Russell Targ | Explore Consciousness | Aug. 24, 2025

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Russell Targ is a parapsychological genius. He is one of the most successful and insightful parapsychologists in history. He is a man of magic! Last April, he celebrated his 91st birthday. The second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series is titled "Russell Targ: Ninety years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness." It contains transcripts of fifteen conversations between Russell and Jeffrey Mishlove.

Targ, a laser physicist, cofounded the remote viewing research program at SRI International. He is coauthor of Mind Reach, The Mind Race, Miracles of Mind, The Heart of the Mind, and The End of Suffering. He is author of Limitless Mind and The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Mind At Large.

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Targ's Background and Start of the SRI Program (11:00–20:00)

At 91, Targ reflects on his career shift from lasers to psychic research. In 1972, after building lasers for NASA, he pitched an ESP program to Werner von Braun at a conference, using an ESP teaching machine (a feedback device with colored squares or images; now available for $1). Von Braun, a "closet psychic," endorsed it, leading to a meeting with NASA administrator Jim Fletcher and astronaut Edgar Mitchell. This secured funding for the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) program, co-led with Hal Puthoff. Targ notes synchronicities, like attending Bobby Fischer's (his brother-in-law) chess championship in Iceland before starting.

Early experiments included Ingo Swann (who coined "remote viewing" in 1974) and Hella Hammid (initially a control subject who outperformed Swann). Publications: a 1974 Nature paper on Swann's RV (1 in 10,000 significance) and a 1976 IEEE paper on Hammid's EEG-linked perception (1 in a million significance), proving direct mind-to-mind connection without feedback.

Key RV Concepts and Examples (20:00–35:00)

Targ defines RV as an innate ability to perceive across space and time, unlimited by distance or duration. Examples:

• Annie Besant (Theosophy founder) psychically described a hydrogen atom in 1895, resembling quarks (invented by Murray Gell-Mann in 1964).
• Swann's 1973 prediction of Jupiter's ring (confirmed by Pioneer 10; 500 million miles away, perceived instantly).

Targ emphasizes non-locality: no separation in consciousness, akin to entanglement.

He discusses Ingo Swann's book Psychic Sexuality, introducing "telesthesia" (heart-to-heart connection) and Aleister Crowley's astral explorations. RV is not guessing but expanding awareness.

Interactions with Skeptics and High-Profile Figures (35:00–45:00)

Targ shares RV successes with skeptics:

• Israeli physicist Yakir Aharonov saw "ducks" (matching a duck pond target).
• U.S. Under Secretary of Defense described a brick tower cafe (Allied Arts Guild).
• Ted Owens (the "PK Man"): Ended a drought and caused an April snowfall in Palo Alto (1976). Mishlove took over studying Owens, leading to a documentary with Lance Mungia.

Pat Price's feats: Described a secret NSA site (Sugar Grove) given log cabin coordinates, noting hidden things "shine like beacons." Price was "stolen" by the CIA in 1974 due to his abilities (e.g., reading desk documents remotely), but died mysteriously in 1975 (possible heart attack, KGB, or CIA involvement; he leaked to Scientologists).

Precognition and Associative RV (45:00–1:05:00)

Targ recounts his own RV: While Puthoff vacationed in South America (1974), Targ drew an island airport (San Andres) matching feedback photos, suggesting precognition of the image.

• Associative RV: Psychic Keith Harary forecasted silver market changes 9/9 times (1979–1980), earning $250,000. No initial target; feedback drove precognition. Later attempts failed due to pressure and delayed feedback.

Viewer Q&A and Practical Insights (1:05:00–1:30:00)

• Distinguishing RV from Imagination/Memory: Through practice and interviewer guidance; focus on "surprising images."
• Who Can RV?: Almost everyone; Targ succeeded with skeptics. No need for expensive classes—books suffice. Meditation helps quiet mental noise.
• Feedback Essential?: No; Price described a Soviet sphere (Semipalatinsk) years before confirmation.
• Non-Military Uses: Finding lost items (e.g., Targ located a diamond tennis bracelet by visualizing posts). Avoid accidents, dowsing for resources.
• Sensory Modalities: Primarily visual, but could include sounds/smells; dowsing is a form of RV.
• Bobby Fischer: Targ shared a postmortem chess game (via medium, vs. Victor Korchnoi); Fischer confirmed it as "real" but didn't discuss ESP deeply.

Other topics: SRI's shielded room (for Uri Geller, not essential for RV); Targ's stage magic background (parallels RV in guiding perception, e.g., card forces).

Retrocognition and Closing (1:30:00–1:44:00)

Price's water purification plant drawing (1972) included tanks absent for 50 years (retrocognition). Targ links RV to spirituality (mind-body, parapsychology). The session promotes Mishlove's book and CIHS.edu's parapsychology programs. Targ expresses gratitude; Mishlove teaches at CIHS.

