I just came across something  and I want your opinion. I was going through my google alerts for remote viewing articles and vids this week when I came across a remote viewer who's 'hung his shingle' out on Craig's List. This guy (or gal) is ready to help central LA-ers "Find out anything!" Check it out and see what you think.

Find out anything! Treasure, Lost kids, Remote Viewing Services!

Remote viewing, which was used almost exclusively over the past 20 years for military espionage, is now available in the public sector for a lot of interesting & creative uses!

Do you or your company want important information or data on something or someone, or any event, place, object or process that would be otherwise inaccessible? Consider using remote viewing -- seriously, possibly one of mankind's most powerful new tools.

Trained remote viewers are able to experience, feel, see, and describe, detailed and accurate information on any event, person, being, place, process or object that has ever existed, does exist, or will exist (It can take days just to grasp the implications of this!)

Could you, or your company, use or benefit from, this kind of new, rare, unique and scientifically based service?

Why would you choose me over other Remote Viewers?

I have over 10+ Years Experience! and I can offer services that NO ONE else is able to offer. I can travel and work with you or your team personally.

The scope of things that are possible with Remote Viewing is virtually unlimited for Data Gathering.

• Animal Communication
• Communication And Empathy
• Computer Systems
• Contacting Souls
• Creative Ideas
• Deep Mind Probes
• Determining Dangerousness Or Risks
• Determining If Child Or Elder Abuse Has Occurred (To Give An Investigator Ideas As To Where To Look And What Questions To Ask)
• ET Exploration And Contact
• Exploring Alternative Timelines
• Financial markets and general investment trends. Timing and probable directions of investment vehicles.
• Future Lives
• Future Potential Markets In A Certain Area.
• General And Specific Industrial And Technical Uses.
• Geopolitical probable forecasting.
• Healing
• Help in identifying and locating wanted and potential terrorists and/or wanted criminals and sensing their future intentions and plans.
• Historical Events And Information
• Locate Runaways
• Medical Diagnosis
• Medical Research
• Microscopic Structures
• Missing Technical Data
• Naming Defective Genes
• Other Potential Future Events,
• Past & Future Art & Music
• Past Lives
• Personal Family History And Events
• Possible Medical Diagnostic Considerations
• Possible Solutions To Problems
• Potential Cures & Treatments
• Prediction of future global or individual probable life events.
• Probable outcome of corporate financial and business decision matrices. Advanced assessment and mapping of Future Probability Waves.
• Remote locating geological resources and archeological sites.
• Self-Exploration
• Sub Atomic Particles
• Technology Transfer
• The Cause Of An Event Or Disaster
• The Effects Of A Personal Decision
• The Future Effects Of A Particular Event (E.G. Global Warming)
• The Location And Condition Of A Missing Person, Child Or Object
• The Outcome Of Upcoming Events
• The Location Of Mineral (gold,silver,etc) Or Petroleum Deposits
• Cache Hunting, Artifact Hunting, Gold Hunting or any other special face of Treasure Hunting
• Uncovering Unconscious Material
• Unsolved Cases Or Mysteries

I am able to travel to assist in operations, I can personally work with you to find whatever it is you are looking for or need information about. I have the training where I am able to go out for as long as needed to any location and gather the information you need. I offer a service that you will not find anywhere else!

You might even personally have the information that is needed. I am also a trained Hypnotist, and can work with you on that also. You will be amazed at what the subconscious mind can do!

My rates are $100 per session.

Most sessions can be done in one hour. More difficult ones, like locating the position/location will take more time. When all other methods have failed CONTACT ME!

Whadd'ya think? Would you hire a more experienced remote viewer to help you find things, people or solutions to problems? Would you hang your own shingle out for business either in your town or virtually, once you master RV? Let me know in the comments below.

Talk soon,
Michael

I want your opinion. I try to bring you the latest in remote viewing info on the web. These days I have to scour because there's a lot of junk out there, or just minor comments embedded in long, forum threads. But I just came across another something and I'm not sure whether it's spot-on interesting or, well ... a little shallow. (Not the health part - that's a cool idea! But some of the other stuff). Stephanie Laverne talks about the top 3 reasons for learning remote viewing and I'd like you to check it out to tell me what you think. The article is from eZine, but I'm reprinting it here to make it easy for you to read in one place.

Remote Viewing - A Fascinating Skill That's Incredibly Versatile!

By Stephanie Laverne

THE 3 BIGGIES!

There are many applications of remote viewing, from government intelligence to treasure hunting or archeological work, to winning the lottery. Yes, there have been some who have won the lottery using remote viewing. However, there are 3 important areas of your personal life that you can gain accurate insight into by applying the skills of remote viewing. I call them the 3 biggies; Love, Money and Health.

Have you ever wondered if you are doing the work you were truly born into this world to do? Where is the love of your life and how will you meet them? What will your health challenges be in the future and how can you minimize them, if not eradicate them altogether, today...now... before the future arrives? Using the techniques of remote viewing you can find out the answers to these questions.

KNOW THE BEST PATH FOR YOU BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT!

