As noted in Jameske’s news (via a tangential link), London’s Evening Standard has produced a really great piece on scientific research into the brain’s apparent ability to sense future events. We’ll figure the minor errors (such as mixing up ‘medium’ and ‘psychic’), because the rest gives a good overview of the research done by guys like Dean Radin and Dick Bierman:
Radin showed sexually explicit, violent or soothing images to volunteers in a random sequence determined by computer. And he soon discovered that people began reacting to the pictures before they saw them. It was unmistakable. They began to ‘wince’ a few seconds before they actually saw the image. And it happened time and time again, way beyond what chance alone would allow.
So impressive were Radin’s results that Dr Kary Mullis, a Nobel Prizewinning chemist, took an interest. He was hooked up to Radin’s machine and shown the emotionally charged images.
“It’s spooky,” he says “I could see about three seconds into the future. You shouldn’t be able to do that.”
For a more detailed overview of this line of research, check out Dean’s recent book Entangled Minds (Amazon US and UK), which I reviewed last year. And perhaps ponder on the question of why James ‘The Amazing’ Randi attacks Uri Geller and Sylvia Browne as the flag-bearers of psychic abilities, and keeps pretty quiet about this sort of research…
