Russell Targ

Cognition research is new age.

Uh, you've also got SRI Revo- uh, Remote Viewing Research Network such as Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, and Indigo Swan.

We've talked about Hal Puthoff.

We've done a show on Hal Puthoff, and there's Hal Puthoff on the Joe Rogan podcast sharing and expressing his new age beliefs.

Uh, in 1972, Swan first demonstrated his exteriorization skills at the Stanford Research Institute in experiments that would come to be known secularly as remote viewing.

These experiments caught the attention of the CIA.

He is commonly credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing, a process in which vie- uh, viewers would view a location given nothing aside from its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested by Harold Puthoff, um, and Russell Targ with CIA funding.

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They gave or they gave a $50,000 grant to a California think tank called the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI.

The scientist there is Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, were tasked-

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... with simple questions.

He read the file names of the super secret programs of the NSA that were contained in one place, which was inside of a massive safe in a super secret NSA facility.

He remote viewed it, and he read the file names that were on the folders, and the next day at Stanford Research Institute, where he was doing his research with Hal and, and, uh, uh, uh, Hal Puthoff and, um, Russell Targ at the SRI remote viewing program, the next day, national security showed up because they thought there'd been a high-level leak, because nobody knew the names of those files.

So what he proved, and has been proven many, many times since then and before then, is that there are ways of knowing the truth simply through your own mind.

And so this leads back into answering your question.

Yeah, there are two perspectives on this.

One came out of Stanford Research Institute with Ed May and Russell Targ and others who don't believe in what's called method remote viewing.

In other words, Ed May, when I did an example for him, we were testing something out.

He just said, target, and I was supposed to do my session, which I did, for ARV, actually, and he said it was industrial strength, so it came out well.

I first experienced remote viewing in 1976 at the SRI International.

I think it was then called the Stanford Research Institute.

I simply went into their shielded room with Russell Targ and he said, close your eyes and ask your subconscious mind to give you access to target information.

And boom, out came an accurate description.

I don't know if you know that I'm a remote viewer.

Uh, and I've been doing that since 1998 with, uh, Russell Targ and Dean Radin.

And, uh, in fact, we just, I just got off the phone this morning before talking to you to Russell.

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During the Cold War, the US intelligence became interested in reports that the Soviets were researching psychic phenomena and extrasensory perception.

So they wondered, could somebody obtain information about a distant or hidden target without physically seeing it? So in the early '70s, the CIA funded experiments at the Stan- Stanford Research Institute involving researchers Harold Puthoff and, uh, Russell Targ.

I don't think those names are very important, but that's the idea.

So they're researching psychics Have you heard about this?

Can you give us a little hint about what Hal has done in his career on this topic? Yes, absolutely.

Well, not just Hal, but Russell Targ, who's also a very good friend of mine.

I chat with Russell pretty regularly.

In fact, I've got to get back to him yet again.

Th- this is...

Psy- PsyTech was a government, uh, offshoot of the best of Ingo Swann's and, and Russell Targ's crew.

PsyTech.

So, so I got a, I got a letter one, one, one time, and I saved it, I kept it, that, uh, we've been remote viewing you.

Yeah.

The lore is that SRI, Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, they start this, um, study, this effort that's originally, I think the CIA is behind, and then it goes through this whole alphabet soup of different agencies.

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Mm-hmm

So it, it seems like that's the case.

Yeah.

And then the, and then even further crazy part is that, again, Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, these physicists, actually went to Ossining, where-

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