The American Chronicle reports…

ESP involved in blind seniors’ holes-in-one, ‘Robin Hood shot?’

Steve Hammons

April 13, 2008

Recent news stories have carried accounts of two legally blind American golfers hitting holes-in-one. And a legally blind woman in the UK made a “Robin Hood shot” at her archery range, splitting her first arrow already in the target with her second shot.

These kinds of incidents may seem like miracles or dumb luck.

Or, maybe they are examples of what researchers in human perception call “anomalous cognition” or “remote viewing.” Another term is “extrasensory perception” or “ESP.”

These are concepts, well-researched and documented by researchers, that try to give names to the human abilities of accurately perceiving aspects of situations around us using our internal instincts, intuition, gut feelings, hunches, visualization, situational awareness and other similar methods.

The U.S. Government’s Project STARGATE of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s found that military and intelligence personnel could learn to perceive information about situations not available to them through their normal five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell.

They could perceive faraway places, events and other information internally.
We probably see amazing examples of this all around us. But do we recognize these unconventional occurances within others and within ourselves?

HOLES-IN-ONE, “ROBIN HOOD SHOT”

For example, an April 11 news report by the Associated Press told the story of the 85-year-old legally blind golfer in Arizona who made a hole-in-one recently at a golf course in Green Valley, near Tucson.

Robert Dunham, a former World War II paratrooper in the Pacific, was at a golf course in an activity coordinated through a blind veterans rehabilitation program of the Veterans Affairs health care system in southern Arizona.
Dunham started losing his sight ten years ago and had only been in the VA golfing program for three weeks.

His hole-in-one shot amazed fellow veterans and the VA staff watching, as well as Dunham himself.

Green Valley News reporter Nick Prevenas wrote in an April 8 article that, although Dunham had played golf for nearly 30 years but Dunham “said last week’s fateful shot was the first time he had come anywhere near a hole-in-one.”

And then there is the April 5 news story in the St. Petersburg Times, Florida, newspaper about 92-year-old legally blind Leo Fiyalko’s hole-in-one shot on Jan. 10.

Fiyalko said that it was his first shot of the day golfing with his “Twilighters” golf buddies. He said it was his first hole-in-one in 60 years of golfing.

The Times article noted that, “Fiyalko has learned something. He admitted to being a little reluctant to talk about the shot for the first few weeks. Now he knows it is inspirational, and he’s embraced it.”

Yes, it is inspirational. And maybe it is something more. Maybe events like this are examples of human perception that is not dependent on sight or other senses of sound, touch, taste or smell.

A March 27 article in the UK newspaper The Telegraph reported that 74-year-old Tilly Trotter started archery two years ago after being encouraged by her granddaughter to try it. Trotter lost much of her sight 17 years ago after a head injury.

While at the archery range one day with her husband, the amazing “Robin Hood shot” surprised everyone present.

Trotter was quoted as saying, “The second arrow made such a noise going into the back of previous arrow I thought I had hit the ceiling or done some expensive damage. Then I heard people jumping up and down shouting that I’d done a Robin Hood. It was a one-in-a-million shot and a bit of a fluke really.”

What do golfers Dunham, Fiyalko and archer Trotter have in common other than being legally blind, up in years and being involved in sports where the goal is hitting a small target with hand-held tool that launches a small projectile?

In all three cases, these individuals also had helpers nearby who generally pointed them toward the target, the golf green or archery bullseye, and gave them feedback on their shots.

How did this communication and sensory perception by the nearby friends, family or helpers who were able to see affect these apparently miraculous or very lucky shots?

CONTINUING RESEARCH

Maybe some researchers somewhere should take a look at these and other individuals. In decades of research on the phenomena of anomalous cognition and remote viewing, it has been clear that some people have natural abilities to perceive in ways other than, or in combination with, some our five senses.

These abilities, however, are believed to be within each of us. We can learn to make the most of them by paying attention to them and learning more about these traits.

They are most likely also present in animals that rely more on instincts and natural kinds of perception than we humans who often depend on our logical, or illogical, brain and thinking.

We are also probably able to consciously or unconsciously optimize the use of these perceptual abilities based on the circumstances.

For example, when there is danger or survival may be at stake, we might naturally try to draw on all available resources within us, whether physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or even in the realm of unconventional, such as anomalous cognition, remote viewing and ESP.

If a loved one is in danger, we might get a particularly troubling gut feeling. If we meet a stranger and we feel danger, maybe we are perceiving a real threat.
People who have experienced dangerous situations in the past might have cultivated these abilities. Maybe other life experiences also enhance these human traits.

