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Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spritual Healing | 
 enlarge | Authors: Russell Targ, Jane Katra
Publisher: New World Library
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1577310977
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9781577310976
ASIN: 1577310977
Publication Date: April 23, 1999
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Relying on their strengths--he a pioneering physicist and she a highly respected spiritual healer--Targ and Katra reveal scientific evidence and gripping stories to prove the innate psychic power of the human mind. This collaboration first began when Katra helped Targ miraculously cure himself of metastatic cancer. Skeptics will probably find themselves impressed by the thoroughness of Targ's research as well as his highly plausible conclusions. For example, Targ reveals for the first time the startling results of declassified CIA experiments in psychic spying during the Cold War. Believers in spiritual healing will find support in Katra's impressive credentials and rich storytelling. The authors share a gift for engaging but spare prose, which makes for highly palatable reading, despite the density of ideas and information. --Gail Hudson
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A pioneering physicist and a renowned spiritual healer combine modern scientific evidence with ancient Eastern teachings to explain the process of spiritual healing and to prove what metaphysicians have been teaching for thousands of years.
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 Psychic Healing or Spiritual Healing April 22, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Psychic Healing Is more Interaction than Operation
How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change!
We can change material things by operating on them, but to change people, we employ an interaction with them. One of our basic defining assumptions about humans is that we have choice. It's a weak assumption, one that is easily threatened by the specter of ESP.
We assume our minds to be our personal, private castle, free from all uninvited intrusions. An unexpected experience with telepathy, however, especially the first time, often elicits the reaction, "it was creepy." ESP calls personal boundaries into question. Whether or not the acceptance into society of ESP will be a blessing or a curse depends upon how we will integrate the crisis in boundaries ESP will bring.
It is a hopeful sign when the technological advances in ESP merge with developments in spiritual awareness to produce an enlightened approach to things psychic. A new book, Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing (New World Library) represents such a merger. The first author, Russell Targ, is a physicist and the foremost pioneer in research on remote viewing. His work has made it commonplace among consciousness workers to assume that your mind has a "nonlocal" dimension that enables it to interact with things, events and persons in other times and places. The second author, Jane Katra is a public health educator with a special gift for spiritual healing. When Targ developed cancer, he met Katra who shared with him her skills at "immune system coaching." Thus Katra introduced Targ to spiritual aspects of the nonlocal mind, such as prayer. In this book they each tell the story of their own individual research, and then explain how their two fields interact, providing a spiritual perspective on ESP and a psychic explanation for spiritual healing. It is an extraordinary synthesis of scientific research with spiritual wisdom.
We find it important to spiritualize psychic ability because of its seemingly awesome power. For example, when we prepare for even a mild mannered psychic experience, such as meditation, we regularly surround ourselves with protective light. This ritual suggests we perceive the possibilities of danger in sitting alone with ourselves. When ESP is acknowledged, are you ever alone with yourself?
Targ's research shows that psychic abilities can be used for spying. Furthermore, Russian research shows that one person can send telepathic suggestions of strangulation to another person and cause choking. It would appear that ESP can be used for immoral purposes. So it would seem that we need spirituality to shape the use of psychic abilities toward ethical ends. Katra's work in healing others seems like such a positive application. But a surprising paradox enters the picture.
Katra distinguishes spiritual healing from psychic healing. It is a difference in world views, in paradigms. "In psychic healing, the healer transposes intuitive impressions into thoughts and specific healing actions to remedy a perceived problem in a patient's body. In spiritual healing, ...the spiritual healer maintains his or her awareness in a nonlocal state of unity consciousness throughout the healing session." She also distinguishes spiritual healing from any kind of telepathic suggestion because she does not involve herself in any intent that the patient get well, so that no persuasion is involved. Rather, she enters a unitive state of consciousness while feeling merged with the patient. In effect she invites the patient, or offers the opportunity for the patient, to come along with her into God awareness, and then the patient experiences his or her own "self healing" ability in that unitive (God) awareness.