Remote viewers are able to probe the future and they have found that everyone has at least a couple of probable futures, and some people have many. When remote viewers probe the future of an individual, they are looking for the optimal trajectory of that persons life.

A trajectory is simply a path that a moving object follows when under force. The object can be a projectile, a satellite or a human being. It's easy to see that the choices we make have an outcome. Sometimes we're happy with the outcome, and sometimes we regret having not taken the other road. Finding out your optimal trajectory is one of the most powerful applications of remote viewing, because it enables you to know the most probable outcome before you make a decision. How cool is that!

Although remote viewing is challenging, and getting good at it does take practice. It is well worth the effort, considering that as adults we spend an enormous amount of time and effort trying to fashion a future that we want to live. And a lot of the time it's by the seat of our pants. This is where remote viewing gives you an edge, when it's time to make those big life altering decisions. Should I marry him or her? Is this the right house to buy? Should I take this job offer even though it doesn't pay as much? Is there something going on in my body that I don't know about? etc... etc...

Tell me, would you use remote viewing to make decisions about things like marriage or buying a house? Share your opinion in the comments section below.

Talk soon,
Michael

UFO's? Alien Extraterrestrials? Is there some THING on the Moon?

by Gary S. Bekkum

In 1971, Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon. Mitchell is one of only twelve humans to have explored the lunar surface.

Recently, I contacted Dr. Mitchell by email, after reading about the forthcoming fictionalized lunar mission film 'Apollo 18' -- "there's a reason we've never gone back to the moon" -- concerning what he may or may not know about an alleged alien presence.

(Meanwhile, questions have been raised about when 'Apollo 18' will be landing in theaters. Currently the film is said to be on schedule for a September 2, 2011 release date.)

Are there extraterrestrial aliens based on the Moon? And how much does NASA, or anyone else in the US government, know?

The source of the 'aliens on the moon' story worked with the CIA and later held a TOP SECRET clearance for his contribution to a clandestine effort to obtain intelligence using "unusual sources and methods."

According to this source, Ingo Swann, there is something very strange happening on the far side of the Moon.

In his out-of-print book "Penetration," Swann related how, in 1975, he was recruited by an ultra-secret black-ops group interested in special observations of specific lunar coordinates.

When Swann checked the coordinates, he was shocked to see humanoid beings and artificial constructions on the lunar surface, all bathed in an eerie green fog.

Ingo Swann was recruited by American intelligence services -- we have US government files which confirm this -- to use his extraordinary human skills to psychically penetrate targets outside of the range of conventional observation.

The problem with Swann's far-out story is that the 'observations' were made with his mind's eye. Swann was America's best psychic spy, following the untimely death of Pat Price, another star in CIA's covert program to use paranormal phenomena for remote viewing of intelligence targets.

As for the alleged black ops interested in lunar interlopers? Even Swann does not know -- or at the least, he isn't telling.

So when I contacted astronaut Mitchell, I naturally inquired if he knew anything about visitors inhabiting our nearest neighbor in space, noting that Kit Green, a former CIA analyst who consults to the US Defense Intelligence Agency on emerging technology threats, had come forward about government contact with alleged extraterrestrial biological entities (see Mark Pilkington's book "Mirage Men" and my own "Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape" for further information on the alleged alien presence).

"Gary, glad to exchange with you on these issues. I don't know that I have perfect answers, but I do have some, " Mitchell replied.

Do you think there could be aliens we can view remotely - either on the moon or anywhere? Tell me your opinion in the comments below.

Talk soon,
Michael

came across a nice little article written by remote viewer Stephanie Laverne. Stephanie's a writer and long-time student of the 'paranormal' whose trying her writing hand at what amounts to a pretty reasonable overview of remote viewing for beginners. See what you think. I found this piece on ezine articles and am reprinting it here in full for your convenience.

Explore Remote Viewing And Discover How To Tap Into The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind!

By Stephanie Laverne

The premise of remote viewing is that everything in the universe exists as a pattern of energy or information within the collective unconscious. Remote viewers call it the Matrix. Since the matrix exists outside of time and the subconscious is like a bridge to the matrix, no matter where in time or space that pattern exists you can gain access to it. Remote viewing techniques make it possible for you to tap into the matrix via your subconscious, and transport a particular pattern into your everyday awareness.

Since the day you were born your subconscious has kept a myriad of automatic processes going on in your body effortlessly. It regulates your heart beat, keeps your lungs pumping air, and faithfully records and stores in your memory everything you touch, look at, hear, taste, smell or experience physically, mentally or emotionally; real or imagined. All this is going on without you having to think about it, and the remote viewing procedure takes advantage of this. Anything you want to know about a person, place, thing or event is possible because remote viewing unlocks the door to your subconscious, and allows it to communicate with your conscious mind using you autonomic nervous system.

After years of research done by the CIA and the U.S. military, a specific step by step process was developed that trains the subconscious to provide accurate, reliable information about anything one would like to know. A remote viewing session begins with a "cue" or question such as:

• Where is a missing person.
• Where can I find gold in the U.S..
• What will the stock market do tomorrow?
• Which horse will win the today?
• Is there life on other planets?
• How to heal someone at a distance.
• Was there really a place called Atlantis? What happened there?

