Consciousness, Resonance, and Vibration with Tamlyn Hunt

Summary

Attorney and philosopher Tam Hunt explains the General Resonance Theory of Consciousness, co-developed with UC Santa Barbara psychologist Jonathan Schooler, which proposes that everything vibrates, everything has a tiny spark of awareness, and shared resonance combines these sparks into higher consciousness. He describes random number generator experiments run at Burning Man by Dean Radin's team that reportedly found crowd events skewed the machines' outputs, results that were never published. Hunt also reflects on growing up among hippies, his time in a commune called the Love Family, his LSD experiences while in the Army, and why he believes the hippies were right about vibrations and interconnectedness.

Key takeaways

• 1Hunt and Jonathan Schooler (UC Santa Barbara) co-developed the General Resonance Theory (GRT), built on three axioms: all things vibrate, all things have some degree of consciousness (panpsychism), and nearby vibrating things can sync into shared resonance that merges their consciousness.
• 2GRT holds that human consciousness is identical to nested electromagnetic (EM) fields. Hunt claims EM field information transfer in the brain is about 5,000 times faster than spike-based neural signaling.
• 3Dean Radin and IONS ran three to four years of RNG experiments at Burning Man with up to 60 RNGs, reportedly finding significant deviations during the Man and Temple burns. Radin chose not to publish the results.
• 4Jeffrey Mishlove cited the SRI International remote viewing experiments of the 1970s, conducted inside a Faraday cage, and Andrija Puharich's 1950s Round Table Foundation work, which reported that psychic ability increased inside Faraday cages. Both were offered as counterevidence to 'electromagnetic chauvinism.'
• 5Hunt's books include 'The Hippies Were Right About Consciousness and Everything Else,' based on his 2018 Scientific American essay 'It's All in the Vibrations, Man,' and he cites Dean Radin's 'Entangled Minds' and Alfred North Whitehead's 'Process and Reality.'
• 6Hunt grew up partly in the Love Family commune led by Love Israel, which he describes as cult-like and marked by abuse of power, drug use, and child sexual abuse.

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Transcript excerpt

the highest p-value for all these categories of experiments was experiments looking at random number generators, RNGs, and the impact of external events in the presence of human crowds on the string of zeros and ones that these devices put out. So they get their device who puts out zeros and ones randomly, hence the RNG name, and different kinds of devices exist to put out zeros and ones. And the experiments basically that have been going on for decades now look at major events and then they look at associated RNGs and say, okay, did those numbers deviate from randomness? And when you put them all together, you get astronomical odds against those deviations happening by chance alone. So we are at Burning Man thinking about big ideas and what to do is kind of fun with science. And we're like, hey, why don't we do RNG experiments at Burning Man? And so we actually did over the course of a few years. Keep watching to learn more. The New Thinking Allowed magazine issue 10 on UFOs and UAP is now ready for free download. And you can also order beautiful printed copies. Go to newthinkingallowed.org. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering Distant Learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed dialogue series is Charles T. Tartt, Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed. Conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Oct 12, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.