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Russell Targ

Disciplines:
parapsychology
physics
research/stanford research institute
remote viewing

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

Provided the original experimental framework for remote viewing research that convinced the CIA to fund 20 years of government research — the SRI protocols (blind conditions, independent judging, statistical analysis) were rigorous enough that skeptics had to engage the data rather than dismiss the method.

Notable Works & Achievements

Mind Reach

The Mind's Big Bang

The Reality of ESP

Historical Influences

Ingo Swann Pat Price

Intellectual Lineage

New York Stanford Research Institute Palo Alto

Contemporaries & Peers

Ed May Hal Puthoff Pat Price

Minds Influenced

Government parapsychologyJonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

Remote viewing research Mind Reach CIA Stargate program

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