Mind-reach: Scientists look at psychic ability

Targ is a scholar of a difficult field of research, but makes the case that psi is happening in many ways for many people.My skepticism was put on hold from scholarly research like this.Something interesting is happening.

I am so happy that I read this book! Puthoff and Targ really packed an incredible amount of in-depth, tantalizing information in this short read. At only about 225 pages, it is amazing how many different topics they cover, from Ingo Swan and Remote Viewing (which Mr. Swann and they basically pioneered), to their work with Uri Geller, and on to various other dimensions of this fascinating world of science and the "paranormal." Makes for very entertaining and intelligent reading. What a blessing it's back in print!

The is a real classic in the field of psychic development and remote viewing. Its great to see it back in print!

Margaret Mead says: "This is a clear, straightforward account of a set of successful experiments that demonstrate the existence of 'remote viewing,' a hitherto unvalidated human capacity." This book is a lucid and fascinating record of historic experiments-historic because they put the seal of "hard" physical science upon evidence that some degree of psychic ability is universal-a phenomenon straight out of science fiction that actually happened, and can be made to happen again in any laboratory! The scientists even offer a "recipe" for developing your own ESP "information channel." Richard Bach of Jonathan Livingston Seagull fame, who served as a subject, writes: "It's too late now to burn their files; what they've found is already being duplicated and expanded in laboratories around the world. As I am coming to know more of the powers that I have, so are thousands of others, so will the readers of this book." The Targ-Puthoff "mind-reach" experiments at Stanford Research Institute were the subject of unprecedented articles in the international journal of science, Nature and in the prestigious Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, whose editors comment, in part: "One of the engineers we consulted said, 'This is the kind of thing that I would not believe in even if it existed.' In any event, the paper itself may be the most readable ever published in this journal and few readers will finish without wondering...if indeed ESP might be possible after all." As The New York Times wrote, in an editorial quoting in part from Nature's editors: "The scientific community has been put on notice 'that there is something worthy of their attention and scrutiny' in the possibilities of extra-sensory perception."

I am greatly impressed with how well this classic book holds up over the years. MIND-REACH conveys the early excitement felt by researchers investigating psychic phenomena in America at the same time as it illuminates the need for careful consideration to the implications of psychic phenomena. Numerous photographs, charts, and sketches help make the descriptions of remote viewing experiments tangible and real for the reader. Authors Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff bring their experience as physicists at the world-famous Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to bear on the subject of paraphysical phenomena, and help ensure that scientific methods are followed throughout their experiments. Targ and Puthoff are pioneers in the field of remote viewing, and many of the experiments described in MIND-REACH are classics which are frequently referred to today.Many of the subjects who participated in the experiments described in MIND-REACH are well-known figures today: Ingo Swann, Patrick Price, Uri Geller, and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" author Richard Bach. Margaret Mead wrote the introduction for this outstanding book, and Richard Bach wrote the forward.It's well worth the effort to find a copy of this classic book, if you are interested in reviewing some of the original remote viewing experimental results.