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Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities, Russell Targ
Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities, Russell Targ
An
Open Mind. Six-minute video with Russell Targ.
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In
this note I will present what I consider to be the very best evidence
for psychic abilities. These abilities—which we all possess—offer
a spacious mind that can change your life and your view of reality.
Buddhists and Hindus have known this since before the time of Christ.
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming, and modern physics has
the means and tools to embrace it. Such abilities have many names;
ESP (extrasensory perception) is presently the most familiar. Others
include clairvoyance and psi. The latter is derived from psi (Ψ),
the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet, referring to the Greek
psychē, meaning "psyche” or “soul.”
My
background is in experimental physics and perceptual psychology. I
have published more than a hundred refereed technical papers dealing
with lasers, laser applications, and ESP research in some of the best
scientific journals. And I was a senior staff scientist and project
manager for more than two decades at Lockheed Missiles and Space
Company and at GTE Sylvania, where I specialized in laser
communications and atmospheric wind-shear measurements with lasers.
As a laser physicist with forty years of experience in psychic
research, I am convinced from the ever-growing data that most people
can learn to quiet their minds and move their awareness from their
ordinary ego-based mindset to a much more spacious and interesting
perspective—one that is not obstructed by conventional barriers of
space and time. This meditative skill is what the eighth-century
Buddhist master Padmasambhava called moving from conditioned
awareness to timeless awareness.
My
firm conclusion from decades of ESP research is that we misapprehend
the physical and psychological nature of the interconnected
space-time in which we live. Our internalized perception of nature is
often obstructed and obscured by mental noise. This illusion and
misperception is what Buddhists call maya or samsara—and it can
cause a lot of unnecessary suffering.
I
believe in ESP because I have seen psychic miracles day after day in
university- and government-sponsored investigations. It is clear to
me, without any doubt that many people can learn to look into remote
distances and into the future with great accuracy and reliability.
This is what we call unobstructed awareness, or more specifically
remote viewing. Remote viewing is a psychic ability that involves
learning how to quiet your mind and separate the visual images of the
psychic signal from the noise of the uncontrolled chatter of the
mind. With remote viewing you can describe and experience objects and
events that are shielded from ordinary perception by distance or
time. To varying degrees, we all have this ability, and I do not
believe that it, or any ESP state, has metaphysical origins. I
believe it is just a kind of thinking in which we expand our
awareness to perceive nonlocally. And it will become less mysterious
as more of us become more skillful. Today there are almost a million
Google pages devoted to information about “remote viewing.” So at
least some people are catching on to the idea that this is not
difficult to do.
For
example, while working for a CIA program at Stanford Research
Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, our psychic viewers were
able to find a downed Russian bomber in Africa (for which we received
a commendation from President Carter), we describe the health of
American hostages in Iran, and locate a kidnapped American general in
Italy. We also described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia,
observed a Chinese atomic bomb test three days before it occurred,
and performed countless other amazing tasks.
I
was cofounder of the above-mentioned ESP research program at SRI.
This twenty million–dollar, twenty-three-year program, launched
during the Cold War, was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense
Intelligence Agency, Army and Air Force intelligence, and many other
government agencies. We developed the technique of remote viewing,
which enabled a person to accurately describe and experience places
and events blocked from ordinary perception. We published our highly
significant findings in the journal, Nature,
The
Proceedings of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers,
and The
Proceedings of the American Institute of Physics. Our
research has been replicated worldwide, and remote viewing is so easy
to do that it has become a cottage industry. Many of those teaching
it are from the Army Psychic Corps that we created at Fort Meade,
Maryland, in the 1980s.
Two
further outstanding events in my psychic career involved, first, my
little post-SRI research group called Delphi Associates, where we
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. This successful forecasting of
“December silver” made the front page of The Wall Street Journal
and led to a film (The Case of ESP) for the PBS series NOVA in 1983.
In the other notable success, our SRI lab was the first to identify
and name the kidnapper of heiress Patricia Hearst, who had been
abducted from her home in Berkeley in 1974. Our great friend and
psychic policeman Pat Price went with us to the Berkeley police
station, where I stood with him at a big wooden table as he put his
finger on the face of a man his ESP sensed as Hearst’s kidnapper.
He did this from a police loose-leaf mug book of hundreds of photos
(four to a page). He then went on to tell the police where to find
the kidnapper’s car. When all these facts were confirmed the
following day, I knew I had just seen a “miracle.” In these cases
there is absolutely no chance that it was just our lucky day!
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
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
-- Deepak Chopra, author, War of the Worldviews
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
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