The Noetic Universe

real science: hypotheses, observations, data analysis and interpretation!

Another fascinating and enlightening book by Dean Radin. His work has quite literally changed my life.

good book

I thought the book would be an insight into the hidden powers of the mind and the research accomplished at the Noetic Institute. It was not. It seemed the main theme of the book was to convince the scientific community that the study of Noetics is a science that meets the norm of scientific inquiry. Too bad. If Galileo or Copernicus reached out to agree with the scientific thought of their day, we would still consider the earth as the center of the universe. Noetics is a pioneering method in the study of the power of the mind and should disregard being accepted by the scientific community.I read an excellent book recently by Lissa Rankin, M.D, entitled Mind over Medicine. The theme of that book was the healing power of the mind in conjunction with or contradictory to the dictates of modern medicine. Dr Rankin offered no apologies for her studies when they disagreed with the norm. Perhaps Mr. Radin should read her book.

It is disappointing when publishers re-publish their books with different covers and titles hoping to dupe unsuspecting customers into buying the same book twice over. This book, The Noetic Universe, is in fact almost an exact copy, page for page, of The Conscious Universe published by HarperCollins in 1997. The book itself is excellent and I can do no better than reproduce my review of the same book under its earlier title. But I do deplore this kind of commercial exploitation of a public eager to keep up with developments in this field.Dean Radin's scientific background is in electrical engineering and psychology, but he has focussed his attention for more than a decade now on parapsychology or psi. This excellent book gives some of the scientific methodology that has confirmed that psi is a real phenomenon of the world and not the `superstitious nonsense' that some critics would have us believe. The title of the book derives from this world-view of the universality of psychic phenomena: `both modern physics and ancient Buddhist doctrine suggest [that] `deep' interconnectedness embraces everything, unbound by the limitations of time and space.' Radin agrees with the idea of Sir Arthur Eddington that `the stuff of the world is mind-stuff'.The book is divided into four parts: 1. Motivation, with a definition of psi and some of the statistical techniques used for validation of experimental results; 2. Evidence. This section, representing nearly half of the book, gives us some of the evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis - the most studied and best authenticated forms of psi; 3. Understanding. This section deals with the interpretation of the data and how the world-views of physics and philosophy (metaphysics) have been changed by discoveries in the 20th century; 4. Implications - what these empirical data tell us about the nature of the universe in terms of biology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, religion and medicine.This may sound like a scientific treatise - well, I suppose it is really - but it is presented in a very accessible style for readers without a scientific or mathematical background, though there is some gentle statistical theory in Section 1, Chapter 3, on Replication. There are 20 pages of Notes that tell us where these experiments and ideas were published. There are a further 30 pages of References and Further Reading, so anyone can follow up on any topic to various levels of scientific sophistication. Finally there is a comprehensive Index.One could scarcely ask for a more lucid introduction to the scientific techniques used to investigate parapsychology with the supporting evidence that these have produced: this should be enough to convince many of the sceptics. Mind Before Matter: Vision of a New Science of Consciousness Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design Howard Jones is the author of The World as Spirit

Although I am generally a sceptic (in the true, grounded scientific sense of the word) this spoke to me as an ex Oxford graduated neuroscientist.Very surprised at the calm and scientific way Radin sets out the evidence, which is definitely interesting.Also very impressed by the excellent analysis of the troubling psychology behind aggressive sceptical thinking, which hinders scientific progress.Radin's background in so many different fields really shines here.This is a must read book for anyone who can sense that the current view of reality may be missing something and importantly anyone who doesn't suffer from the insecurity of having to cling onto their current world view.

This book is quite superb. It deals with real experiments that have been conducted, and the statistical analyses that went with them, The existence of psi is now uncontrovertibly proved, despite the "religion" of the skeptic being rubbished. Don't be put off by the fact that scientific experimentation and statistical analysis are used. The author explains it for the intelligent layman right at the start of the book. You will be stunned at the proof of psychic phenomena that Radin has uncovered, in a professional, scientific manner.A word of caution. If you have already read his other book, "The Conscious Universe", don't bother buying this book as it is the same book under a different title and cover illustration. I was hugely disappointed after reading "The Noetic Universe", and wanting to read more of Radin's work, to find after I had bought "The Conscious Universe" that the internals of both books are absolutely identical. I won't be buying any more of his books .... just in case !

Bought this on the back of reading Dan Brown's Lost Symbols (as i guess a lot of people have). Good, solid evidence. Haven't quite finished it yet, and some bits are a bit of a hard read, you have to think about it and concentrate, but if this book is right, and there is no reason i can see not to believe the evidence, there are some incredible implications

This book has much to tell us but it takes a long time to do it. So far, I have not been gripped by what Dean has written. More facts or case studies would be helpful. I will continue to the end as the book has an important part to play in our understanding of the subtle world around us.

arrived as expected. Useful factual account of scientific research into ESP and of the difficulty of getting the scientific community to examine it before lending their names to un informed dismissive pronouncements.