Limitless Mind

"He is one of the premier examples of a person in the domain of physics who has devoted his life outside physics to exploring parapsychological stuff – the sorts of things we have been discussing. He is one of the great experimentalists in this field and his claim to fame early on was something that touches on Schwartz’s field of remote viewing. He has published his research in journals around the world and shares our common theme – extending the bounds of consciousness outside the brain, body and present moment. He will take two people and one of them will be focused on an image of a faraway location and this person will try to convey the content of the image to a distant individual who will register it in his or her consciousness and draw a picture of it or describe it. Then a computer will analyse whether there is a hit or miss. I think the evidence is overwhelming that people can convey information like this at huge distances in a scientifically controlled setting. There have been hundreds of these experiments, not just by Targ but by Professor Robert Jahn at Princeton University, and elsewhere around the world. Well, I’m interested in those which have some sort of health relevance. I’m a physician so these things interest me. I use the example of Amanda, a young woman who had a terrible nightmare that a chandelier above her baby’s crib fell on the baby and the baby died. She couldn’t go back to sleep and she told her husband about it and he told her that it was just a dream. She got up and brought the baby into bed with them. Two or three hours later the chandelier in the baby’s room fell on the crib and totally destroyed it, but the baby was safe because she had acted on her premonition. This is a very common theme in premonitions – the mother-infant bond and the mother who simply knows that her child is in danger and intervenes to protect it. Survival. This baby survives because of the mother’s premonition. We see this over and over. Oh, of course. No human sense is 100 per cent accurate, even though we’d like it to be. Our visual sense is not as good as other creatures’, nor is our hearing. My personal belief is that if we made a place for this in our view of how we function as humans it could probably be developed and become much more reliable, but we are taught to dishonour it. People put down this sort of thing as crazy California woo-woo stuff and don’t want to have anything to do with it. But it is part of who we are and it won’t go away. We can demonstrate premonitions and we know this exists. Our task is to look at the evidence and make a place for it in our account of how human beings function."