Overall Themes and Impact

The interview highlights RV as evidence of non-dual, entangled consciousness, bridging ancient philosophy, quantum physics, and empirical science. Targ's anecdotes emphasize ease, ethics, and real-world applications, demystifying RV while cautioning against ego or misuse. It's inspirational, with viewers expressing honor. The discussion underscores Targ's legacy: 50 years of RV research, influencing military (e.g., CIA) and civilian fields.

Russell Targ | The Strength and Reliability of Remote Viewing (4K Reboot) | June 24, 2025

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Russell Targ, a laser physicist, cofounded the remote viewing research program at SRI International. He is coauthor of Mind Reach, The Mind Race, Miracles of Mind, The Heart of the Mind, and The End of Suffering. He is author of Limitless Mind and The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Mind At Large.

In this video, rebooted from 2019, he notes that a number of parapsychologists are unwilling to accept the existence of psi. Yet, in his own experience, remote viewing is very robust and productive. He suggests that the best researchers have had psi experiences of their own; and also have been engaged with esoteric traditions and spiritual practices. He explains how he was able to achieve remarkable results working with individuals who had no prior experience or understanding of remote viewing.

(Recorded on September 23, 2019)

Dark Journalist | Russell Targ SRI Star Gate Remote Viewing Revealed: Psychic Surveillance! | Nov. 7, 2020

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DARK JOURNALIST EXCLUSIVE PART 1 INTERVIEW WITH REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM FOUNDER PHYSICIST RUSSELL TARG: SRI STAR GATE REVEALED: PSYCHIC SURVEILLANCE!

BREATHROUGH INTERVIEW!
PROJECT STAR GATE WITH THE FOUNDER OF THE REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM
Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt welcomes Physicist Russell Targ for a deep look at his amazing career in developing and training individuals in psychic development for secret government programs at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with clients like the CIA and the US Military.

Targ reveals that in their remote viewing program they learned that the mind has limitliess potential and that our consciousness can travel anywhere, even backwards and forwards in time. His breakthrough book, The Reality of ESP, highlights his years of covert intelligence work with the best psychics on the planet, including Ingo Swann, Joe McMoneagle and Pat Price who died mysteriously as Targ reveals in compelling detail after the CIA learned he was sharing his experiences with a top member of Scientology.

THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALL
Russell Targ studied graduate physics at Columbia University until 1956, when he left Columbia to work on the earliest development of the laser. He pursued laser research and development until 1972, when he co-founded the Stanford Research Institute program investigating psychic abilities. Working with the great psychic, Ingo Swann he was able to teach many inexperienced people how to describe and experience events and objects in the distance and in the future. This ability became known as remote viewing. After a decade of highly classified research with the CIA, Targ left the Star Gate program to returned to laser research, which he pursued with Lockheed Missiles and space until 1998.

Russell Targ & Lance Mungia | Third Eye Spies, Remote Viewing, SRI, & The CIA | March 19, 2019

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One of the most provocative sagas that American history books have left to the cutting room floor is the CIA’s Stargate Project, a 20+ year program to test psychic abilities for intelligence gathering though a contract with the Stanford Research Institute. The CIA “officially” closed the program in 1995 saying that it never yielded any worthwhile results, a stark contradiction to the testimonies of those involved and the 70,000+ documents that have been released on the program in more recent years.

Today we’re joined by one of the co-founders of this remote viewing research, Russell Targ, at 84 years young. Together with filmmaker, Lance Mungia, we discuss their new documentary Third Eye Spies which corrects the record through newly declassified documents, and interviews with those who still live to tell the tales.

The film is available now across all the big digital platforms, look into it.

Russell Targ on the Richard Dolan Show | Remote Viewing | Teaser of Third Eye Spies | Feb. 17, 2019

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Exclusive 11 minutes from the new documentary Third Eye Spies, the best-ever treatment of the remote viewing program managed by Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff for the CIA and U.S. military. Followed by an interview with Russell Targ on the Richard Dolan Show.

Visit Third Eye Spies: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thirdeyespies

Richard Dolan is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time. He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, both ground-breaking works which together provide the most factually complete and accessible narrative of the UFO subject available anywhere. He also co-authored a speculative book about the future, A.D. After Disclosure, the first-ever analysis not only of how UFO secrecy might end, but of the all-important question: what happens next?

Russell Targ | Psychic Breakthrough Remote Viewing in the Future | Part 2 | Dark Journalist | Sept. 2, 2016

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Psychic Breakthrough:
In this special Part 2 in-depth interview with the Founder of Remote Viewing, Physicist Russell Targ from the Stanford Research Institute, Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt goes deep into the mysterious psychic process behind this incredible phenomenon and the startling results achieved of being able to actually see into the future in real time under controlled conditions during his innovative and classified experiments.

