Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) [Paperback]

Russell Targ (Author), Harold E. Puthoff (Author), Richard Bach (Foreword)

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ISBN-10: 1571744142 | ISBN-13: 978-1571744142 | Publication Date: February 2005

Originally published by Delacorte (ISBN 0440056888, 1977, 70,000 sold), Mind-Reach is the book that led to the U. S. Army’s psychic spy program and the subsequent prominence of remote viewing. The protocols that physicists Targ and Puthoff developed at the Stanford Research Institute are still in use today and have proven again and again in laboratory settings that psychic ability is universal. Targ is the author of three recent books with New World Library: Limitless Mind (ISBN 1577314131, 2004), The Heart of the Mind (ISBN 1577311566, 2000), and Miracles of Mind (ISBN 1577310977, 1999, 20,000 sold). Mind-Reach is the eleventh title in Hampton Roads’ Studies in Consciousness series.

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An inside glimpse of parapsychology. Weary of the gray consensus universe? This book will trigger rainbows in your mental eye. -- Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive, May 4, 2005

Product Details

• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company (February 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571744142
• ISBN-13: 978-1571744142
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #888,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great to read first hand the first scientific steps, July 15, 2005

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Ralph Goodwin "Ralph" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) (Paperback)

Putoff and Targ were among the first scientists to put anomalous cognition under the scientific spotlight. Through their work at SRI, remote viewing became a reproducible phenomenon in scientific laboratories. In reading this book I gained a more intimate knowledge of those exciting early days. It comes across on a personal and honest recounting of their experiences and experiments, and the people they worked with (within the limits of military program secrecy obligations they were under at the time).

This book is certainly a valuable library addition for anyone seriously interested in the historical roots and facts concerning remote viewing.

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Insight Into The Human Breakthrough in Conciousnes, February 12, 2005

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Drew Barry - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) (Paperback)

This is the most expansive and far reaching Remote Viewing book ever written. Russell Targ draws on an absolutely amazing career that spans the dimensions of thought. Mind-Reach redefines cutting egde. Within the borders of this book is the story of remote-viewing at its most intimate and deep regions. Russell has truly championed the peaceful use of psychic energy. I thank Russell for his continued honest approach to exposing, allowing for universal discovery and exemplifying true transparency in the remote viewing arena. I highly suggest to the amazon readers out there to get all of Russell's other books as well. His daughter, the late Elisabeth Targ was and continues to be a true pioneer as well and continues to work from the other side to further the exploration of conciousness. Elisabeth's spirit shines brightly and lives on in the hearts and minds of everyone she touched.

40 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First ever book on remote viewing, February 11, 2005

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Russell Targ "author" (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) (Paperback)

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."