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Mind-reach: Scientists look at psychic ability

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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.

I read Mind Reach when it was first published. I worked at SRI (in another division, I must say) and knew many of the people working with Targ and Puthoff and I was on a staff advisory committee for the President of SRI, so I had a wide acquaintanceship with SRI staff. The paranormal research at SRI seemed to be an embarrassment to both SRI, to many of its staff and to Stanford itself. I liked the book very much and after I left SRI, I discussed its contents with a co-worker In Washington, DC. I recommended that he buy it.

About 60 days after I made the recommendation, I chanced upon this same co-worker and happened to ask him if he ever got the book. "Well, no." He said, but he followed up with, "You know, there was something strange, though. I was recently walking the aisles in Barnes & Noble and as I passed one particular shelf, I heard a book fall on the floor behind me. I turned to look at it and, what do you know, it was 'Mind Reach'." There was no one else in that aisle with him and, no, he didn't buy the book. Go figure.