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Title – The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities
Author – Russell Targ
Author's website link – http://www.espresearch.com
Genre or category – Non-iction,
ISBN – 978-0835608848
Title – The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities
Author – Russell Targ
Author's website link – http://www.espresearch.com
Genre or category – Non-iction,
ISBN – 978-0835608848
The
Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities by
Russell Targ
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.
proof is evidence "so strong it would be
logically or statistically unreasonable to deny," writes physicist Russell
Targ." If facts alone can convince a skeptical investigator of the reality of
ESP, this book should do it." 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, together with the Buddhist and Hindu
origins of ESP. The amazing feats of psychic ability he details
include:
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While
remote viewing for the CIA and Army Intelligence, SRI psychics found a downed
Russian bomber in Africa, reported on the health of American hostages in Iran,
described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia, and forecasted a Chinese
atomic-bomb test three days before it occurred.
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When
San Francisco heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted from her home in Berkeley, a
psychic with the SRI team was the first to identify the kidnapper and then
accurately describe ad locate 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!
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The odds against chance
in many cases are staggering. Take the 36 outdoor remote-viewing trials
described with six US army intelligence officers. Their overall statistical
significance was at odds of three in a hundred thousand (3 x 10-5).
If the officers had been baseball players, the expected six first-place matches
would equal a batting average of 166. But they achieved nineteen matches – batting better than
500 – while the great Joe DiMaggio had a lifetime average of only 335! "Such
numbers," says Targ, "are what we mean by statistical proof. We achieved an effect size of 0.6, which is ten times
greater than that claimed by the NIH for aspirin preventing heart
attacks.”
- Convinced that most of us have psychic abilities we haven't tapped, Targ concludes by describing how we can learn to develop our own ESP, at no cost, working at home using the SRI techniques with a friend. It involves a simple, meditative skill that eighth-century Buddhists called moving from conditioned to spacious or naked awareness. "Who would not want to try that?" he asks.
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.
What Are
People Saying About The Reality of ESP
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, War of the
Worldviews
~*~
I have known Russell
Targ for four decades. He is clearly among the most successful, creative and
brilliant researchers ever to enter the field of parapsychology. He has
approached this most difficult of all fields with uncompromising rigor and a
penetrating, scientific mind. This book is the inside story of research that is
shaking the very foundations of conventional western thinking about the human
mind and its relationship to the physical world. I highly recommend
it. –Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, Dean of Transformational Psychology,
University of Philosophical Research
~*~
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.
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