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Ed May

American parapsychology researcher who led the government-funded remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute (later moved to Science Applications International) — a physicist by training who became one of the most systematic researchers of anomalous cognition (ESP, precognition).

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Russell Targ

American physicist and laser physicist who co-founded the SRI remote viewing program with Hal Puthoff — co-authored Mind Reach and The Mind's Big Bang — and who has spent his career arguing that remote viewing has been scientifically demonstrated and that consciousness extends beyond the brain.

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