Remote Viewing The Future!
In Part 1 they covered the amazing high-level top secret cases his group of Psychic Spies solved for the National Security State. In this episode, Targ goes into great detail about the fascinating tools he uses for clarifying psychic visualization and for removing what he calls the 'analytical overlay' that can compel the remote viewer to confabulate the psychic image they are seeing by blending it with other stimuli based on personal memories and associations. He also explains 'non-local consciousness' that is not subject to space or time and encourages the viewers to connect with their innate intuitive abilities using methods he's learned over five decades. In a spontaneous moment Targ requests that Dark Journalist perform a remote viewing on the spot to describe the object he is holding in his hand and the results are compelling!

Third Eye Spies Documentary
The interview covers a stunning range of interesting concepts, from ESP, Mind Control, The Akashic Records, Psychic Prediction, Deep Military Projects, Stargates, Dreams and Telepathic Experiments. They also show the new exclusive trailer from Targ's upcoming documentary, 'Third Eye Spies', coming out later this year that recounts his amazing journey through the covert world of this clandestine CIA psychic program and that is set to blow a hole through the wall of official secrecy.

Russel Targ | Remote Viewing and Psychic Warfare! | Dark Journalist | Aug. 23, 2016

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DARK JOURNALIST Interview with Remote Viewing Pioneer and Physicist Russell Targ on The New 'Third Eye Spies' Documentary Coming Out This Fall!

ESP - Mind Control - Psychic Targeting - Intuitive Vision - Deep Military Programs - Stargates - CIA -Black Budget Experiments!

The Man Who Started It All!
Enjoy this powerful Dark Journalist episode as he goes deep into the covert Remote Viewing program Bankrolled by the CIA with Physicist Russell Targ who founded the effort at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with fellow Physicist Hal Puthoff.

Third Eye Spies
In this special Part 1 Episode they delve deeply into the clandestine world of Psychic Spies and discuss the new documentary, 'Third Eye Spies' on Targ's classified work with extraordinarily gifted Remote Viewers like Artist Ingo Swann, Military Officer Joe McMoneagle and Burbank Police Commissioner Pat Price who died shortly after remote viewing a UFO Base and being directly recruited out of the program into clandestine CIA operations. Now the man who ran it all, Russell Targ can tell the Whole Story...!

Psychic Warriors
Targ recounts amazing details of developing the Remote Viewing program for the CIA and the National Security Incidents that he and his team were involved in at the very highest levels of government. He also recalls his early days of being interested in metaphysics and learning about powerful intuitives like Helena Blavatsky and Edgar Cayce at his Father's book store in Chicago.

At 82 years old, Targ is ready to set the record straight and reveal the legendary and Top Secret work he did developing the complex Remote Viewing process. He is out to dispel the many myths and disinformation around the subject and explain why he spent his life after SRI still looking through the veil to the other side of a deeper reality. -darkjournalist.com

Russell Targ | Scientific and Spiritual Implications of Psychic Abilities

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. is intuitive capacity was named remote viewing, and the research was supported by the CIA, NASA and many other government organizations for gathering intelligence information about world-wide activities during the Cold War. 

Physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of this previously SECRET psychic research program, will describe the very best evidence for extrasensory perception, precognition, intuitive diagnosis and distant healing.

He will describe many of 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 timeless and nonlocal awareness. He will discuss developing remote viewing skill; how to recognize the actual psychic signal, and separate it from mental noise of memory, imagination, and analysis – and why should we bother with ESP?

A kind of tasks that kept the SRI program in business for twenty-three years include the following: SRI psychics found a downed Russian bomber in Africa; reported on the health of American hostages in Iran; described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia; located a kidnapped US general in Italy; and accurately forecasted the failure of a Chinese atomic-bomb test three days before it occurred, etc. When San Francisco heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted from her home in Berkeley, a psychic with the SRI team was the first to identify the kidnapper by name and then accurately describe and locate the kidnap car.

Russell Targ | The Reality of ESP, Hundred Monkey Radio, May 12, 2013

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Russell Targ, is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications and was cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s for the CIA. This previously classified work, in what is now widely known as 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. 

Targ has a B.S. in Physics from Queens College, and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He received two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards for inventions and contributions in lasers and laser communications; and invitations were accepted in 1983 and 1984 to present remote viewing demonstrations, and to address the USSR Academy of Sciences on this research. In 1998 Targ retired from Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co. as a senior staff scientist, where he developed airborne laser systems for the detection of windshear. He now pursues ESP research in Palo Alto, California, and is also publishing special editions of classic books in psychical research. He is co-author of eight books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities, Buddhism, and a recent autobiography.

Interview start: 5:37 min.

