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[Fire]

Russell Targ's website has been updated recently with a couple more reasons to turn off the screen and curl up with a good book.

The most recent addition to the Russell Targ Editions of Hampton Roads Publishing is Dr. Jacques Vallee's The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-Line Revolution.  Vallee is best know to me for his research in UFOlogy but is a serious scientist with a ton of credentials and published writings in astrophysics, computers, finance and more.  His book is featured here: http://www.espresearch.com/heartoftheinternet/

That is a bit outside the normal topic for books Targ features.  Other books on the website that remote viewers might find of special interest are:

Mind to Mind, by René Warcollier. This is the fellow whose research came up with ideograms; this is required reading.
http://www.espresearch.com/mindtomind/

An Experiment With Time, by J.W. Dunne.
http://www.espresearch.com/experimentwithtime/

Mental Radio, by Upton Sinclair.
http://www.espresearch.com/mentalradio/

Experiments in Mental Suggestion, by L.L. Vasiliev
http://www.espresearch.com/mentalsuggestion/

Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception, Edited by Charles T. Tart, Harold E. Puthoff, Russell Targ
http://www.espresearch.com/mindatlarge/

Dream Telepathy, by Montague Ullman, M.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. with Alan Vaughan
http://www.espresearch.com/dreamtelepathy/

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by F.W.H. Myers
http://www.espresearch.com/survival/

And Targ's own most recent two books:

Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-Local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing, by Russell Targ and Jane Katra, Ph.D.
http://www.espresearch.com/miraclesofmind/

The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief, by Jane Katra, Ph.D. and Russell Targ
http://www.espresearch.com/heartofthemind/

[mindchild]

Thank's for the update    

I've read two of the books from the list, Russell Targ's books and am looking forward to reading the rest of the books he has listed there.  

I'm currently reading Skip Atwater's book and just finished Joe's "The Star Gate Chronicles" .  Way cool to see your name in the Acknowledgements    That IS you, right?

Laurie

[Rocheleh]

If you read in Hungarian, Zoltan Vassy's books are a good read, I like his style plus he's solid on the science, methodology etc. part. (He's a physicist originally, but he's been doing parapsychology research for 10+ years now, I don't know exactly how many, with the "big boys".)

Utazas Paramerikaba (1st edition title: Racionalitason innen es tul) - this one describes his experiences as a guest researcher in Princeton; about half of the book is about psi research, the rest about everyday life in the United States as he saw it. Back then, Hungarian accounts of such were fairly rare, as the book was originally published in 1989. It got published again two months or so ago.

Complete text available online! (He himself uploaded it to one of the major Hungarian e-text archives, back when there was no reissue in sight.)
http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/human/turizmus/paramer/

A parapszichologia tudomanyos iranyzata - this little handbook describes scientific parapsychology to the complete layperson, slightly dated (1989? possibly even earlier?) but I'd say still an excellent read. A good short summary of the field.

...yeah, so, if you don't speak Hungarian these are completely useless, but if you do, they're an absolute must. I'd be hard-pressed to find any other book on real, scientific parapsychology, as opposed to New Age stuff, in Hungarian. Eysenck & Sargent's Explaining the Unexplained was published a long time ago, but aside that... let me think. (I'm at my family's place, not at mine, and I don't have my bookshelf on me )

Rachel

[Rocheleh]

Just as I re-read PJ's original post...

Two Vasilyev books were published in Hungarian, before the fall of the Iron Curtain, and they're hard to find. I have only read one, and I'd say it had interest only as a historical document. (People have been telling me the other's better, but I have yet to find it. I guess this latter one's the same one as PJ linked, containing his research on long-distance hypnosis.)

Anyone read that book... in English, don't turn away yet!! ... Ostrander and Schroeder: PSI - Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. I have it lying around, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Is it a sensation-journalism piece, or something more than that?

[energycritter]

Russell Targ's website has been updated recently with a couple more reasons to turn off the screen and curl up with a good book.

I wish it was that simple......

Now if I could get the TV on/off switch to be linked to my daughter finishing college and then being with her husband and the house being less active and whatnot, then that would be great.....

I could then Just go turn off the screen, then, wham......daughter is finished with college, her and her husband living across town and the house quite and inactive.....let the reading begin.....OK, not yet, but, in a few more years.......then I can read until my head explodes......  By that time the list of books to read will be huge....yeeee hawwww

BC/EC

[PJ]

Hi Laurie,

and just finished Joe's "The Star Gate Chronicles".  Way cool to see your name in the Acknowledgements    That IS you, right?

That's me.  Joe and his wife are good friends.

PJ

PS Rocheleh, I'm lucky to read english.  I wish I were half as multi-lingual as you obviously are!  Hey you know what, Zoltan is part of the presentiment response research Ed May is also working on right now and since that's current research he might be willing to talk about it if you bring it up in class.  Also, May is in Hungary as much as he's in the US or India (or many other countries) lately, so you might end up meeting him eventually too--maybe you could talk Z.V. into having him in as a guest speaker. ;-)

PJ

[Rocheleh]

Today was his first class, he's a good speaker

Yeah, I've heard Ed May's been here a couple times, but that much time, and he'll be back?! Whoa!

I'll definitely talk Z.V. into doing that, and also ask about this line of research; he seems to enjoy discussing his research rather deeply, methods, factoring, etc. and pointing out small interesting things.

One other project he's currently working on is a longitudinal survey of Hungarian freshman university students, and their beliefs on psi, occult ideas, and decent scientific ideas that sound slightly unusual (like hypnosis, or black holes); and how the students differentiate between them, that is IF they differentiate at all   The survey's done every six or seven years, and this year it's due, so he's already working on it. He showed us some of the previous data (I'd read about it before, it was published somewhere - maybe in some local psychology journal - but not in this much detail).

Rachel

[mindchild]

Hey PJ,
That is SO cool and wonderful  that you are friends with the McMoneagles!  I'm really tempted to dissolve into inarticulate fan babble at this point,  but trying not to do that  

I appreciated so much your posting of comments by Joe on another thread.  Just another way this group is awesome!   Hoping for more of the same when you and he have time for it.

Meanwhile, thanks again for pointing to the book list.   I currently have a lot of time to read, so I'm making the most of it and will be ordering from there soon.

Laurie

[energycritter]

 I'm really tempted to dissolve into inarticulate fan babble at this point,  but trying not to do that  

Laurie

That is a crack up....I know exactly what you mean....too funny...."dissolve into inarticulate fan babble"....so that is what I need to call that experience...

BC/EC

[mindchild]