Russell Targ - Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to express their appreciation to those who have provided financial support for their research. These include Mrs. Judith Skutch of the Parasensory Foundation, and Mr. George W. Church, Jr., of the Science Unlimited Research Foundation who have assisted us from the very beginning. Others who have helped us to make this work possible include Mr. Richard Bach, Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Mr. Werner Erhardt of the Foundation, Mrs. Eileen Coly of the Parapsychology Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Dr. George Pezdirtz, who was right in insisting that there was a way.

We also wish to acknowledge the vision and the willingness to take risks in a new and controversial field that has been displayed by the management of Stanford Research Institute: Mr. Bonnar Cox, Director of the Division of Information Science and Engineering; and Mr. Earle Jones, Director of the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory; and Mr. Ronald Deutsch, SRI's public information officer, who was the first to propose that we write this book to describe our work to the public. Each of these men has at one time or another placed his personal and professional integrity on the line in support of our efforts to pursue this research.

In addition, the authors have benefited greatly from their many discussions with Dr. Robert Ornstein of the Langley-Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco, Dr. Ralph Kiernan of the Department of Neurology at the Stanford University Medical Center, Dr. Charles Tart of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and SRI consultant Dr. Arthur Hastings.

Finally, our principal indebtedness is to our subjects and tireless companions Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Uri Geller, Hella Hammid, Duane Elgin, Phyllis Cole, and Marshall Pease, without whose patience and energy none of this work would have been possible.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Excerpt from Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss used by permission of the publisher, Random House Inc.

Excerpt from Prematurity and Uniqueness in Scientific Discovery by Gunther Stent. Copyright 1972 by Scientific American, Enc. All rights reserved.

Copyright 1977 by Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff
Introduction copyright 1977 by Margaret Mead
Foreword copyright 1977 by Creature Enterprises, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher, excepting brief quotes used in connection with reviews written specifically for inclusion in a magazine or newspaper.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Targ, Russell.

Mind-reach.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Psychical researchCase studies. I. Puthoff,
Harold E., joint author. II. Title.

BF1029.T37 133.8 76-26160

ISBN 0-440-05688-8

First printing

Classic Texts of ParapsychologyNewly Reissued

Hand-picked by physicist Russell Targ, the Studies in Consciousness series books comprise the very best books from a century of research into human consciousness. No longer can anyone state that the data for our innate psychic abilities doesn't exist. It's here in these books.

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These twelve articles represent twenty years of Braud's biochemistry and transpersonal psychology experiments, which proved capable of measuring human interconnection and person-to-person influence across space and time.

Dream Telepathy

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Ullman and Krippner's report on ten years of experimentation with the human power to communicate across the barriers of time, space, and sleep anticipates the use of dream telepathy in all areas of paranormal study.

An Experiment with Time

J. W. Dunne

Spurred by vivid dreams of the future, Dunne designed an experiment to isolate the barrier dividing our knowledge of the past from that of the future.

Experiments in Mental Suggestion

L. L. Vasiliev

A prominent Russian scientist reports the results of many years studying long-distance hypnosis and the power of mental suggestion to influence other people's behavior.

The Future and Beyond

Evidence for Precognition and the Survival of Death
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This new one-volume edition of Saltmarsh's best-known works discusses the implication of precognition data for free will, determinism, and causality. Then Saltmarsh unravels F. W H. Myers' cross-correspondence cases, providing some of the best evidence we have for the survival of bodily death.

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Upton Sinclair

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Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities
Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff

This book led to the U.S. Army's psychic spy program and the subsequent prominence of remote viewing. The protocols that physicists Targ and Puthoff developed are still in use and have proven that psychic ability is universal.

Mind at Large

IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception
Edited by Charles T. Tart, Harold E. Puthoff, and Russell Targ

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Ren Warcollier

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