‘Remote View­ing’ has Basis in Sci­ence, Mil­i­tary Intelligence

By Steve Hammons

‘Remote view­ing’ is a tech­nique and skill that is quite inter­est­ing. Remote view­ing usu­ally refers to the orig­i­nal pro­gram spon­sored by CIA, DIA and Army intel­li­gence dur­ing the 70s, 80s and early 90s as well as off­shoots of those tech­niques that have devel­oped since.

A research out­fit called SRI did much of the orig­i­nal work on remote view­ing and con­tin­ues sim­i­lar research today. Women and men, some mil­i­tary and some civil­ian, were trained in remote view­ing and tasked with oper­a­tional mis­sions that were impor­tant to U.S. national secu­rity at the time. The pro­gram used a some­what for­mal pro­to­col that helped remote view­ers per­ceive things using only their minds.

In 1995, the CIA can­celled the remote view­ing pro­gram. At least they told the pub­lic they did. Many sus­pect that U.S. Gov­ern­ment remote view­ing efforts continued.

Remote view­ing was used to help our national defense intel­li­gence efforts by gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion on places, peo­ple, things and events of inter­est. Remote view­ers learned to get into a cer­tain state of mind, per­ceive remotely, then report and draw their findings.

How­ever, the for­mal and some­what nar­row tech­nique of remote view­ing seems to be just a slice of a much broader and deeper situation.

Inter­est­ingly, some of the key sci­en­tists at SRI were not psy­chol­o­gists but physi­cists. They found indi­ca­tions in physics research that the Uni­verse and Nature seem to be struc­tured in such a way that phe­nom­ena like remote view­ing are pos­si­ble and nat­ural. The phys­i­cal world we live in and the physics involved sim­ply work in ways that are some­what sur­pris­ing to us, such as the way remote view­ing seems to operate.

Hunches, intu­ition, gut feel­ings all can be sim­i­lar phe­nom­ena. Our uncon­scious minds are linked to larger things includ­ing net­works of infor­ma­tion, feel­ings, per­cep­tions and realities.

Undoubt­edly, we are con­nected to the larger Uni­verse and spir­i­tual lev­els of real­ity. Remote view­ing is another sense that we have, just like sight, hear­ing, touch, taste, smell.

In psy­chol­ogy, Carl Jung’s “col­lec­tive uncon­scious” was an idea that humans can tap into, and are part of, a large con­scious­ness. Our indi­vid­ual con­scious­ness might be part of a larger, com­mon consciousness.

Ein­stein put forth his “uni­fied field the­ory” about a sin­gle, under­ly­ing force. More recently, the con­cept of “zero-point energy” explores sim­i­lar theories.

Some stu­dents of remote view­ing have said that this is not a new skill that our advanced brains are now evolv­ing to learn. Rather, it might be an old capa­bil­ity that our ancient ances­tors had. Over time, our more con­scious intel­lec­tual minds may have diluted this sense. We might sim­ply be re-learning some­thing very old.

It has also been hypoth­e­sized that ani­mals may use a kind of remote view­ing to com­mu­ni­cate and to per­ceive aspects of their surroundings.

Think about it. We can’t see TV, radio and cell phone sig­nals around us. But when we have the right receiver, we can tap into them. So, maybe it’s not so strange that other sig­nals we can’t see or touch are real, and we can tap into them to per­ceive things that might orig­i­nate far away. In fact, remote view­ers use the term “sig­nal line” in refer­ring to track­ing a perception.

Remote view­ing also involves the aware­ness that we can incor­rectly inter­pret incom­ing data. A mis­per­cep­tion can occur when our con­scious minds get in the way and our imag­i­na­tion or exist­ing mind­set fills in the blanks or jumps to a con­clu­sion about a remote view­ing impres­sion. Remote view­ers call this “ana­lytic over­lay” and good remote view­ers take steps to min­i­mize it.

Over the decades, remote view­ers tried to per­ceive infor­ma­tion about enemy weapons and facil­i­ties, threats to U.S. assets and to locate kid­nap­ping vic­tims, among other things. Keep­ing the per­cep­tions and reports accu­rate was obvi­ously an impor­tant consideration.

In some cases, qual­i­fied remote view­ers report­edly per­ceived highly unusual things such as UFOs and extrater­res­trial beings pilot­ing them and vis­it­ing Earth. Some peo­ple might say that this indi­cates remote view­ing is not reli­able. Per­ceiv­ing a UFO as an extrater­res­trial space­craft through a remote view­ing effort cer­tainly goes out on a limb.

But, more com­monly, remote view­ers tack­led more down-to-Earth tar­gets that could be con­firmed through satel­lite images or other meth­ods. Con­fir­ma­tion of accu­rate remote view­ing occurred in exper­i­ments and train­ing as well as real-life and life-or-death intel­li­gence operations.

Remote view­ing experts indi­cate that the tech­nique can be used suc­cess­fully not only for per­ceiv­ing things in space, that is, things out of sight and far away, but also in time. Things past and future can also report­edly be per­ceived by remote view­ing. This brings up many the­o­ries in physics and sci­ence fic­tion that time has inter­est­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics which we might not fully understand.

There are many good books on remote view­ing, many writ­ten by the mil­i­tary and intel­li­gence per­son­nel who did that kind of work for the CIA, DIA and Army intel­li­gence. Many legit­i­mate train­ing courses are also avail­able. The Web is full of infor­ma­tion on aspects of remote viewing.

At the least, it is inter­est­ing to read these sto­ries and learn about the research. At most, it could change us for the bet­ter and con­tribute to the advance­ment of sci­ence, med­i­cine and the human condition.

As we face chal­lenges as indi­vid­u­als, soci­eties and the human race, remote view­ing seems like a skill that can open a door into greater under­stand­ing of the Uni­verse and Nature as well as ourselves.

Remote view­ing seems to be a clue, a mes­sage, that all is not what it seems. That there are inter­est­ing paths in Nature and within all of us that can lead to very mean­ing­ful discoveries.

Steve Ham­mons has worked as a jour­nal­ist, edi­tor, coun­selor, juve­nile pro­ba­tion peace offi­cer, pub­lic safety urgent response spe­cial­ist, teacher, instruc­tor and U.S. Gov­ern­ment researcher. He grad­u­ated from Ohio Uni­ver­sity, Athens, Ohio, with stud­ies in com­mu­ni­ca­tions (jour­nal­ism focus) and health edu­ca­tion (psy­chol­ogy focus). Ham­mons’ two nov­els tell the story of a U.S. intel­li­gence and joint-service mil­i­tary research team inves­ti­gat­ing unusual phenomena.

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(The National Ledger)