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Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

The Skeptic's Guide to Psychic Phenomena | Dean Radin

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dean Radin is a researcher and author specializing in the scientific study of consciousness, psychic phenomena, and the intersection of mind and matter. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to talk about the history of the U.S. government's parapsychology programs, the evidence behind remote viewing and psychokinetic experiments, consciousness, and the nature of reality. A fascinating conversation that explores the lines of science fiction and science fact.

 

Dean Radin is the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He has worked at Bell Labs, Princeton University, and Stanford Research Institute, where he contributed to research on remote viewing and other anomalous human abilities. He is the author of "The Conscious Universe", "Entangled Minds", and "Real Magic". Find him on X at @DeanRadin.

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0:00.0

We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created. As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. Experts on what they're talking about. This is the podcast for insights into the issues. China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. Breaking it down into simple terms. We hold. We hold these truths. We hold these truths. With Dan Crenshaw.

0:22.1

The angle has landed. Welcome back, everybody. This is the first of many special sub-episodes,

0:30.0

or let's call it a sub-series associated with the podcast. We're going to call it science fiction or

0:35.5

fact. So this gives us an opportunity to really just explore some of the things that I'm interested in.

0:41.6

One of these interesting subjects is the, and of course this has a tie-in to my role as a representative

0:49.3

and what we use taxpayer money for and what the government has been up to.

0:53.5

Also has a tie-in to my former

0:56.0

career, I worked a lot in the intelligence community, especially after I was injured when I

1:01.4

couldn't really deploy the platoon anymore. And as it turns out, there's some really interesting

1:05.4

history on the paranormal within the CIA and then the Army from the early 70s into the mid-90s.

1:16.5

And there was a number of programs, and they were in conjunction with the Stanford Research Institute.

1:24.5

And they especially centered around remote viewing as a, basically as a, another tool in the toolkit, another, another pillar of intelligence, okay? Because oftentimes you have human intelligence, which is source reporting. You have signals intelligence, which is, you know, intercepting calls and things of that nature you have open

1:48.1

source reporting kind of intelligence and there's all of these different types of intel and there

1:53.5

was an exploration in the u.s government as to whether people with extra abilities let call it, could use remote viewing to see into a target.

2:07.2

So we've been trying to track down a lot of the scientists that worked on this, and especially

2:11.5

nail down what is the connection to science?

2:16.3

And what are the experimental and clinical observations that took place that would indicate that there's really even something going on here?

2:27.4

And it turns out there's a lot.

2:28.9

I remain pretty skeptical about the whole thing.

2:31.6

It seems very difficult to reproduce. It seems difficult to

2:35.3

find some real smoking guns here. But listen to this conversation. It's pretty fascinating.

2:44.3

My first guest is Dr. Dean Radin, and he is a PhD in psychology, a master's in electrical engineering.

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