Oct 14, 2026 · 56 min
Dean Radin tests the limits of consciousness research
Part Two: Some Psychic Abilities Are Dangerous: Aliens, Telepathy & Discovering Your Gifts | Dr. Dean Radin
The conversation examines whether precognition, telepathy, and collective effects demand a broader account of consciousness while stressing uncertainty and discernment.
- 1Radin describes presentiment and remote-viewing research as evidence that information may influence bodies before conscious awareness.
- 2Government interest in remote viewing reflected Cold War strategy, but official research does not resolve whether anomalous experiences reflect external reality.
- 3Greater sensitivity to intuitive or premonitory information could be useful, yet the hosts emphasize skepticism, filtering, and protection from overload.
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Radin explains how the Global Consciousness Project uses networks of quantum random-number generators to investigate whether collective attention correlates with deviations from randomness.
The brief
Dean Radin argues that presentiment experiments suggest the body can respond to emotionally significant events before they appear, while acknowledging that psychic information is probabilistic and noisy.
The discussion moves from remote viewing and Cold War government programs to reports of aliens, angels, and spirits, asking whether culture shapes how anomalous experiences are interpreted.
Radin presents the Global Consciousness Project’s random-number-generator research as a possible sign of collective effects on physical systems, framed through dual-aspect monism rather than conventional materialism.
The hosts confront the risks of heightened sensitivity: premonitions can become overwhelming, guilt-inducing, or misleading when people lack reliable ways to distinguish useful signals from noise.
Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen close by arguing that intuition requires discernment, much like creativity, because an expanded field of possibilities still demands judgment about what to pursue.