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Mil­i­tary Use Of The Occult, Remote Viewing

Angelique van Enge­len, Global Politi­cian

Offi­cially, the US mil­i­tary does not make use of Remote View­ing activ­i­ties, hav­ing closed down the depart­ments that were involved in them in the 1990s.

Pri­vate Remote View­ing experts how­ever, are involved in draw­ing sketches of far off loca­tions, some of which turn out remark­ably pre­cise. One US ex-army offi­cer involved from Texas who’s involved in Remote View­ing, claims to have seen Iran­ian com­plexes which are used for cre­at­ing nuclear bombs. An inter­view with UK artist Suzanne Treis­ter, who cre­ated HEXEN2039, a project about the military’s his­tor­i­cal use of the occult for psy­cho­log­i­cal warfare.

The Hexen2039 exhi­bi­tion was on show in dif­fer­ent muse­ums in Lon­don ear­lier this year and mes­mer­ized the crowds. The project, which is also online, a film, and a book blend the fic­ti­tious with rig­or­ously researched mil­i­tary (US and Euro­pean) information.

The project is cen­tered around a futur­is­tic fic­tional char­ac­ter who is part of a 21st Cen­tury orga­ni­za­tion, the Insti­tute of Mil­itron­ics and Advanced Time Inter­ven­tion­al­ity. The char­ac­ter, called Ros­alind Brod­sky trav­els back in time reg­u­larly. The nar­ra­tive, which accom­pa­nies paint­ings and draw­ings, is not all that implau­si­ble. Issues addressed include real life shifts in the bal­ance of polit­i­cal power, both (fac­tual) his­tor­i­cal and futur­is­tic, cli­mate change and new mod­els of psy­cho­log­i­cal warfare.

Remote view­ing is a small part of Hexen 2039. The project entails a wealth of other issues includ­ing infor­ma­tion about Soviet brain­wash­ing tech­niques, the Korean war, and US exper­i­ments like MK Ultra. “The rea­son Remote View­ing is in the project is that it con­firms another case of the mil­i­tary ‘believ­ing in’ the occult and para­nor­mal pow­ers of per­cep­tion and this dri­ves the nar­ra­tive and the research rather than being the object of it”, says Treister.

She cites attrib­uted and undis­closed his­toric records of past mil­i­tary orga­ni­za­tions and events involv­ing the use of the occult and hid­den infor­ma­tional tech­niques. The nar­ra­tive is com­pelling; in the year 2039, Brod­sky trav­els to an assign­ment at West Point U.S. Mil­i­tary Acad­emy, sit­u­ated on the banks of the Hud­son River, 50 miles north of Man­hat­tan in New York State.

She researches the US Army Civil Affairs and Psy­cho­log­i­cal Oper­a­tions Com­mand (Psyop) based at Fort Bragg, North Car­olina as part of an inves­ti­ga­tion into early forms of audio hyp­no­sis or ‘silent sounds’ tech­nolo­gies, alter­ing the brain’s EEG pat­terns. This is used for mil­i­tary pur­poses. In the story, Brod­sky casu­ally finds out a series of dra­matic mil­i­tary secrets as well real life links with the film industry.

Asked how she gained access to most of the mil­i­tary infor­ma­tion, Treis­ter says “I read a lot of books about his­tor­i­cal rela­tion­ships between the mil­i­tary and the occult, and about brain­wash­ing, but some of the infor­ma­tion is online.” Treis­ter also has fam­ily involved in one aspect of the mil­i­tary. Dur­ing her Lon­don exhi­bi­tion, informed view­ers sub­stan­ti­ated her find­ings and offered fur­ther information.Treister says that despite the secret nature of the mil­i­tary, there will always be indi­vid­u­als who man­age to infiltrate.

At the moment, the most the US army will pub­licly admit to is its use of psy­cho­log­i­cal oper­a­tions. Sol­diers in are trained to ‘expect the unex­pected’ to the utmost extreme. Until 1995, the CIA spon­sored research insti­tu­tions with mil­lions of dol­lars to exper­i­ment with psi phe­nom­ena for use of warfare.

Remote view­ing and psy­chic work took place at Stan­ford Research Insti­tute at Menlo Park, Cal­i­for­nia and in a rat­tly old build­ing some­where far from the civ­i­lized world at Fort Meade in Mary­land. The CIA closed this down in 1995, after then Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton ordered more open­ness in the army. The pub­lic was aston­ished to find out what had taken place with­out their know­ing for two decades. The agents had been using their ‘spe­cial pow­ers’ to trace mis­sile silos, sub­marines, POWs, and MIAs.

What was even more stun­ning was the razor sharp like­ness of the files and a film that was released a year ear­lier, Star­gate. The film metic­u­lously detailed some of the activ­i­ties that were described in the pre­vi­ously clas­si­fied CIA files; human con­scious­ness was pro­jected from one place to another and accu­rate infor­ma­tion about remote and hid­den loca­tions was retrieved. The aston­ish­ing cor­re­la­tions between the film and the CIA doc­u­ments were believed almost too coin­ci­den­tal yet the film­mak­ers insisted they had no clue about the army project, which was located not far from where they were shooting.

