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Thinking about telepathy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Dean Radin
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Abstract

Dean Radin, laboratory director at The Institute of Noetic Sciences (California, USA), argues that telepathy is real, and suggests that quantum mechanics may ultimately provide an explanation of how it works.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Spring 2003 , pp. 23 - 32
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2003

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2 In the laboratory, quantum coherence phenomena are easily detected at extremely cold temperatures. Stapp, H., ‘Attention, intention and will in quantum physics’, in Libet, B., Freeman, A. & Sutherland, K. (Eds.), The volitional brain (Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic, (1999).Google Scholar

3 I employ the adjective ‘skeptic’ when the author is a well-known member or officer of a skeptics organization.

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6 I thank Dr. John Palmer of the Rhine Research Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

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8 Schlitz, M. & Radin, D. I., Telepathy in the ganzfeld: State of the evidence, in Jonas, W. & Crawford, C. (Eds.), Healing, Intention and Energy Medicine (London: Harcourt Health Sciences, 2002).Google Scholar