Wendy Garrett and Sandy Jorgensen host the weekly webcast Conscious Living.

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Title: Conscious Living - Remote Viewing, Joe McMoneagle

Hosted by: Wendy Garrett

Time: 06/25/2008 05:00 PM EDT

Episode Notes: What is it like - how do you do it?

Who uses the services of a professional remote viewer?

Maybe Joe can give us a few answers.

New TV series project is adventure into unusual and ‘transcendent’ phenomena, say developers

Steve Hammons, August 05, 2008

Can a new TV series help improve communication, education, acclimation and understanding about unusual phenomena?

The development team working on the proposed TV show hopes so.

The series, tentatively titled “Joint Recon Study Group,” follows a small, special research and operations team of military officers and civilians as they investigate emerging anomalous and “transcendent” developments.

Executive producer Joseph McMoneagle is determined to make sure the TV series project is accurate regarding a wide range of military, intelligence and paranormal elements.

McMoneagle, a retired U.S. Army intelligence warrant officer, was “Remote Viewer #001″ of the military intelligence Project STARGATE that researched and implemented a specific ESP protocol called “remote viewing” in support of numerous Department of Defense and national intelligence agencies for twenty years.

His previous scriptwriting experience on USA Network’s “The Dead Zone” and his membership in the Writer’s Guild of America-East (WGA-E) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) will also be helpful, the project development team says.

Joe says, “Few realize the extent to which the government will go to use paranormal abilities in solving problems with critical national implications. We want to demonstrate this reality in authentic settings.”
Producer C.F. York noted that “Joe will bring a real-world feel to the new series so that viewers can see how anomalous phenomena sometimes interact with current military and intelligence applications.”

SMALL SCREEN AND EMERGING PHENOMENA

The TV series is based on the two novels and screenplay by executive producer Steve Hammons.

The novels, MISSION INTO LIGHT and the sequel LIGHT’S HAND, followed the women and men of the Joint Recon Study Group and their involvement in subjects like ESP and remote viewing, government dolphin research, DNA genetics mysteries, UFOs, crop circles, ancient human cultures, American Indian legends and prophecies, strange discoveries in modern physics and other phenomena as they currently exist on the cutting edge of reality.

The show’s science advisor is Harold E. (”Hal”) Puthoff, a respected theoretical and experimental physicist. Puthoff, a former Navy intelligence officer, is president and CEO of the Austin, Texas, research firm EarthTech International, Inc.

Puthoff has pointed out that, “The interesting developments going on in physics lately have brought us to where science fact is outstripping science fiction. Wormholes and warp drives, quantum entanglement and teleportation, multidimensional universes – these are now standard fare in mainstream science journals.”

“Based on this, phenomena that would have seemed outrageous even just a decade or two ago cannot now be rejected out of hand without careful scrutiny. The playing field of reality has expanded,” Puthoff stated.

Producer York said, “Having people like Joe McMoneagle and Hal Puthoff involved in the development of the series helps to place the show in a context of realism that many episodic shows dealing with anomolous phenomena often lack.”

COMMUNICATING WITH AUDIENCES

Leading edge discoveries about subjects like time travel, ESP, teleportation, UFOs and similar amazing ideas are now being seriously investigated by scientific researchers. And, millions of people of all ages around the world are very interested in these kinds of topics, say the show’s developers.

As a result, they will reach out to a demographically wide audience of TV viewers who may not be interested in science fiction, but will be fascinated by “science fact” and the characters portrayed within the series.

The show is planned to be an exciting and thought-provoking adventure for viewers of many ages, backgrounds and interests.

“We feel it is important to strike a balance between challenging the audience with story questions while at the same time avoiding audience frustration which can sometimes set in when questions outweigh answers,” York pointed out. “It is important to give the audience a payoff when they are tuned in to the stories you are telling.”

York also said, “One challenge for any contemporary series is to balance the more episodic oriented shows with those shows dealing with a longer term plot arc. We want to satisfy both types of viewers and sometimes that is difficult to do.”

“However, by focusing on longer term plot elements that viewers are aware of in the real world, it becomes much easier to tune in to an individual episode and understand what is going on, despite the fact it may be a longer term plot arc,” York explained.

York added, “We envision a series that includes elements of several very successful programs, yet is a distinctly new concept in the way these ideas are brought together.”

“The series concept combines an exciting synergy involving U.S. military and intelligence people, who show themselves to be very human, with emerging and mysterious phenomena that fascinate millions of people around the world,” according to producer Robert M. Caruso.

These characters are dedicated to getting answers and understanding unusual things going on. They meet adversaries who don’t want them to succeed and pose dangerous threats,” said Caruso.

The show’s development team is currently working on the concept, storylines, character development and related materials.

When the development phase of the project is completed, planned to be by end of summer, the show developers will begin approaching TV networks and others about the series.