HEXEN2039 also traces other odd­i­ties between real life, the army and Hol­ly­wood, most notably Samuel Goldwyn’s strange involve­ment with MGM. The project orig­i­nally began as an inves­ti­ga­tion into his­to­ries of witch­craft, Treis­ter says.

“This soon devel­oped into an inves­ti­ga­tion into the occult and inevitably, since the [fic­tional] Insti­tute has a mil­i­tary imper­a­tive and works in alliance with other orga­ni­za­tions on a com­mis­sion basis, it took up an offer from the Min­istry of Defense (MoD) to inves­ti­gate and develop new forms of military-occult based tech­nol­ogy for psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare. i.e. the project organ­i­cally devel­oped through its own inter­nal logic.”

Blend­ing fic­tion and fact often invites ridicule but prac­ti­cally there is hardly a way around this. In the act of remote view­ing itself, there is how­ever lit­tle room for such excess bag­gage. It requires a total con­cen­tra­tion of the mind.

Oth­ers like Ed Dames, the ex army offi­cer who was involved in tak­ing the army’s Remote View­ing program’s tech­nol­ogy to the pri­vate sec­tor, con­firm this too.

Dames, who left the US army in 1989 to set up PsiTech, was asked ques­tions in an online chat ses­sion pub­lished on Mind­con­trol forums said tech­ni­cal Remote View­ing is a “very rig­or­ous, dis­ci­plined pro­gram that teaches the trainee to accu­rately down­load infor­ma­tion from the col­lec­tive uncon­scious, or the global mind”.

Treis­ter exper­i­mented with remote view­ing by study­ing the tech­niques of John Dee, the 16th Cen­tury con­tro­ver­sial con­sul­tant to Queen Eliz­a­beth. She uses a scry­ing stone.

The term scry­ing comes from the Eng­lish word descry, which means ‘to make out dimly’ or ‘to reveal.’

Inci­den­tally, Treis­ter actu­ally used John Dee’s stone, a crys­tal ball with a value of £50,000, which was stolen from the Sci­ence Museum in Lon­don in 2004.

“The first remote view­ing draw­ing I made was of the floor plan of Aleis­ter Crowley’s house in Scot­land before I could find an image. I ver­i­fied later that in fact it had a sim­i­larly unusual struc­ture”, Treis­ter says.“I am not sure about the verac­ity of other later draw­ings, many were unver­i­fi­able, but also this is not nec­es­sar­ily the issue, it’s more about the idea that these phe­nom­ena are researched seri­ously by the mil­i­tary, and in that sense all this becomes a real part of the world.”

A reviewer of Treister’s Lon­don exhi­bi­tion says that Treister’s mil­i­tary draw­ings using the scry­ing stone might be just as accu­rate as those made by the pro­fes­sion­als. Ed Dames has been indi­rectly involved in the search for weapons of mass destruc­tion in Iraq. He drew two loca­tions at the request of Major Karen Jansen, head of the UN Chem­i­cal, Bio­log­i­cal, and Nuclear inspec­tion team in 1991.

She told him the names of the loca­tions and he jot­ted down maps Spokes­peo­ple at the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency did not respond to an email inquir­ing if the tech­nique is used in Iran or else­where in the world. Dames said that Jansen phoned him per­son­ally after work by the CIA and other agen­cies had failed to pro­duce results.

Whether Dames also actu­ally indi­cated to the UN inspec­tors if he saw weapons is not clear from the chat con­ver­sa­tion and nei­ther from an arti­cle that was writ­ten about this event by the Asso­ci­ated Press. It seems that the UN isn’t a stan­dard client to Remote View­ing sub contractors.

Emails inquir­ing after this to the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency’s press office had not received a reply by press time. This might change with time. Aca­d­e­mics in the UK are com­plain­ing that in today’s crit­i­cal times, the arms con­trol and dis­ar­ma­ment com­mu­nity is fac­ing a gen­er­a­tional gap. Estab­lished researchers are retir­ing and newer researchers enter the field for the first time, who have com­pletely dif­fer­ent back­grounds. They have started an ini­tia­tive to com­bat this.

One pri­vate Remote Viewer/Dream expert, pub­lishes his view­ings online and peo­ple can tell him whether he’s right or wrong. Brianspredictions.com is run by a 38 year old ex army pro­fes­sional who draws build­ings, machines, motor­cy­cles and aircraft.

At first sight, it is dif­fi­cult to take him seri­ously. The draw­ings are scraps of hastily drawn rec­tan­gles, squares and cir­cles and scrib­bled notes and arrows. Yet Brian pub­lishes arti­cles that con­firm (or deny) his find­ings, which indi­cate he often makes very valu­able con­tri­bu­tions to pub­lic issues. He tends to dream vir­tu­ally every night and dur­ing his wak­ing hours draw sketches after remote viewing.

