February 20, 2005: Remote Viewing - Russell Targ
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Tue Oct 28 2025
Description: Art Bell welcomes physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's remote viewing program, for a conversation spanning two decades of government-funded psychic espionage research. Targ describes how the CIA program began in 1972 after Ingo Swann demonstrated the ability to accurately describe and influence a shielded magnetometer buried beneath the Stanford physics building, convincing skeptical physicists that the phenomenon was real.Targ recounts the program's most dramatic successes, including Pat Price's remote viewing of a Soviet weapons laboratory at Semipalatinsk that proved so accurate the CIA initially suspected Targ of espionage. He explains how viewer Joe McMoneagle located a downed Soviet bomber in Africa, and how a team pinpointed a kidnapped American general in Italy by describing the building where he was held. Targ emphasizes that remote viewing is a learnable skill available to most people, not a gift reserved for psychic prodigies.The discussion turns to the physics behind remote viewing. Targ draws on quantum entanglement and nonlocality, arguing that consciousness operates outside the constraints of space and time. He describes Buddhist and Hindu philosophical traditions that anticipated these findings by millennia, and shares his personal journey from laser physicist to spiritual explorer. Art and Targ also discuss the ethics of psychic spying and why the program was officially shut down despite its documented intelligence value.
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