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Title: Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (Studies in Consciousness) by Charles T. Tart, Harold E. Puthoff, Russell Targ ISBN: 1-57174-320-0 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling scientific evidence for ESP
Comment: Initially, I was doubtful of the existence of psi phenomena. My AP Psychology course gave me the impression that there was scant data to validate the field. However, knowing Dr. Harold Puthoff both personally and professionally, I was willing to put my doubt aside and investigate the work that he and others have conducted in parapsychology.

Although a compilation of scientific reports first published in the 1970's at the IEEE Symposia On The Nature Of ESP, what I can say for certain after reading this book is that the studies compiled by Puthoff, Targ, and Tart, not only demonstrate that an anomalous statistical phenomena is occuring, but such works, especially the Targ-Puthoff remote viewing studies, such as "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances...," clearly dispel the flawed criticisms put forth by Ray Hyman in the National Research Council (NRC) evaluation of the CIA's 24 years in remote viewing research.

The studies conducted at Stanford Research Institute are clearly displayed, with the entire methodology presented. Counter arguements are even given towards the critiques that the studies, amazingly, continue to face from CSICOP and James Randi. And though I am member of CSICOP, this criticism through ignorance is very troubling to me.

Replications of such studies are also presented in the work of Jahn and Dunne of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory (PEAR), a group that I have recently become affiliated with. Various theories of psi are also presented in the works of Michael Persinger, Charles Tart, Helmut Schmidt and many others. After reading this book, it will be impossible to deny the existence of an anomalous statistical and possibly cognitive phenomena, without betraying one's intellectual honesty.

This book is required reading for all who are interested and willing to evaluate parapsychology from a serious, scientific point of view.

Rating: 5
Summary: Serious Scientific Studies of Phenomena Considered to be ESP
Comment: A lot of loose talk circulates about various ESP phenomena with the consequence that many do not believe they even exist. But drowned in all the loose talk is a lot of serious scientific investigation that has demonstrated the reality of some of these phenomena under controlled scientific conditions, many done under double-blind protocols.

Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ, at Stanford Research Institute, probably the #2 scientific "think tank" in the U.S.A., did many of these studies beginning in the early 1970s under the sponsorship of several three-letter agencies concerned with national defense. This book is basically a reprint of many of their scientific reports, first published in the IEEE Symposia On The Nature Of Extrasensory Perception.

I found the scientific study to be much more interesting than the shallow gee-whiz stuff often found in the popular press. To give a taste of the book, I list some of the chapter titles:

2.) A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances... by Puthoff and Targ.
3.) Direct Perception of Remote Geographical Locations.
4.) Multiple Subject and Long-Distance Precognitive Remote Viewing of Geographical Locations [replicates the work of Puthoff and Targ at SRI at another institution by other investigators, validating the earlier work]
5.) EEG Correlates to Remote Light Flashes Under COnditions of Sensory Shielding

11 Chapters and a lengthy Appendix gy Robert G. Jahn who was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University at the time he wrote it.

I highly recommend this book to those interested in these things from a scientific point of view instead of a mystical one.

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