It seems that the UK military establishment has decided to experiment with Remote Viewing to locate high-value targets. Read on…

How UK attempted bizarre X-Files tests on soldiers

by RUSSELL JACKSON, on News.TheScotsman.com

The Ministry of Defence funded a secret study to ascertain whetherpeople with psychic powers could help protect the nation, it emergedlast night.

The MoD arranged the tests to discover whether volunteers were ableto use psychic powers to “remotely view” hidden objects. Thestudyinvolved blindfolding test subjects and asking them to “see” thecontents of sealed brown envelopes containing pictures of randomobjects and public figures.

Defenceexperts tried to recruit 12 “known” psychics who advertised theirabilities on the internet, but when they all refused they were forcedto use “novice” volunteers.

The MoD last night defended the cost of the experiment, carried outin 2002, in which commercial researchers were contracted at a cost of£18,000 to test them to see if psychic ability existed in case it couldbe used in defence, according to previously classified report releasedunder the Freedom of Information Act.

Surprisingly 28 per cent of those tested managed a close guess atthe contents of the envelopes, which included pictures of a knife,Mother Teresa and an “Asian individual”.

But most subjects, who were holed up in a secret location for thestudy, were hopelessly off the mark in their guesses. One even fellasleep while he tried to focus on the envelope’s content.

A former Ministry of Defence employee who received a copy of thereport has claimed that the timing of the study suggests securityservices wanted to “remotely view” hidden weapons caches in Iraq andfind Osama bin Laden.

Nick Pope, who ran the MoD UFO research programme and worked at theministry for 21 years, said: “It can only be speculation, but you don’temploy that kind of time and effort to find money down the back of thesofa.

“You go to this trouble for high-value assets. We must be talking about bin Laden and weapons of mass destruction.”

The MoD last night refused to discuss the possible applications ofsuch a technique, but said that the study had concluded there was”little value” in using “remote viewing” in the defence of the nation.

A spokeswoman said: “The remote viewing study was conducted toassess claims made in some academic circles and to validate researchcarried out by other nations on psychic ability.

“The study concluded that remote viewing theories had little value to the MoD and was taken no further.”

Mr Pope said he had suspected that the MoD were considering such astudy during his time there, but it was only when friend and authorTimothy Good requested documents on the subject that he discovered theyhad actually commissioned it.

The documents refer to similar study conducted by the CIA but, saidMr Pope, “there has never been a whisper of a British programmebefore.”

“This is what I call a low probability high-impact study. They musthave thought that the chances were it wouldn’t work, but if it had theintelligence applications would have been endless.”

“I don’t think this was a waste of public money. Many people willsay so, but I think it is marvellous that the Government is prepared tothink outside the box. And this is as outside the box as it gets.”

This is a truly good video. Russell Targ, the scientist who first brought remote viewing to the limelight, is interviwed by Alan Steinfeld.

Russell describes remote viewing - but goes further.

He actually teaches Alan to remote view with a just a few minutes of instructions.

Watch it. And try to work with the video and “remote view” the object Russell has hidden in his pocket.

Remote Viewing with Russell Targ and Alan Steinfeld - 5.23 mins

I found this video introducing Remote Viewing. Produced by LearnRV.com, it’s designed to promote Ed Dames course.

In the video, Ed provides a group a students a series of target reference numbers.

The students follow an RV protocal and attempt to “guess” the target. They draw the images that come to their mind.

It’s a fascinating video - take a look…

In this post, I wanted to acquaint my readers with Joe McMoneagle - one of the pioneers of Remote Viewing.

Here’s his brief bio:

Joseph McMoneagle (Born January 10, 1946, Miami, Florida) is known for his involvement in the development of Remote Viewing by U.S. Army Intelligence and the Stanford Research Institute. He was one of the original Officers recruited for the top-secret army program now known as Project Star Gate. He was recruited due to a range of unusual paranormal experiences in his early life, including out-of-body experiences, or OBEs, and a UFO sighting.

Along with Ingo Swann he has become one of the most important figures connected to the development of Remote Viewing (RV) and the use of claimed paranormal abilities for military intelligence gathering.

