A free-response EEG-ESP study was conducted by Stanford and John Palmerthat used photos as targets. A pre-test exercise was given to subjects to help stimulate a flow of imagery. 21 Those who scored above mean chance expectation demonstrated significantly greater alpha density during the image-reception period than those whose scores were at or below mean chance expectation. But no reliable prediction of ESP scoring was found when participants were divided according to whether they exhibited alpha density levels above or below the median density value of the whole participant group. This indicates that psi-task success requires more than alpha rhythm, and that as well as being relaxed the subject must be in an effectively attentional state, the authors reasoned. Maher, 1986

Thilo Hinterberger at the University of Regensburg conducted research in which pairs of emotionally bonded participants were separated by a large distance – one situated in Freiburg, Germany, the other in Northampton, England. 7 When one member was exposed to highly emotional stimuli (violent disturbing images), the ‘receiver’ twin displayed significant correlations (p = 0.01) in their alpha EEG spectrum. Tressoldi, 2015 Like the CIA’s official debrief of the research, mainstream scientists and communicators have panned his work because it’s been impossible to reproduce to the degree of success that Targ reports. They include renowned skeptic Michael Shermer, the scientists behind a 1988 National Research Council review of his work, and the TEDx organizers who canceled his talk in 2013 because it was “pseudoscience.” He most recently authored The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities; Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness and 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 LookRussell Targ is a physicist and author who 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. Targ proposes the theory of "eight-space" to accommodate his data on ESP. The Orchard Asking Questions

Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) has pointed out several problems with one of the early experiments at SAIC, including information leakage. However, he indicated the importance of its process-oriented approach and of its refining of remote viewing methodology, which meant that researchers replicating their work could avoid these problems. [29] Wiseman later insisted there were multiple opportunities for participants on that experiment to be influenced by inadvertent cues and that these cues can influence the results when they appear. [19] Selected RV study participants [ edit ] Marks, David. (2000). The Psychology of the Psychic (2nd Edition). Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573927988 Radin, D. & Lobach, E. (2006). Presentiment in the brain. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association (164-75). Petaluma, CA: Parapsychological Association.The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities (2012). Wheaton, Illinois, USA: Quest Books. Selected Articles Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (1979, 2002 with C Tart & H Puthoff). Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: Hampton Roads. Warren, C. A., McDonough, B.E. & Don, N.S. (1992a). Event-related brain potential changes in a psi task. Journal of Parapsychology 56, 1-30. Russell Targ is a physicist and author, a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and a cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) investigation of psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. SRI is a research and development think tank in Menlo Park, California. Called remote viewing, his work in the psychic area has been published in Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), and the Proceedings of the American Association the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

In 2018, Targproduced a documentary film called Third Eye Spies, describing the true story of two decades of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) psychic spying at SRI. Star Gate Remote Viewing McMoneagle, Joseph (1997). Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing. Hampton Roads.

Puthoff's personal institute has also researched purported applications of zero-point energy. Massimo Pigliucci and others have noted that extracting energy from zero-point energy is considered to be a pseudoscience. [24] Pigliucci wrote "Harold Puthoff [is] a well-known parapsychologist and conducts research on so-called zero point energy, the idea that one can extract energy from empty space — a proposition, I should add, that violates basic principles of thermodynamics and that is considered pseudoscience by credentialed physicists." [24] Publications [ edit ] Peer-reviewed papers [ edit ] Psychic personnel included Joe McMoneagle, whom Targ considers today’s premier remote viewer, photographer Hella Hammid, painter Ingo Swann, and Pat Price, who had routinely used his psychic abilities in his police work, and whom Targ describes as ‘the only person I have ever known who functioned continuously day in and day out as an obvious psychic being’. 9 Precognitive Financial Forecasting with Russell Targ. Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed, 2017. The film The Men Who Stare at Goats had a long laugh at the United States Army’s 20-year-long attempt to use psychic powers to kill animals. Those experiments grew out of the work of physicist Russell Targ, Ph.D., whose studies on psychic “remote viewing” at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s drew the attention of the CIA, which later turned it into the goat-felling Stargate Project. That project was abandoned in 1995, and Targ’s work has been panned as pseudoscience ever since. But he stands by what he saw: people who could perceive hidden targets using only their minds. "Very hard for a skeptic to say that didn’t happen if the president is saying these guys in California found the airplane. This continuing skepticism, with its consequences for peer review and research funding, ensured that paranormal studies remained a fringe area of scientific exploration. However, by the 1960s, the prevailing counterculture attitudes muted some of the prior hostility. The emergence of what is termed " New Age" thinking and the popularity of the Human Potential Movement provoked a mini-renaissance that renewed public interest in consciousness studies and psychic phenomena and helped to make financial support more available for research into such topics. [16]