Dean Radin discusses magic with Gordon White

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Really neat interview I caught this afternoon. To explain who these two guys are - Dean Radin is probably the most credible researcher out there in terms of investigating psi phenomena and the like. He's been performing experiments, getting replication studies, and publishing research papers on experiments such as the Ganzfeld and various random number generator experiments for the last ten or fifteen years. Dean has also just finished a manuscript for a new book that he's sent off to the publishers - which they discuss in the interview - regarding the history of esoteric magic in the west and Dean's thoughts on how those ideas tie in with his findings as well as theories like pansychism, neutral monism, QM, etc.. Gordon White is a well-known Australian chaos magician who has several publications in the field and is of course known for his podcast Rune Soup.

Part of what I really like about this interview is the discussion of what Dean is seeing regarding how this stuff is in practice - its limitations and refractory behaviors. They also had a pretty good conversation about the disciplines, ie. hard sciences, soft sciences like psychology, where they think these are headed, what the challenges and opportunities are in trying to integrate these fields as well as the particular cultural problems each field is enduring or has endured at different times, etc..