Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability, co-authored with Harold Puthoff, documents the remote-viewing program the two physicists founded at Stanford Research Institute. Its central claim is that trained subjects can psychically perceive distant targets, which Targ presents as scientific evidence for nonlocal consciousness.

The book lays out the experiments and judging methods behind these claims, the work that fed the long-running government effort later known as Stargate. The historical program was real, but the scientific verdict is negative: the 1995 AIR evaluation found no operationally useful results and no convincing psi effect, attributing apparent hits to vague targets, sensory leakage, and generous judging.

Targ remains a sincere proponent who frames remote viewing as proof of mind beyond space and time. The honest summary is that decades of well-funded study failed to establish the effect.