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The Reality of ESP
A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities
By Russell Targ
Foreword by Stephan A. Schwartz
Published by New Page Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Table of Contents
About The Book
“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
“This is essential reading for all who yearn to know the truth about the universe and be free from small-sighted vision.” —Judith Orloff, MD, author of The Empath’s Survival Guide
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 that could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of experiments:
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?”
“This is essential reading for all who yearn to know the truth about the universe and be free from small-sighted vision.” —Judith Orloff, MD, author of The Empath’s Survival Guide
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 that 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 place.
- Precognition 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?”
Product Details
- Publisher: New Page Books (March 11, 2027)
- Length: 336 pages
- ISBN13: 9781637480250
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Raves and Reviews
“Targ is a cultural jewel—a pioneer with impeccable integrity in the field of nonlocal perceptions. This is essential reading for all who yearn to know the truth about the universe and be free from small-sighted vision.”
—Judith Orloff, MD, author of The Empath’s Survival Guide
“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
“This book should make those who deny the possible existence of such phenomena think again.”
—Brian Josephson, Nobel Laureate in Physics
“For decades, Targ has produced some of the most significant scientific research ever conducted on the nature of consciousness. He demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that the mind can function without limitation in space and time and that this ability is teachable and practical.”
—Larry Dossey, MD, author of The Power of Premonitions
“Here’s the inside story of research that is shaking the foundations of Western thought about the human mind and its relationship to the physical world. Targ approaches this most difficult field with uncompromising rigor and a penetrating, scientific mind. Highly recommended!”
—Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, author of The Roots of Consciousness
“Targ is one of the world’s top scientists in parapsychology—and a good storyteller, too. If you want to know the latest and greatest about our understanding of the psychic side of humanity, this is required reading.”
—Charles T. Tart, author of The End of Materialism
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