Telepathy: Do we have Entangled Minds?

Do we have 'Entangled Minds'?

In his latest book 'Entangled Minds', Dean Radin makes a bold claim. His book suggests that "we take seriously the possibility that our minds are physically entangled with the universe"(p19)

But this claim is not based on belief or faith. Dr Radin has been involved with 'psi' or 'psychic' phenomena for decades. In fact, Dean is probably the worlds foremost scientific expert on the nature of consciousness.

The main essence of the book is that all of our minds are interconnected, or entangled in some way.

This is typically displayed in the most well known of 'psi' experiments, the ganzfeld.

Ganzfeld Experiments

The word 'ganzfeld' is German for 'whole field' and ganzfeld experiments are typically the most used in areas of parapsychology.

During a ganzfeld experiment, there is usually a 'sender' (someone who attempts to psychically transmit information) and a 'receiver' (someone who attempts to psychically receive the information.

The 'receiver' is usually in a chair wearing halved ping pong balls over their eyes and wears headphones that play pink noise, which is a whooshing static noise. Then the experimenter will turn on red light so it shines onto the ping pong balls. The aim of this seemingly bizarre set-up is that it encourages sensory stimulation.

Soon, the receiver won't be able to tell if her eyes are open or closed, and the pink noise only serves to heighten sensitivity.

Then what typically happens is that the receiver is left to relax for a while. The 'sender', who would be in another room, would be staring at a television screen that will be displaying an image, or several images.

The experiment begins as the sender begins mentally 'sending' the image that is coming up on the screen.

Sometimes there is a still video link showing the receiver so the sender can concentrate sending the image to that person.

The receiver is asked to verbally describe any thoughts or images that come into her mind during the course of the sending.

Typically, afterwards the receiver will be shown a selection of images by the experiementer (1 of which will be the correct 'target') and asked to rank which one fits most closely with her mental impressions during the experiment.

Both sender and experimenter are 'blind' to the experiment- i.e they both don't know which image was sent by the sender.

The ganzfeld experiments are one of the most watertight experiments in the field of parapsychology today. In 1994, Daryl Bem and Charles Honorton published a meta analysis of ganzfeld studies, which is all the studies taken together to provide a statistical result for odds against chance.

Their results for studies before 1994 gave odds of 48 billion to one. However, the debate as to whether these studies are 'true' or not is a raging one, as many sceptics claim there may be potential flaws in the experiments. Clearly this lack of consensus on telepathy experiments shows it is still an area of widespread controversy, with many fighting to keep telepathy out of 'mainstream' science.

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