The remote viewer then begins to write down the information received, becoming more and more connected to the signal of the target (the object, person or event). As the details are gradually increased, the information is finally rendered as a sketch that is then analyzed.

Everyone has the ability to learn to remote view. What was once a high level top secret program within the military intelligence division is now available to the public. It is designed so that anyone can be trained to do it. You do not have to be psychic or artistic. Anyone with a normal functioning brain and proper training can do this because every human being has a subconscious, whether we acknowledge it or not. You don't even have to believe it's possible for it to work, scepticism is o.k. That powerful part of us that connects us to all things will always be there, doing it's part to keep us alive and attempting to bring intuitive insight to our daily awareness. Remote viewing techniques are an excellent way to tap into it's power and extraordinary abilities.

In your remote viewing practice, which 'cue' prompted your most successful RV session? Leave a comment and let me know.

Talk soon,
Michael

1. What is perception based remote viewing?

ANSWER: Perception based remote viewing is the ability for any trained person to access distant information using only the perceptions in the mind.

2. What is Solo ERV or SERV?

ANSWER: The acronym stands for Solo Extended Remote Viewing. This method is pure perception based which provides more accurate and rich sensory data than ever before.

Solo means you do not need a monitor as ERV required in the past before advanced protocols were developed. The "E" stands extended, because this method takes longer. The training time is extended, sessions are extended, and the accurately rich details are extended.

3. I totally believe in the untapped potential of humankind, I also seem acutely aware when other things are present around me, like vehicles, other beings, or their energy. Is this somehow tied into the gift of RV?

ANSWER: Remote viewing is not only for the gifted. However, people with the trained ability of strong concentration and meticulous attention to detail will tend to excel in remote viewing. Anyone can learn to remote view but some have a tendency towards excellence like a gifted piano player or artist. This is why we define remote viewing as the "trained ability" to perceive at a distance. Anyone can learn to paint or play a piano, those we call gifted often make their own place in history.

4. What common hobby and career choices are found among advanced remote viewers?

ANSWER: Satellite imagery technicians, map makers, inventors, artists, and entrepreneurs seem to do well at remote viewing. Advanced remote viewers are not limited to these lines of interest. However, it has been noted that there was a marked level of aptitude for remote viewing with those who have interests in these fields.

5. I tried remote viewing before but after a short while, I could no longer actually "see" the target in my head. When I started remote viewing, smells, tastes and visuals were accurate but now are gone. Does this happen in the perception method of remote viewing too?

ANSWER: Non-perception based remote viewing takes all the visuals and high level sensory data that seems real and tells you to put it all in the trash bucket we call AOL. After a few months of that, the unconscious mind does as told and considers all the good visuals as trash and wont give them to you anymore.

6. What advice is there for someone wanting to nurture attention management in daily life?

ANSWER: SERV is a perception management skill. Anything which helps improve attention management of perceptions will usually improve perception based remote viewing.

When remote viewing we use circuits in the brain called "mirror neural circuits". They are circuits in the brain that are the catalog of your memories of physical sensations, dimensional perceptions and emotional states. To nurture concentration levels favorable to remote perception, take extra time to notice details around you. When you leave a room, see how many important details you can remember.

Ask yourself questions like: how many wall sockets were there in the room; what color were the chairs; how many windows; were the lights on or off; how did your experience in there make you feel? Become aware of your perceptions of the things that surround you and practice memory games. This builds a larger internal lexicon for use when you next remote view. The larger your internal lexicon is, the better reference points you have to deliver cleaner accurate data in a structured remote viewing session.

7. What can I do to my diet to help with remote viewing?

ANSWER: Avoid consuming alcohol for recreation. We all know that alcohol destroys brain cells, remote viewing is an attention management skill so you will need all the braincells you can keep. Additionally, to maintain trustworthiness of data usually requires 24 hours wait after the consumption of alcohol before remote viewing.

Eating a healthy diet is common sense. What we overlook are the toxins being consumed. Start by avoiding food and water sources that are contaminated with toxins. Fluoride, mercury, garlic and artificial sweeteners are well documented toxins, all affect the brain and are known to be associated with attention management challenges. Do your own research on the topic.

The next step is to remove the existing built-up toxins in your system. Removing toxic chemicals and disruptive thoughts should be a daily goal. Those toxins can be found in public restaurant drinks and food, as well as common household products and pesticides. Most people's pineal gland are so full of fluoride metal that is lights up like a Christmas tree under CT scans. Personal iodine chelation education is essential to this topic and not too difficult to locate with a few Internet searches. Drinking lots of "Pure Water" is another thing that helps cleanse the body from the effects of drugs and alcohol.

What's your top remote viewing question? Leave me a comment and let me know.

Talk soon,

Michael

Do any of you read "Prediction" magazine? I just found a great piece on remote viewing on their site? Most of it is an overview answering the 'what's and 'hows' of remote viewing - stuff we've covered many times here. But what's interesting is their section on the personal benefits of remote viewing. I'm republishing that section of the article for you below. You can check out the entire article here.

