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English Summary/英文概要： On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos, suddenly he pointed to one of them and announced, “That’s the ringleader.” The man was Donald DeFreeze, who was indeed subsequently so identified. Price also described the type and location of the kidnap car, enabling the police to find it within minutes. That remarkable event is one reason Targ believes in ESP. Another occurred when his group made $120,000 by forecasting for nine weeks in a row the changes in the silver-commodity futures market.
As a scientist, Targ demands proof. His experience is based on two decades of investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This twenty-million dollar program launched during the Cold War was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Army and Air Force Intelligence. The experiments they conducted routinely presented results could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of experiments:
1. Remote Viewing, in which a person describes places and events independent of space and time. For example, while in California Price drew to scale a Soviet weapons factory at Semipalitinsk with great accuracy later confirmed by Satellite photography. In another remote viewing, Targ accurately sketched an airport in San Andreas, Columbia himself.
2. Distant Mental Influence, where the thoughts of the experimenter can positively or negatively affect the physiology (heart rate, skin resistance, etc.) of a distant person.
3. Whole field isolation, where someone in a state of sensory isolation accurately describes the visual experiences of someone else in another place.
4. Precognition and retrocausality, showing that the future can affect the past. That is, the elephant you see on television in the morning can be the cause of your having dreamed about elephants the previous night.
Final chapters present evidence for survival after death; explain how ESP works based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of our selves as nonlocal, eternal awareness; discuss the ethics of exercising psychic abilities,and show us how to explore ESP ourselves. “I am convinced,” Targ says, “that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try that?”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在1974年2月4日， “共生解放軍”綁架了住在未婚夫伯克利加州公寓的，十九歲報業女繼承人派特裡夏 • 赫斯特。由於家人片尋不到她，警方只得叫來物理學家拉塞爾•達瑞和派特•普萊斯，後者是一位通靈的退休的警務處長。當普萊斯打開了警方厚重一疊幾以百張的照片，突然他指出其中之一並宣佈，"這是本案的主謀"。該名男子是唐納德•迪弗利茲，事實上後來警方也是這樣確定的。普萊斯還描述了綁架車的類型和位置，使警方在幾分鐘內便找到了這輛車。這件當時轟動全美的事件如此之快的突破，物理學家達瑞相信超感能力是原因之一。另一則發生的奇特事件是，當時他對銀商品期貨市場的集團將會有連續九周的動蕩所作的預測，讓他團隊賺得了12萬美元。
作為一個科學家，達瑞需要得到驗證。他的經驗是來自己在斯坦福大學研究研究所（SRI）二十多年來長期的研究，這個研究項目是他與物理學家哈羅德•佩斯奧夫於1972年創辦的。在冷戰期間啟用的兩千萬美元的計畫項目，是受到當時的美國中央情報局、美國國家航空航天局、國防情報局和軍隊和空軍情報支持。他們所進行例行提交實驗結果可能發生的概率幾乎為零(成功的幾率為＜幾百萬之一)。達瑞介紹了四種類型的實驗：
1. 直覺潛能，其中一個人以獨立的空間和時間為背景，描述所發生的地點和事件。例如，身在加州靈媒普萊斯按比利描述現今位於哈薩克斯坦薩米耶城市裏的蘇聯武器工廠地形，後來通過衛星攝影證實了這位通靈人士驚人的精確程度。在另一位直覺潛能案例中，物理學家達瑞自己準確地勾勒出哥倫比亞聖安地列斯的一個機場。
2. 遠隔的心理影響，這些參加實驗者的思想可以積極或消極影響遠處的人的生理機能 (心率、 皮膚電阻等）。
3. 整個隔離的領域，其中有人在感官隔離的狀態下能準確地描述出其他人在另一個地方的視覺體驗。
4. 預知未來和逆向因果關係，體現出未來可以影響過去。也就是說，你今早在電視看到的大象可能是您在前一晚有夢見大象的誘因。
最終章給死後殘存提供了證據；解釋了超感覺力的運作來源於的佛教/印度教視我們自己的自我非局部，永恆意識【在印度教有關"梵我合一"的最基本教義中,又包含著自我的內在區分以及自我之戰的思想,而這揭示了終極實在的既內在統一又自我分離的"兩極相通"的秘密】 ；討論倫理的行使通靈的能力，並向我們展示如何探索自己的超感能力。"我深信，"達瑞說道，"大多數人可以學會從他們平常心移到一個不受妨礙的傳統的空間和時間領域。誰不想試試?"
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