Joseph McMoneagle presently resides in Virginia with his wife Nancy, where they run a Remote Viewing business aimed at the corporate world called Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc. He is the author of several books including his most recent The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy and is a research associate for the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory. It is also noteworthy that Joseph Mcmoneagle is one of the few remote viewers to have conducted demonstration viewings for many TV programs, and is regarded as one of the more skillful remote viewers that is in the public eye to date.

Books By Joe McMoneagle (all links lead to Amazon.com reviews)

1. Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life Of U.S. Government of Remote Viewer 001 by Joseph McMoneagle, L. Robert Castorr, and Edwin C., Ph.D. May
2. Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook by Joseph McMoneagle
3. The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy by Joseph McMoneagle
4. Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing by Joe McMoneagle and Charles T. Tart (Paperback - Jul 1997)
5. Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living With Guidance by F. Holmes Atwater, Joseph McMoneagle, Dean Radin, and Skip Atwater (Paperback - Sep 2001)
6. ^{The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer’s Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle and Charles T. Tart (Paperback - Oct 1998)}

Joe’s Blog

Joe and his wife maintain a very light-hearted and wonderful blog. You can read about his current life on his blog here.

http://blog.mceagle.com/

A recent post reveals the Joe just turned 60!

Today January 10, 2007, is Joe’s SIXTY-FIRST birthday! Our favorite psychic Capricorn has been around for some time now eh?!

Given he’s officially died more than once (!) and come awfully close goodness knows how many other times — from hard combat to medical — I think having him around for this day is a long string of miracles… that rocks.

I’m hijacking Joe and Scooter’s blog (webmaster key!) to post a note wishing Joe a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Anybody who’d like to say hello and happy birthday to Joe, you can post a comment to this message and he will read them.

Glad to have you around Joe. You’re the man!!

Happy Birthday Joe!

Below: Screenshot of Joe’s Blog

This is an excellent article in a reputable news source, US News and World Report.

Enemies in the mind’s eye

For more than 20 years, the CIA funded psychic experiments

By Marianne Szegedy-Maszak and Charles Fenyvesi, Jan 27 2003.

His name would eventually be revealed as Joseph McMoneagle, but for the purposes of the Army’s psychic intelligence unit, he was simply Remote Viewer No. 1. One fall day in 1979 he reclined in an easy chair in an office at Fort Meade, Md. The lights were dim. Sitting nearby was an interviewer, who gave him a series of geographical coordinates that were supposed to be his mind’s destination.

After about 20 minutes, McMoneagle brought himself out of a deep meditation and, as he describes it, “opened my mind.” Gradually images began to appear: a low, windowless building; a smokestack. He smelled “a strange stink,” a mixture of sulfur and natural gas. There was also a “smelting or melting activity.” After an image came to mind, he drew it roughly on a piece of paper. Another viewer, No. 29, could “see” heavy metal equipment, including tubes conducting a “heat exchange.” For him, the site emanated a “sense of power.”

Far-fetched as it sounds, the remote viewers at Fort Meade were engaged in deadly serious work–an odd marriage of American intelligence-gathering and paranormal experimentation. Unbeknownst to themselves, viewers No. 1 and No. 29 seemed to be describing Lop Nor, a Chinese nuclear complex.

The experiment was only one episode in a remarkable research program run by the Defense Intelligence Agency and CIA from 1972 until 1996. The project, known variously as Grill Flame, Sun Streak, and finally Star Gate, explored a variety of parapsychological phenomena but especially one known as “remote viewing,” the process by which someone in, say, Maryland visualizes an office in the Kremlin and describes it both in words and drawings. The viewers were shadowy and unacknowledged participants in the quest for intelligence about a range of security concerns: nuclear weapons sites, the Iranian hostage crisis, the kidnapping of Gen. James Dozier by the Red Brigades, the location of Col. Muammar Qadhafi during the raids on Tripoli in 1986, and the espionage case of Aldrich Ames.

The outlines of Star Gate have been sketched before, but new details of the project have come to light in 73,000 pages of previously classified records released by the CIA last November and made available just this month. (An additional 20,800 pages are undergoing review, and 17,700 pages were deemed too sensitive to release.) The documents illuminate a chapter of spying that bears closer resemblance to Miss Cleo than to James Bond.