A military or intelligence “remote viewer” might get better results when they are working on something that is of crucial importance.

A peace officer on patrol may find that their “cop instincts” kick in when something important demands their attention.

Even a police or military canine might use dogs’ natural sensory and other perceptual resources in expanded ways in certain safety-related situations.
As part of declassified information about the Project STARGATE research and operations, it is known that dolphins were reportedly tested in regard to anomalous cognition and remote viewing factors. This might make us wonder if the well-known sonar capabilities of dolphins and other marine mammals have similarities in us land animals.

The U.S. Navy has a very active Marine Mammal Program, based in San Diego, that works with and deploys Navy dolphins for various missions and operations. It is not clear from Project STARGATE reports if that research involved Navy dolphins.
It is known that in certain martial arts, students are blindfolded and told to perceive their opponent through means other than their eyes.

In the 1977 movie STAR WARS, mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi blindfolds student Luke Skywalker while training with the light saber weapon and trying to hit a moving target darting around him. “Use the Force,” Kenobi tells Luke, referring to a reality he believes is around us and within us. We can use the Force and it uses us, he tells Luke.

But whether we are talking about martial arts fighters, blind golfers and archers, dogs and dolphins or the rest of us, it is clear that we have the ability to perceive that not only includes our five senses, but also involves a “sixth sense” and maybe more.

How are these perceptions related to psychology, spirituality, biology, physics and some kind of animal or human radar or sonar?

And what really does “luck” and “coincidence” mean? Is there something more going on when certain circumstances come together in interesting and unusual ways?
Some researchers call this “synchronicity,” meaning that so-called coincidences may often be something much more.

As we explore these and other fascinating elements of our world, and inside each one of us, maybe we too will hit a hole-in-one in some way like Robert Dunham and Leo Fiyalko. Maybe each of us can make a “Robin Hood shot” of some kind in our own lives, like Tilly Trotter.

The old saying about our ability to perceive and understand is true about many things, including phenomena like anomalous cognition and remote viewing:

“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

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Ingo Swan on Skeptics:

“True skepticism does not begin by being anti-anything. The processes of open consideration and examination (i.e., research) will ultimately establish whether something exists or not.”

Below are excerpts from Ingo Swann’s article, Remote Viewing vs Its Skeptics. The writing is for the most part scholarly, demonstrating the nature of the author and his defense of capabilities of the human mind that science refuses to acknowledge, despite all the evidence.

The Larger Picture of Remote Viewing

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The Larger Picture of Skeptics and Debunkers

A more expansive treatment of this topic will be rendered in a forthcoming mini-essay entitled “Remote Viewing and Skeptics of the Twentieth Century.”

It should be stated that this topic is fairly complex. It involves much more than the very tiny minority who opine that our sentient species does not possess superpowers of bio-mind — such as intuition, telepathy, remote viewing and various forms of creativity and “higher-mind” functioning.

Earlier psychical researchers and parapsychologists have sometimes inadequately addressed this topic in brief papers. But no lengthy examination has ever appeared.

During the mid-1970s, however, one of the agencies of the intelligence community requested a lengthy examination. I was involved with a number of professional consultants in its preparation and the report was duly produced under the working title “Social Resistance to Psi.”

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Three of the major observations of the report established the following:

(1) Since doubt is considered a legitimate function within intellectual processes, the role of those who doubt is given more legitimacy than those who do not doubt. Were this not so then the meaning of doubt would become vague.

(2) When doubt is superimposed on direct human experiencing, then the doubt assumes a priority because of its perceived legitimacy. The superimposition then results in a subtle shift of focus away from examining the direct human experiencing and reinstalls the focus within the contexts of the various intellectualisms that have become involved.

(3) The history of intellectualisms demonstrates (a) that they have relatively short terms of social fashionability, and (b) that they tend to be elitist in nature because the larger populations either do not, or cannot, share in them.

Combining these three observations results in a fourth: that doubt is relative to social enclaves and is thus only transitory against larger issues that remain permanent within the direct experiential thresholds of our species.

Reducing these four observations to a possibly crude level, skeptics and debunkers come and go — but the experiencing thresholds of the species remain the same. The experiencing thresholds are therefore perpetual. Skepticism that advocates doubt regarding something perpetual is relevant only to the transitory intellectual boundaries within which it has arisen.

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The sciences and academe of the modern West have never moved full-force behind researching the superpowers. It has even been stated in the past, especially by many noted scientists, that the superpowers are not worthy of scientific interest.

