Russell Targ
Russell Targ
Why Bother With ESP?
Abstract:
What do the healer, the mystic, the psychic, and the spy all have in common? They are all in touch with their non-local mind and our community of spirit. During the 1970's and 80's, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) carried out investigations of our ability to experience and describe distant events blocked from ordinary perception. This intuitive capacity was named remote viewing, and the research was supported by the CIA and many other government organizations for gathering intelligence about world-wide activities during the Cold War.
Physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of this previously SECRET psychic research program, will present a summary of the very best evidence for extrasensory perception, intuitive diagnosis and spiritual healing. We will explore these applications, together with the spiritual implications of psychic abilities from the Hindu mystic Patanjali, and the Dzogchen dharma masters down to the present time, as they might be applied to expanding ones awareness. We will discuss how to recognize the actual psychic signal, and how to separate it from mental noise of memory, imagination, and analysis - and why should we bother with ESP? We can use these abilities to find your car keys, and parking spaces, and invest in the stock market. But, most importantly they lead to an understanding of who we are.
The scientific and spiritual implications of psychic abilities illuminate our observation that we live in a profoundly interconnected world in which separation is an illusion. This surprising coherence between distant entities is called nonlocality. In writing on the philosophical implications of nonlocality, physicist Henry Stapp of the University of California at Berkeley says these quantum connections could be the "most profound discovery in all of science."
Bio
Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser, and cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. He is co-author of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities and The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities. Targ recently retired from Lockheed Martin as a senior staff scientist, where he developed laser technology for peaceful applications. During the past few years, he co-authored with Jane Katra Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing and The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief. Russell is the President of the International Remote Viewing Association. His website is ESPresearch.