BBC Horizon - The Case of ESP (1983)

The Case of ESP, Hori­zon, BBC 1983
Programme examining scientific evidence for and against the existence of psychic phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis - and exploring how those who believe in them are applying their knowledge.

Russell Targ | Inception of Remote Viewing & The Reality of ESP, February 3, 2013

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February 3, 2013–Russell Targ is a physicist, scientific researcher and author whose pioneering contributions to laser and laser communications has earned him two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Queens College and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. Targ has published over a hundred scientific papers on lasers, plasma physics, and ESP research.

In 1972 Targ cofounded and worked for the innovative CIA-sponsored Stanford Research Institute (SRI) where psychic abilities were tested for two decades. Targ retired as the senior staff scientist from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Co. in 1997. His latest book, The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities, comprehensively details the recently declassified data collected at SRI, as well as serving as a guide to allow everyone to tap into their own psychic potentials. He teaches remote viewing workshops worldwide, and has coauthored eight books on the topic of psychic abilities. In this program we cover the inception of the remote viewing program at SRI and the reality of extra sensory perception.

Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann were two talented remote viewers that Targ worked with in the early days. He also talks about Werner Von Braun at NASA and the CIA’s interest in the concept of psychic spies. (Note: This program was recorded one day before we heard about the passing of Ingo Swann.) download mp3

Russell Targ | Remote Viewing Experiments, April 4, 2012

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April 4, 2012–Writer and physicist Russell Targ discussed his involvement in creating the Remote Viewing program at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the Cold War, as well as various remote viewing applications and experiments. After two decades of research at SRI, they demonstrated that ordinary people visiting their laboratory could learn to accurately describe and experience what was going on at distant places, and that in fact, with practice most people can learn to "remote view."

After learning the skill from psychic Ingo Swann, he and Hal Puthoff trained a team of Army Intelligence officers in the 1970s, and under a classified program, they were given directives by the CIA to find and gather information on operational targets, particularly about the Soviets. They also looked at the Chinese, atomic bomb tests, and the American hostages in Iran. Interestingly, during this time the Russians were interested in remote behavior modification, such as getting an American leader to misspeak, but it was unknown how successful they were in that regard, he reported. While providing their findings to the government who was funding the program, Targ was also able to publish his research about the validity of ESP in peer journals, though at the time they had to keep the military involvement a secret.

A remote viewing experiment was conducted by Targ on the air. He placed an object behind him on a chair, and asked listeners to sketch what they saw in their mind on paper, without being analytical or naming it at first. It turned out to be a globe of the world placed on a tall, conical wooden pedestal, and several people emailed somewhat accurate descriptions of it before Russell announced what it was.

Russell Targ interviewed by Molly Cheshire

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Russell Targ is physicist and the author of " Do You See What I See?" He 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.

His website is www.espresearch.com.

ESP & Psychic Spies | Russell Targ, PhD

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For 20 years Stanford Research Institute (SRI) carried out SECRET psychic investigations into 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, NASA and many other government organizations for gathering intelligence about world-wide targets including China, the USSR, and Iran, during the Cold War. This was the Real X-files!

Physicist Russell Targ is a pioneer in the development of the laser and was co-founder of this previously classified research program. He describes here the very best evidence for extrasensory perception, precognition, intuitive diagnosis and spiritual healing.

Back in Time Series | Russel Targ - Limitless Mind

Dreamland interview by Whitley Strieber from 2004.

Russell Targ | The End of Suffering

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Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and was co-founder of the 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. Targ has a B.S. in Physics from Queens College, and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He received two National Aeronautics and Space Administration awards for inventions and contributions in lasers and laser communications; and invitations were accepted in 1983 and 1984 to present remote viewing demonstrations, and to address the USSR Academy of Sciences on this research.
He is co-author of five books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities: Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities, The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities, Mind at Large: Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Symposium on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception and most recently, Heart of the Mind: How to know God without belief, and Miracles of Mind: Exploring nonlocal consciousness and spiritual healing.
In 1997 Targ retired from Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co. as a senior staff scientist, where he developed airborne laser systems for the detection of wind shear.

He now pursues ESP research in Palo Alto, California, and is also publishing special editions of classic books is psychical research. The series represents the very best books from a century of groundbreaking research into the limitless potential of human consciousness.

PUBLICATIONS
Author or co-author of more than fifty articles on lasers, plasmas and electro-optics research; and the first papers on psychoenergetic phenomena ever to appear in The Proceedings of the IEEE, the AAAS, and in Nature. Publications in psychoenergetics include five co-authored books:

Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability (Delacorte, 1977)

Mind At Large: IEEE Symposia On The Nature of Extrasensory Perception (Preager, 1979)

The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities (Villard, 1984)

Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing (New World Library, 1998)

The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief (New World Library, 1999)