The benefits for you

Remote viewing does not only help to locate people and objects or view distant locations. It can also act as a powerful mind tool to help you develop your intuition, increase your inner peace and release your old and debilitating beliefs that may be withholding you from achieving your deepest dreams and desires. Remote viewing exercises help you expand your mind to be able to manifest what you desire. Indeed, any exercises that practice distinguishing subconscious images from the interference that comes from your thoughts will boost your psychic powers and reinforce your connection to a higher plane. Start by trying it yourself, working through the exercise on the previous page. Find ways to incorporate it into your daily life - try ‘reading’ letters before you open them; or imagine what’s in your email inbox before you open it. With practice, who knows where your skills could lead you?

Popular uses of remote viewing

• To find the location of a missing person or object
• Predicting financial markets and general investment trends
• Help in identifying and locating wanted and potential terrorists or criminals by sensing their future intentions and plans
• Locating runaways
• Finding mineral (gold, silver, and so on) or petroleum deposits
• Artefact hunting • Unsolved cases or mysteries

Develop your remote viewing clairvoyance

• Buy a local map of an area you don’t know but that you can drive to at a later date to assess your accuracy.
• Open the map and hold a pendulum or your hand over the map until you feel a connection with a certain area.
• Now close your eyes and make an intention to ‘see’ this area in your mind’s eye.
• Watch the pictures that form in your mind. After five minutes stop and make a note of all that you have seen.
• Now in your mind, ask to see these images in greater detail. Just watch the mental images unfold and after five more minutes make a note.
• Do this again and over the next five minutes pay attention to any thoughts, physical sensations or change in emotion and then make a note of this.
• Drive to the location and check your results!

What other benefits have you gotten from remote viewing? Leave a comment and let me know.

Cheers,

Michael

Remote Viewing

by Mike Mowbray

‘Remote viewing’ (RV) is a term introduced in the context of experiments conducted at the Electronics and Bioengineering laboratory of the Stanford Research Institute (and funded in part, it was later revealed, by the CIA) beginning in the early 1970s by researchers Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ. In the researchers’ own words, these experiments’ results suggest “the existence of one or more sensory modalities through which individuals obtain information about their environment, although this information is not presented to any known sense” (Puthoff and Targ 1974: 602). Puthoff and Targ’s initial experiments involved the testing of pre-selected subjects’ (or percipients’) ability to describe salient features of the geographical surrounds of an ‘agent’ dispatched to a location undisclosed to the percipient and “inaccessible […] by any known sensory means” (Dunne and Jahn 2002: 2). Elsewhere, the term has been defined as “the ability to describe locations one has not visited” (Mumford, Rose and Goselin 1995) or a “a perceptual ability by which individuals are able to describe and experience objects, pictures, and locations which are blocked from ordinary sensory perception” (Lee 2007: 144).

Coining the Term

The coining of the term itself may be seen as a move akin to J.B. Rhine’s 1934 introduction of ‘Extra-sensory Perception’ (ESP)1 – another play in the contest against a scientific establishment unwilling to entertain the possibilities seemingly presented by parapsychologists’ and others’ inquiries into ‘psychic’ or unexplained perceptual abilities. The mode or form of (sensory or ‘extra-sensory’) perception involved in remote viewing experiments appears to combine elements of ‘clairvoyance’ (the ability to ‘see at a distance’ beyond the range of typically acknowledged sensory channels)2 and ‘telepathy’ (the ability to pick up on the thoughts or mental impressions of others).3 The fact that subjects’ descriptions of remote locations often exceeded simple visual terms has prompted the suggestion that “remote perception” might be adopted as preferred terminology (Dunne and Jahn 2002: 2-3).

‘Remote viewing,’ however, maintains a popular resonance, with no small help from the publicity generated in the mid-1990s by the wholesale declassification of documents related to US intelligence agencies’ sponsorship of remote viewing research, the deployment of the term by contemporary psychics (including those who profess to be able to assist in locating missing persons alive and dead), and the production of popular cultural texts which take these themes into the universe of books, television and film – including the recent film The men who stare at goats (2009), which follows off-beat US Army ‘psi-ops’ personnel into Iraq, itself based on a book by Jon Ronson (2005), and a spate of memoirs from among the pool of individuals involved in the experimental and/or operational attempts to put a finger on the phenomenon, such as Ly Buchanan’s (2003) The Seventh Sense: the Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a ‘Psychic Spy’ for the US Military.

SRI

The work at SRI first shot to prominence (and sparked some controversy) in 1974 with the publication of some early results of their ‘psi’ research in the journal Nature, including an account of remote viewing experiments conducted with former Burbank, California police commissioner Pat Price. For this particular series, having selected a dozen suitable target-locations within 30 minutes drive of their Menlo Park, CA facility – an area which contained over 100 similar potential targets – a manager in the Institute prepared and randomized a set of travel directions to be handed over to 2-4 experimenters (the “target demarcation team”) immediately dispatched to follow the directions to one of the pre-selected locations. This was done only after the segregation of the subject and a single questioner (unaware of the specific or possible target-locations) who would encourage clarification of the impressions described by the subject as they were caught on tape, beginning 30 minutes after the departure of the team dispatched to the target location. When the team returned, the taped descriptions would be compared with those of the experimenters who had just returned from the actual location.

