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On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos, suddenly he pointed to one of them and announced, "That's the ringleader." The man was Donald DeFreeze, who was indeed subsequently so identified. Price also described the type and location of the kidnap car, enabling the police to find it within minutes. That remarkable event is one reason Targ believes in ESP. Another occurred when his group made $120,000 by forecasting for nine weeks in a row the changes in the silver-commodity futures market
As a scientist, Targ demands proof. His experience is based on two decades of investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This twenty-million dollar program launched during the Cold War was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Army and Air Force Intelligence. The experiments they conducted routinely presented results could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of experiments:
Remote Viewing, in which a person describes places and events independent of space and time. For example, while in California Price drew to scale a Soviet weapons factory at Semipalitinsk with great accuracy later confirmed by Satellite photography. In another remote viewing, Targ accurately sketched an airport in San Andreas, Columbia himself.Distant Mental Influence, where the thoughts of the experimenter can positively or negatively affect the physiology (heart rate, skin resistance, etc.) of a distant person.
Whole field isolation, where someone in a state of sensory isolation accurately describes the visual experiences of someone else in another placePrecognition and retrocausality, showing that the future can affect the past. That is, the elephant you see on television in the morning can be the cause of your having dreamed about elephants the previous night.Final chapters present evidence for survival after death; explain how ESP works based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of our selves as nonlocal, eternal awareness; discuss the ethics of exercising psychic abilities,and show us how to explore ESP ourselves. "I am convinced," Targ says, "that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try that?"
- Sales Rank: #388092 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.99" h x .80" w x 6.06" l, 1.13 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 312 pages
Review
"A scientist shares his years of cutting-edge research and discovery in psychic abilities: remote viewing, extrasensory perception, mental influence, space and time, healing at a distance and "how it all works: the physics of miracles."
--Light of Consciousness
"In this witty and informative new book, physicist-author and renowned psi researcher Targ summarizes three decades of research into psychic phenomena, describing the evidence as "so strong as to be logically or probabilistically unreasonable to deny." From psychic policemen and stock market predictions to military programs and the "physics of miracles," the realm of ESP is varied and deep, and Targ covers it all. He concludes with a chapter on how to cultivate one's own paranormal abilities." --The Noetic Post
"In The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities, Russell Targ shares his comprehensive scientific research to provide convincing evidence that by quieting our minds we can access information in the field of potentiality where there is no distance in space and time" --Deepak Chopra, author of War of the Worldview
"This book, detailing its author's many successful investigations into the paranormal, should make those who deny the possible existence of such phenomena think again." --Brian Josephson, Nobel Laureate in Physics and Emeritus Professor, Physics, University of Cambridge
"For decades, physicist Russell Targ has produced some of the most significant scientific research ever conducted on the nature of consciousness. He has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the mind can function without limitation in space and time, and that this ability is widespread, teachable, and practical. The Reality of ESP is an inspiring description of who we really are, and why we should not settle for less" --Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Words and The Power of Premonitions
About the Author
Russell Targ is a physicist and author, and was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications. He holds his B.S. in Physics from Queens College, and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. Targ has received two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards for inventions and contributions in lasers and laser communications, and has published over one hundred scientific papers on lasers, plasma physics and ESP research. In the 1970s and 1980s, Targ co-founded and worked for the CIA-sponsored Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities. His work in this new area, called remote viewing, was published in Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1983 and 1984, he accepted invitations to present remote viewing demonstrations and address the USSR Academy of Sciences on this research. In 1997, Targ retired from Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co. as a senior staff scientist, where he developed airborne laser systems for the detection of windshear. Targ now teaches remote viewing workshops worldwide and continues to write. He is co-author of eight books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities, including Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing, Transformation of Consciousness, and his autobiography Do You See What I See?: Memoirs of a Blind Biker. Russell Targ is also an editor, publisher, songwriter, producer and teacher. He lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife Patricia.
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43 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
The Reality of ESP by Russell Targ
By DeeVee
`The Reality of ESP' by Russell Targ is an adventure into a world that most scoff at and find experimental results nothing more than pure pseudo-science at best. Targ's book, however, can be a real mind changer. Events are described relating to remote viewing, i.e. locating objects thousands of miles away simply through mental processes, predicting both the past and the future. Targ makes these events believable and compelling, not just through statistics, but by giving us concrete, verified examples, phenomena too startling for most to accept. Some of the events are truly stunning, even scary, but explained partly in terms of the quantum mechanical concept of non-locality related to the author's construct of non-local awareness. In physics, this concept is aptly illustrated by photon entanglement, that is the behavior of two individual photons simultaneously emitted in opposite directions but where one photon behaves based on the behavior externally imposed on the other after they have long been separated.
While `The Reality of ESP' may not change the minds of skeptics who cannot get themselves to believe in anything that seems foreign or impossible based on their training, Targ gives some remarkable examples of remote viewing and pre-cognition that will make even the most hardened non-believers rethink their inflexible position. Simply put, the author shows how far we are from knowing everything about man's mental capabilities and the nature of the universe. It would be worthwhile to reflect and at least keep an open mind to those who have explored the realm of what is considered impossible. Targ describes remarkable experiments and their equally remarkable results that can't help but be disturbing, yet offer new breathtaking insights into the unknown, even to physicists like myself.