So when modern skeptics protest, it is not really possible to isolate and identify what they are protesting about. That our species does possess superpowers of bio-mind can’t really be doubted. Even if only temporarily so, such superpowers often appear in naive children for goodness’ sake, and often spontaneously appear and disappear in so-called “normal” adults.

The actual issue, then, is the real extent of human sentiency, the actually existing rudiment faculties of the superpowers within our genetic species.

If this is accepted as the virtual reality issue, then skepticism and debunking regarding it become sub-issues attached not to the virtual reality itself, but to varieties of antagonistic hearsay that infect many intellectualisms. It is this antagonistic hearsay which accounts for social resistance to our species’ superpowers of bio-mind.

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The verb “debunk” means “to expose the sham of falseness of something.” Debunking is therefore a valuable function and always has been — in that certain specimens of our species like to engineer sham and falseness in order to benefit from them.

Implicit in the term, however, is the distinction between (1) exposing –after the fact of examination, and (2) accusing –before the fact. In this double sense, the term can take on Machiavellian efficiency.

“Machiavellianism” refers to Machiavelli’s political theory that politics is amoral and that any means however unscrupulous can justifiably be used in achieving political power or purposes.

The introduction of Machiavellianism into skepticism and debunking runs counter to their original ethical function and sets up lachrymose contexts so labyrinthine that very few can negotiate them. Indeed, Machiavellianism can only be effective provided the labyrinthine contexts cannot be unravelled.

As but one example of Machiavellian debunking, though, I refer the truly interested to the paper entitled “Science Versus Showmanship: A History of the Randi Hoax” by Michael A. Thalbourne just published in The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (Oct. 1995, Vol.89, No. 4).

(Remote Viewing vs Its Skeptics by Ingo Swann)

Alma seems to have amazing gifts that we do not even begin to understand. We all have it within ourselves, and to some of us it comes more naturally than others. The power of the human mind is indeed amazing…

Woman describes partner’s house accurately

By Jaime Licauco

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The case of Alma is really quite extraordinary. In another exercise, which is called Remote Viewing or Traveling Clairvoyance, I asked each participant to choose a partner he does not know and describe the partner’s house in detail both inside and out. Alma this time chose an elderly woman whom she had never met before.

The information she obtained about her were so accurate that her partner had goose bumps as Alma was describing her house, specially certain details that are not expected.

For example, Alma said, “In one of the rooms, there are so many scattered things all over the floor. The whole room is always in disarray.” The elderly woman said she had a special child that’s somewhat retarded who loves to scatter things around. “He pulls down and throw anything he could lay his hands on.”

In other psychic exercises done in the class, like psychometry, telepathy and telekinesis, she also performed remarkably well. I told her she must have had those talents or psychic gifts even before. That’s when Alma started recalling her other remarkable psychic feats, which she thought, were just coincidences or chance events.

For example, in her company, employees could not hide anything from her. And her secretary was present and confirmed everything she told me. One time she suspected that one female employee did not turn in the complete collection for the day so she called the employee but the latter denied it.

So, Alma made a thorough audit of that day’s transactions and discovered that the employee had indeed pocketed P7,000 worth of company money, as a result of which she lost her job.

Materializes photocopies of document

But the most remarkable story Alma told me, which was confirmed by her secretary who witnessed the whole thing, was when Alma without intending it materialized 10 photocopies of a paper she wanted copied in their copying machine.

Alma had a piece of paper on top of a chair across her desk. She asked the secretary to have ten copies of that paper copied on the Xerox machine located a few meters away from her desk. The machine had no more paper so the secretary placed enough blank bond papers into the tray and closed it. Alma told her to Xerox the paper lying on the chair.

When the secretary was about to get the paper from the chair, the Xerox machine started pouring out printed copies of that paper which never left the chair.

The secretary almost fainted out of fear because Alma never touched that paper or machine, neither did she move from where she was seated. This is a case of materialization. And this is the first time I’ve heard it done unconsciously or unintentionally.

I told Alma we still don’t know the whole range or extent of her remarkable psychic powers. Only time can tell. But she has taken the right step in trying to understand and to control her tremendous psychic gifts by reading books and attending seminars on them.

(Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Remote viewing can help you tap into your full potential, to amaze and inspire other people…

Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples secretly carved out below ground by ‘paranormal’ eccentric

by HAZEL COURTENEY

Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque.

But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region’s greatest wonders are concealed.

Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret - one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed ‘the Eighth Wonder of the World’ by the Italian government.