In a sense, it was inevitable. From the early 1950s on, United States intelligence explored psychic research, hoping to use extrasensory perception (ESP) for intelligence operations. After all, the Soviets were doing it. Nonetheless, officials were torn between worries that the Soviets–and later the Chinese–were ahead of the United States in the psychic arms race and the skepticism of many American officials about spending money in the field seen as dominated by kooks.

Even such hardheaded operatives as Richard Helms, who later became the director of the CIA, were intrigued. The declassified documents reveal a memo written when Helms was deputy director for plans in 1963. For 10 years a small group in the Technical Services Division had been studying hypnosis and telepathy for use in clandestine operations but concluded that these fields were not ready for operational applications. Helms disagreed and sent a memo suggesting more research in “this somewhat esoteric (and perhaps scientifically disreputable) range of activities.” He argued that given the Soviet preoccupation with “cybernetics, telepathy, hypnosis, and related subjects . . . recent reported advances . . . may indicate more potential than we believed existed.”

Remote viewing was added to the roster of psychic phenomena in 1972 when the CIA became interested in the published viewing experiments of Hal Puthoff at the Stanford Research Institute. In 1972, the CIA gave the institute $50,000 to study remote viewing. Russell Targ, who joined the project in 1972, recalls a CIA official telling him: “You are wasting your time looking at churches and swimming pools in Palo Alto.” Two years later, the institute received the geographical coordinates of a “Soviet site of ongoing operational significance.”

“Turning point.”

The target was Semipalatinsk, in what is now Kazakhstan. Aside from suspicions that the site was important, nothing was known about it. Given the coordinates, a remote viewer provided a layout of a cluster of buildings and drew a puzzling, “damned big crane.” He identified the underground facility as storage for Soviet missiles. Satellite photos verified the viewer’s report, according to Donald Jameson, then a senior CIA Soviet specialist, who called the event a “turning point.” One group within the agency refused to look at the Semipalatinsk data, objecting to the unscientific methodology. Another group allowed that the data might be real but called the process “demonic.”

Still, officials were convinced enough of the program’s potential that a training program was designed, as well as an ESP teaching machine. Questions designed to detect ESP talent supplemented the standard personality test used by the CIA. Some employees were deemed psychically gifted. When the CIA cut the program in 1975, the funds shifted first to the Air Force and then, in 1980, to the Defense Intelligence Agency. The military also looked for potential talent. That meant, says Paul H. Smith, a retired intelligence officer who spent seven years in Star Gate, “certain odd proclivities, like a creative pursuit in music or art, an interest or aptitude in foreign languages. They were also looking for people who didn’t report any ESP experiences.”

Between 1979 and 1994 Fort Meade’s viewing site conducted roughly 250 projects involving thousands of missions. One, in 1987, was an attempt to find a mole in the CIA. The viewers came up with a composite: The man lived in the Washington area, drove an expensive foreign car, perhaps gray, lived in a palatial home, was intimate with a woman from Latin America, possibly Colombia. Aldrich Ames lived in a palatial house in the Washington area. He drove a Jaguar and was married to a Colombian. The car was red; the house was gray. Not that the information was used; Ames was apprehended in 1994.

By 1995, the end of the Cold War, along with increasing concerns about unfavorable scrutiny, drained the remote-viewing program of both its vitality and its supporters, and CIA director John Deutch ended it. All told, it had cost $20 million. The CIA says it no longer funds remote-viewing research, but the military is less emphatic in its denials. In the end, the weakness of remote viewing, says Smith, “is the weakness of any phenomenon that deals with the threshold of human perception. There are false positives, vague notions, and confused data that go with the territory.”

Paradoxically, for nearly a quarter of a century of American spying, that was also a strength.

Article from US News and World Report >>

 Paul H. Smith served for seven years in the government’s remote viewing program at Ft. Meade, MD (from September 1983 to August 1990).  During 1984, he became one of only a handful of government personnel to be personally trained as coordinate remote viewers by Ingo Swann at SRI-International.

Paul was the primary author of the government RV program’s CRV training manual, and served as theory instructor for new CRV trainee personnel, as well as recruiting officer and unit security officer.  He is credited with over a thousand training and operational remote viewing sessions during his time with the unit at Ft. Meade.

In this excellent article, Paul explains why the average person should learn remote viewing.

