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Russell Targ
Biography:
Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications. He was also co-founder of the previously secret Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. His work in this new area, called remote viewing, was published in Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Russell did graduate work in physics at Columbia University, and is co-author of six books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities. In 1997, he retired from Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co. as a senior staff scientist. He now pursues ESP research in Palo Alto, California, and is also publishing special editions of classic books in psychical research.
Past Shows:
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Remote Viewing Program |
| Wednesday July 8, 2009 |
Writer and physicist Russell Targ discussed his role as co-founder of a remote viewing/ESP research program for the CIA at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the Cold War.
First hour guest, Anthony H. Davidson (book link) talked about the properties of luck.
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Host: George Noory
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The Life and Times of Russell Targ |
| Saturday November 1, 2008 |
Writer and physicist Russell Targ discussed his life and his role in the creation of the government's Remote Viewing program. In addition to elaborating on his famous work in the RV field, he shared insight into his lifelong struggles with facial blindness, his relationship with chess champion Bobby Fischer, his work on the Patty Hearst case, and other anecdotes from his colorful life. Targ recalled how he'd first become introduced to the phenomenon of ESP, tracing it back to his days as a magician when he was in college. One popular trick that he would perform involved the audience members putting questions into envelopes which he would then pretend to read psychically. Despite knowing the question ahead of time, Targ noted, under the pressure of the performance he would also get mental images pertaining to the audience member. "So I could supplement an ordinary trick by whatever ESP came my way," he explained. "In a certain sense, it was Von Braun's psychic grandm
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Host: Ian Punnett
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Memoirs of a Remote Viewer |
| Wednesday May 7, 2008 |
Writer and physicist Russell Targ discussed his new memoir Do You See What I See?, which chronicles his tale as a visually impaired scientist who helped create the Remote Viewing program at SRI, and offersinfo on how to separate the psychic signal from mental noise. He learned remote viewing (RV) from the legendary psychic Ingo Swann, and in turn, he and Hal Puthoff taught these skills to a group of Army Intelligence officers in the 1970's. Running for over twenty years, the CIA's RV unit revealed information on such topics as Chinese atomic bombs, armed hostages in Iran, and lost planes in Africa, he detailed.Yet in 1995, the CIA cancelled and declassified the program, claiming that with the end of the Cold War, America no longer had the kind of enemies that warranted using RV, Targ explained. He speculated that fundamentalist elements in the CIA/gov't. may have exerted pressure to get rid of the program. RV can be used for financial gain-- his team at one point had success
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Host: George Noory
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Rebroadcast: "Skeptic's Cage" from 1/23/06 |
| Friday March 9, 2007 |
In this rebroadcast from 1/23/06, skeptic Dr. Michael Shermer debated scientists Gary Schwartz, Russell Targ and Dean Radin on such topics as mediums and remote viewing. The first hour was a replay from 2/12/07, featuring Casey & Jeannie Kasem.
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Host: George Noory
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Identity & Suffering |
| Tuesday October 3, 2006 |
Physicist and parapsychologist Russell Targ discussed the new book he's co-authored, The End of Suffering, and also recounted some of his remote viewing experiences. It was back in the days of his remote viewing experiments at the Stanford Research Institute that he first caught on to the idea that he was more than just a physical body. Later, while working for Lockheed Martin, he noticed that engineers tended to die within three years of their retirement. This led him to conclude they had lost the "idea of themselves" and that their lives were overly defined by their work. In a related vein, Targ commented that some film and music stars such as Elvis and Marilyn had died after their sense of self was stolen by fans. One of the ways to end suffering, he said, is to get away from the notion that the story of your life is who you are. By and large, in our society, suffering comes from inside psychological causes, he argued. Targ espoused Buddhist approaches to combat this sufferin
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Host: George Noory
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Remote Viewing & Fearless Living |
| Saturday June 17, 2006 |
In his first show broadcast live from the Philippines, Art Bell welcomed parapsychologist Russell Targ, who spoke about his book The End of Suffering: Fearless Living in Troubled Times, as well as the latest research into non-local awareness and remote viewing.
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Host: Art Bell
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The Skeptic's Cage |
| Monday January 23, 2006 |
Dr. Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine and a columnist for Scientific American debated three scientists, one each hour, on various aspects of scientific thought and the paranormal. The first was Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., a professor at the Univ. of Arizona, who presented evidence that certain mediums who claim to communicate with the departed are yielding accurate information. This can't be conventionally explained, and the most likely conclusion is that there is survival of consciousness after death, said Schwartz. Shermer replied that the evidence is slim and fraught with experimental design problems. In the next hour, Russell Targ, the co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute’s Remote Viewing program, joined the show. He pointed out that the CIA and other government organizations funded their remote viewing work for 20 years, spending $20 million. He also cited specific cases of amazing psychic perceptions such as the time Pat Price picked out one of Patty Hears
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Host: George Noory
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Experiments in Dreaming |
| Thursday September 1, 2005 |
Dr. Stephen LaBerge,the founder of theLucidity Institute, discussed how lucid dreaming can enhance individual lives. The ability to realize one is in a dream while still in the dream state creates great opportunities for self-development and fulfillment, he said.Lucid dreaming is similar to the Tibetan "yoga of the dream state," which utilizes the experiences as a means to spiritual progress, he added. LaBerge, who said he has had thousands of lucid dreams, shared a particularly profound one, in which the sports car he was driving became airborne and took to the clouds. His body disappeared upon entering a void that felt like a "homecoming" to the core of our being.In the last 2 hours, he was joined by physicist and ESP researcher Russell Targ who discussed cases of dream telepathy, in which subjects had their dreams influenced by people mentally sending them specific images.Targ and LaBerge are teaming for a November workshop in Hawaii that will offer program
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Host: George Noory
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Remote Viewing & Psychic Research |
| Sunday February 20, 2005 |
Physicist and author Russell Targ (espresearch.com) discussed the applications and importance of remote viewing and psychic abilities. Such capacities indicate an expanded awareness beyond our current notions of space and time, he said. For example, with remote viewing it's "no harder to describe an object that's across the planet than it is across the street," and similarly there's no greater difficulty in describing "what you will see in the paper tomorrow than there is in describing the object I'm holding in my hand," he explained. But in order to access psychic impressions, Targ noted that it's crucial to be able to quiet mental chatter. He also cited instances where precognitive information can actually save a person's life, such as when a psychic refused to get on a plane that he'd seen crashing in a vivid dream. In terms of practical usage, Targ said he's started a financial investment club for experienced remote viewers, and through this he hopes to bring attention to the v
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Host: Art Bell
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Remote Viewing Possibilities |
| Saturday March 27, 2004 |
Physicist and author, Russell Targ (espresearch) shared the history, current uses, and the future possibilities of remote viewing.
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Host: Art Bell
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Russell Targ |
| Monday April 8, 2002 |
Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of laser, and cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Host: Art Bell
