Joe Rogan Experience #2513 - Dean Radin
In a Nutshell
Dean Radin argues that psychic phenomena like telepathy, remote viewing, and presentiment are real, supported by 150 years of controlled experiments and government programs like Stargate that produced actionable intelligence. He presents evidence that these abilities are partly genetic, with historical suppression during the Inquisition potentially explaining their rarity today, and that consciousness exhibits non-local properties connecting across space and time. Radin also explores how intention can influence physical systems and describes his work developing genetic and pharmacological approaches to enhance cognitive and potentially psychic capacities.
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Dean Radin began as a violinist through halfway through college. He realized that pursuing music professionally required athletic-level stamina and physical strength, which he lacked. He has a genetic condition called Jill Bear syndrome, a mutation affecting a liver enzyme that prevents quick recovery from exercise. This causes significant fatigue but provides benefits including elevated unconjugated bilirubin, a powerful natural antioxidant, resulting in cardiovascular health comparable to a 20-year-old. At age 74, his cardiac calcium scan showed a score of zero despite high cholesterol.
A violin represents the classical concert track, while fiddle refers to the style of playing, primarily associated with bluegrass and folk music. The transition requires learning to play less precisely, with slightly off intonation that sounds more authentic for bluegrass. Radin competed in the Illinois State Fiddler Contest around age 25 against a teenage Allison Krauss.
Radin switched from music to electrical engineering in college because he enjoyed taking things apart and building things. He earned a master's in electrical engineering, then a PhD in experimental psychology. His career followed a pattern of choosing new directions after mastering a field. During college, he learned about the Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell after his mystical experience in space, known as the overview effect. The institute's motto was exploring the frontiers of consciousness.
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