Puthoff & Targ

As Puthoff and Targ put it in their article for Nature in 1974: “Price’s ability to describe correctly buildings, docks, roads, gardens and so on, including structural materials, color, ambience and activity, sometimes in great detail, indicated the functioning of a remote perceptual ability” Given the presence of inaccuracies alongside what the researchers felt to be remarkable successes, a blind judging process was instituted in which five SRI scientist not otherwise involved were asked to review the typed manuscripts of Price’s descriptions after visiting each location independently; results based on ratings given to each of the nine manuscripts as to their fittingness as descriptions of a given location (a plurality matched description with location in six of nine cases – an exceedingly unlikely correlation by the standards of chance) was presented as a particularly compelling support for the existence of exceptional abilities associated with ‘remote viewing.’

Other RV Experiements

Other experiments included, for example, the placement of various objects in metal canisters, and the subsequent description of their contents by remote viewing subjects. Another of the initial experiments involved Uri Geller, perhaps the most famous SRI subject, seeking to reproduce drawings made outside of a cage designed to mute electromagnetic and radio wave transmission, as well as shielding the subject from outside visual and audio stimuli; while some of Geller’s drawing bore little apparent resemblance to those produced as ‘targets,’ others were near-identical (a line-drawing of a bunch of grapes in virtually the same configuration), or remarkably similar (e.g. Geller drew a horse with a saddle where the original drawing depicted a camel). The SRI experiments (and others conducted at the Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC) with remote viewers such as Price, New York artist Ingo Swan (who, according to Puthoff (1996), had initially suggested the program of parapsychological experiments), and many others continued for twenty years after the initial publication of results in Nature attracted a flurry of detractors, as well as some popular and scientific interest which corresponded with a more general upsurge in paranormal or parapsychological research in the late 1960s and 1970s (Pinch and Collins 1984: 524).

Enter Princeton

Beginning in 1976, researchers at the Princeton Engineering Research Anomalies laboratory (PEAR) sought to pursue a similar line of inquiry, focusing especially on following up evidence that some subjects in Puthoff and Targ’s experiments were able to “describe target scenes even before the target had been identified, much less visited” (Dunne & Jahn 2002: 2-3). According to an account by two senior engineers at PEAR, where a significant database of remote viewing research was compiled in experiments from 1976-1999, Puthoff and Targ’s initial trials “included many perceptions that were virtually photographic in their accuracy, and produced a statistical yield well beyond chance expectations” (ibid), and later attempts at replication frequently yielded similarly exceptional results – typically presenting a mixture of apparent failures and (partial, but sometimes astonishing) successes.

Finally - Declassification

The July 1995 declassification of intelligence documents related to the series of studies at Menlo Park and elsewhere (along with the news that over US$20million of government funding had supported such work over the past two decades) brought a burst of publicity to the ‘remote viewing’ phenomenon and some of its key figures (Strauss 1995; Supplee 1995; Puthoff 1996). In all, by one account, the combined efforts of scientists and the intelligence community gave rise to 154 experiments, involving 227 subjects and 26,000 individual trials (Strauss 1995). Among the revelations was that of a program referred to as ‘Stargate,’ wherein Army personnel with psychic potential were identified, tested and trained (McMoneagle 1997). The roughly concurrent issuance of a report by the American Institutes for Research in September of 1995, which downplayed the possible utility of remote viewing techniques in intelligence operations, in a bid to justify the shutdown of the program, still acknowledged that a long series of experiments had demonstrated a statistically significant (above-chance) incidence of ‘hits’ by remote viewers asked to describe targets (which, in later experiments, were often National Geographic photographs, with one target selected from a pool of 5), but took pains to emphasize that the cause of this ‘anomalous’ tendency could neither be effectively identified, explained, nor the introduction of bias built into experimental procedures definitively ruled out (Mumford, Rose and Goselin 1995).

The publicity generated by the official disclosure of US Federal intelligence involvement in not only funding the SRI, but also seeking to exploit the abilities of those said to possess a facility for remote viewing in operations, drew the notion out in the public imagination. Despite having officially denied any interest or investment in the area a decade earlier (e.g. Broad 1984), some in the intelligence community had apparently sought, amidst Cold War-era jostling for position on all imaginable fronts of the military intelligence battle, to employ the services of remote viewers such as Swann and Price “to obtain information unavailable from other sources” (cited in Supplee 1995). Fearing “an ESP Gap” (ibid) as Soviet military intelligence was rumored to be pouring resources into parapsychological concerns, the CIA became the first sponsor of SRI’s efforts.

