Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

Dean Radin

This is a book that I hope every single person will choose to read. Whether you are a Muslim, Jew, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist; whether you are strict materialist or a believer in spirituality, whether you are rich or poor, a doctor, lawyer, Indian Chief, or welfare recipient I think you will appreciate this book and be a better informed person for having read it.

The book explores what I consider to be the most important philosophical and scientific issues we encounter in life. It deals with what the author calls "The New Reality", which is an important paradigm shift that is arrived at by a scientific and statistical analysis of PSI experiments all over the world, combined with the most cogent and easily understandable explanations of quantum mechanics I have ever read. It is rounded out by the author's understanding of the emerging paradigm of "entanglement".

The first 7 or 8 chapters (about 150 pages or so) are somewhat heavy on the statistical analysis, but done in a very easy-to-understand and fun-to-read style. The author lays out incredibly convincing evidence for the existence of PSI. PSI is a term that includes all sorts of mind-to-mind and mind-to-matter relationships. These include simple tests for ESP, and moves on to precognition, gut feelings, dreams, mind influencing matter etc. In my opinion, some of this stuff is so exciting and so mind-blowing or mind-boggling that it is impossible to read this book without getting very excited. After demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of PSI, the author next tackles the more formidable job of trying to explain the mechanics of how it works. Chapter 12, A New Reality, I would rate as probably the single best chapter I have ever read in any book at any time. If one wants to skim the first 200 pages and go right to this chapter you will still get your money's worth.

One of my heros is Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate physicist. (By the way, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman—reviewed on this site, just click on the title—is one of my all-time favorite books.) Feynman believed that the single most important experiment in quantum physics was the famous "two-slit" experiment which demonstrates that light—and/or particles like electrons—are both particles and waves, depending upon how one observes them. In chapter 12 of this book, Dean Radin does the best job I have ever seen of explaining how the two-slit experiment works, what it implies about reality and consciousness and how we draw on it and our own understanding to better perceive the mysteries of creation, of time, space, and physical reality.

If you never read a book about relativity and quantum physics I can understand why it might be intimidating to do so. I think that the explanations in Chapter 12 are so well done and put into such a perfect context that anyone at all could gain great insight and pleasure from reading it. You might gain everything you need to know or grok from this single chapter rather than wading through hundreds or thousands of pages as I have done. The author does an outstanding job of presenting many different and credible theories of the mechanics of how PSI might operate. This, in turn, is done in the context of some very special insights into the nature of consciousness, group consciousness, and reality drawn from a scientific basis but integrated into a more holistic outlook.

I could go on and on, but this review is already too long. One of my favorite books of all time is The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot. I can't say that this book is quite as good or important as Talbot's book, but it is right up there with the best and most important books I have read that try to tie together themes of science and consciousness. Some of the studies about group consciousness and how it affected random numbers generated by computers is not only compelling, but mind-blowing.

Obviously I recommend this book as highly as I can and I do hope many of you will enjoy it nearly as much as I did.

Review by Len Oppenheim