With train­ing and expe­ri­ence, remote view­ing can become very accu­rate and almost nat­ural. It is pos­si­ble to remote view with great accu­racy as Joe McMoneagle’s story below explains…

From The Van­cou­ver Courier, 07 July 1995

Spy­ing sight unseen

Inex­plic­a­bly, ‘remote view­ers’ often pin­point dis­tant details

by Geoff Olson
Con­tribut­ing writer

Joe McMonea­gle wasn’t feel­ing well on a hot July night in 1970. An over­seas U.S. mil­i­tary man, he was relax­ing in a restau­rant in Bras­sau, Aus­tria. McMonea­gle remem­bers the estab­lish­ment as being full of loud and happy rev­ellers, the inte­rior thick with cig­a­rette and pipe smoke. It was warmer than usual, but it wasn’t until he was offered a rum and coke by one of the rev­ellers that he began to feel ill.

The back of his next grew hot,and as the group gath­ered to leave, McMonea­gle had the dis­tinct impres­sion his sur­round­ings were chang­ing. The voices around him grew unin­tel­li­gi­ble, and as he reached for the door, his hand moved “in a slow-motion arc toward the handle.”

“My last blurred mem­ory,” he wrote in his 1993 book Mind Trek, “was the door open­ing and my body falling through it from its own momen­tum. I dis­tinctly remem­ber fear­ing that I would break the glass with my fall and then heard a hor­ri­bly loud pop and thought it might have been my face strik­ing some­thing as I was falling.”

Expect­ing cob­ble­stones to smack him in the face, McMonea­gle caught his bal­ance and found him­self stand­ing in the street. He felt light and quite well, but when he turned he dis­cov­ered a body half in and half out of the gut­ter by the front door. “The shock of what I saw sent a huge shud­der through­out my being. Lying in the street was my body, face up, with eyes and mouth open.”

This was one man’s intro­duc­tion to what he would later con­sider to be psy­chic expe­ri­ences. Out-of-body trav­els and other para­nor­mal events con­tin­ued to dog McMonea­gle after his 1970 near-death experience.

In 1978, he found him­self under the study of Prof. Hal Puthoff at Stan­ford Research Insti­tute. McMonea­gle, along with oth­ers who had pre­vi­ously demon­strated psy­chic tal­ents, were tested to see if they could “remote view” dis­tant tar­gets. A tar­get could be a pub­lic swim­ming pool, a hi-tech wind­mill, a church–anything visu­ally com­pelling on the Cal­i­for­nia land­scape. Two indi­vid­u­als would open sealed instruc­tions with the tar­get, and travel to the site, while back in the lab McMonea­gle and other remote view­ers would attempt to get psy­chic impres­sions of the tar­get seen by the two trav­el­ling subjects.

Using double-blind pro­ce­dures to rule out con­scious or sub­con­scious cue­ing, the exper­i­menters them­selves were unaware of the tar­get sites. Only after the return of the trav­el­ling sub­jects were the results examined.

The test­ing grew more sophis­ti­cated, and a stan­dard set of pro­to­cols was devel­oped. Accord­ing to the SRI sci­en­tists, McMonea­gle and oth­ers con­sis­tently scored sig­nif­i­cantly higher than chance.

The mil­i­tary and intel­li­gence inter­est in the research at SRI was near imme­di­ate. Soon both the U.S. Army and the Defense Intel­li­gence Agency had their own remote view­ing units, and by the mid-’80’s, remote view­ers were work­ing on hid­den nuclear weapons, drugg traf­fick­ing oper­a­tions, and even the where­abouts of Col. Gaddafi. This was the so-called “Project Stargate.”

McMonea­gle was assigned to the Head­quar­ters of U.S. Army Intel­li­gence and Secu­rity Com­mand (INSCOM) in Arling­ton, Vir­ginia, where he cul­mi­nated his career act­ing as a Spe­cial Projects Intel­li­gence Offi­cer with the 902nd Mil­i­tary Intel­li­gence Group.

It was from 1978 to 1984, accord­ing to reports, that McMonea­gle had sev­eral out­stand­ing suc­cesses with remote view­ing, includ­ing the dis­cov­ery of a new Typhoon class Russ­ian sub–with all details later deter­mined to be correct.

With the dis­cov­ery of the appar­ent abil­ity to tran­scend space and time, remote view­ers strayed into dis­tinctly non-military areas. One effort involved remote-viewing Jupiter. Ingo Swann, a New York artist, and one of the most suc­cess­ful of the SRI remote view­ers, was tasked with psy­chi­cally plung­ing into the upper atmos­phere of the planet. Here’s Swann’s own record of the session:

6:03:25. “There’s a planet with stripes.”

6:04:13. “I hope it’s Jupiter.”

“I think it must have an extremely large hydro­gen man­tle. If a space probe made con­tact with that, it would be maybe 80,000–120,000 miles out from the planet surface.”