Robert J. von Gutfeld, PhD
29 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
A little short of a proof
By cantor
Like any of these books, you should at least attempt to determine if the facts
are accurate, complete and credible. Much of this cannot be done but in a few
cases I was able to make some headway.
The author begins with the topic of remote viewing. He offers persuasive evidence
that something inexplicable is going on based on experiments funded by the CIA
and Army. Pictures are given that are very impressive. When you look up remote
viewing on wikipedia, you get a different opinion. For one thing, it states that
the program was terminated in 1995 "after it failed to produce any useful intelligence."
However, when you click on a link connected to this statement it actually says that
it didn't produce any "actionable" intelligence. Having worked in the intelligence
community for most of my career, I can say that these are two very different things.
Most useful intelligence is not actionable. For instance, it was highly debated
(according to public sources) whether the intelligence gathered about the whereabouts
of Bin Laden were actionable or not. The final decision was made by the President.
Actionable means we are willing to drop a bomb on a foreign country, e.g., Pakistan,
because we are so sure of the intelligence. I doubt any psychic intelligence will
ever fit into this category because of its very nature. That doesn't mean it isn't useful.
I have seen other research on using remote viewing in archaeology that is also impressive.
Many of the results, however, are junk. The author himself implies a success rate of
no more than 65%. Still, the point is that something inexplicable may be happening.
See, for example, the pictures on pp. 119 and 120.
On pp. 127-128, the author indicates his belief that the 9/11 flights had unusually
low occupancy in an effort to show that some people may have had precognitive
recognition of the tragic events that followed. He quotes that for flights 11
and 77 the occupancy rates were just 51% and 29%, respectively, and claims that
this was low. I have roughly verified these occupancy numbers from a published
FBI report. There they state that the occupancy rate was 53% and 38% for the
two flights. However, they also averaged the occupancy rates for AA flights
11 and 77 from January 9, 2001 through September 4, 2001 and found that the average
occupancy rates for the two flights was 38% and 26%, respectively. So, contrary
to what the author states, both of the flights had "higher" occupancy on 9/11
than the average over the previous part of the year. The report does not mention if there
were more or less cancellations (a different thing) for these particular flights.
The occupancy evidence does not seem to indicate, by itself, any precognitive abilities
on the part of the passengers.
On pp. 143-147, the author discusses a paper by Darryl Bem, from Columbia University,
entitled "Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences
on Cognition and Affect". I remember when this paper came out in 2011 and
the media attention it garnered. It was very exciting. However, almost immediately,
other papers came out claiming that the statistics were wrong, e.g. "Why Psychologists
Must Change the Way they Analyze their Data", by Wagenmakers, et al. Several other
papers came out either defending the statistics or refuting it. In the refutations,
the evidence for psi seems to disappear. So what are we to make of all of this? There
seems to be a battle going on in the research community over the statistical analysis of the
data and also of the methodology of the experiments. In the case of the Bem experiment,
there are at least two other researchers who have attempted to replicate the results
and found nothing. Most of the research published so far does not look good for Bem.
The author gives a brief discussion of spoon bending and SRI's work with Uri Geller.
Targ states that he himself had an episode where a metal rod bent in his hand. The
SRI videos of Geller for forced choice ESP experiments are available on the internet
and seem hard to explain if they are not fraudulent. Geller's inability to bend a
spoon on the Carson show is also interesting.
He then goes on to provide specific examples which may indicate survival after bodily
death. Among these are the reincarnation cases studied by Stevenson which are well
documented and hard to explain, at least for some of the cases, except by paranormal
means. Other examples include a "ghost" girl and an interesting chess game played
between two grand masters, one living and one dead. What is not mentioned is that the
game took something like a decade to complete (apparently because of the schedule of
the living grand master). There is an analysis of the game which is consistent with
the style of play used by the dead chess master. If it weren't for the long time
frame of the game, I would have considered this to be good evidence. Because of the
long breaks between moves, I cannot help but think that there may have been some
opportunity for fraud, however unlikely.
The book ends with various theories on how psi might work and how to do remote viewing.
Overall, I found the book to provide "some" evidence for ESP but I wouldn't call it
proof. On the other hand, if I had experienced as many things first hand as
Russell Targ has, I might change my mind. One really solid, personal experience
might really make me a believer.
33 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
How much more do you need?
By Dean Radin
Does this book really "prove" the reality of ESP, as it claims in the subtitle?
It depends on your prior beliefs. If you started with the stance that you don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, but you're curious about ESP and will let the data guide you, then yes, you are very likely to come away from this book (or any of the others written by Russell Targ) with confidence that ESP is indeed real. If you start from the position of a confirmed believer in ESP, then you will also enjoy this book because it will confirm what you already believe.
If, however, you hold a strong belief that ESP is impossible, then you probably wouldn't have picked up the book in the first place. But even if you did, and you actually read it, it wouldn't sway your belief much. It's not because the evidence doesn't exist, or that it isn't "good" enough, but because beliefs strongly modulate our perceptions and opinions. Fortunately, science is powerful enough to advance beyond personal beliefs, and the science underlying Targ's claim is substantial.
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