Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness | 
| Author: Russell Targ
Creator: Jean Houston
Publisher: New World Library
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ISBN: 1577314131
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Publication Date: January 15, 2004
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The psychic abilities of most humans are dampened by the clatter of our conscious minds. In this timely book, Russell Targ draws on the work of ancient mystics and traditions — Gnostic, Christian, Buddhist, Kabalistic Jewish, Sufi, yogi, and especially Hindu spiritual master Patanjali — to show readers how to quiet this noise and see into the far reaches of time and space through remote viewing. This psychic ability offers a path of self-inquiry and self-realization and expands each person's limited awareness of the consciousness shared by all humans. Targ explores its scientific as well as spiritual implications and offers techniques and exercises to nurture this universal but mostly untapped skill.
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 The Mind Is A Terrible Thing; Waste It May 29, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The normal members of the scientific community demand "proof", or some sort of stupid human trick, before they accept the existence of "expanded awareness". How refreshing to see someone of Russell Targ's stature show how the research they were doing into PSI had roots in Buddhism, mention in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Hinduism, and other Eastern philosophies, some over 10,000 years old. As a remote viewer and long-time seeker of spiritual knowledge, this book is a keeper. It includes some of their experiments with remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute, precognitive dreaming, intuitive and distant healing. We make our own reality; time and space are just mental constructs - concepts in the mind. This book is not a guide to remote viewing.
A Powerful Discovery October 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Limitless Mind" by Russell Targ and Jean Houston, is an exceptional book that focuses on unique topics such as distant mental influence, quantum hologram, and intuitive medical diagnosis.
The meassage that is of paramount importance is that all people have many psychic abilities, but these remain undiscovered and undeveloped due to the clutter of our conscious rational mind.
Techniques and exercises are provided to develop our inherent, but as yet often latent, psychic abilities and thereby transform our lives.
Some further powerful New Age books are:
Nexus: A Neo Novel
[[ASIN:1416516778 Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum
Reality]]
What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole (QUANTUM Three-Disc Special Edition)
Love, Love, Love July 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was the first book I ever purchased because I wanted to. It was the smartest decision I ever made. It covers remote viewing of which I was quite interested in, and gave me many more things to pursue my goals of existence. Also helped me reach deep meditation and peace within the first 3 pages. Thank you Russell Targ. I hope to meet you someday.
Spirituality Gained From ESP April 21, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Remote Viewing and Self-Realization
What would Edgar Cayce think about the recent fascination with remote viewing? He'd have to admit he'd done it himself sometimes, like when he announced from his self-induced clairvoyant consciousness that his next client had not yet arrived at home where he was to be for his reading from Cayce, or when Cayce noted that the prescribed remedy, "oil of smoke" was hidden in the back room shelf of the pharmacist. Cayce used remote viewing, and especially "remote knowing" to help others, and thus he would be satisfied with its serviceability. On the other hand, so much of his readings were filled with wisdom, providing much more guidance than could be provided by what a remote video camera could see, that his work involved more skills than simply remote viewing.
I believe that Mr. Cayce would say remote viewing was, in itself, not sufficient. I suspect that, independent of the purposes toward which remote viewing might be applied, its procedures make self-actualization doubtful. Simply relaxing the mind may be sufficient to experience and report imagery that others might evaluate for its validity, but it doesn't seem sufficient to provide self-actualization guidance to the person practicing this skill. Something else has to be added. What is required beyond merely freeing consciousness is "raising one's consciousness to an ideal." Such grooming of consciousness might prove useful to become a channel of wisdom. The purpose to which value added remote viewing might be applied would also affect its serviceability for self-actualization. Remote viewing sessions typically begin with a "tasking assignment." As a tasking focus, I suggest something akin to an Edgar Cayce affirmation, with a bit of precognition thrown in: "I foresee an opportunity coming to me today where I may be of service to someone else by discovering more of my soul's abilities."
I turned to a recent book by one of the pioneers of remote viewing. Russell Targ, Ph.D., writes in Limitless mind: A guide to remote viewing and transformation of consciousness (New World Library), to discover that the author writes, "Why bother with ESP? ...Dzogchen [Buddhist ideal of "great perfection"] teaches us to look directly at our awareness and experience the geometry of consciousness--the relationship of our awareness to the space-time in which we live.... these teachings of expanded awareness and the experience of spaciousness are not about self-improvement or gaining power; they are about self-realization: discovering who we really are.... This can be revealed in many ways, one of them being the practice of remote viewing....we discover through this process that we are the flow of loving awareness that is available to us whenever we are quiet and peaceful."