For those concerned to mobilize apparently super-normal abilities for intelligence purposes, it was particularly interesting to probe the possibility of ‘coordinate remote viewing’ (viewing based solely on the provision of geographical coordinates or similar data) or other procedures that eliminated the protocol by which experimenters would be present onsite or select an immediate target such an image or object in front of them. Still, Puthoff (1996: 73) suggests that the main focus of research was less bent on operationalizing remote viewing abilities for US purposes than on assessing the potential threat posed by parallel Soviet investigations. An early attempt to gauge the operational potential of remote viewing saw CIA ‘clients’ at the SRI directing Price to record his impressions of an “unidentified research site” (Puthoff 1996: 69) at Semipalatinsk, USSR; Price went on to draw a rough sketch of the site plan, and went into considerable detail in his description of a multi-story crane which appeared very similar to those present on-site. According to Puthoff, a number of salient details regarding the technology operating and other aspects of the facility were corroborated by both existing intelligence from other sources and later confirmations. A similar result without the benefit of an ‘agent’ onsite (marking the ability as more akin to a form of clairvoyance than telepathy) was reported when Ingo Swann sought to describe the planet Jupiter as a remote viewing target immediately prior to the NASA Pioneer 10 flyby in 1973. Surprisingly, given astronomers’ then-current knowledge, Swan pictured the planet surrounded by a ring – a feature that, quite unexpectedly, subsequent observations from the spacecraft discovered…or confirmed (Puthoff 1996: 68).

Joe McMoneagle

If only briefly, the remote-viewing program and its Cold War-era intelligence applications were mainstream news in the mid-1990s, and various figures in the community of viewers and interested scientists, such as ex-Army officer Joe McMoneagle (viewer number 001 in what became the Stargate project), came into focus in the media spotlight. Interviewed in the Washington Post, McMoneagle shed some light on what he claims to represent both the day-to-day and the exceptional in life as a remote viewer in the military intelligence establishment:

On a typical workday, McMoneagle said, he reported to an old, leaky wooden barracks at Fort Meade, where he went into a one-person office. He sat at a desk with a typewriter and a mug of coffee. The cup said This End Up and had an arrow pointing the wrong way. He was then presented with sealed envelopes — sometimes large brown ones, sometimes small white ones — and he was asked to supply information about whatever was inside.

There might be a photograph of a person, and he would be asked to describe where the person was located. In that way, he said, he helped the Army locate hostages in Iran. He said he predicted almost precisely where Skylab was going to fall, 11 months before the spacecraft returned to Earth in 1979. He named the city in Italy — Padua — and described the second-floor apartment where Brig. Gen James Dozier was held hostage by the Red Brigades in 1981. The information arrived in Italy on the day Dozier was released.

Over the years, McMoneagle said, he was involved in about 450 missions. One of his favorites was in 1980, when CIA personnel captured a suspected KGB agent in South Africa. They wanted to know how the agent was communicating with the Soviet military. They put an envelope on McMoneagle’s desk, and without knowing anything of the man, McMoneagle told the CIA that the man liked to use a small pocket calculator. The calculator turned out to be a disguised short-wave radio (Weeks 1995).

McMoneagle appeared on US television network ABC at the height of popular interest in November 1995, demonstrating, with moderate success, an SRI-type remote viewing experiment in which he described “a natural river that had been improved by man” and “a bridge with foot traffic” when the actual target selected from among a series of Houston landmarks was the ship channel which runs through the city, with a bridge (albeit not a pedestrian bridge) a moderate distance away (Weeks 1995). As well as publishing regularly on the subject for a popular audience (four books from 1993-2002), McMoneagle runs his own company, Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., and claims to be of help in everything from divining the locations of mineral deposits to locating missing persons – though he acknowledges that the impressions generated by remote viewing vary tremendously in accuracy and utility for such concrete endeavors, noting that it “is very difficult to use for locating things, such as missing persons, lost objects, etc.” (McMoneagle 1997: 98).

Russell Targ

Russell Targ has recently sought to theorize the process and conditions of remote viewing and other ‘psychic’ phenomena, publishing Limitless Mind: a guide to remote viewing and transformation of consciousness (2004). Aside from some more esoteric New-Age flavoured speculation on the links between religious thought and the implications of remote viewing research (and, presumably far removed from CIA objectives after all these years, the technique and underlying potentialies’ promise for expanding self-knowledge, personal and social development), Targ draws out profound implications for how to conceptualize individual consciousness, perception, and their relationships to space and time in the physical world; for Targ, in light of the evidence garnered by his own and others’ experiments, the conclusion to be drawn is that “we are not a body, but rather limitless, nonlocal awareness animating or residing in a body” (Targ 2004: xii). Remote viewing, he contends, points to “the possibility of our residing in – and as – this state of expanded, timeless, fearless, spacious awareness” (ibid). Remote viewing, Targ writes, is “a process in which you quiet your mind and inflow information from anywhere in the world” (ibid: 4); it cultivates a species of “nonlocal awareness,” or the “ability to focus on distant points in space-time” (ibid: 8).

