Part Two: Some Psychic Abilities Are Dangerous: Aliens, Telepathy & Discovering Your Gifts | Dr. Dean Radin
October 14, 2026
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5 min readIn this second part of their conversation with Dr. Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen push deeper into the experimental evidence for psychic phenomena, the nature of consciousness, and the unsettling implications of a reality that is far more interconnected than materialist science admits. Radin, speaking with the calm authority of someone who has spent decades in the laboratory, walks through the mechanisms, the data, and the worldview shift required to take this seriously.
Why You Can't Just Win the Lottery
A common materialist objection to psychic phenomena is that if they were real, everyone would win the lottery. Radin dismantles this by pointing out that the information people receive is rarely "veridical" — accurate and actionable — and that precognition in particular is probabilistic, not deterministic. He notes that some people do win the lottery multiple times, though they don't always claim psychic ability. More importantly, he argues that no human ability is perfectly reliable on demand, not even Olympic athletics or virtuoso musicianship. The expectation that psychic ability must be 100% replicable under any conditions is a double standard. The real question is whether a subtle, statistically significant signal can be detected under controlled conditions — and that, Radin says, is exactly what th
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:57) **Why Psychic Abilities Aren’t Like Winning the Lottery** - Dean Radin responds to the materialist objection that if psi were real, everyone would win the lottery.
- 2 (04:48) **The Presentiment Experiment: Your Body Knows the Future** - Describes the landmark presentiment protocol and how it reveals unconscious precognition.
- 3 (09:14) **The Crisis of Siloed Consciousness** - Mayim and Jonathan react to the implications of unconscious interconnectivity.
- 4 (15:24) **Consciousness as a Permeating Substance** - Radin expands the model of consciousness beyond the human brain.
- 5 (20:59) **The Stargate Program: Government Remote Viewing** - Radin recounts his involvement in the classified Stargate program and what it proved.
- 6 (25:02) **Summoning Non-Human Intelligence: A Scientific Agnostic View** - Radin addresses claims of receiving downloads from aliens and summoning orbs.
- 7 (28:49) **Cultural Framing and the "Why This Person?" Objection** - The group discusses how cultural context shapes reports of non-human contact.
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Show Notes
What if telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, psychic abilities, and even “magic” are real, but science has been looking at them the wrong way? Could human consciousness actually be connected across space and time? Could your brain and body be responding to information from the future without you consciously knowing it?
In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) & Cofounder of neuroengineering company Cognigenics, explores some of the biggest questions at the intersection of consciousness, quantum physics, parapsychology, psychic phenomena, telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, and the nature of reality.
Dr. Radin explains what Noetic science actually is and why decades of research into “paranormal” phenomena continue to challenge conventional scientific assumptions. He explores evidence suggesting that human consciousness may influence quantum reality and whether the relationship between mind and matter could help explain phenomena like prayer.
Why can’t psychics use their abilities to win the lottery? If precognition exists, is the future actually fixed, or are we simply sensing probabilities? And when you have a powerful intuition or premonition, are you predicting the future, or accidentally manifesting your own fears?
We also dive into the mystery of telepathy, tracing the history of scientific telepathy experiments and how researchers have attempted to test them over the years. What blocks psychic intuition in the first place? Could constant stimulation, distraction, technology, and the noise of the outside world be preventing us from accessing subtle information? Are humans already responding physiologically to “nonlocal” information without consciously realizing it?
Dr. Radin also discusses why AI may be biased against conclusions that validate paranormal phenomena, and the strange history of how Western civilization went from believing in magic to rejecting it, a transformation sometimes described as the “disenchantment of the world.” From his perspective as a scientist, what would it take to make paranormal phenomena more scientifically acceptable to study?
We examine one of the biggest problems in parapsychology: reproducibility. Why are paranormal laboratory results so difficult to replicate? Are the phenomena themselves variable, or are traditional scientific methods running into fundamental boundaries when applied to consciousness?
We explore government research into remote viewing - including how Dr. Radin's interest in the paranormal was influenced by research connected to the U.S. government's Stargate program - and tackle one of the most controversial questions surrounding modern paranormal experiences: Why do certain people seem able to encounter or summon orbs or nonhuman intelligence (NHI), while others never experience anyt
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