On 19 Feb­ru­ary 2006, Brian wrote “I had a dream sev­eral days about some sort of ram jet mis­sile being built right now in a fac­tory in Iran. This mis­sile can travel some 10 times the speed of sound and can­not be shot down. Its going to be armed with sev­eral nuclear war­heads and fired on 9.10.2006 at Wash­ing­ton DC, USA. Using remote view­ing sev­eral days later, I now have more details on this event and they fol­low.” He pub­lished draw­ings includ­ing a com­plex show­ing 2 build­ings, stor­age tanks and a water tower, and nuclear devices of about 100 feet long on some type of hydraulic lift system.

Brian details “The nuclear war­heads will be attached to the from of the mis­sile, that when fired can reach mach 10 (10 times the speed of sound). It has 2 large air intake holes, drawn above. This is a draw­ing of an under­ground tun­nel used to trans­port the mis­sile to the launch site and to attach the nuclear war­head. On the left some sort of belt moves the mis­sile to a con­nect­ing tun­nel (right) where the war­heads are attached, then the entire mis­sile is lifted by hydraulics 100 feet to the sur­face to be fired. The launch site is a very small square sur­rounded by a chain link fence in the mid­dle of a park, a school is nearby and trees are everywhere.”

The Reuters report that fol­lows his draw­ings is dated on 31 March 2006. It con­firms spec­u­la­tion which had been cir­cu­lat­ing in the media prior to Brian’s dream, that Iran had acquired Shahab-3 mis­siles, which experts believe have a max­i­mum range of around 2,000 km (1,240 miles), with nuclear warheads.

Very recently, an Iran­ian web­site claimed Iran has 600 of these bombs, which the US last Feb­ru­ary said should not be banned, but pre­served as a mil­i­tary option. West­ern army experts deny this the case. Iran is believed to have no more than a few dozen such mis­siles which are con­nected to new war­heads con­tain­ing thou­sands of tiny clus­ter bombs.

The moral impli­ca­tions about mil­i­tary use of claims to the future are not to be under­es­ti­mated. It is a bal­ance between com­plic­ity and crit­i­cal­ity. Ulti­mately, both become part of the con­tent of the work and poten­tial con­flicts tran­scend. Which is akin to annex­ing ter­ri­tory. “If the results were taken seri­ously with­out any other intel­li­gence infor­ma­tion sources and peo­ple were injured or killed as a result then [it would be immoral]. But from what one can tell, remote view­ing was/is never used as a stand-alone tech­nol­ogy”, Treis­ter says.

Con­tro­versy is part and par­cel of the remote view­ing trade, it appears. John Dee, who’s con­sid­ered its founder, was swing­ing from highs to lows through­out his life. On sev­eral occa­sions he ended up in close trusted rela­tion­ships with peo­ple who first accused him of immoral deeds. In 1555, he was arrested him and charged with trea­son, a cap­i­tal offense. He had been involved in draw­ing up horo­scopes of Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth.

He exon­er­ated him­self and ended up work­ing closely with the peo­ple who first brought the charges. It took years for Dee to find a sat­is­fac­tory method for the pur­suit of the super­nat­ural and he con­ducted “spir­i­tual con­fer­ences” after lengthy peri­ods of purifi­ca­tion, prayer and fasting.

Dames also appears to have had his fair share of hard­ships. He’s thrown out of PSI­corp and is referred to in the US media as ‘Doc­tor Doom’. He says he has no feel­ings when he relays Remote View­ing infor­ma­tion but that what he remote views from time to time is not very savory. He doesn’t do miss­ing peo­ple cases because it is too grue­some, for instance. Despite this ex US army officer’s neu­tral­ity, things appear to get to him. Pre­dict­ing what he calls “the Kill­shot”, a solar flare strik­ing Earth in the near future, he relo­cated his fam­ily to a cave in the Sand­wich Islands (Hawaii) in 1999.

Dames still believes the Kill­shot is bound to take place. He says on his web­site that it will hap­pen in the next ten years. He also says Ukraine, any of these days, will be the scene of another nuclear dis­as­ter due to a Cher­nobyl like graphite-core nuclear reac­tor fail­ure. When last June rumors of such a dis­as­ter were fea­tured on Kavkaz Cen­ter in the Ukraine, Dames claimed this is what he’d seen. Apple­seed Cast, the pop­group has recorded a song, Storm, on which Dames can be heard hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with Art Bell, the broad­caster about para­nor­mal issues at Coast to Coast AM.

HEXEN II, another movie, is cur­rently in the mak­ing. Treis­ter says it will be very dif­fer­ent from HEXEN I and involve actual neu­ro­log­i­cal sci­en­tists. She is also work­ing on a book about NATO, which will con­tain repro­duc­tions of a series of water­col­ors that illus­trate the NATO cod­i­fi­ca­tion system.

Angelique van Enge­len is a free­lance jour­nal­ist who is involved in www.reporTwitters.com, a jour­nal­is­tic project that com­bines report­ing with Twit­ter. She crowd­sourced opin­ions on this issue on this site.

(Global Politi­cian)