Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability reports the early remote-viewing experiments Puthoff conducted with Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute. Its central claim is that ordinary subjects, under controlled conditions, can perceive distant or hidden targets, evidence the authors read as nonlocal perception.

The book describes the experimental protocols and presents apparent successes as support for a real psi effect. The research was genuinely funded and long-running, but independent evaluation, notably the 1995 AIR review, found no convincing, replicable effect, and critics documented protocol weaknesses and sensory cues.

Puthoff's later association with zero-point-energy and exotic-physics research lent further scientific glamour to claims about a cosmic field linking consciousness and matter, inferences his actual physics does not license. The accurate framing separates his credentialed work from the contested psi conclusions.