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Summary: A spell-binding book
Review: 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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Summary: Total Rip Off
Review: 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.
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Summary: Soul Searching!
Review: Thank you Jane And Russell for an exceptional book. The area's dealing with healing were most healing for me. I have read much on healing and spirituality and this book ranks very very high on my list.
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Summary: dissapointing
Review: This book is a big disappointment. It's a rehash of psychic research that has been discussed before by better writers. The rub is that these two writers throw in claims about spirituality and healing. Targ claims he was miraculously cured of cancer, but dodges the question of whether he was sick or just misdiagnosed. That offends those of us who have the disease and are dealing with it, not exploiting it. Misdiagnosis is a common problem and "miracle cures" are often the result of proper re-testing. I want proof of miraculous healing, not a silly claim that a little jogging and a little prayer equals a miracle. The authors imply that only those who are not spiritual get sick and die. Katra says she's a healer, but her not very original new age ideas amount to trite advice to think positive. How spiritual is it to exploit sick people by holding out false hope and claims of miracles to sell a book? Look for God and truth elsewhere. One star because there is no lower rating.Andrea Hope
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Summary: A wonderful tribute to the powers of the mind
Review: 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.
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Summary: great gift
Review: This is a very thought provoking gift. Whenever I've mentioned the book at dinner parties, I've ended up buying copies for interested friends to see for themselves. Up to 6 copies so far....
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Summary: Hidden Gems
Review: We hear that the next big leap for humans will be to integrate science and spirit. This pioneering work is a worthwhile and original effort in that direction. It is flawed in some avoidable ways, some unavoidable in any pioneering endeavor. This is a serious but relaxed work on psi and human potential. Targ discusses the un-glamorous experimental evidence for psi, and illustrates in reasonable detail why psi is to be understood rather than believed or treated as subject to faith. His view is non-religious, suggesting that we can know our divinity, and that it is not an exotic property, but a mundane one. He discusses government-funded work recently declassified. Most interesting are his impressions on the 20th century uses of psi and consequent clues about its actual nature. Katra chronicles her development as a healer; she differentiates between psychic/energy healing and spiritual (but not religious) healing (based on the non-locality concept, and making oneself a transmitter). This is fascinating, and again, moves our understanding forward in ways that the usual, glowing, New Age testimonials generally do not. Targ and Katra undertook the difficult task of co-authoring on the basis of common, but highly individual experiences with psi. Their experiences converged in healing Targ's illness, a significant basis for joint authorship, but did not necessarily a guarantee of editorial success. Overall, the excellent content could have been more accessible with a different title, better organization and better development of Katra's material. The title, while attractive to New Age audiences, undermines the book; the word 'miracle' has been cheapened lately, now suggesting magic. The authors work hard to explain that psi and healing are not magical. Targ might have done better to rethink references to his old hobby, performing magic tricks. It brought to mind The Amazing Randi (sp?), that self-proclaimed psi debunker/magician. This confused matters a bit. Finally, the work is not quite synthesized yet, in other words, we are still reading two separate books in the same binding, although the serial chapter organization suggests otherwise. The separateness of Katra and Targ is striking throughout, in spite of organizational attempts to suggest their convergence/"non-locality". And sprinkling the two voices throughout the text as "I (Russell)" and "I (Jane)" distracts and fragments when the goal is integration. The same goes for Katra's chapter sub-headings. Her case studies and observations needed more fleshing out; they seemed less developed than Targ's sections. Why not arrange the work as three sets of chapters (or any other organizational device) instead of a single series? The authors' experiences are sufficiently distinct as to merit clearly separate treatment, with a third section devoted to more completely integrated reflections by both authors, spoken as one.
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