6:03. “So, I’m approach­ing it on the tan­gent where I can see it’s a half-moon, in other words, half-lit/half-dark. If I move around to the lit side, it’s dis­tinctly yel­low toward the right.”

6:06:20. “Very high in the atmos­phere there are crys­tals… they glit­ter. Maybe the stripes are like bands of crys­tals; maybe like rings of Sat­urn, though not far out like that. Very close within the atmos­phere… I bet you they’ll reflect radio probes.”

Swann cites this as evi­dence he remote-viewed Jupiter’s ring–an astro­nom­i­cal fea­ture of the planet only dis­cov­ered by probe in 1979. The time of the remote view­ing ses­sion was 1973. Crit­ics have pointed out there are no moun­tain ranges on Jupiter, as Swann asserted in his ses­sion, but the artist points out they ignore his suc­ces­ful “hit” with Jupiter’s ring, and Jupiter’s high infrared read­ing, among other observations.

Other remote view­ers took to tar­get­ing what appeared to be UFOs. Both McMonea­gle and Swann claim to have had some suc­cess with this, appar­ently pick­ing up on bizarre, struc­tured craft enter­ing earth’s atmos­phere. McMonea­gle was once given, with­out his knowl­edge, the “Cydo­nia region” of Mars as a tar­get. Pen­cil in hand, he sketched the images from his uncon­scious. He had impres­sions of an advanced civ­i­liza­tion that suf­fered a cat­a­stro­phe mil­lions of years ago, and later dis­cov­ered his draw­ings and land­mark descrip­tions matched the geo­log­i­cal fea­tures tar­geted by co-ordinate for the Mar­t­ian surface.

(Court­ney Brown, a Ph.D. polit­i­cal sci­ence pro­fes­sor, recently went through remote view­ing pro­to­cols with the intent of exam­in­ing the more far-out stuff alluded to by other psy­chic voy­agers. He now runs a remote view­ing cen­ter, the Far­Site Insti­tute, and his book on what he con­sid­ers to be psy­chi­cally retrieved infor­ma­tion on UFOs and aliens, Cos­mic Voy­age, marks the newest phase of remote view­ing: an expen­sive inner arcade game. How­ever, crit­ics sym­pa­thetic to remote view­ing charge Brown’s book is a record of bad sci­ence, with loose pro­ce­dures unlike those used at SRI.)

Even­tu­ally it was the more bizarre aspects of the remote-viewing pro­grams that led the intel­li­gence agen­cies to wash their hands of them–at least officially.

The years fol­low­ing Oliver North and Iran­scam guar­an­teed the offi­cial scrutiny of any other small-scale “hip-pocket” oper­a­tions that might prove to be embar­rass­ing for Amer­i­can intel­li­gence agen­cies. Remote view­ing itself, con­se­quently, was viewed dimly. Project Star­gate was unfa­vor­ably reviewed, and civil­ian admin­is­tra­tors shred­ded 20 years’ worth of doc­u­ments. Resources to the pro­gram dwin­dled, morale plum­meted, and the Defense Intel­li­gence Agency no longer wanted any involve­ment with polit­i­cally ques­tion­able spooky stuff.

The pro­gram limped on with sup­port from Con­gress, and remote view­ers were called upon in intel­li­gence oper­a­tions dur­ing the Gulf War. In 1995, the rem­nants of the pro­gram were trans­ferred to the agency that ini­tially sup­ported it–the CIA, who shut it down. Still smart­ing from the Ames spy case, and feel­ing vul­ner­a­ble to con­gres­sional and pub­lic crit­i­cism, the agency decided to take the ESP out of espi­onage, or so the story goes.

The ques­tion is: if remote view­ing had proven util­ity for U.S. intel­li­gence, has it truly been dis­carded? Or, did it attain too high a pub­lic pro­file at SRI and other locales, neces­si­tat­ing a new, “black” pro­gram some­where in the highly com­part­men­tal­ized world of intelligence?

“It isn’t the remote view­ing that’s dan­ger­ous,” McMonea­gle now says, “it’s the infor­ma­tion and what peo­ple might do with it.” The remote view­ers them­selves came away with an irre­triev­ably altered view of them­selves and their place in the uni­verse. For many, rela­tion­ships with fam­ily and friends suf­fered, as they moved into realms of human expe­ri­ence beyond shar­ing. Accord­ing to one remote viewer, who was tasked with remote view­ing the Locker­bie jet dis­as­ter, the great­est risk was “a God complex.”

McMonea­gle, for his part, didn’t want to return to his body dur­ing his near death expe­ri­ence: “In com­par­i­son, this phys­i­cal real­ity we live in is most prim­i­tive. There are many peo­ple who share our world but have no respect for it.

“I wanted to remain in the Light and become part of it because it felt as if all know­ing and feel­ing were con­tained there. It was like swim­ming in noth­ing but pure and uncon­di­tional love… I argued to stay, but lost the argu­ment. There is prob­a­bly a rea­son for it, but I haven’t a clue as to what it might be.”

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