It is easy to find information about remote viewing, although sometimes it is easy to be misled if you are still a novice.

I try to gather as much information as possible about it - it may seem sometimes like repetition, but there are always subtle nuances.

The good thing is that once you know ‘what is’ remote viewing, you can learn ‘how to’ remote view.

Below is an excerpt from About.com’s report on paranormal Phenomena, which you can read by clicking here.

What You Need to Know About…

Remote Viewing

It’s a scientific method of tapping into the “universal mind,” transcending time and space, and bringing the unconscious into the conscious - and YOU can learn to do it

Are you curious about remote viewing? You have most likely heard about this mysterious practice and understand that is has something to do with ESP. What you may not know is that a person does not have to be a psychic to learn and use remote viewing. In fact, you can learn to become a remote viewer and access incredible mental powers you didn’t even know you have.

What Is Remote Viewing?

Remote viewing is the controlled use of ESP (extrasensory perception) through a specific method. Using a set of protocols (technical rules), the remote viewer can perceive a target - a person, object or event - that is located distantly in time and space. A remote viewer, it is said, can perceive a target in the past or future that is located in the next room, across the country, around the world or, theoretically, across the universe. In remote viewing, time and space are meaningless. What makes remote viewing different than ESP is that, because it uses specific techniques, it can be learned by virtually anyone.

The term “remote viewing” came about in 1971 through experimentation conducted by Ingo Swann (who correctly remote viewed in 1973 that the planet Jupiter has rings, a fact later confirmed by space probes), Janet Mitchell, Karlis Osis and Gertrude Schmeidler.

In the method that they and others developed, there are five components necessary for remote viewing to take place:

• a subject (the remote viewer)
• active ESP abilities
• a distant target
• the subject’s recorded perceptions
• a confirmatory positive feedback

A remote viewing sessions lasts about one hour.

During the Cold War through the 1970s and 1980s, remote viewing was further developed by the US military and the CIA through such programs codenamed Sun Streak, Grill Flame and Star Gate. The government-sponsored remote viewing programs were successful, according to many who participated. Some of the now-declassified examples include the highly accurate and detailed descriptions of buildings and facilities hundred of miles from the remote viewer - including a crane assembly in the Soviet Union.

Although these organizations claim that after 20 years of experimentation their remote viewing programs have been abandoned, some insiders believe that they are being continued secretly. Some well-known remote viewers say they were contacted by the US government after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to help locate other possible terrorist activity.

Read the full article on About.com by clicking here >>

Please be sure to read this article in conjunction with watching Ed Dame’s remote viewing video which I have posted below. To watch Ed Dame’s remote viewing video, click here.

Sun goes longer than normal without producing sunspots

June 09, 2008 — By Evelyn Boswell, Montana State University News Service

BOZEMAN — The sun has been laying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites.

That’s good news for people who scramble when space weather interferes with their technology, but it became a point of discussion for the scientists who attended an international solar conference at Montana State University. Approximately 100 scientists from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America gathered June 1-6 to talk about "Solar Variability, Earth’s Climate and the Space Environment."

The scientists said periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, but this period has gone on longer than usual.

"It continues to be dead," said Saku Tsuneta with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, program manager for the Hinode solar mission. "That’s a small concern, a very small concern."

The Hinode satellite is a Japanese mission with the United States and United Kingdom as partners. The satellite carries three telescopes that together show how changes on the sun’s surface spread through the solar atmosphere. MSU researchers are among those operating the X-ray telescope. The satellite orbits 431 miles above ground, crossing both poles and making one lap every 95 minutes, giving Hinode an uninterrupted view of the sun for several months out of the year.

Dana Longcope, a solar physicist at MSU, said the sun usually operates on an 11-year cycle with maximum activity occurring in the middle of the cycle. Minimum activity generally occurs as the cycles change. Solar activity refers to phenomena like sunspots, solar flares and solar eruptions. Together, they create the weather than can disrupt satellites in space and technology on earth.

The last cycle reached its peak in 2001 and is believed to be just ending now, Longcope said. The next cycle is just beginning and is expected to reach its peak sometime around 2012. Today’s sun, however, is as inactive as it was two years ago, and scientists aren’t sure why.

"It’s a dead face," Tsuneta said of the sun’s appearance.

