When look­ing at anom­alous phe­nom­ena like the ESP “remote view­ing” tech­niques devel­oped and used by U.S. mil­i­tary and intel­li­gence per­son­nel, later called “Project STARGATE,” as well as other unusual devel­op­ments, it can be use­ful to con­sider that in 2008 the uncon­ven­tional can be inte­grated with con­ven­tional think­ing and human activ­i­ties.For exam­ple, in 2001 a Navy SEAL offi­cer study­ing at the Marine Corps War Col­lege sub­mit­ted a paper on remote view­ing titled “Uncon­ven­tional Human Intel­li­gence Sup­port: Tran­scen­dent and Asym­met­ric War­fare Impli­ca­tions of Remote Viewing.“To some read­ers, the report appeared to indi­cate that dis­cov­er­ies in remote view­ing extend to many oth­ers areas of human endeavor – not just national intel­li­gence, defense and warfare.

In fact, the very nature of remote view­ing makes it clear that human con­scious­ness, and what human con­scious­ness is con­nected to, are ele­ments that are fun­da­men­tal to our sur­vival and suc­cess as indi­vid­u­als, com­mu­ni­ties, nations and as a species on Earth.

SOLUTIONS THAT TRANSCEND

SEAL offi­cer L.R. “Rick” Brem­seth, who held the rank of com­man­der in 2001, wrote in his paper about tran­scen­dence when it comes to national defense activ­i­ties.
“The real chal­lenge for the United States is not asym­met­ric war­fare, but rather what this writer calls tran­scen­dent war­fare, the abil­ity to con­cep­tu­al­ize and sub­se­quently actu­al­ize an entirely new form of war­fare that tran­scends all pre­vi­ously known mod­els,” Brem­seth wrote.

He con­tin­ued, “Granted, tran­scen­dent war­fare reflects Zen-like qual­i­ties that elude def­i­n­i­tion thereby mak­ing the above chal­lenge more dif­fi­cult. Non-linear/multidimensional and abstract/metaphysical are ten­ta­tive terms that con­vey this con­cept, how­ever, ascrib­ing to a pat def­i­n­i­tion may in fact sig­nal inabil­ity to com­pre­hend the con­cept altogether.”

These con­cepts can be some­what con­fus­ing to the aver­age reader. How­ever, if we famil­iar­ize our­selves with psy­cho­log­i­cal con­cepts of the “col­lec­tive uncon­scious” and physics the­o­ries of a “uni­fied field,” “zero point energy” and related ideas, we can get a glimpse of what Brem­seth was get­ting at.

Put sim­ply, there may really be an energy in the Uni­verse like “The Force” described in the “Star Wars” movies. It is within us and around us. We can tap into it. It works with us. It has intel­li­gence and a com­mu­ni­ca­tion capacity.

When we tran­scend our every­day think­ing, we can uti­lize new approaches to accom­plish many worth­while goals.

Tran­scen­dent oper­a­tions can apply to “peace oper­a­tions” and human­i­tar­ian efforts. Tran­scen­dent solu­tions can be geared toward the prob­lems of cli­mate change, oil depen­dence, over­pop­u­la­tion, dis­ease, poverty, hunger, injus­tice, crime, drug abuse, slav­ery, child abuse, social and inter­na­tional con­flict, polit­i­cal cor­rup­tion, pol­lu­tion of nat­ural resources and many other challenges.

The rel­a­tively nar­row slice of uncon­ven­tional and tran­scen­dent phe­nom­ena called remote view­ing is a small part of the larger oppor­tu­ni­ties avail­able when exam­in­ing the poten­tial of human consciousness.

“Anom­alous cog­ni­tion” is a term that is related to remote view­ing that some­times brings to mind wider and deeper kinds of abil­i­ties and insights via con­scious­ness. Still, for many of us, this term, too, can be limiting.

How can humankind achieve tran­scen­dent break­throughs on the many dif­fi­cul­ties we face through, as Brem­seth said, “Zen-like qual­i­ties that elude definition?”

LEGACY OF PROJECT STARGATE

When infor­ma­tion about the U.S. mil­i­tary and intel­li­gence community’s activ­i­ties in Project STARGATE sur­faced in 1995, some peo­ple made fun of it as another waste of money by the defense community.

Some peo­ple were con­cerned that “mind con­trol” pro­grams by uneth­i­cal peo­ple in gov­ern­ment could dam­age our lib­erty and our nation.

What had the intel­li­gence offi­cers and sci­en­tists been doing in this field from the mid-1970s, when projects were devel­oped, through the mid-‘90s when the pub­lic was told that these pro­grams were dis­con­tin­ued? And, what has been going on since? Were these activ­i­ties really ended or did they just go to a more covert or “black ops” status?

How­ever, as the ideas of con­nec­tions between human con­scious­ness and mod­ern quan­tum physics started to seep into soci­ety through films, books and other com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and peo­ple saw how these ideas merged with spir­i­tual thought, a dif­fer­ent kind of aware­ness slowly developed.

Those who chose to take an objec­tive look at remote view­ing started to under­stand that this was some­thing very empow­er­ing for indi­vid­u­als and for the human race. It was some­thing within all of us and an abil­ity that we can all tap into.

What Navy SEAL Brem­seth called “non-linear/multidimensional and abstract/metaphysical” was a way of say­ing that con­cepts like time, space, spir­i­tu­al­ity, a higher intel­li­gence and other ideas may not be exactly as some peo­ple thought.

Or, they may be more sur­pris­ing and inter­est­ing than peo­ple believed.
Now, more than a decade after news of Project STARGATE reached the gen­eral pub­lic, not only in the U.S. but inter­na­tion­ally, and we face con­tin­ued seri­ous threats and dan­gers of many kinds, we might won­der if or when the seeds of remote view­ing research will bear fruit.

Brem­seth noted in his 2001 paper that “… tran­scen­dent and asym­met­ric war­fare neces­si­tate and exem­plify proac­tive approaches that envi­sion these efforts as oppor­tu­ni­ties … for the explo­ration and advance­ment of human and/or insti­tu­tional poten­tial. Such a read­just­ment in think­ing will require dynamic, vision­ary leadership …”

Do we have that kind of lead­er­ship now? Maybe more impor­tantly, do we have this kind of vision­ary con­scious­ness among the grass­roots peo­ple of Amer­ica and the rest of the world?

If we are to see the sig­nif­i­cant advance­ment of human poten­tial, it may be prob­a­ble that it will emerge from every­day aver­age peo­ple – peo­ple with good hearts, com­pas­sion, intel­li­gence and courage to look within their soci­eties, them­selves and the deeper real­i­ties we are con­nected to.

The legacy of Project STARGATE may not yet be fully appar­ent. This may be because these kinds of phe­nom­ena are sub­tle and discreet.

The pos­si­ble out­comes related to anom­alous cog­ni­tion could include greater knowl­edge of other dimen­sions in physics and Nature, dis­cov­ery of new energy sources, enhanced human devel­op­ment and other improve­ments … improve­ments that could be viewed as miracles.