Why Learn Remote Viewing by Paul H. Smith

Many times since starting to teach controlled remote viewing commercially, I’ve been asked variations of the question “Why do people want to learn remote viewing?”or “What good is remote viewing?”

I’ve thought about it for a long time, and have come to the following conclusion. Maybe people want to learn remote viewing for reasons similar to why others learn to skydive. This may seem a little surprising at first, but let’s start off by asking, “what good is skydiving?” There are of course a number of answers: It is useful in military and commando operations; it is handy for getting people to remote places to fight forest fires; it can be used to insert rescue personnel into certain emergency situations.

However, the vast majority of people learn to skydive, and continue doing it, not for any so-called practical reason. They do it because it presents a challenge–the thrill of overcoming nature (gravity) and the natural human fears that come with it. Or it puts them in a class of people who do something beyond the ordinary–something that takes skill and self-mastery. Or they simply glory in the experience of hanging all alone, however briefly, thousands of feet above the earth.

This seems also to be the case with remote viewing–though not literally, of course. Like skydiving, RV has its practical applications. Within its inherent limitations remote viewing has been used in intelligence collection, crime-solving, finding missing persons, market predictions, and–more controversially–space exploration.

Yet most people who learn it do so not because of practical applications so much as the challenge it represents–learning to do something that few other people as yet know how to do; or acquiring a skill deemed impossible under the currently ruling scientific paradigm; or because it provides convincing and satisfying proof that we are, indeed, much more than our physical bodies.

While skydivers learn that it is possible to transcend the physical fears and bodily limitations that we normally think we are subject to, remote viewers learn something analogous: that it is possible to transcend not only those limitations, but the boundaries of space and time as well.

For more info on Paul, visit this link >>

The website LearnRV.com is selling a product that claims to be able to teach people remote viewing. It’s based on Major Ed Dames experiences with the art.

I’ve not tried product - and this is not a criticism of the site nor the product. I have great respect for Ed Dames. But I seriously find the claims in this advertisment fishy.

Here’s the Ad - as posted on YouTube. Below, I’ll mention the problems with it.

Ok, here’s the problem.

First, knowing Remote Viewing does not make you “safe”. You’re not going to predict the future or hear alarm bells in your head before life-threatening events. Learning remote viewing might help you better tune your natural intuition so you might ’sense’ a dangerous situation. But remote viewing alone, will not warn you of danger.

Second, the ad seems to suggest you can see the future with Remote Viewing. Not true at all. No one can predict the future - since it is not yet determined. No serious Psychic would claim to be able to do this.

Third…I really hated the image at the end of the ad of a kid taking an exam. This seems to suggest that Remote Viewing can be used to “see” exam results. Utter rubbish.

Look - I think we should all be spreading knowledge of remote viewing and ESP. But false advertising like this turns off intelligent people and cheapens the art.

In this video, The ESP Affair, Ed Dames, a former American “Remote Viewer Spy” talks about his experiences using his mind to Remotely View and penetrate Soviet military installations during the Cold War.

It’s some exciting stuff - although I wish their background music was no so sinister and heavy. Remote viewing really should not be made to sound sinister and mysterious.

Still, watch the video and share your comments.

Part 1 - 2.46 seconds

If you liked the Video Above, Scroll below to Watch the Remaining Parts of the Series, Parts 2, 3 and 4.

Who Is Ed Dames?

“Major” Edward A. Dames is a retired U.S. Army and CIA intelligence officer, known for his claim to be able to conduct remote viewing, and for his appearances on the Coast to Coast AM radio show.

After remote viewing training under Ingo Swann, who developed the original RV protocols, Dames went on to found PSI TECH, a company that sells home remote viewing kits.

In 2004 he was hired as a consultant for the feature film Suspect Zero. He also made his acting debut in the film, playing the small role of a CIA remote viewing instructor.

He is mentioned, along with other proponents of parapsychology within the U.S. military, in “The Men Who Stare at Goats” by Jon Ronson.

Part 2 - Psychic Invasion (2.34 mins)

Part 3 - Consciousness (2.34 seconds)

Part 4 - Movie Plot Points (3.23 mins)

Hi, this is Michael Jura. I’m an avid blogger on the new sciences of mind training.

I’ve been practicing remote viewing for many years now and had some incredible experiences.

This blog is my way of sharing my interest in this field with the wider world.