Tsuneta said solar physicists aren’t like weather forecasters; They can’t predict the future. They do have the ability to observe, however, and they have observed a longer-than-normal period of solar inactivity. In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period coincided with a little ice age on Earth that lasted from 1650 to 1700.

Tsuneta said he doesn’t know how long the sun will continue to be inactive, but scientists associated with the Hinode mission are ready for it to resume maximum activity. They have added extra ground stations to pick up signals from Hinode in case solar activity interferes with instruments at other stations around the world. The new stations, ready to start operating this summer, are located in India, Norway, Alaska and the South Pole.

Establishing those stations, as well as the Hinode mission, required international cooperation, Tsuneta said. No one country had the resources to carry out those projects by itself.

Four countries, three space agencies and 11 organizations worked together on Hinode which was launched in September 2006, Tsuneta said. Among the collaborators was Loren Acton, a research professor of physics at MSU. Tsuneta and Acton worked together closely from 1986-2002 and were reunited at the MSU conference.

"His leadership was immense, superb," Tsuneta said about Acton.

Acton, 72, said he is still enthused by solar physics and the new questions being raised. In fact, he wished he could knock 22 years off his age and extend his career even longer.

"It’s too much fun," he said. "There’s so much exciting stuff come up, I would like to be part of it."

A related article on the Hinode mission is located at http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4902

Major Ed Dames had already predicted all these things…that’s the power of remote viewing: it’s amazing to see even beyond what science can see today.

To watch Ed Dame’s video where he remote viewed all these things a long time ago, click here.

You must watch this video.

You can watch the full video, The Killshot, in which Major Ed Dames explains what he and his team have remote viewed, as well the history of the celestial body that will intersect with earth’s orbit - this is according to thousands of ancient writings. To watch the video, click here.

There is so much history to remote viewing.

Remote viewing has been around for a long time and has many practical, everyday uses. Although much of the documentation seems to say so, remote viewing isn’t just for institutions -it’s for you, too…

ABSTRACT from the Journal of Scientific Exploration

REMOTE VIEWING AT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN THE 1970′S: A MEMOIR

Russell Targ

JSE Volume 10 Number 1: Page 77.

Hundreds of remote viewing experiments were carried out at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 to 1986.

The purpose of some of these trials was to elucidate the physical and psychological properties of psi abilities, while others were conducted to provide information for our CIA sponsor about current events in far off places.

We learned that the accuracy and reliability of remote viewing was not in any way affected by distance, size, or electromagnetic shielding, and we discovered that the more exciting or demanding the task, the more likely we were to be successful.

Above all, we became utterly convinced of the reality of psi abilities.

This article focuses on two outstanding examples: One is an exceptional, map-like drawing of a Palo Alto swimming pool complex, and the other is an architecturally accurate drawing of a gantry crane located at a Soviet weapons laboratory, and verified by satellite photography.

The percipient for both of these experiments was Pat Price, a retired police commissioner who was one of the most outstanding remote viewers to walk through the doors of SRI.

© Journal of Scientific Exploration

You can access the JSE web site here. You can find subscription information for this excellent peer-reviewed science journal on their web site, or on the mceagle.com references page.

This Article is Courtesy of Fortean Times

Remote Viewing at the Monroe Institute

Since its perhaps surprising acceptance as a surveillance device within the intelligence community, Remote Viewing has gone through a transformation to become part of the New Age toolkit. Mark Blacklock visits one of RV’s elder statesmen in the USA.

By Mark Blacklock                                                                           August 2004

Was Atwater party to experiments exploring potential influencing of remote subjects?

“We have used with Remote Viewing a form of remote hypnosis. During interrogation, having a remote viewer suggest to the person that’s being interrogated that if he cooperates he’ll get to see his family again. Now, could someone twist that story into a wild tale of mind control? Yes, but those same people would take a psychiatrist and say that the word therapist, when you spell it out, is ‘the rapist’. In my experience this idea of mind-control is mostly fiction and sells books and makes good movies.”