(Read the full article here…)

ABOUT STEVE HAMMONS:

Hammons was born and raised in the Cincinnati area and southwestern Ohio’s Indiana-Kentucky border region. He graduated from Ohio University, Athens, with dual majors in health education (psychology focus) and communications (journalism focus), a minor in pre-law as well as graduate-level studies in guidance counseling. Ohio U. is home of the prestigious Scripps College of Communication and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He has worked as a journalist, counselor, juvenile probation peace officer, public safety urgent response specialist, teacher, instructor and researcher. Hammons’ first novel, MISSION INTO LIGHT, introduced readers to the women and men of the Joint Reconnaissance Study Group, their adventures exploring the unknown, and their missions to help create a better world. The sequel, LIGHT’S HAND, continues the adventures of this group. His articles are posted on many diverse Web sites and he has appeared on several radio shows. His e-mail is hammons55@gmail.com.

NOTE TO READERS: For more information, visit the online site of the Joint Recon Study Group.

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This is a DVD documentary produced by Soul Travel Magazine based on an exclusive interview with Joe McMoneagle. Joe has by now demonstrated remote viewing about 150 times on live TV worldwide because he likes to convince people about psychic functioning. And he does.

Remote Viewing - Joe McMoneagle interview

Wow…I think this article gives credibility to remote viewing in that different intelligence agencies across the world are remote viewing successfully - it’s not just the CIA, but I believe we’ll see remote viewers used more  and more in strategic intelligence in years to come.

India successful in using remote viewing techniques and satellite technologies for counterintelligence and strategic intelligence

Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent

RAW, India’s equivalent of CIA has advanced quite a bit in recent days. Sources close to New Delhi report that RAW is using advanced satellite technologies and remote viewing techniques to look into foreign intelligence activities within India. Remote viewing is the paranormal activities with psychics that can sense into the future and unknown. CIA in America has used remote viewing for many years. Many times remote viewing has worked very well for the CIA and the Russian intelligence. 

Recent days India has seen a massive amount Pakistan’s ISI agents arrested all over the country. The situation has gone so bad for Pakistan and Al-Queda that they are looking for reasons what is really happening. Taking clue from CIA, RAW Indian counterpart started remote viewing techniques many years back. They also tried to correlate the remote viewing readings with high tech feedbacks like satellite sensing and imaging. This is being further validated with the agents’ report in the field. The net results for RAW and CBI (Central Bureau of Intelligence - equivalent of FBI) are astounding.

Sources say India has locked in close surveillance over most of foreign agencies within the country. RAW has recently expanded the efforts for strategic intelligence. This include spying over Pakistan, China and the Western nations.

The reason for the success is attributable to traditional Indian cultural richness in spirituality and paranormal activities.

The remote viewing activities are nothing new for India. Indians traditionally have been doing it for thousands of years. But now India is doing it for a reason.

Satellite technologies are also helping understand movement of Pakistan’s ISI supported militants in South Asia. Sources close to RAW say Pakistan’s ISI is more active in Bangladesh and North East India than Kashmir these days. In the field, the agents are confirming these information.

According to some remote viewers, Bangladesh has recently seen enormous amount of violence related to election. Pakistan’s main goal is not Kashmir at this time. It is to hijack Bangladesh again and start a covert front on the east of India.

Remote viewing if applied in a wrong way can cause catastrophe and total embarrassment. An ideal example would be the WMD information in Iraq. Seventy-three thousand pages of secret documents have recently been declassified in the United States. The information unveiled the activity of two special groups that worked with extrasensory individuals. The CIA had to acknowledge that it used remote viewers and other individuals possessing paranormal abilities for intelligence purposes.

According to Pravda.Ru CIA’s remote viewers initiated quest for WMD in Iraq. Obviously they were wrong at least based on what we know today.

CIA’s remote viewing activities has been not all that failure.

“Psychic spy” Joseph McMoneagle also known as “remote viewing agent #001″ was shown a spot on the map of the USSR, where the mysterious secret object was supposedly located, as CIA agents thought. McMoneagle put his finger on the map and described the image that he saw in his mind: 

“It is a congregation of low stone and concrete buildings. A huge underground warehouse filled with lethal weapons,  not only missiles. There are other square and round items there. I see a very high column of smoke, bearing some semblance to a huge lifting crane, rising above the area (it was most likely the smoke of a nuclear blast). The people inhabiting that place are sick. Their hair is receding, their bones are putrefying. They deliver sick children, and they are still obsessed with some idea.” 

It was quite an eloquent description for secret agents to understand, what kind of an object was located in Semipalatinsk (which is now a town in the republic of Kazakhstan). Then CIA Director Richard Helms moved the paranormal espionage from the category “Research” to the category “Practice.” Joseph McMoneagle’s success as a remote viewer increased the funding of such unusual activities, not to mention the improved moral aspect. The US authorities spent about $2 million a year on a rather small group of 20 extrasensory individuals in the 1990s.

Other achievements of American psychic agents include: factories making weapons of mass destruction in third world countries, including Iraq (it is not ruled out that the information about WMD in Iraq sprang from remote viewers.) Extrasensory intelligence officers also developed certain recommendations to recruit CIA agents and rendered some other services too.

India’s achievement in remote viewing and use of advanced technologies is remarkable in recent days. According to some international experts what really worked for India is not just remote viewing but the availability of the field agents who could confirm the clues from the remote viewers.

(Click here to read this article in India Daily)

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 >>

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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