Third Eye Spies: Learn Remote Viewing from the Masters

by Russell Targ

“Russell Targ’s Third Eye Spies is a masterwork in the history and practice of remote viewing.” —Dean Radin, MS, PhD, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of Real Magic and other books
 
Explore the evidence of psychic powers and learn the skills of remote viewing from the masters for yourself.
 
Russell Targ has been successfully teaching people how to tap into their psychic abilities for more than fifty years. This began in 1972 when he cofounded a CIA-sponsored ESP research program at Stanford Research Institute. The program yielded such incredible results as the description of a secret Russian weapons factory in Siberia and the location of several kidnapped US officials, including the ambassador to Iran. The founders also trained six Army intelligence officers to create an Army psychic corps that became known as Stargate.

Third Eye Spies will introduce you to the most successful and gifted remote viewers in the world along with the evidence of their psychic abilities. Remote viewing is the opportunity to describe and experience objects and events in the distance, the past, and the future.

Targ shares the simple techniques masters of remote viewing use to expand the mind’s eye beyond one’s physical location. With Third Eye Spies, you will be able to step beyond the boundaries of your physical body and learn to live with psychic abilities.

Genres: Nonfiction

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2023

About the author

Russell 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.

Reviews

[Matthew C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very concise book that pairs well with the documentary. If you want a primer on the Remote Viewing program and some of Targ's own personal history, check out this book.

Certainly I would have my differences with some of Targ's own metaphysical views, and I think there are ethical issues with some of the things he suggests. But these can be easily discarded if you are just looking for information.

[Rosie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a somewhat random assortment of content related to ESP and remote viewing. The first half of the book consists of short biographies of well known psychics and Targ's experience with them. It features many side by side comparisons of a place/object a psychic has tuned into from afar and their blind drawings interpreting the place/object (of dubious and varying accuracy). Targ presents a number of situations that are supposed to be proof of human psychic power, but are far from convincing as they raise more questions than they answer. There isn't really a whole lot of practical advice in regards to how to learn remote viewing, mostly just (pretty interesting) anecdotes. Targ seems like a nice fellow who'd be fun to listen to tell stories but I'm not sure I believe in what he puts forth. The best practical advice in the book, of which there is little, is basically just kind of...think of things but don't think too hard.

[AL · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some dull parts but at least it’s short enough not to get too bogged down in some of the mundane procedural details. Also many cool stories and methodological instruction in remote viewing, with the last chapter referring to Padmasambhava and Dzogchen
Buddhism, as well as an earlier reference to Namkhai Norbu. Funny that a Western Scientist and Engineer led me back to Buddhism. Still a nice book to introduce remote viewing research in the US.

[Roger Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read with interesting tid bits sprinkled throughout. The first book I’ve read that truly helps one to try, describes mind set to Remote View. It seems common enough the way it’s presented but I suspect it’s more intuitive for some than others.

[Richard Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

I loved the book and read it quickly. It kept me on my toes the whole time. I enjoyed the history of remote viewing. This book showed me that remote viewing is truly simple and I believe in it.

[Lisa Woodward]

I watched the documentary! Can’t wait to read this!

[Tim Trott · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting first-hand insight into the practice of remote viewing and the Star Gate project. Those seeking insight into the origins and operation of the Star Gate project will find it very interesting. They will learn that it wasn't actually a function of the CIA. While the practice of remote viewing has resulted in some impressive successes, it remains difficult to prove. The book includes a section devoted to techniques and practices to develop remote viewing skills. While it's fascinating to learn the origins and history of the practice, I came away with the same skepticism I began with.