Russell Targ is a physicist who has written many books on psychic phenomena. In "Limitless Mind" he covers a wide spectrum of paranormal phenomena that he believes show the potential of the human mind, including: remote viewing; psychokinesis; intuitive diagnosis and distant healing; intercessory prayer; ESP; and thought-transferrance. Targ believes that "our mind is limitless and that our awareness both fills and transcends our ordinary understanding of space and time. Psychic abilities, and remote viewing in particuar, point to the possibility of our residing in - and as - this state of expanded, timeless, fearless, spacious awareness. Psychic abilities are neither sacred nor secular; they are just natural human abilities." While much of what Targ describes has its origins in Buddhism and Hinduism, he also calls upon some of physicist David Bohm's ideas and modern quantum theory as part of the explanation for psychic phenomena: "the individuals have gone beyond the bandwidth of local perception and memory and entered a field of knowing in which much larger information can be accessed via the quantum hologram. It has been suggested that this quantum hologram is made of a higher light vibration and holds all knowledge and information ... the quantum hologram is an order of pure beingness, pure frequency - perhaps the essential Light itself - which transcends all specifications and knows neither 'here' nor 'there'."
The following words certainly resonated with me: "In science ... it is just as serious an error to ignore real but unpredictable data as it is to accept false data as true." Many of the phenomena to which Targ refers are well documented and statistically meaningful, yet mainstream science has generally avoided them. He explains why preconceived ideas can directly and adversely impact the interpretation of results: "analytical overlay (AOL) is [Ingo Swann]'s idea for the process of contaminating our direct experience of a target with the analysis of the images based on our imagination and memories of similar images. the unconscious naming of the images on our mental screen causes this mental noise. In the Dzogchen Buddhist tradition, this naming, guessing or grasping is called "conditional awareness."
This is one of the best books I have read on the subject of paranormal phenomena in general and remote viewing in particular. Targ's ideas are very accessible; he is credible and provides evidence to support his conclusions. His comments about famous psychic Edgar Cayce included that: "Cayce considered his entranced self to be a channel of higher consciousness. He believed that he obtained his information from the storehouse of universal information, known in ancient Eastern philosophy as the akashic record." This reminded me that Targ's ideas are largely compatible with those of Irvin Laszlo and I suspect anyone who enjoys this book would also find the latter's "Science and the Akashic Field" equally absorbing.
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I definitely recommend this book as one of the most read books in life.
Reviewed in Germany on February 13, 2021