The question I have in considering Targ's thoughtful and valuable book is whether his support of remote viewing as a tool of self-realization comes from the meditative part of the practice (in which case meditation itself may be a more direct route), from what is remotely viewed (as in my suggested tasking focus), or from the theoretical implications of the results of remote viewing, namely, that ESP is real and that there is more to us than the space-time materiality. Many have experienced ESP effects, yet go on living in material consciousness, so I suspect that this third alternative is not much of a candidate for the source of remote viewing's support of self-realization.
Targ does provide four proven applications of remote viewing: evaluating given choices, locating objects or persons, medical diagnosis, and forecasting. At the end of his book, he confesses that he has spent his life trying to change a rocket scientist into a human being. His ESP research motivated him further, but it was contact with a spiritual teacher, Mangaji, that did the trick, opening his heart. In the final analysis, Targ admits that remote viewing itself is not a spiritual path. He claims that it is the meditative skill developed by it that can, when furthered by spiritual mentoring, lead to the self-realization that "we are the love we seek". The meditative skill he refers to is that of becoming aware of awareness itself, because that is where the boundless self awaits discovery.
I find myself uplifted by Targ's book and feel a kinship with his desire to explain the value of ESP research in the context of the spiritual search. I now realize that my own suggestion about how to use remote viewing for self-actualization, although of value, actually misses the mark. There really is no need to go "remote" as what I'm seeking is within my own open heart. I agree with the author that the best way to keep it open is through gratitude. With such an attitude, I'm sure I'll have many opportunities to grow by helping others without having to remote view the opportunity in advance. Read a summary of this book at [...]
 NOTHING NEW HERE, BUT TARG IS A PIONEER January 13, 2007
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Russell Targ has a fascinating background, as one of the original founders of the government Remote Viewing program. Back in the 1970s, he and Hal Puthof put together experiments in psychic vision that very much interested the US military. Both men were at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and got government contracts to test "viewers" - psychics who could see events and places ("targets) in their mind. They developed a set of protocols for these experiments and successfully demonstrated that this could be done. In Limitless Mind, Russell Targ discusses those experiments, which were to influence his later work and eventually become once again his main profession. At present, he sponsors seminars on remote viewing, often working with Dr. Jane Katra, with whom he has written several books.
This book is a combination of information on how anyone can try remote viewing, and how work with remote viewing led the author to related activities, mainly distant healing. Targ repeatedly explains that remote viewing is not specifically a spiritual activity, but it led him in the direction of further inquiry into the nature of consciousness and that led him into spirituality. He came to believe that man is more than his material body, that consciousness transcends our physical senses. Consciousness can move beyond place and even beyond time to actually take in remote locations and events. Targ became interested in how healers can affect the bodily health of another person, noting that many can affect people who are in a distant location, without seeing or touching them. How is this possible, unless consciousness is not local?
Information on how to do remote viewing is available in other books and websites, but Targ's preferred methods all involve working with a partner. He is insistent that anyone can do remote viewing, although some viewers are more talented than others. Targ worked with some of the best, and he writes about them in this book: Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Hella Hamid, to mention a few. Targ and Puthof had all the facilities of SRI and full time to work at remote viewing experiments, while, for most people, finding a partner and designing and carrying out workable experiments is going to tax their time and resources. Like other learned skills, remote viewing takes practice.
The book reproduces some of the more famous drawings of the SRI viewers along with pictures of the actual targets. I found most of them familiar because I've seen them reproduced in other books. And, yes, they are amazing and do indicate the validity of remote viewing.
I was looking for more theory on what these experiments tell us about ourselves, but I found Targ's discussion rather disjointed and felt his topics wandered. In addition to covering how to do remote viewing and telling us about his experiences with healing and psychic diagnosis, he also writes about his daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Targ, who passed away at too young an age. I found his tribute to her very touching, and it is clear she was a remarkable person. Elizabeth Targ was a scientist who sometimes worked with her father and he certainly credits her for her contributions to the field of psychic research.
Targ refers to many teachers and guides who have helped him develop psychic skills and spiritual awareness. It seems his early work, pioneering a field he regards as scientific research but which others often ridicule, has led him to question most mainstream ways of thinking. Ridicule can be a significant stimulus to examine the reality of what others have called "consensus consciousness." Or, to put it another way, just because most people believe something - it ain't necessarily so. But again, Targ's personal acquaintance with so many practitioners of alternative systems of thought is unusual, and most of us are just left with our books and an occasional conversation with a like-minded individual. Targ actually quit his job as a scientist for a major corporation, a gutsy move for sure, that has let him immerse himself in an atmosphere of alternative thought.
There wasn't anything new in this book, but it is a good introduction to remote viewing and it drives home the point that everyone can expand their consciousness. The personal stories from a pioneer in the field of psychic research make the book a worthwhile read.
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