num_pages: 312
description: On February 4 1974 members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley California apartment. Desperate to find her the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos suddenly he pointed to one of them and announced That's the ringleader. The man was Donald DeFreeze who was indeed subsequently so identified. Price also described the type and location of the kidnap car enabling the police to find it within minutes. That remarkable event is one reason Targ believes in ESP. Another occurred when his group made $120000 by forecasting for nine weeks in a row the changes in the silver-commodity futures market As a scientist Targ demands proof. His experience is based on two decades of investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This twenty-million dollar program launched during the Cold War was supported by the CIA NASA the Defense Intelligence Agency and Army and Air Force Intelligence. The experiments they conducted routinely presented results could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of Final chapters present evidence for survival after death; explain how ESP works based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of our selves as nonlocal eternal awareness; discuss the ethics of exercising psychic abilitiesand show us how to explore ESP ourselves. I am convinced Targ says that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try that?
language: English
title: The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities
publisher: Quest Books