Targ and Dr. E. Rauscher suggest the model of “complex Minkowski space,” which essentially considers the typical three dimensions of space and one of time as doubled into their ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’ parts for a total of eight dimensions, and allows for the possibility of contiguity or access between points separated in ‘real’ time-space manifest in remote viewing and precognition, as currently best-suited to explaining such ‘psi’ phenomena. They also profess confidence in the assertion that remote viewing and related abilities are 1) “not a result of any energetic transmission,” (they discount the idea that electromagnetic fields, or a ‘signal’ akin to radio or telegraph might be involved) and 2) “are, rather, an interaction of our awareness with a nonlocal, hyperdimensional space-time in which we live” (ibid: 10). Targ makes a point of mobilizing his knowledge of modern physics to undermine a “naïve realist” model of space-time and question the nature of our popular and scientific preconceptions and corollary notions of the discrete subject “sitting on our own well-circumscribed points in space-time” (13).

Separation is an Illusion

On the other hand, Targ’s recent book also makes the case that the “lesson that separation is an illusion” is a truth cultivated for millennia by mystics in Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and Jewish tradition – and later, by Spinoza, Berkeley, Emerson and Einstein (who “believed in the God of Spinoza,” that necessarily infinite and indivisible substance) (14-19). Ultimately the New-Age-inflected spiritual turn of Targ’s later writing reflects an inherent difficulty in reconciling commonly-held scientific paradigms with the results of remote viewing research, especially in light of the inherently unstable, elusive, and ultimately inconsistent nature of attempts to produce and reproduce scientific data which nonetheless (though many skeptics point to potential flaws in the research design and hone in on the fact that no strong evidence delineates the workings of the actual process) provides ‘anomalous’ patterns inexplicable by simple chance or other known factors. Others’ efforts at tentative explanations similarly evince a speculative tone, and tend to imply the need for a through re-thinking of the relationships between physical and mental processes across time and space.

The Focus of Later Research

Much of the research conducted from the 1970s onwards sought to strip away any ‘interference’ to reveal insights into the specific ‘channels’ or mechanisms by which those with apparent remote viewing abilities received their information. Employing shielding to block all manner of transmission, and deploying monitoring of variables such as the percipient’s brainwaves (EEG), many experiments sought to find out exactly what was going on. At best, after repeated experiments, possibilities such as a human ability to sense conventional electromagnetic or other energetic fields appear to have been eliminated, with little concomitant insight into what would explain the results. These efforts focused on the design of controlled experiments to test both the incidence and mode of functioning of such abilities in subjects of interest.

Reviews by Dunne & Jahn

Interestingly, Dunne and Jahn’s review of 25 years of ‘remote perception’ research concluded that efforts to isolate the ‘anomalous channel of communication’ implicated in remote perception tended to negatively impact the strength of results, implying that a certain level of “noise” is in fact integral to the process by which some individuals appear to manifest their ability to ‘see’ or otherwise perceive distant or otherwise (conventionally) obscured locations and object. Attempts to “clarify” the characteristics of the channel or remove possible sources of bias by implementing progressive layers of experimental controls reduced the apparent “signal” to the point at which the researchers lost most of their purchase on the phenomena they had set out to study (ibid: 39-40). As well as noting the potential relevance of recently-developed engineering concepts such as that of “stochastic noise,” by which “an increase in the overall level of noise in certain kinds of lasers or sensitive electronic circuits can actually enhance the detection of weak, fluctuating signals” (ibid: 40), the authors reference both historical practices of divination such as the I Ching and the thought of the psychiatrist Carl Jung in outlining their own view, one which:

"speaks of the emergence of both cognitive experience and physical events from a common underlying substrate associated with the domains of the unconscious mind and the undifferentiated world of physical potentiality, wherein the distinction between mind and matter blurs into uncertainty. Given their common origin, we note that it should thus not be surprising to observe correlations between their manifested expressions in the worlds of mental and physical 'reality'". (Dunne and Jahn 2002: 42).

Pretty thorough, eh? Below are Mowbray's footnotes if you want to check out anything further. In the mean time, let me know what parts of this you want to find out more about in the comments below.

Talk soon,
Michael

Notes

1. See ‘Extra-sensory Perception’ in the ABCDERIUM

2. See ‘clairvoyance’ in the ABCDERIUM

3. See ‘telepathy’ in the ABCDERIUM

Works cited

Broad, William J. 1984. “Pentagon Is Said To Focus on ESP For Wartime Use.” New York Times, 10/1/1984: C1.

Buchanan, Lyn. 2003. The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a “Psychic Spy” for the U.S. Military. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Dunne, Brenda J. and Robert G. Jahn. 2002. “Information and Uncertainty: 25 years of Remote Perception Research.” Princeton, NJ: Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, Princeton School of Engineering.

Lee, James H. 2008. “From my perspective: Remote viewing as applied to futures studies.” Technological Forecasting & Social Change 75: 142–153

McMoneagle, Joe. 1997. “Perceptions of a paranormal subject.” The Journal of Parapsychology 61: 97-118.

Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose and David A. Goselin. 1995. An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications. Washington: The American Institutes for Research.

Pinch, T.J, and H.M. Collins. 1984. “Private Science and Public Knowledge: The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal and Its Use of the Literature.” Social Studies of Science 14(4): 521-546.

