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Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). His first career as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a masters degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

For a decade, Dr. Radin worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories.  For over two decades, he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and three Silicon Valley think-tanks, including SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government (STARGATE project).

Dr. Radin is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular articles, a dozen book chapters, and several books including the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997) and Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006). His technical articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics, to Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and Journal of Consciousness Studies. He has been interviewed for television shows ranging from Oprah and Larry King Live, to the BBC’s Horizon and PBS’s Closer to Truth, and he has presented over a hundred invited lectures in venues including Harvard, Stanford and Princeton Universities, Google headquarters, and DARPA

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Every day, thousands of people across America turn to total strangers for advice and consultation as a coping mechanism for the lack of control or clarity in their own lives. Though usually fun and harmless, there’s another story lurking beneath the online world of pay-by-the-minute psychics. A story that has gone virtually untold. The story of the psychic junkie.

Most psychics work anonymously from home. They could be housewives, college students, unemployed, or just decent people who found a great way to make a living and help some people while they are at it. However, none of them are licensed or trained to deal with addiction.

In this episode of AfterlifeFM Profiles, Marcel travels back to his days as co-host of “In Good Spirit,” where he spoke to former psychic junkie, Sarah Lassez, about her own personal struggle through psychic addiction, and about her popular book, Psychic Junkie: a memoir.

Plus, a Canadian psychic, Wendy Wallace, calls in to come to the defense of her profession.

Lots of fun, laughs and insight you won’t hear anywhere else.

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An interview with the man behind The Trickster, George P. Hansen.

The paranormal encompasses everything from levitating monks to ESP, from spirits to cattle mutilations—an incredible and unsavory hodgepodge. The mix seems incoherent. But the trickster makes sense of it.

Psi, the paranormal, and the supernatural are fundamentally linked to destructuring, change, transition, disorder, marginality, the ephemeral, fluidity, ambiguity, and blurring of boundaries. In contrast, the phenomena are repressed or excluded with order, structure, routine, stasis, regularity, precision, rigidity, and clear demarcation.

Understanding the role and nature of the Trickster is fundamental to understanding the paranormal.

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