Who is this
man?
He is Dr. Russell Targ, author of The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities.
I am
delighted to have the chance to interview him about his new book.
Toby: Do
modern technological aids such as GPS and smart phones help or hinder the development
of ESP abilities?
Dr.
Targ: In my experience, people seem to do better at remote viewing in an
electrically shielded room. EMF doesn’t help. It appears to hurt.
Toby: Have
your own paranormal experiences influenced the direction of your research?
Dr.
Targ: Yes. It was my early psychic perceptions that gave me the confidence to
move from physics to ESP research. I once was riding with my boss, when I had a
clear vision of Hebrew characters written in white on black. It turned out to
be a Photostat manuscript on the desk of my boss’s best friend the rabbi. Also
as a teen-ager I was a stage magician doing mental magic. I occasionally had
clear and correct visual images pertaining to the person whose mind I was
pretending to read.
Toby: Will
humans as a species eventually embrace their ESP abilities? Why or why not?
Dr.
Targ: We are still trying to recover from the stigma on all mystics from the
so-called Enlightenment, when the Church and science was trying to save us from
evil mysticism. But today there are more than two-million web pages on Google
pertaining to “remote viewing” and how to learn and use it. So I think we are
making progress. We had a $23 million program at SRI to do research for the
government.
Toby: Does
believing in paranormal phenomena increase a person's performance of ESP tasks?
Dr.
Targ: Yes indeed. The sheep do much better than the goats. This is a highly
repeatable finding.
Toby: Can
ESP research prove or disprove reincarnation?
Dr.
Targ: ESP is not related to reincarnation. The person is either re-born or he
isn’t. ESP is essential for evidence for
postmortem persistence of the personality. So-called survival. This data
usually comes to a medium by ESP. And the evidence for survival is excellent.
My book has several good examples.
Toby: Do you
feel the scientific community gives your work the attention and respect it
deserves?
Dr.
Targ: When we were at SRI with lots of money, we got very respectful attention
from the scientific community. Our work was published in Nature, The Proceedings
of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Institute of
Physics. After the program was cancelled in 1995, not so much.
Toby: What influence
do spirituality or religious faith exert on the development of ESP abilities?
Dr.
Targ: It is not necessary to be a religious believer to be psychic. However
after some years of remote viewing, it becomes clear that we are able to
experience events that are thousands of miles away or in the future. The
Buddhists call this timeless awareness. And they say that is who you are. I
agree.
Dr.
Targ: I think the evidence for distant healing is excellent. My daughter
Elisabeth Targ did a successful study with 60 of her San Francisco AIDS
patients. The paper was published in The Western Medical Journal in 1999.
Toby: Where
do you predict psychic research will head in the future?
Dr.
Targ: As soon as we have a description of the physics of ESP, it will swiftly
be accepted. Or if the people who are trying to make money in the market of
gambling are successful, there will be a big positive change. In 1982 we made
$120,000 forecasting silver commodities. We were successful 9 out of 9. And
NOVA made a one-hour show to celebrate. It was called The Case of ESP. Still
available on Google.
Toby: What
impact do you hope your work will have on human consciousness?
Dr.
Targ: My hope is that people will realize that they are not just meat and
potatoes. They might be more compassionate toward one-another and greatly
diminish their own suffering.
Toby:
Thank you, Dr. Targ for enlightening us all.
About The Reality of ESP: A
Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities
Nobel laureate physicist Brian Josephson
says, “This book should make those who deny the existence of [psychic]
phenomena think again.” In The Reality of ESP ,
Targ presents evidence from the $20 million research program he co-founded at
Stanford Research Institute (SRI )
in the 1970s. The amazing feats of psychic ability he details include: While remote viewing for the CIA ,
SRI psychics found a downed
Russian bomber in Africa, reported on the health of American hostages in Iran,
and described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia. When San Francisco heiress
Patricia Hearst was abducted from her home in Berkeley, a psychic with the SRI team identified the kidnapper and then
accurately described and located the kidnap car. After leaving SRI , Targ's group made $120,000 by psychically
forecasting for nine weeks in a row the direction and amount of changes
in the silver commodity futures market – without error! Targ also describes a plan for developing your
own psychic abilities.
About Russell Targ
Physicist Russell Targ was
the co-founder of a 20 year $25 million research program investigating psychic
abilities for the CIA, Army Intelligence and many other agencies at Stanford
Research Institute (SRI). This previously SECRET research and applications
program is now declassified. Targ has written a comprehensive book describing
the remarkable accomplishments of this program.
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The Reality of ESP - Russell Targ on
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