I mention that Atwate r’s life now, at the Monroe Institute, seems a far cry from his military career. For him, it was always going to be thus. “I think that in my younger years I was sort of guided into that unit in the military so that I could learn about that. Now I think that the real value of this ESP or Remote Viewing is not in the information that you uncover, not in finding missed children or hidden secrets of the enemy, or missing terrorists for that matter, I think the real value is in self-discovery: who you really are, that you are more, in fact, than your physical body; that you’re interconnected, one with everyone else, in a very unusual way. That you are on a path of evolutionary consciousness and that when you become aware of this you are responsible then for the evolution of your own consciousness.”

It will perhaps come as little surprise that Atwater, like Dr Miller, was raised by “metaphysically oriented parents… What the normal population would consider quite odd was normal in my family. So when I stumbled serendipitously into this programme in the military, it seemed quite natural to me.”

He speaks in incredibly measured tones and seems like a man at home with everything he says and does. He carries his large frame lightly and often talks in homilies, or what seem like pre-prepared spiels.

I become conscious of the fact that whatever I ask him, he seems happy with. This could, I am sure, in another mind become evidence of his influence over the conversation. Occasionally, however, and particularly on questions which refer to proof or evidence, his homilies wander a little.

For example, Atwater’s answer to the admittedly obvious question “is there anything to do with altered states of consciousness that can be empirically verified?” while expressing laudable sentiments, does seem to dodge the issue:

“I understand where your question comes from. I think that the answer is that love is a common experience. I think that people in these various states of consciousness, when they approach their situation with love, they all tend to report the same thing. For example, healing. Healing and love are connected in all instances of reporting. So there is a feeling that that must be a universal truth, that true healing comes from this emotion we identify as love.”

He points out, reasonably, the impossibility of measuring subjective experience and drawing direct lines between brain activity and what is actually appearing in someone’s mind’s eye. He does, however, put great faith in research being undertaken at the Paralabs at Princeton University which does seem to produce measurable results, research into the idea that “when there is some sort of focused awareness of an event happening, subatomic randomness seems to collapse just a little bit.”

“It is as though consciousness itself is affecting the subatomic world,” he says. “Note that I said, ‘as though’. It may not really be that. It may just be that a property of focused consciousness is non-randomness, that they may be co-existent events, not one causing the other.

“We’re interested in that in terms of our group classes here. When we run group classes of 25 people and they’re all intently concentrating on one thing, is that affecting our local random number generators? I’m running random number generators for our programmes to see if that’s happening. Can we recreate that anomaly with smaller groups of people?”

But any hope that we might see these results is also slim. “We don’t have the data yet,” he says. “This is ongoing.”

The idea of collective consciousness is key to the Monroe credo. There is much interest in a particular interpretation of the Jungian idea of archetypes (see FT171:42-47), and specifically light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel type near-death experiences. But a couple of different archetypes, perhaps better referred to as clichés, can be found scattered around the Monroe Institute buildings.

“Dolphins are big here,” explains Dr Miller when I ask her about these. “Rainbows. Crystals. I don’t think it’s any mistake that certain common ones keep coming back and show up here. If we all share this consciousness and there’s something like a dolphin, which represents non-human intelligence, it becomes a symbol for that that’ll pop up wherever appropriate.”

I suggest that the selection of such symbols is at best arbitrary and at worst based on ignorance of what lies behind the symbol in question, with reference particularly to the behaviour of male dolphins, which have been discovered to perpetrate group rapes upon females. Dr Miller isn’t phased. “We don’t like to talk about those. They diminish the spirituality.”

Atwater is slightly more cagey on the New Age clichés. “Because Bob Monroe was a serious businessman himself, the imprint that he left here was that this was not so much ‘woo-woo’ – I don’t know how you’re going to spell that – it’s not airy-fairy, it’s ‘this is the facts the way I discovered them’. We don’t have a doctrine. We don’t wear white robes or eat only tofu. But you will find the occasional crystal out here. People like that kind of thing.”

Indeed, you will find “the occasional crystal” out here. A five-ton monstrosity sits eight feet (2.4m) high in the field below the Nancy Penn Center. Back at the Acorn Inn that night, Martin tells us it was transported from Brazil, at great personal expense, by a Monroe student.
Perhaps the strongest message coming through from both Atwater and Darlene Miller is that ‘the group’ is very important to Monroe Institute programmes.

