technical books, and four popular books including the Scientific and Medical Network’s 1997 book award, The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006), the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal (Random House, 2013), and Real Magic (Penguin Random House, 2018). Entangled Minds, Supernormal and Real Magic are available as paperback, e-books, and audio books. These books have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Latvian, Turkish, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic.
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DEAN RADIN’S 100+ academic articles appear in peer-reviewed scientific journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin, Psychology of Consciousness, and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. He was featured in a New York Times Magazine feature article; and he has appeared on dozens of television programs around the world. His 500+ interviews and talks have included presentations at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Cambridge (England), Edinburgh (Scotland), The Sorbonne (Paris), University of Padova (Italy), and University of Allahabad (India) . His invited talks for industries have included Merck, Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank, and his government talks have included the US Navy and US Army, the Naval Postgraduate School, DARPA, the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (India), the International Center for Leadership and Governance (Malaysia), and the Australian Davos Connection (Australia). In 2017 he was named one of the 100 most inspiring people in the world by the German magazine, OOOM, and as of 2018 his filmography on IMDB lists 18 documentaries he’s appeared in.

Music played in this episode

Today we are happy to provide you with music by one of the listeners of the THOTH HERMES PODCAST!

BRIAN LUCAS lives in Oakland, CA. He paints, writes, and plays with the bands Dire Wolves and Angel Archer, in addition to his solo work as Old Million Eye. You can find more information at www.brianlucas-art.com.

Here is his bandcamp page for his solo albums

THREE TRACKS FROM THE ALBUM “PRESENCE”

1) TRUE WOODS

2) SON OF SALT

3) WITHIN THE LEAVES

(Track 1 starts at 8:40, Track 2 at 51:04, Track 3 at 1:32:58)

Intro and Outro Music
especially written and recorded for the Thoth-Hermes Podcast by Chris Roberts