The Bill Roll Lecture in Parapsychology featuring Dr Dean Radin, Fall 2025

Dr. Dean Radin delivers the fall 2025 Bill Roll Lecture entitled "The Next Revolution: Physics, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality." Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and vice chairman of the neuroengineering company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc (doctor of science) from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India. Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 780 talks and interviews worldwide, and he is inventor of 12 patents and author or coauthor of 340+ scientific and popular articles, book chapters, and books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), Real Magic (2018), and Science of Magic (2025). "The Next Revolution: Physics, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality" Abstract: Twentieth-century physics overturned the clockwork view of the nineteenth century, and twenty-first-century discoveries are now showing that many of our everyday intuitions about reality are illusions. At fundamental levels, the world looks far stranger than common sense suggests—yet strikingly similar to insights preserved in esoteric traditions. Relativity and quantum mechanics reveal that time and separateness apply only within the narrow band of human-scale experience; outside it, reality behaves in radically different ways. In this talk I will review evidence suggesting that consciousness itself may play an active role in shaping the physical world, and describe how this is being tested. Topics include: (1) experiments using optical interferometers to probe consciousness-related interpretations of quantum theory, (2) results from the long-running Global Consciousness Project, and (3) a growing shift within science toward engaging with metaphysical ideas once considered beyond the pale—including a renewed interest in philosophical idealism. For more information on previous events, visit the Bill Roll Lecture website: https://www.westga.edu/psychology/bil... Those individuals or entities wishing to sponsor parapsychological research at the University of West Georgia as well as the annual Bill Roll Lecture should make checks payable to the University of West Georgia Foundation and include the Bill Roll Lecture Fund in the reference line. Donations can be sent to: University of West Georgia, Office of Development, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118. Alternatively, you may contribute online by selecting ‘other’ and typing in Bill Roll Lecture Fund: https://giving.westga.edu/ Our School honors the principles of free speech and free exchange of ideas and perspectives. We recognize that individual and community standards vary. The content here represents the views and opinions of the original creator and its appearance on this site does not constitute an endorsement by the sponsoring program, the School of Social Sciences, or the University of West Georgia (UWG). We respect the speaker’s right to put forward views that may not comply with what is standard or expected in relation to the topics addressed.