It would seem that psychic healing comes out of the paradigm of power. One person with special powers operates on another person. The operation could be done against the person's will, and thus ethical standards are required. Spiritual healing arises from a paradigm of love. It is an interaction with a person and involves the patient's choice to transcend ego consciousness to merge with "the community of spirit.". Although psychic ability is involved in this healing process (they propose that a psychic resonance enables the patient to emulate the healer's awareness), developing psychic ability is downplayed. Entering the state of consciousness of oneness both reveals the latent psychic ability and at the same time makes it less an object of desire. The consciousness of oneness seems to be both the psychic gift and the healing fruit.
The fact of the matter is that psychic abilities do not change the landscape of spirituality, they only illuminate it. Maybe the stereotype of psychic ability can tempt someone to pursue further the illusion of operating on personal power, or to create a shield against an abuse of such power. On the other hand, a deeper understanding of psychic ability may promote more of a motivation to learn how to live interactively the life of interconnectedness. [...]
Evidence of the Psi Dimension January 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was fascinated and pleased to see how a scientist opens his mind and recognizes what is called the psychic reality which has been expressed by mystics over the centuries.
 Total Rip Off October 21, 2001
48 out of 117 found this review helpful
Targ has turned a common preliminary misdiagnosis into a pseudo-religious platform for promoting himself and exploiting the subject of cancer and healing. He has openly admitted that his so called initial diagnosis was quickly reversed, not because of any spiritual practice but because his doctors were uncertain of their initial findings. When the tentative diagnosis was not confirmed in a subsequent test, Targ boldly claimed that a miracle had happened. As much as he glosses over this critical fact in this sleazy and overblown volume, it is a familiar kind of problem to those of us who deal with the issue of cancer diagnosis everyday. The only miracle here is that Targ found a publisher and an audience gullible enough to believe in his scam. He should be ashamed of himself but is probably as comfy with his guru-dom as Ira Einhorn. If anyone is stupid enough to believe in this nonsense, let us hope they are not also stupid enough to ignore the advice of qualified medical professionals. This book is an insult to those of us working on real research to relieve the suffering of those who really do have cancer. It is also an insult to those brave souls who live quietly with their disease and did not get sick as Targ and Katra imply because they were not spiritually advanced enough to overcome a true illness that knows no morality and takes no prisoners.
A wonderful tribute to the powers of the mind July 21, 2000
48 out of 51 found this review helpful
This hybrid work covers the phenomenon of spiritual healing from both a scientific (Rusell's) and a personal/subjective (Katra's) experience. The scientific part of the book will not convince anyone who is still in denial about the existence of psi phenomena, as it doesn't discuss hard statistical data and parapsychological methodology. If that is what you are looking for, read Radin's "The Conscious Universe" instead. However, for the reader who has accepted the reality of psi phenomena, but wants to learn more, it gives a good introduction to the recent history of parapsychological research, and to what this research has taught us about the factors that affect psi performance.For me however, the highlight of the book is Katra's part. Her deeply personal, moving account of healing people through spiritual means has an immensely uplifting quality, and it is because of that that I particularly recommended this book to people who are suffering from a chronic illness. This might help them to keep up hope, or to regain it if lost.
A spell-binding book April 28, 2000
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
Russell Targ shares his personal experiences with remote-viewing experiments at Stanford Research Institute, and includes fascinating photos and sketches that show the amazing accuracy remote viewers have frequently demonstrated. Jane Katya shares her personal experiences with healing touch, and how she came to work in the field of healing using Therapeutic Touch. Targ and Katya gracefully take the reader from their real-life stories to the current physical theories which can best explain non-local healing and viewing. This book is spell-binding, since it so carefully examines seemingly inexplicable phenomena from a very down-to-Earth point of view. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in enriching their lives through remote viewing and healing.
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