The Reality of ESP | Free Book
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?”
In The Press
"Russell Targ is one the foremost scientists in the world when it comes to parapsychology – and a good story teller too. If you want to know the latest and greatest about our increasing understanding of the psychic side of humanity, this is required reading. " --Charles T. Tart, Professor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto CA, Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of California, Davis and author of The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together
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