Hollywood must ‘love’ remote viewing. First it’s the much anticipated movie about the Year 2012 – and now it’s about Men Who Stare at Goats. Well… not literally, of course.

Starring the dark and mysterious George Clooney, The Men Who Stare At Goats is a film based on a book with the same title about Col. John Alexander who has a stellar 32 year career in the US Military as an Inteligence Officer. Part of his work was an ‘x files mission’ exploring the paranormal concepts of psychokinesis and psyhic abilities to create better Soldies with enhanced intelligence capabilities. Does the concept sound familiar? Yep, it’s all about remote viewing.

Using a lot of creative license, the book and movie is about using remote viewing as a sadistic practice to kill or injure goats. As you can imagine, Col. John Alexander criticizes the book as “5 percent true and the rest extrapolated beyond belief”. Sadly, “reality is of no interest” to Hollywood – even when it involves the Government, psychic spies, and the paranormal.

The Las Vegas Sun tackles the issues of remote viewing, whether these paranormal abilities work, and more.

The Men Who Stare At Goats – for Paranormal Activity

Alexander uses a sports analogy to explain that while everyone can probably do remote viewing, some can do it better than others.

“I can run all I want, but I’m never going to break a 4-minute mile. But some will. I see it as there are superstars in every endeavor, from art to athletics to science, and the same is true of remote viewing.”

It has been widely reported that in the 1970s, the U.S. Army actively sought psychic superstars to spy on the Russians. Over the next 20 years, the “Star Gate” program was developed with the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA and other governmental entities involved. The program was disbanded in the mid-1990s, Alexander said, because budgets were tighter and for a host of other possible reasons.

“There is a contingent who think it was so good that it must have gone ‘deep black ops,’ ” or was erased from public and governmental view while secretly kept alive, Alexander said. “I argue that’s not the case because the talent pool is small and everybody knows each other.”

In the scores of books about remote viewing, some of the same declassified examples are brought up time and again as evidence of its effectiveness.

Paul Smith, a retired Army major who spent seven years with the Star Gate program, wrote in his 2005 book, “Reading the Enemy’s Mind,” about the discovery of a massive hangar near the Baltic Sea in the northern Soviet Union. A remote viewer was asked to investigate.

Psychic spy Joe McMoneagle described and drew a double-hulled submarine “bigger by a significant factor than any other submarine known to man.”

It also had missile tubes “in front of the conning tower … (which) ran contrary to known submarine design standards.”

Smith wrote that analysts thought McMoneagle’s data “made no sense.” But months later, Smith noted, satellite photos confirming McMoneagle’s “viewing” as a Typhoon-class submarine, the largest in the world, were revealed.

“While scientists argued about the viability of any theory supporting remote viewing, U.S. Army intelligence was already employing it on successful operations,” Alexander contends.

Another question the scientists pondered was: Where does a remote viewer pull the information from?

Steven Schwartz, 67, one of the earliest proponents of remote viewing and one of the scheduled speakers at the upcoming conference, says “it’s rather like a daydream. It’s a part of your consciousness that you have available to you all the time. There’s nothing weird about it. It’s not rare. We call it a woman’s intuition, a man’s gut hunch.”

The problem is that remote viewing “has become enmeshed in occultism, supernaturalism … but this is really just normal human functioning,” Schwartz said before launching into what sounds like a sales pitch: “It can make CEOs so much more successful. It can make investors better. It has many applications.”

What do you think about the film and the book? Do you like that more books and films are out there about the amazing skill of remote viewing, or are they just an embarassment to the field?

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