For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away.

Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet - Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet.

Few have been granted permission to see these marvels.

Indeed, the Italian government was not even aware of their existence until a few years ago.

But the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilization, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.

It all began in the early Sixties when Oberto Airaudi was aged ten. From an early age, he claims to have experienced visions of what he believed to be a past life, in which there were amazing temples.

Around these he dreamed there lived a highly evolved community who enjoyed an idyllic existence in which all the people worked for the common good.

More bizarrely still, Oberto appeared to have had a supernatural ability: the gift of “remote viewing” - the ability to travel in his mind’s eye to describe in detail the contents of any building.

“My goal was to recreate the temples from my visions,” he says.

Oberto - who prefers to use the name ‘Falco’ - began by digging a trial hole under his parent’s home to more fully understand the principals of excavation.

But it was only as he began a successful career as an insurance broker that he began to search for his perfect site.

In 1977, he selected a remote hillside where he felt the hard rock would sustain the structures he had in mind.

A house was built on the hillside and Falco moved in with several friends who shared his vision. Using hammers and picks, they began their dig to create the temples of Damanhur - named after the ancient subterranean Egyptian temple meaning City of Light - in August 1978.

As no planning permission had been granted, they decided to share their scheme only with like-minded people.

Volunteers, who flocked from around the world, worked in four-hour shifts for the next 16 years with no formal plans other than Falco’s sketches and visions, funding their scheme by setting up small businesses to serve the local community.

By 1991, several of the nine chambers were almost complete with stunning murals, mosaics, statues, secret doors and stained glass windows. But time was running out on the secret.

The first time the police came it was over alleged tax evasion and still the temples lay undiscovered. But a year later the police swooped on the community demanding: “Show us these temples or we will dynamite the entire hillside.”

Falco and his colleagues duly complied and opened the secret door to reveal what lay beneath.

Three policemen and the public prosecutor hesitantly entered, but as they stooped down to enter the first temple - named the Hall of the Earth - their jaws dropped.

Inside was a circular chamber measuring 8m in diameter.

Stunned by what they had found, the authorities decided to seize the temples on behalf of the government.

“By the time they had seen all of the chambers, we were told to continue with the artwork, but to cease further building, as we had not been granted planning permission,” says Esperide Ananas, who has written a new book called Damanhur, Temples Of Humankind.

Retrospective permission was eventually granted and today the ‘Damanhurians’ even have their own university, schools, organic supermarkets, vineyards, farms, bakeries and award-winning eco homes.

They do not worship a spiritual leader, though their temples have become the focus for group meditation.

‘They are to remind people that we are all capable of much more than we realize and that hidden treasures can be found within every one of us once you know how to access them,’ says Falco.

(The Daily Mail)

A developer of Medical Remote Viewing, MRV, Dr. Don Walker is a practicing physician and professional remote viewer who has studied many diagnostic techniques, from the latest in cutting-edge lab analysis procedures, to Applied Kinesiology and a variety of subtle energetic diagnostic and healing techniques.

He uses MRV to help his clients get answers and insights into their health problems where before they had none. Born a natural empath, his “psi” skills really began to blossom after years of introspective/personal growth work: “Frankly, it was a bit overwhelming at the time, as I didn’t really know how to control all that was opening up to me, until later.” These attributes proved to be a great foundation to begin his course in studying remote viewing, which lead to him working in the RV field, and ultimately developing and specializing in MRV.

This is a synthesis of remote viewing skills I learned from my remote viewing teachers and remote viewing experience, combined with many skills I’ve learned from different disciplines. These days, it is my specialty. I call what I do “Medical remote viewing, or MRV”: “ it allows me to get to the root causes of illness or discord in a person’s health or life in general”

Q - What is Medical Remote Viewing?

A - MRV is a skill that utilizes our own natural senses of perception to pick up on the subtle energetics that people give off. MRV shows us how to develop these innate senses and then provides a format and set of procedures to scan a person’s “energetic presence” and make sense of it in a way that is useful to the client. It’s worth noting here that medical intuition is not a very good term for what we’re doing when we do MRV, because we are not practicing medicine in any way. In MRV we provide intuitive impressions, it is to be used in conjunction with a person’s medical advisors. In all fairness to the originators of remote viewing, by their own standards and definitions of RV, MRV is one next step in the application of RV. MRV would not be where it is now without the work of the originators of RV. MRV should be considered a refinement and advancement in the remote viewing and influencing of people for healing purposes.

Q - Who typically schedules an MRV session?

