Joseph McMonea­gle Answers Ques­tions On Remote Viewing

I’ve talked pre­vi­ously about the one and only Joseph McMonea­gle, an expert on remote view­ing. Here’s the post I’m talk­ing about.

• Joseph McMonea­gle and Remote Viewing

This is Joseph’s bio in case you missed it:

Joseph McMonea­gle (Born Jan­u­ary 10, 1946, Miami, Florida) is known for his involve­ment in the devel­op­ment of Remote View­ing by U.S. Army Intel­li­gence and the Stan­ford Research Insti­tute. He was one of the orig­i­nal Offi­cers recruited for the top-secret army pro­gram now known as Project Star Gate.

So why do I men­tion Joseph again? Well, it’s because I dis­cov­ered this awe­some inter­view he did with Jerry Snider for Mag­i­cal Blend mag­a­zine. Here it is:

Remote View­ing
Joseph McMonea­gle inter­viewed by Jerry Snider

What is remote view­ing and what is it not?

Joseph McMonea­gle: Remote view­ing is psy­chic func­tion­ing done within a very spe­cific and lim­it­ing pro­to­col that can be stud­ied and repli­cated in a lab envi­ron­ment. The term was coined by researchers at SRI Inter­na­tional in Moun­tain View Cal­i­for­nia in 1972.

What is the protocol?

Joseph McMonea­gle: The orig­i­nal pro­to­col calls for one per­son, called an out­bounder, to go to a ran­domly selected tar­get and a sec­ond per­son, the remote viewer psy­chic, who sits in a win­dow­less room in a lab. At an appointed time, the remote viewer is asked to describe the where­abouts of the out­bounder, usu­ally through draw­ings and ver­bal tran­scripts. Once the remote viewer’s impres­sions are recorded, he or she is taken to the tar­get in order to get a sense of the accu­racy or inac­cu­racy of the attempt. That was the orig­i­nal pro­to­col, but sev­eral things hap­pened to change it. For one thing, after many years of using San Fran­cisco Bay Area tar­gets, the range had to be extended. Since the researchers wanted to see if dis­tance had any effect on the infor­ma­tion trans­fer, tar­gets were selected over­seas. Obvi­ously, this began to get expen­sive, so a new sys­tem was devel­oped called the coor­di­nate remote view­ing sys­tem. Map coor­di­nates were used to iden­tify spe­cific tar­gets. Researchers cre­ated a huge data­base of tar­gets from which a ran­dom set of coor­di­nates was retrieved. The remote viewer was then asked to describe the phys­i­cal loca­tion cor­re­spond­ing to these coordinates.

Was the remote viewer told the coordinates?

Joseph McMonea­gle: No. The coor­di­nates were sealed and double-wrapped in opaque envelopes. The lat­est approach is more appli­ca­tion ori­ented. Instead of coor­di­nates, pho­tographs from dif­fer­ent places from all across the earth are selected at ran­dom, sealed in an enve­lope and the remote viewer describes the loca­tion of the place where the pho­to­graph was taken.

What do researchers look for when select­ing remote viewers?

Find the answer to this ques­tion and more here »