Episode Details

Art Bell interviews physicist Russell Targ, co-founder with Hal Puthoff of the Stanford Research Institute's classified remote viewing program. Targ recounts how the CIA-funded initiative began in 1972 when he and Puthoff bet their careers on developing repeatable psychic experiments. He describes the landmark test where psychic Pat Price accurately drew both the exterior and interior of a secret Soviet weapons factory from geographical coordinates alone, stunning the CIA contract monitor and launching two decades of intelligence work.

Targ explains the methodology of remote viewing, emphasizing that successful practitioners must surrender ego, quiet analytical thinking, and avoid guessing. He discusses teaching six Army intelligence officers at Fort Meade, noting four achieved independently significant results. The conversation explores distant healing research, where healers demonstrate measurable effects on patients thousands of miles away, and the "distant staring" experiments showing physiological changes in subjects whose video images are being observed.

Art shares his own experiments with audience participation, including a mass remote viewing test that yielded two exact drawings from listeners, and rainfall concentration exercises that produced consistent results. Targ discusses silver market forecasting that went nine for nine and his views on consciousness surviving death based on Ian Stevenson's reincarnation research.