Book Review of Entangled Minds

I love books on parapsychology, or psi. Even books that are entirely about personal experiences are wonderful, though in those cases my skeptical side keeps up with my interest. When I read about the clairvoyant, telekinetic, precognitive or other psi experiences of other people, I find myself keeping a tally of all the alternative explanations that could have come into play but were ignored. This, despite having had many and extended experiences of this nature myself. I'm hard to convince.This book is different. This isn't a book about how mysterious it is or how amazing or the wonderful results of spontaneous psi experiences. It's a real science book. In a methodical way Radin goes through the history of western civilization's mixed interactions with psi experiences, then gives a long section on all the rigorous scientific experimental data that is available from numerous sources who have tested and explored the specific kinds of events. Even though this is really an analys
is of data rather than a collection of case studies, his writing style and his conclusions are so engaging and easy to read that I was pulled right along, through two readings.After the section on the evidence, there is a section on theory. He covers the basic quantum ideas, reviews the experiments that are most pertinent and then presents various theories that could cover what the evidence tells us about the nature of psi experiences and what they imply about consciousness and reality.Although this is a book on science, and particularly on science experiments, at no time does it bog down or get overburdened with data. It's all totally interesting. By the end of the book it's very clear that there is some real experience going on, some level of consciousness interacting with itself, others and the material world. The title comes from the quantum physics discovery that subatomic particles that are once linked, thereafter share experiences, simultaneously, no matter how much e
ventual distance separates them. Einstein called this "spooky action at a distance"; current physicists call it quantum entanglement. Radin's book shows clearly that our consciousness is somehow "entangled" with the rest of conscious and inanimate reality in ways that we have only begun to formally explore.Dean Radin is laboratory director at The Institute of Noetic Sciences in California. This institute was founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, and is devoted to bringing the rigors of the scientific method to the exploration of consciousness.

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