A - There are a couple of themes that I find people have in common. First and foremost - they are sick and tired of being sick and tired!
They’ve already been to so many doctors who’ve told them that they just have to live like this the rest of their lives, or they’ve been to doctors who just don’t quite dig deep enough to figure out what’s really wrong, which is common too. Often they have problems going on in their inner world. Depression, anxiety or worry, or something like that that they just don’t know how else to get to the bottom of. MRV is really good for helping people get to a deeper understanding of themselves, learn something, or validate something deep within themselves that otherwise they have no resources to do. MRV can help a person get to the roots of what’s ailing them, and then provide the energetic support for them to heal themselves. In that way, MRV incorporates RI - remote influencing - for healing purposes. Other clients include those people who for whatever reason are not able to easily express themselves. They may be people who are so ill that they cannot speak (or speak correctly), have a disability, or are children who are too young to speak.

Q - What are some of the most common complaints that your clients have?

A - Well, there are some really common imbalances that many people complain of. The first is fatigue. The next most common problem I find is digestive - something is wrong somewhere in their gastrointestinal tract. The third most common symptoms I see are hormonal imbalances. In both men and women this is a pretty complex topic, but usually it centers around cortisol and a person’s reaction to stress, whether internal or external stress. These hormonal imbalances can affect us profoundly on so many levels that they really are of primary importance in most people. Of course, having pain in the body is real common as well.

Q - Can other people learn how to do remote medical intuition, or is this a special attribute that only a few are born with?

A - I’ve been teaching these skills for years and have not found anyone who couldn’t learn how to be in touch and utilize at least some of these senses, to some degree. Ingo Swann, the premier remote viewer and natural psychic has reported that we might have as many as 272 of these different special senses!

Q - What inspires you to do this work?

A - I really believe that sharing my ability to do MRV for people is a calling for me, a real passion. I’ve seen it have a very powerful impact on people. It’s great to be able to give someone some help or assistance when they may have felt they had none, nor was it possible for them to be helped. It’s very gratifying to me.
Also, I love teaching it. It’s really exciting to see someone get a direct confirmation from one of his or her unutilized senses for the first time. It’s really a pleasure to be a part of someone expanding their horizons that way. To see them have that bigger sense of themselves and the world around them is a great experience for me too! They can then take these skills to empower themselves and take charge of their own health. Of course, teaching other caregivers how to use MRV is a real pleasure as well.

To find out more about MRV, click here >>>

Dr. Hein is the director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado. The Institute is devoted to the study of subtle-energy sciences including remote viewing, crop circles and related subjects. Dr. Hein has a Ph.D. in sociology and has previously taught research methodology and statistic courses. Dr. Hein first learned remote viewing in 1996 and subsequently became involved in crop circle research. In addition to assisting with Institute for Resonance crop circle tours he continues to teach remote viewing in Boulder and in Japan.

How Remote Viewing Works: Dr. Simeon Hein Pt. 5

Dr. Hein first learned remote viewing in 1996 and subsequently became involved in crop circle research.In addition to assisting with Institute for Resonance crop circle tours he continues to teach remote viewing in Boulder and in Japan.

How Remote Viewing Works: Dr. Simeon Hein Pt. 4

Dr. Hein is the director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado. The Institute is devoted to the study of subtle-energy sciences including remote viewing, crop circles and related subjects.

How Remote Viewing Works: Dr. Simeon Hein Pt. 3

Dr. Hein is the director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado. Continued are excerpts from a presentation by Dr. Simeon Hein at the International UFO Congress, 2005.

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Excerpts from a presentation by Dr. Simeon Hein at the International UFO Congress, 2005.

Dr. Hein is the director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado. The Institute is devoted to the study of subtle-energy sciences including remote viewing, crop circles and related subjects. Dr. Hein has a Ph.D. in sociology and has previously taught research methodology and statistic courses.

Dr. Hein first learned remote viewing in 1996 and subsequently became involved in crop circle research. He believes that all crop circles, regardless of their origin, create magical effects by virtue of their shape and the subtle interaction between humans, plants, and sacred geometry.

In addition to assisting with Institute for Resonance crop circle tours he continues to teach remote viewing in Boulder and in Japan.

Simeon’s most recent book is PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE: 101 Easy Steps to Energy, Well-Being, and Natural Insight, a simple primer for anyone interested in connecting to subtle-energies on a daily basis. He is also the author of OPENING MINDS: Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance.

How Remote Viewing Works: Dr. Simeon Hein Pt. 1