Suzanne Taylor

It’s thrilling that 100,000 more viewers every month watch a TED talk about​ ​remote viewing that my friend, Russell Targ, did for me: click here to watch. It’s up to​ 5 million views as of this writing. It’s full of the “Ideas Worth Spreading”​ ​that TED presumably is all about, yet it caused TED  to cancel the license they’d given me to produce TEDx West Hollywood so that I ultimately​ ​delivered my program, Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm?, or, Making the​ ​Quantum Leap, on my nickel.

You can learn a lot about remote viewing, a capacity we all have to “see”​ ​what exists in a distant place we’ve never been to, in Third Eye Spies, a​ ​documentary about his work that Russell finished this year and is streaming​ ​now on Amazon Prime. Tune in and find out about the lab Russell had​ ​at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), funded by the CIA to use remote viewing to spy on the Russians during the Cold War. The lab also had some​ ​victories that are beyond belief yet they occurred, like finding the trail to Patty​ ​Hearst after she was kidnapped and working with Uri Geller doing some​ ​“mind reading” that seemed impossible.

In my quest for what could shift our worldview to where we care about each​ ​other as much as we care about ourselves, remote viewing and the ESP that​ ​Geller is so adept at give evidence of how connected we are in one cosmic​ ​soup. Russell, a physicist of some renown who worked on developing the​ ​laser, helps us get beyond our cultural attachment to old Newtonian ideas of a universe running on cause and effect where separation is the name of the​ ​game.

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The Los Angeles Times wrote an article on the “launch of the world’s first interdisciplinary research institute on kindness, which will explore, for instance, how and why being nice to others reduces depression and the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.” The team of UCLA researchers will examine three themes that are the foundation of the institute’s project: “the roots of kindness, how to promote it, and how to use it as a therapeutic intervention to improve mental and physical health…Research by UCLA scientists already has shown that mindfulness and kindness actually alter the behavior of genes, turning down those that promote inflammation, which can lead to heart disease or certain cancers, and turning up the activity of genes that protect against infections.”

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