Russell Targ

Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing. He joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972 where he and Harold Puthoff coined the term "remote viewing" for the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using parapsychological means.

Quotes

 * I have no doubt that ESP is a non-local ability independent of space and time. What that means is that we misapprehend the nature of the spacetime we’re living in.
 * Quoted in CIA Psychic Pioneer Explains How Physics Would Have to Change for ESP, Inverse (11 March 2019)


 * Very hard for a skeptic to say that didn’t happen if the president is saying these guys in California found the airplane. We did many things like that.
 * Quoted in CIA Psychic Pioneer Explains How Physics Would Have to Change for ESP, Inverse (11 March 2019)


 * The CIA came to us one day and said 'we would like information about whats going to happen at some coordinates... next Thursday. This was on a Monday...they wanted us to look 3 days into the future and describe what's happening... Swann said... this looks like a big pyrotechnics display... like the fourth of July, big hemispherical display of fireworks with beautiful color traces up in the air and a bunch of trucks in the far distance...[then] The CIA could see from what he had drawn and from what they had... into the future...The CIA knew the Chinese were planning an atomic bomb test and from what Swann had drawn, that they would carry out the test and that it would fail.
 * Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker, Stanford University, Hoover Institution, ~23:55-26:00   (14 July 2008)