The Parapsychological Association

Russell Targ, a laser physicist, cofounded the remote viewing research program at SRI International. He is coauthor of Mind Reach, The Mind Race, Miracles of Mind, The Heart of the Mind, and The End of Suffering. He is author of Limitless Mind and The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities. He is also coeditor of the anthology, Mind At Large.

Here he discusses the process by which he selected and trained the first military remote viewers for the program at Fort Meade that eventually became known as Stargate. He points out that his arrangement with the intelligence community allowed him to publish many of his findings publicly. He maintains that, even though the program was ostensibly discontinued in 1995, there is reason to think that the intelligence community is continuing with remote viewing.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). 

(Recorded on March 2, 2017)