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Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing
A pioneering physicist and a renowned spiritual healer combine modern scientific evidence with ancient Eastern teachings to explain the process of spiritual healing and to prove what metaphysicians have been teaching for thousands of years.
352 pages, Paperback
Published April 23, 1999
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Russell Targ
18 books109 followersRussell Targ was born in Chicago on April 11, 1934. He is an American physicist and author, ESP researcher and pioneer in the earliest development of the laser.
Targ received a Bachelor of Science in physics from Queens College in 1954 and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He received two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards for inventions and contributions in lasers and laser communications.
Targ is also an editor, publisher, songwriter, producer and teacher. In 1997 he retired from Lockheed Martin as a project manager and senior staff scientist, where he developed laser technology for airborne detection of wind shear and air turbulence. He has published more than a hundred papers on lasers, plasma physics, laser applications, electro-optics, and psychical research.
At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, Targ and his colleague Harold E. Puthoff co-founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence. These abilities are referred to collectively as "remote viewing". Targ and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, retired police commissioner Pat Price and artist Ingo Swann all had genuine psychic abilities. They published their findings in Nature and the Proceedings of the IEEE. From 1972 to 1995 the program was classified SECRET and compartmentalized with Limited Access. That is to say, the program was not only classified, but every single person who was informed about the program had to personally sign a so-called bigot list, to acknowledge that they had been exposed to the program data.
Targ's autobiography, Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker, was published in 2008, and describes his life as a scientist and legally blind motorcyclist.
Targ lectures worldwide on remote viewing. He now resides in Palo Alto, California with his second wife, Patricia.
Targ's website presents videos demonstrating remote viewing at: www.espresearch.com.
Targ received a Bachelor of Science in physics from Queens College in 1954 and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He received two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards for inventions and contributions in lasers and laser communications.
Targ is also an editor, publisher, songwriter, producer and teacher. In 1997 he retired from Lockheed Martin as a project manager and senior staff scientist, where he developed laser technology for airborne detection of wind shear and air turbulence. He has published more than a hundred papers on lasers, plasma physics, laser applications, electro-optics, and psychical research.
At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, Targ and his colleague Harold E. Puthoff co-founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence. These abilities are referred to collectively as "remote viewing". Targ and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, retired police commissioner Pat Price and artist Ingo Swann all had genuine psychic abilities. They published their findings in Nature and the Proceedings of the IEEE. From 1972 to 1995 the program was classified SECRET and compartmentalized with Limited Access. That is to say, the program was not only classified, but every single person who was informed about the program had to personally sign a so-called bigot list, to acknowledge that they had been exposed to the program data.
Targ's autobiography, Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker, was published in 2008, and describes his life as a scientist and legally blind motorcyclist.
Targ lectures worldwide on remote viewing. He now resides in Palo Alto, California with his second wife, Patricia.
Targ's website presents videos demonstrating remote viewing at: www.espresearch.com.
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May 15, 2014
I found Jane Katra's story very interesting.
September 7, 2015
Very interesting. Very different from all others. The book covers topics that other books do not.
October 11, 2025
Jung was right; there is a collective unconsciousness--or shall we say "consciousness"? Targ and Katra provide ample empirical evidence in Miracles of Mind for the ardent skeptics of human kind's inherent metanormal abilities. The book does not offer a teaching manual for those who are interested in discovering and using these abilities. Rather, it provides solid academic studies conducted on remote viewing, psychic healing, spiritual healing, clairvoyance and the other underlying abilities hidden in the depth of our human natures. Targ and Russell, nonetheless, present a few pointers--and above all, solid falsifiable data--to aid academic minds, who have always suspected that there is more to us than just crude matter, in their own journey to possess these gifts, lying dormant, waiting to be discovered deep in our psyche. The bottom line is Miracles of Mind is by far the best academic writing on nonlocal consciousness and its virtues for our self development. Certainly on par with Dean Radin's intriguing books and research.
January 9, 2016
I hesitate to file this under "science," but the discoveries made here were in research situations. I have no problem with the designation personally, but I know many would.
This book, written by converted skeptics and researchers, posits that:
---Psi exists... the "non-local mind"... the akashic records, all information--past, present, future, here, there, everywhere--available everywhere always.
---The key is quieting the mind, in order to experience the connectedness... not-trying, getting results by not caring about results.
Interesting ideas, although couched in slightly bland prose.
This book, written by converted skeptics and researchers, posits that:
---Psi exists... the "non-local mind"... the akashic records, all information--past, present, future, here, there, everywhere--available everywhere always.
---The key is quieting the mind, in order to experience the connectedness... not-trying, getting results by not caring about results.
Interesting ideas, although couched in slightly bland prose.
October 21, 2011
Easy read. Very interesting. I def liked as a research book
August 24, 2013
fascinating. a little dry and scientific. some repetition from Targ's earlier book "Limitless Mind".
still the content is amazing.
still the content is amazing.
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