Back in Print!
Note: this book was previously published under the title, The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief.

We don’t live the way we could, but we have the capacity to activate and enter into a more evolved way of being human.
In this wide-ranging survey of spiritual insight, healer Jane Katra and physicist Russell Targ demystify consciousness transformation by showing how centuries of wisdom teachings—-from the ancient Indian Vedas and Christian Gnosticism to modern quantum physics and Centering Prayer—-all point to a common experience of realizing one’s connection to a higher reality that is available to everyone. Whether we call it connecting to God, satori, or unity consciousness, the authors describe it as our evolutionary mandate to become active agents of consciousness transformation by turning our attention away from our separate selves.

Building on these ancient teachings, Katra and Targ explore how modern scientific exploration of psychic phenomena—- from laboratory evidence of mind-to-mind connections, hospital studies of distant healing, research showing precognition of the future, and fascinating evidence of verified past-life memories—-all indicate that consciousness extends beyond the individual self.

As in their previous groundbreaking exploration of nonlocal mind and spiritual healing, Miracles of Mind, Targ and Katra team up here to show how we are hard-wired for higher consciousness. At the core of The Heart of the Mind is the idea that by learning to direct steady, intentional and selfless attention onto awareness itself, the transformative experience of radiating spiritual power, also called compassion, or a palpable power of peace, may be realized by any sincere seeker—without dogma, ritual, or religious belief. By beginning with the concrete steps of mind-quieting with forgiveness and gratitude, the authors invite us to use our minds to transform ourselves and lift the consciousness of the world.

Jane Katra, Ph.D., has been a practicing spiritual healer for thirty-seven years. She taught public health at the University of Oregon in the 1980s, and continues to take part in remote viewing, psychokinesis, healing, and distant mental influence research. She is the author, with Russell Targ, of Miracles of Mind. Katra currently teaches classes on psychic abilities, higher consciousness, and the evolution of humanity, and speaks publicly on the transformative effects of near-death experiences and after-death communications.

Russell Targ was a pioneer in the development of the laser and co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute’s investigation into psychic abilities (remote viewing) in the 1970s and 1980s. He has published more than a hundred scientific papers on lasers, plasma physics and ESP research, and his books include Mind Reach, The Mind Race, and Limitless Mind. A retired senior staff scientist for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co., Targ now lives in Palo Alto, California and teaches remote viewing workshops internationally.