Shownotes
Russell Targ, a physicist who retired as a senior staff scientist from Lockheed Martin, was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser technology for peaceful application. He then cofounded the Stanford Research Institute’s (SRI) investigation into psychic abilities, primarily via Remote Viewing, which was funded by the CIA during the 1970s and 1980s. A prolific writer, he most recently authored The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities. Other books: Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness; Do You See What I See? Memoirs of a Blind Biker; Lasers and Love, ESP and the CIA, and the Meaning of Life. He is co-author of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities; The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities; Miracles of Mind: Remote Viewing and Spiritual Healing; The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief; and, The End of Suffering: Fearless Living in Troubled Times. Ressell also is an editor, publisher, songwriter, producer, and teacher who has had extensive engagement with Buddhism and was a longtime leader of a study group for A Course in Miracles.
Russell Targ website
Russell’s mission – “I consider that my purpose is to discover my own timeless awareness, and then teach that.”
Russell’s one-line message to the world – “Since we are all created from the same stardust, we can greatly diminish our suffering, by moving from our ego-based craving and fear, to timeless awareness, and freedom.”
The SUE Speaks Blog Post about Russell



Talking points from this episode



Russell's was a pioneer in developing the laser
There are more than 5 million YouTube views of Russ Targ’s cancelled TEDx talk! Too “controversial” for TED. But people want to see the story
Third Eye Spies: Russell's documentary about remote viewing
- Russell as a childhood magician: his intro to ESP in surprising flashes while doing stage magic
The American Psychological Association Journal
Carl Jung and Linus Pauling on meaningful coincidence
Melbourne Christopher - consultant to the SRI program
Psychics at the end of the 19th century tuned into what later was validated by science:

Dora Kuntz - founder of therapeutic touch
Helena Blavatsky
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Annie Besant


Lucifer Magazine - articles on philosophical, theosophical, scientific and religious topics
Andrija Puharich - a medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor, physician and author, who brought Uri Geller and Peter Hurkos to the United States
Wernher von Braun - the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and rocket technology and space science in the United States
Harold E. Puthoff – laser pioneer and co-author of Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics
Remote viewing is describing what is going on in a distant place
The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities by Russell Targ
The CIA funds Russell's ESP lab at Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Russell developed an app to teach ESP
Edgar Mitchell - NASA astronaut and the sixth person to walk on the moon
Ingo Swann – New York psychic, visionary artist, co-creator of the Stargate Project using remote viewing
Pat Price – Ex police officer and remote viewer
Christopher (Kit) Greene – remote viewer
Examples of successes of SRI remote viewing:

President Jimmy Carter gets SRI to find a downed Russian airplane
Helping find kidnapped Patty Hearst
Predicting the future -- a failed Chinese atomic bomb test


Nonlocality -- entanglement where particles born together are permanently interrelated
Wikipedia shamefully labels scientific work that's outside of scientific materialism as pseudoscience
Remote viewing: the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target via (ESP) or "sensing" with the mind.
Quantum physics – nonlocality as described by science
Spoon bending
Uri Geller - spoon-bending and mind-reading
Gary Sinclair – Suzanne’s spoon bending friend