After leaving SRI, he toured the world with Keith Harary, including travelling to many communist countries, which made some in the DIA very nervous.
Before officially leaving SRI, Targ, along with Harary and businessman Tony White, founded Delphi Associates.
Their first project was to develop a psi-related game for Atari, but Atari went under before the deal was completed.
Delphi then went on to ty to predict silver futures on the market.
After several reported successes, there were two misses, which scared off their investor.
Each blamed each other for the failure, and the argument went public during a lecture Harary gave at the Esalen Institute.
The feud continued into the 1990s.
(Schnabel, 1997, pg. 264-6)
Russell Targ is now apparently working with Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co., where his work deals with using lasers to determine wind patterns.
In April 1996, he co-chaired a session on "Advanced Sensor Technologies" at the Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls conference.
He is also identified as being with the Bay Research Institute, 1010 Harriet St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, and was involved with the Physics/Consciousness Research Group.
Author of:
Targ, Russell and Harary, Keith, Mind Race, Villard Books, 1984
Targ, Russell and Puthoff "Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding", Nature, 10/18/74, v252, n5476, pp 602-607
Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, Mind-Reach, Delacorte Press, 1977
Targ, E., Targ, R., & Lichtarge, O. "Realtime clairvoyance: A study of remote viewing without feedback", The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1985, 79, pg. 493-500
Targ, R. & Tart, C.T. "Pure clairvoyance and the necessity of feedback", The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1985, 79, pg 485-492
Puthoff, Harold E., Targ, Russell, & May, Edwin C. "Experimental psi research: implication for physics," The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World, ed. Robert G. Jahn, Westview, 1981, pp. 37-86
Targ, Russell (1994). "What I see when I close my eyes," Journal of Scientific Exploration, 8,1 (1994), p. 117
Targ, Russell, "Remote-viewing replication: evaluated by concept analysis", Journal of Parapsychology, 9/94, v58, n3, p271
Why I Teach Remote Viewing?
Abstract:
Since ancient times spiritual teachers have described paths and practices that a person could follow to achieve health, happiness, and peace of mind.
A considerable body of recent research indicates that any kind of spiritual practice is likely to improve one's prognosis for recovering from a serious illness.
Many of these approaches to spirituality involve learning to quiet the mind, rather than adhering to a prescribed religious belief.
These meditative practices are inherent aspects of:
Buddhism
Hinduism
mystical Christianity
Kabalistic Judaism
Sufism
and other mystic paths.
What is indicated in the subtext of these teachings is that as one learns to quiet his or her mind, one is likely to encounter psychic-like experiences or perceptions.
For example, in The Sutras of Patanjali, the Hindu master tells us that on the way to transcendence we may experience many kinds of amazing visions, such as the ability to see into the distance, or into the future; and to diagnose illnesses, and also to cure them.
However, we are admonished not to become attached to these abilities - that they are mere phenomena standing as stumbling blocks on the path to enlightenment.
In this paper, I will describe my recent experience in teaching remote viewing at three workshops in Italy, in which we emphasize expanded awareness of who we are, rather than an ability to find car keys and parking spaces.
Our spiritual approach did not interfere with all three of these groups demonstrating highly significant remote viewing in a double-blind setting. Russell 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.
