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of entanglement could be observed in the laboratory. In a groundbreaking study in the 1980s, French scientist Alain Aspect and his colleagues experimentally caused two photons, or light particles, to become entangled.When a property of light—such as spin, position, or momentum—was measured in one of the particles, the “twin” particle instantly showed the opposite property. What was especially spooky was that distance between particles did not matter. Even though the twins were more than thirty miles apart, they behaved as if they were still connected. They were entangled.12

Radin is quick to point out that entanglement has been shown only at the subatomic level, and that we human beings are much bigger than that.13 But since people and things are composed of subatomic particles, Radin argues, entanglement may suggest that everything is interconnected, even people. We are not billiard balls on a pool table that occasionally bump into each other. We are part of a fabric woven so tightly that pulling one thread alters the whole tapestry. Or, try this: Reality is like Jell-O: Poke one side of the bowl and the green stuff on the other side jiggles. According to Dean Radin’s entangled reality, if that “poke” is an event—say, a car accident—information about that event could pop into someone’s head miles away.

“The mystery with all psychic phenomena is a mystery of how information gets from one place to another,” he explained. “So if you hear the phone ring and somehow instantly you know who’s calling without answering the phone yet, how did the information get into you? Where did it come from? Of all the infinite number of places where the information could have gone, why did you pick it up?”

“Which reminds me of a story my sister-in law, Katherine, told me just the other day,” I volunteered. “Katherine’s great-grandmother was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago by train, and suddenly in the middle of her journey, she jumped up and said, ‘My husband has just severed his forefinger. I must get off the train and go home.’When she arrived in Los Angeles a couple of days later, lo and behold, her husband was missing his finger. Can you walk me through what happened?”

“It’s not as though the pain suddenly found her in a train,” Radin hypothesized. “They were connected. They always had an open channel. The moment something happened to him, she was aware of it instantaneously because of that continuous connection. Now the interesting question is: Why didn’t everybody else jump up with the same information? And the answer is roughly like this: In an interconnected space, everything truly is interconnected with everything else. If you think about what it would be like, it would be overwhelming. If you were able to sense exactly what is happening to everything else throughout the universe, it would be such a cacophony of information all the time that you couldn’t think straight. So I believe that we have evolved in such a way as to exclude almost all available information, except the stuff close to you, in front of you here and now.”

This dovetailed with the metaphor of Aldous Huxley, who proposed that the brain is a “reducing valve” that strains out all extraneous sensory information. He suggested that the valve occasionally opens—during a psychedelic drug experience, for example—to admit normally inaccessible information. It is like a voice an octave above our usual range of hearing, a light just outside the visible spectrum. Some people with temporal lobe epilepsy claim to hear and see another dimension, as did mystics from the beginning of recorded history. Here Dean Radin was suggesting that other things—important events, people, relationships—have the same ability to break through the veil of ordinary perception.

“If you are at cocktail party, and someone says your name across the room, you tend to hear it,” Radin said.“Why do you hear it? You’re not consciously listening for it. But you have maybe ten things you’re constantly scanning, unconsciously, and these are a little bit easier to get into your conscious awareness than