The Reality of ESP by Russell Targ

Author:Russell Targ [Targ, Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quest Books
Published: 2012-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Although this presentiment effect is usually taken to reflect precognition (future-knowing) operating at an unconscious body level, these interesting findings can just as well be interpreted as instances in which objective events (the presentation of the slide itself, or the person’s future reaction to the slide) may be acting backward in time to influence the person’s physiology.10

Even stronger results have been obtained by physicists Edwin May and James Spottiswoode, who measure galvanic skin response of subjects who are about to hear a loud noise from time to time in earphones. Again, measurements show that one’s nervous system seems to know in advance when it will be assaulted with a disagreeable stimulus.

But the most significant evidence for this so-called pre-stimulus response comes from the Hungarian researcher Zoltán Vassy. In his experiments, he administered painful electric shocks as the psychic stimulus to be precognized. His results are by far the strongest of all, because the human body does not ever habituate to electric shocks. They are always experienced as a new and alarming stimulus, even though the shock resides in your future.11 Whereas, after I heard a few loud-noise stimuli in May’s experiment, my body quickly habituated and realized that the noise was not actually going to hurt me, so I become much more meditative than vigilant—causing a decline in the pre-stimulus response. This reaction may be unique to me, because I am both a researcher and an experienced meditator. But nobody snoozes through an electric shock.

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