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Book ID Asin: 1571744142
Book Title: Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness)
Book Author: Russell Targ,Harold E. Puthoff,Margaret Mead,Richard Bach
Book Format and Price:
Book Format Name: Kindle
Book Format Price: $12.21
Book Format Name: Paperback
Book Format Price: $24.95
Book Price: $24.95
Book Category: Books, Religion & Spirituality, Occult & Paranormal and unknown
Book Rating: 172 ratings

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• Best Sellers Rank: #102,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #97 in ESP (Books)
  • #133 in Consciousness & Thought Philosophy
  • #4,067 in New Age & Spirituality

• Customer Reviews:
  4.6 out of 5 stars 172 ratings

Book Review

Name: DANN
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The book is an interesting read, but their science is flawed...
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2010
Review: I was very excited to receive and begin reading this book after I watched "The Men Who Stare At Goats" and became interested in why the Government funded remote viewing research for 20+ years. This book is an interesting account of how experiments in remote viewing and psychic phenomenon were carried out in the early to mid 70's @ Stanford.

However, after having read the book it strikes me that the way the experiments were conducted would not be considered a tightly controlled experiment by today's scientific standards. Reading copies of the actual transcripts I did find what I would consider to be leading questions and cues. And in one part of the book Targ (one of the researchers) talks about how they were so impressed by Swann's abilities (he was the first subject) that they took him out for a steak dinner to celebrate. Clearly this could lead one to believe that the experimenters liked Swann and wanted him to succeed, even if subconsciously and thus may have inadvertently presented clues to him. In today's views on science, it would be considered highly inappropriate to take your subject out to dinner!

Even more surprising perhaps was the selection of another subject Hella Hammid whom Targ had known for more than a dozen years, and this was a subject they had selected in order to see if they could take an "ordinary" person and train them for lack of better terminology to have psi abilities. Obviously it's not wise to choose your pal of 10+ years for your research subject. And perhaps worst of all, they conclude (the book and their studies it seems) by "observing" Uri Geller who even his supporters now concede that he was simply little more than a magician. I used "observing" in quotes there because that is essentially what the experimenters at Stanford were doing, observing him rather than having him perform under tightly controlled conditions, and I dare say they allowed him to trick them. This was perhaps the biggest problem for me in the book and in my mind this along with the other aforementioned items destroys their credibility as researchers, at least in this realm.

However, regarding psi abilities, I still believe that there is likely some aspect of our cognitive abilities that we are simply not fully tapping into. I don't think of it as paranormal but rather a cognitive ability that is something that is not readily controlled by the subject. In other words there are good days and bad days. Some images come through clearly while others do not. It's usually described as a channel of information - often garbled with other unrelated images or noise. The trick apparently is to know what to filter out and what is relevant. If this is true, it would account for why it is not always statistically significant or reproducible.

Name: Richard Ringleb
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Paranormal becoming normal!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021
Review: Although the material in this book is old, it’s well worth reading. It reminds us of the narrow view science holds as truth. It also reminds us the power of the mind is enormous, that consciousness is the matrix of all things and we are free to explore anything we choose to.

Name: chad
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2021
Review: Fascinating. Details of The actual science behind the phenomenon an outline of the controlled experiments to measure it by a physicist.

Name: >>>dragonsrule<<<
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great experience
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021
Review: Great condition. Shipped fast

Name: Mike
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Man that Proved It All To Be True...
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2014
Review: Russel Targ, and Harold Puthoff, PhD Physicists, (Targ was former chief scientist at Lockheed) has some things to tell you that will change your world like it did his...and hundreds of thousands of other people. If you show respect to what he has to say in this book, you will eventually arrive at a point where I am now....not just a believer, but a DOER of incredible things. What is that? Go find out for yourself! It is the most amazing reality you can ever discover! They started a revolution in mind science that staggers the ability to perceive.

Name: Anonymous
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Don't miss this book!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2008
Review: I am so happy that I read this book! Puthoff and Targ really packed an incredible amount of in-depth, tantalizing information in this short read. At only about 225 pages, it is amazing how many different topics they cover, from Ingo Swan and Remote Viewing (which Mr. Swann and they basically pioneered), to their work with Uri Geller, and on to various other dimensions of this fascinating world of science and the "paranormal." Makes for very entertaining and intelligent reading. What a blessing it's back in print!

Name: Sara
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very Interesting
Date: Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2012
Review: This book is fascinating in its scientific approach to abilities all humans have the capability of developing. Even though there are some people which have a natural tendency towards this talent. It was written several years ago, but it is relevant today.

Name: Jude Barnes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read...
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018
Review: Great. Just what I expected.

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