Puthoff, Harold. 1996. CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute. Journal of Scientijc Exploration 10(1): 63-76.

Puthoff, Harold and Russel Targ. 1974. “Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding.” Nature 251: 602-607.

Ronson, Jon. 2005. The Men who Stare at Goats. New York: Picador.

Strauss, Stephen. 1995. “Tests support psychic phenomena: New analysis of CIA program Stargate shows consistent results.” Globe and Mail, 02/12/1995.

Supplee, Curt. 1995. “Many Find ‘Remote Viewing’ a Far Fetch From Science.” Washington Post, 02/12/1995: A03.

Targ, Russel. 2004. Limitless mind: a guide to remote viewing and transformation of consciousness. Nomato, CA: New World Library.

Weeks, Linton. 1995. “Up Close & Personal With a Remote Viewer: Joe McMoneagle Defends the Secret Project.” Washington Post, 04/12/1995: B01.

I just came across a great resource for remote viewing fans of every persuasion. It's still in 'beta' form, but Daz of remoteviewed.com is getting together a pretty comprehensive collection of books, papers, transcripts, audios, videos and blog posts.

All the big names are there, so if you want to read everything a particular expert has written - or at least find out how much they've published, this is a great place to start. From Ingo Swann to Russell Targ, Ed Dames, Jim Marrs and a bunch more, they're all here at your virtual finger tips. And that's just the books. There's all kinds of sci research papers listed too - some of them dating back to the 70's.

There's tons of articles too, with links that will take you right to some serious analysis of remote viewing, remote influencing, activating the bio-mind and building your mental super powers.

But if you're not the scholarly type, don't worry - there's a whole bunch of links to remote viewing vids, and it looks like Daz plans to add audios too.

If you find anything you want to see covered in more depth here, leave me a comment and let me know.

Talk soon,

Michael.

Check out Lake's thoughts on remote viewing in an article on the blog spot CosmicOrderingNet, then leave a comment to tell me what you think - is remote viewing by any other name still 'remote viewing'?

Remote Viewing Methods - A Simple Overview

By Adam G Lake

You may choose any number of different remote viewing methods in order to be able to view that which you would be unable to perceive with your physical senses. Remote viewing is all about your own mental power and many who have tried it before say that it feels somewhat similar to astral projection. However, the two practices are different things entirely.

Remote viewing is a natural ability which is latent in every human being. When you learn to use this talent, you can view objects which you would not ordinarily be able to see from where you are.

Remote viewing methods are often thought of as 'new age' practices and even ridiculed, to say nothing of remote viewing itself. However, remote viewing is a natural skill which is no more ridiculous than the ability to swim.

Remote Viewing by Any Other Name Is Still Remote Viewing

When someone receives a mental image or a signal with no one having sent it, we call them a clairvoyant. When one person sends such an image and another receives it, we call it telepathy. When a parent feels that their child is in danger even at a great distance, we usually just shrug and say that it's some sort of parent-child bond.

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Check out this short piece from plusultratech.com. I reprinted it here in full for your convenience.

China's Psychic Children

from www.plusultratech.com

According to an article in the science-fiction magazine Omni, dated January, 1985, by Marcello Truzzi, thousands of Chinese children had developed psychic abilities. Some examples, were verified by scientists from the Chinese government.

One skill the children were able to develop was ‘psychic writing’, a technique where they were asked to imagine some written words on a blank piece of paper inside a closed pencil case. The case would be opened a short time later and on it were the words written in pencil. A girl from Shanghai called Xiao Kiong was the first to demonstrate this ability and so in 1981, EHF researchers at Yunnan Wenshan Teachers’ College in Yunna Province selected 5 children with EHF for further training. It was soon found that when blindfolded, these children were able to see with their ears, nose, mouth, tongue, armpits, hands or feet. These tests were not right just some of the time, they were flawless. American new-age magazine Omni got involved when the tests were set up to check there could be no cheating.

More demonstrations were made which astounded the observers, both scientific and civilian.

From a stack of books one was selected, then opened at random and a page was ripped out and crumpled up in to a small ball. It was placed in the armpit of one of the children - and the child could read every word on the page perfectly. After many more tests Omni magazine became convinced these kids were for real. But Omni were not the only ones present. Zhu Yiyi, editor of Shanghai’s Nature Magazine, a prestigious science journal also witnessed these events.

One experiment was done in front of thousands by a little girl.

On another occasion, a thousand people were sitting in an auditorium and were each given a rose-bud. A six-year-old girl came on stage and with a silent wave of her hand; the thousand rosebuds would slowly open to fully blossom into beautiful roses before the eyes of the astonished audience. Another child would take a sealed bottle off a shelf at random and place it at the centre of a table. After a few moments the pills passed through the glass bottle and settled on the table. In many cases, the child would then take another object, such as a coin, put it on the table and it would pass back into the sealed bottle.

Do you know any 'psychic kids'? Were you able to see, know or hear things when you were young that you can't easily see, know or hear now? Do you think kids are more able to learn remote viewing than adults because they've had less time to think it's impossible? Leave a comment and let me know.