1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Hello good peoples of the internet! I'm not dead and now I have long flowing hair which makes me 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:11,840 psychic and it's time to prove the naysayers wrong and absolutely confirm that ESP is real 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:20,360 with hard data and indisputable facts. Let's put this bad boy to bed once and for all. 4 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:28,660 Well we're probably not gonna be doing that but it's fun to research, it's fun to dream, 5 00:00:28,660 --> 00:00:33,640 don't go taking my dreams away. Now if you're familiar with my channel you know I'm fascinated 6 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:39,560 by all things consciousness, particularly that of the pseudo-science variety and of course there is 7 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:46,460 no shortage of theories on consciousness's effect on reality. Panpsychism, biocentric universe theory, 8 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:52,800 today's fantastic topic, ESP or extrasensory perception. I always have a hard time saying 9 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:59,080 extrasensory. I always feel like I'm some like a newsie. Extray, extray, extrasensory perception. 10 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:04,820 Anyway, we're gonna learn about somebody who really puts psychic phenomenon into the limelight 11 00:01:04,820 --> 00:01:12,360 of reality by a badass hellcat named Dean Raiden. He calls it not ESP but Psy. 12 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:20,640 But isn't that a cooler name than ESP? Isn't that what the cool kids call a banger? It's not sugar 13 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,900 anymore, it's gluten. It's uh, it's not UFOs anymore, it's UAPs. Now I want the Gen Z kids to 14 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:32,020 pick it up. Can't imagine some Gen Z broccoli haired kid wearing a Nirvana shirt like totally ripping 15 00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:37,240 into another kid for using the term ESP instead of Psy. That's the world I want to live in. I'll never 16 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:44,640 live there though. I'll never live there. Anyway, I love Dean Raiden. He is a parapsychology guru 17 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,400 best known for working with the non-profit Institute of Noetic Sciences. That's a cool name too. And you 18 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:56,060 might have heard of the Global Consciousness Project. See for me, Mr. Raiden is like the Mad Max 19 00:01:56,060 --> 00:02:02,180 of science. He's like surviving this post-apocalyptic of pseudoscience by snapping necks 20 00:02:02,180 --> 00:02:09,860 with statistics and data, of course. But he makes a very compelling case for, in scientific terms, 21 00:02:09,860 --> 00:02:16,400 something fishy going on between the relationship of reality and consciousness. What's particularly 22 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:25,020 great about Raiden is his ability to paint a picture with an ungodly amount of data on ESP or Psy over 23 00:02:25,020 --> 00:02:31,020 nearly two centuries of experimentation. He's like a painter. He's like, he's like the Bob Ross of 24 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:40,200 pseudoscience. Okay. That's too lame. Uh, let's go back to him snapping necks. See, I kept the afro. 25 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,040 I love you, Bob Ross. So even though Dr. Raiden has been directly involved with a lot of experiments 26 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:51,400 in Psy, he also compares a huge treasure trove of data from thousands of experiments going back as 27 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,480 far as 1800s. So before we get into Dr. Raiden's work, here's just a quick summary of just some of 28 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:10,860 the more notable experiments. In 1883, Sir William Barrett conducted thought transference tests 29 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:15,940 between distant hypnotized subjects. The hypnotism was like all the buzz back when they discovered it. 30 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:21,200 They would try to transfer thoughts, recover memories, including like what past lives they had. 31 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,480 And then like 400 people said they were Cleopatra and then another 800 said they were like Alexander 32 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:32,860 the Great. So they're bummed. Oliver Lodge, who pioneered work with radio receivers, did experiments 33 00:03:32,860 --> 00:03:36,980 involving a pair of young women who claimed teleconnection. The experiments were actually 34 00:03:36,980 --> 00:03:42,020 considered successful enough that it caught the attention of the scientific community, which led 35 00:03:42,020 --> 00:03:48,400 to even more expansive experiments, all the while never questioning whether the guy that pioneered 36 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:54,880 radio receiver technology should be the one conducting ESP experiments to send psychic messages. 37 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:02,800 In 1917, John E. Coover from Stanford University conducted telepathy tests using playing cards between 38 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:08,760 a sender and a receiver. And the data suggests that the odds of students simply guessing the right card 39 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:15,600 was 160 to 1. That's pretty significant. About the same time at Harvard, Leonard Troland used an automatic 40 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:22,720 test machine to select a card and conducted 605 tests. His findings, he concluded that if there were 41 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,720 any psychic happenings going on, it was that the students were telepathically avoiding the correct 42 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:37,200 cards by 16 to 1. It's almost like a reverse ESP or just angsty psychic teenagers. And if you remember 43 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:44,480 that scene from Ghostbusters, it was actually based on a 1920 to 1965 experiment at Duke University by 44 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:52,480 Professor Joseph Banks Rhine. See, even Dean Raiden will be the first to tell you that those early 45 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:57,040 experiments don't really come without their controversies. And he actually does so in his book. 46 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:04,240 But the data from those tests are not likely to be clean and unbiased despite their best intentions. 47 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:11,200 Luckily, more modern experiments inside are a little more sophisticated and really focused on reducing 48 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:17,440 human error and or bias as much as possible. Probably one of the more famous ones is the 49 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:24,640 Ganzfeld experiments where the receiver is placed in a relaxed state, exposed to mild sensory deprivation. 