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Is psy phenomena real?
The laboratory record is far stronger than consensus admits. Dean Radin's meta-analyses of ganzfeld, presentiment, and DMILS studies show effect sizes that would be considered robust in any other field. The U.S. government funded psi research for over two decades precisely because operationally significant results kept appearing. The question is not whether the phenomena occur — the data say they do — but what mechanism underlies them.
Evidence
- Dean Radin at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has published meta-analyses covering thousands of ganzfeld trials showing hit rates statistically far above chance, with odds against chance in the billions.
- The U.S. government's Stargate program, running from roughly 1972 to 1995 and funded by the CIA and DIA, employed remote viewers Ingo Swann, Pat Price, and Joe McMoneagle under laboratory conditions designed by physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI International.
- The ganzfeld database — now spanning hundreds of independent replications — was reviewed by Charles Honorton and later Ray Hyman.
- On psychokinesis, the 2006 Bösch, Steinkamp and Boller meta-analysis of 380 micro-PK studies found a small but positive effect, though the file-drawer and study-size correlation issues remain unresolved per Mental Floss reporting from October 2026.
- His books 'The Conscious Universe' and 'Entangled Minds' document that the cumulative effect size across psi domains — telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis — is small but stubbornly consistent, surviving repeated re-analysis.