Do You See What I See?

Do You See What I See?
Russell Targ
Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc
ISBN: 978-1-57174-559-0
Non-Fiction, Memoir
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

There are memoirs that inspire and biographies that make you question common perception. Do You See What I See? is something more than both of these things.
In this book, the author shares his life, his exploits, and his insights. Here is a man born with very limited sight and prosopagnosia (a condition which causes face-blindness or the inability to recognize faces). That he learns to read, studies physics, becomes a top researcher in laser technology is fascinating. That his journey also leads him to an interest in ESP, working on remote viewing for the CIA, and a study of common perception versus illusion is beyond anything I could have expected. Oh, his brother-in-law was the late Bobby Fischer and he legally rides a motorcycle.
Do You See What I See? made me feel like I was having an extended personal conversation with the author. The work isn’t set up chronologically but I think in this case that works to this story’s advantage. It gives the work a casual feeling while at the same time gradually opening up the reader to a different perspective, perhaps even an entirely different way of thinking.