50 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,520 You might have seen them using those halved ping pong balls taped over their eyes and white noise 51 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:34,800 pumping in their ears. And then the sender concentrates on transmitting images or impressions 52 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:40,800 to the receiver telepathically. Results were at a rate higher than what would be expected by chance 53 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:46,480 alone. Another notable mention is experiments on plants and animals, even bacteria known as the 54 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:51,920 direct mental interaction with living system. Pretty fun. But the one that always freaked me out was the 55 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:58,480 global consciousness project in which participants try to consciously force a random number generator to 56 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,520 produce a not so random number pattern. That one I might want to do a video on by itself, but at some 57 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,640 point you should Google random number generator and the OJ Simpson trial. Pretty wild stuff. 58 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,960 So it goes without saying, we have a ton of data to pull from when it comes to size studies. And that's 59 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:27,280 where Dean Raiden comes in. He compiles like massive amounts of data. So we can have a much wider 60 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:34,640 statistical and that's the key here view on the likelihood of ESP uses the idea of meta analysis, 61 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:41,280 which is the analysis of analysis, analysis, net analysis of analysis. I, that word now has no 62 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:48,640 meaning to me. It's gone. It's gone now. Bye. So the aggregate of double blind testing and even online 63 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:59,600 testing allowed him to collect 350 million trials involving 420,000 people data. The cliff note on 64 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,960 this is simple on a micro scale, meaning like you just look at a few experiments, you really shouldn't 65 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:10,080 expect to see any substantial evidence of ESP or PSY, but on the macro, in other words, 66 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:15,280 we pulled back and viewed the data collected. Well, brother, you start to find some interesting results. 67 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:26,960 If we're all familiar with the very basic approach in science that to prove a hypothesis, you need to 68 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:33,600 be able to repeat the phenomenon. So like an apple falls, interesting. Apple falls a few thousand times, 69 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:40,000 boom, you discover gravity. Now apples and gravity are an easy experiment, but it gets more complicated 70 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,760 with statistical scientific studies, especially for those that might be called soft sciences or when 71 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:51,920 trying to study skills or human behavior, psychology or creativity, that sort of thing. And that's how 72 00:07:51,920 --> 00:08:00,640 Mr. Mad Max Raiden believes psychic phenomenon needs to be studied like a skill or a behavior in his book, 73 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:06,000 the conscious universe. And no, it's not all warped because I read it thousand times or anything. 74 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:13,200 I dropped it in water. The name of the game is how much above chance do we see the effects of ESP? 75 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:19,120 I'll give you an example. Imagine you decided to flip a coin 10 times. You should roughly expect 76 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:24,400 five times heads, five times tails. Now, of course, due to chaos theory, you'd sometimes get four times 77 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:30,320 heads, six times tails. You get the idea. Now imagine you add the variable of you consciously trying to 78 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:36,320 force the coin to be tails, and then you flip the coin 10 times every day for 500 days. Now let's say 79 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:42,880 after 500 days, you switch it and it wins 255 days out of 500. Now do it another 500 days and see how 80 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:50,000 often that wins out out of 500. But repeat that same thing for 10 years. Then what if you did it for 20 81 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,920 years? Well, in theory, if your intention is affecting the coin flipped, even by a tiny percentage, 82 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,840 you would need that much data to be able to see the above chance effect. So in this theory, the proof is in 83 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:08,080 the consistency of large data analysis. That's the sort of meta analysis Dean Raiden deals with in 84 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:14,400 his book in regards to ESP or Psy. Take the Otto Gansfeld experiments as an example. It was a very 85 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:20,560 blind test using a computer instead of a human sender to send images and video clips. They even 86 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:26,480 put the receiver in a steel-walled, soundproof, and electromagnetically shielded room to isolate them. 87 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,760 They even went as far as hiring magicians and mentalists. People that are skilled at like 88 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:36,640 psychic deception in order to poke holes in the system and protocols to find out how they could 89 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:42,160 cheat it. But nope, no holes are found. But what did they discover? In a total of 354 sessions, 90 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:48,880 there were 122 direct hits for a 34% hit rate above chance. Now keep in mind, they showed the 91 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:55,040 receivers 80 still pictures and 80 videos. 34% hit rate is pretty significant. And here's where it gets 92 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,400 kind of nuts. See, earlier experiments were very similar in their above chance hit rate, somewhere 93 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:08,400 between like 35 to 37% or somewhere in that range. And so Dean Raiden compares all of the experiments 94 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:18,800 in aggregate and comes up with a total chance of 45,000 to one. Hmm. Hey guys, now this is just the first of 95 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:23,040 two parts for this Dean Raiden series, but tell me what you guys think so far in the comments below. 96 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,000 Are you convinced? Yeah, I'm on the fence too, as usual, but the next video might give you a few 97 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,440 more of those something fishy is going ons, if you know what I mean. Alright, see you next week, 98 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,400 but until then, stay pondering.