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This first of a two-volume study deals with the earlier part of Bach's career, and examines the output of his youth and its many external influences, before moving on to study the first great masterpieces in which Bach's own personal voice begins to emerge. ... Read more

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Originally published by Delacorte (ISBN 0440056888, 1977, 70,000 sold), Mind-Reach is the book that led to the U. S. Army’s psychic spy program and the subsequent prominence of remote viewing. The protocols that physicists Targ and Puthoff developed at the Stanford Research Institute are still in use today and have proven again and again in laboratory settings that psychic ability is universal. Targ is the author of three recent books with New World Library: Limitless Mind (ISBN 1577314131, 2004), The Heart of the Mind (ISBN 1577311566, 2000), and Miracles of Mind (ISBN 1577310977, 1999, 20,000 sold). Mind-Reach is the eleventh title in Hampton Roads’ Studies in Consciousness series. ... Read more

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The book is an interesting read, but their science is flawed...
I was very excited to receive and begin reading this book after I watched "The Men Who Stare At Goats" and became interested in why the Government funded remote viewing research for 20+ years. This book is an interesting account of how experiments in remote viewing and psychic phenomenon were carried out in the early to mid 70's @ Stanford.

However, after having read the book it strikes me that the way the experiments were conducted would not be considered a tightly controlled experiment by today's scientific standards. Reading copies of the actual transcripts I did find what I would consider to be leading questions and cues. And in one part of the book Targ (one of the researchers) talks about how they were so impressed by Swann's abilities (he was the first subject) that they took him out for a steak dinner to celebrate. Clearly this could lead one to believe that the experimenters liked Swann and wanted him to succeed, even if subconsciously and thus may have inadvertently presented clues to him. In today's views on science, it would be considered highly inappropriate to take your subject out to dinner!

Even more surprising perhaps was the selection of another subject Hella Hammid whom Targ had known for more than a dozen years, and this was a subject they had selected in order to see if they could take an "ordinary" person and train them for lack of better terminology to have psi abilities. Obviously it's not wise to choose your pal of 10+ years for your research subject. And perhaps worst of all, they conclude (the book and their studies it seems) by "observing" Uri Geller who even his supporters now concede that he was simply little more than a magician. I used "observing" in quotes there because that is essentially what the experimenters at Stanford were doing, observing him rather than having him perform under tightly controlled conditions, and I dare say they allowed him to trick them. This was perhaps the biggest problem for me in the book and in my mind this along with the other aforementioned items destroys their credibility as researchers, at least in this realm.

However, regarding psi abilities, I still believe that there is likely some aspect of our cognitive abilities that we are simply not fully tapping into. I don't think of it as paranormal but rather a cognitive ability that is something that is not readily controlled by the subject. In other words there are good days and bad days. Some images come through clearly while others do not. It's usually described as a channel of information - often garbled with other unrelated images or noise. The trick apparently is to know what to filter out and what is relevant. If this is true, it would account for why it is not always statistically significant or reproducible.

Psi experiments
Targ is a scholar of a difficult field of research, but makes the case that psi is happening in many ways for many people.My skepticism was put on hold from scholarly research like this.Something interesting is happening.

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness)
There is still some unshared data out there, some was in this book and I enjoyed it for that

Don't miss this book!
I am so happy that I read this book! Puthoff and Targ really packed an incredible amount of in-depth, tantalizing information in this short read. At only about 225 pages, it is amazing how many different topics they cover, from Ingo Swan and Remote Viewing (which Mr. Swann and they basically pioneered), to their work with Uri Geller, and on to various other dimensions of this fascinating world of science and the "paranormal." Makes for very entertaining and intelligent reading. What a blessing it's back in print!

Where are the flying cars?
If ESP, including remote viewing, telepathy and psychokinesis actually worked, we would be living in a much different world. Osama bin Laden would be unable to hide from the US military. Missing persons like Elizabeth Smart wouldn't go missing for long. Casinos would be out of business very quickly. But ESP doesn't work, and thus the world is as we know it.

So then, how can reports like those in Mind-Reach be explained? I have my doubts as to the accuracy of the account in Mind-Reach, but even taking it at face value, weaknesses in the experiments are obvious. In one remote viewing experiment, the viewer describes an A-frame building with a 4-sided ornament on the wall. This is matched to a windmill. In another experiment, the viewer describes an A-frame building with a 4-sided ornament on the wall. This time it is matched to a church. In another experiment, a viewer observing a nature sanctuary draws a tunnel of regular geometric shapes. This is matched to a utility tower near the site. Compare this drawing to the pedestrian overpass depicted in another experiment. One has to wonder.

For a skeptical report of the research of Targ and Puthoff, read Flim-Flam by James Randi, chapter 7 (ISBN-13: 978-0879751982). If you want a more academic treatment, try some of these:
MARKS D, INFORMATION-TRANSMISSION IN REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENTS,NATURE 292 : 177 1981
MARKS D, SENSORY CUES INVALIDATE REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENTS,NATURE 292 : 177 1981
MARKS D, SCOTT C, REMOTE VIEWING EXPOSED, NATURE 319 (6053): 444-444 FEB 6 1986 ... Read more

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What if we could talk face-to-face with the people we were in the past, with the people we are in parallel lifetimes, in alternate worlds? What would we tell them, and what would we ask? How would we change if we new what waits beyond space and time?' In a journey with his wife, Leslie, Richard Bach travels to a realm where survival depends on discovering what the other aspects of themselves have learned on roads they never took; where imagination and fear are tools for saving worlds and destroying them; where dying is one step to overcoming death. One is Bach's most startling story yet, opening a mystical door on an alternative path to finding ourselves. ... Read more

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ONE By Richard Bach
I received this book in excellent condition well packaged and a very fast delivery.
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FRIENDSHIP HAS NO DISTANCE
A friend of mine gave me this book as a present many years ago and I believe it is wonderful.It was my first Bach's book and I think it is my favorite (followed by "Illusions") from his collection.No doubts that I love Bach's writings!!!

This is a very short, kind, and sweet story, written on beautiful color paintings.It surely might represent an enormous impact on anybody's life, as it did on mine.

Little Rae celebrates her fifth birthday and has invited her friend Richard, who is thousand of kilometers away, to her birhtday party.Richard, who is unable to physically get to the party, sends his wishes using "imaginary trips" of several birds in order "to be with Rae" and show her the meaning of friendship.

Bach demonstrates that physical distance cannot separate us from our real friends and/or the people we love, because if we really want to be with them... we are!!!

This is a perfect book to tell a friend how much we care about him/her.

El libro me ayudó a crecer internamente.
Aprendí que realmente no estamos lejos de nadie, pues viajamos en el corazón de las personas que amamos.Además los dibujos del libro ayudan a inspirarnos, por ejemplo, el dibujo del colibrí es hermosísimo. ... Read more