Something that kind of makes this guys story even deeper.
His first wife was the sister of the world chess champion Bobby Fischer. When Bobby Fischer was on the run from the US government Targ was helping him.
His daughter's name was Elisabeth Fischer Targ:
Elisabeth Fischer Targ (August 4, 1961 - July 18, 2002) was an American psychiatrist specializing in psychic phenomena and the role of spirituality in health and healing. Targ produced a series of papers investigating the effects of prayer on AIDS patients, attempting to test the theory with a high degree of experimental rigor, with questionable results that eventually were not confirmed by a study published after her death. She died of a brain tumor on July 18, 2002.