Nonlocal Mind: Implications for Consciousness and Healing

Dean Radin PhD has been Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) since 2001. He periodically lectures at Sonoma State University and also serves on doctoral committees at Saybrook University and the California Institute for Integral Studies. His original career track as a concert violinist diverted into science after earning a BS degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Early in his career he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For the past three decades he has been engaged in research on the nature of consciousness at IONS, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and SRI International.

He is author or coauthor of over 250 scientific and popular articles, three dozen book chapters, and three popular books including the award-winning and bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds(Simon & Schuster, 2006), and a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal (Random House, 2013). His books have been translated into 14 foreign languages, and his articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Consciousness Studies. He was featured in a New York Times Magazine article, he has appeared on dozens of television shows around the world, and he has given over 350 interviews and talks, including presentations at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Princeton, Virginia Tech, and the Sorbonne, for industries including Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Rabobank, and for US government organizations including the US Navy and the DOD.

In 2010, he spent a month lecturing as the National Visiting Professor of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, a program sponsored by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development. In 2013 and 2014, he gave invited lectures in Kuala Lumpur for a leadership training organization supported by the Central Bank of Malaysia. In 2015 he spoke at a confidential program of briefings and discussions for Australian government, business, education, and military leaders.