Psychic Research and Modern Physics

By Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ

This essay, chapter 22 of Psychic Exploration, describes the application of concepts of modern physics to the study of psychic functioning. Included are a discussion of an example of a theoretical model of precognition that is testable and is compatible with contemporary physics, and descriptions of recent experiments using instruments that have exceptional sensitivity. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cosimo Books
• Release date: May 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781944529284

Harold Puthoff

HAROLD E. PUTHOFF, Ph.D., is the CEO of EarthTech International, Inc., which is dedicated to the exploration of new frontiers in the physics of spaceflight energy and propulsion. Formerly, he was a senior research engineer at Stanford Research Institute. Dr. Puthoff holds patents in the area of lasers and optical devices and has supervised research for doctoral candidates in electrical engineering and applied physics at Stanford University. In addition, he has initiated programs to study psychic phenomena from the standpoint of modern physics. RUSSELL TARG was a senior research physicist at Stanford Research Institute, where he worked with Harold Puthoff and coined the term “remote vieweing.” In 1982, he cofounded Delphi Associates, a psychic consulting service. He is author of more than two dozen articles on lasers, plasma physics, and psychic research. He is also the inventor of the tunable plasma oscillator at microwave frequencies, the FM laser, and the high-power gas-transport laser. With another inventor, he devised the ESP Teaching Machine, for training people in clairvoyance and precognition.

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PSYCHIC

EXPLORATION

Psychic Research and Modern Physics

Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ

"Psychic Research and Modern Physics," copyright © 1974 by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ. First published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in 1974 as part of Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science. Current edition published by Cosimo Classics in 2015.

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ISBN: 978-1-94452-928-4

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Note to the Readers: This mini-ebook was earlier published as part of a compilation of essays in Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science, Understanding the Nature and Power of Consciousness (originally published in 1974; reprinted by Cosimo Books in 2011), edited by Apollo 14 astronaut, moonwalker, and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Edgar Mitchell.

Each of the 28 chapters in the original Psychic Exploration was dedicated to a specific field of research in parapsychology, written by leading experts and scientists, such as Stanley Krippner, Montague Ullman, Charles Tart, Russel Targ, William Roll, Jean Houston, Willis Harman, and many others. With the advent of ebook technology, we feel that each of these unique essays deserve attention as a dedicated mini-ebook in addition to the complete version of Psychic Exploration.

If you prefer exploring specific subjects or authors, below is a complete list of the individual essays, all available as mini-ebooks. On the other hand, if you are interested in all of the essays and the field of parapsychology in general, we encourage you to read the original Psychic Exploration, available at online bookstores in both paperback and ebook versions.

However you decide to read these essays, we know you will receive a thorough introduction to psychic research in its many forms, from what is now considered a classic in the parapsychology genre. Part of the proceeds of this mini-ebook will benefit the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org).

INDIVIDUAL ESSAYS FROM PSYCHIC EXPLORATION

A History of Parapsychology , by Martin Ebon (978-1-94452-907-9)

Famous Western Sensitives, by Alan Vaughan (978-1-94452-908-6)

The Psychic Personality, by Gertrude Schmeidler (978-1-94452-909-3)

Telepathy, by Stanley Krippner (978-1-94452-910-9)

Clairvoyance, by Rex