The idea of group energy and synergy is held aloft like a holy chalice, and this necessarily raises certain questions about the psychology of groups, about what might happen when a group of people intently wants to achieve a prescribed result in terms of their conscious experience.
“Do I think there’s any kind of mass hallucination going on? No, I don’t,” says Dr Miller.
An odd sticker on Atwater’s desk elucidates the behaviour of Monroe groups quite unexpectedly. The sticker reads ‘Ask me about Focus 55’. Mainly because it seems churlish not to, I do ask Atwater about Focus 55.

“This is a cute sticker,” he says. “Bob Monroe assigned number levels for these different windows in consciousness, starting out with 10, 12, 15, 21. Well, there is no such thing as 55. But people get what I call focus envy. They start saying, ‘Well I was in 27’ – ‘Well I was in 36’. And so this always reminds me the numbers don’t always mean anything and a bigger number is not better than a smaller number. They are just arbitrary labels.”

A valley away, past the handful of bars, restaurants and shops that makes up Nellysford, Jim Meissner lives in a ramshackle house surrounded by trailers. In his trailers he keeps his equipment: electronics gear, machine tools, enough solder, nails, screws and wire to fill a hardware store. We’d met Meissner in Bistro 151, a sports bar and pizza joint in Nellysford, the night before we went to Monroe. We’d been chatting to Jane, the bar lady, when Jim had overheard our conversation.

“You guys are here to go to Monroe?”

“Yeah, we’re writing a story about it.”

“You should write a story about me.”

Meissner was in his early sixties, wearing thick-lensed prescription glasses and a stripy short-sleeved shirt with pens in the top pocket, a look immortalised by Michael Douglas in the film Falling Down. But he exuded none of the aggression of Douglas’s character. He was calm, friendly, perhaps a bit of a nerd. And, as he explained that night, he could heal people.

He had been drawn to Nellysford by the Monroe Institute. Following the death of his wife, he’d upped sticks from his home on the West Coast and come to Monroe to show them his invention: a box which took Robert Monroe’s Hemi-Sync technology and amped it up ten-fold. Or so he claimed.

“I used to listen to Bob Monroe’s tapes but they weren’t strong enough for me. So I improved on the Hemi-Sync technology.”

As an electrical engineer specialising in audio engineering, Jim had the skills to do this. He’d made his Brain State Synchronizer and taken it to Monroe and to Atwater. “Skip Atwater called me a snake-oil salesman,” Meissner told me with a hang-dog look. He’d been sent packing, condemned to reside in the next valley and to sell his invention online.

I’d asked Atwater about Meissner. He had remembered him, referring to him as a “Mr Wizard type of guy, an inventor”, and explained that he’d politely passed when offered the invention, having no need for it. But if Meissner’s version of events was true, and Atwater’s comment to him more than a little disingenuous, it wasn’t hard to see why Meissner’s presence might not have been seen as helpful to the smooth operation of the Monroe Institute.

Within minutes of being invited into Meissner’s house, I felt a little uneasy and wondered if Meissner himself might be having second thoughts about seeing us. Perhaps his bravado of the other evening had been fuelled by alcohol. Certainly, he was a little more nervous as he showed us around his messy, cobwebby home, the perfect habitat for a mad inventor.

He made it clear that he would rather I didn’t report certain areas of his research. He was concerned that in so doing I would draw the attention of the Federal Government to his activities, which he didn’t want. He explained why what he was doing represented such a threat to government, particularly the Health Administration. I promised him that I would not report on this research and intend to keep my word.

Suffice it to say, however, that unless I’m very much mistaken, Meissner’s research is in no way illegal, nor indeed of any particular use to anyone but a handful of people who share the same interests as Jim. His speakers are pretty impressive, though.

A lot of jargon is employed at the Monroe Institute. There is much talk of “mental dimensions”, “conducive states of consciousness”, and “realms of hypnagogic imagery”.

It must be hard for those who have undergone what they feel to be consciousness-altering experiences to put such experiences into words, and it is perhaps unavoidable that this sort of jargon has to be employed to pin down concepts larger than words themselves. Nevertheless, by the time we leave I’m not sure I’m any the wiser about consciousness.

Before we did leave, I asked to try out some Hemi-Sync tapes. Atwater put me in the isolation chamber. Protected from electrical radiation and wearing headphones which brought his gentle coaxings to me through the Faraday Cage, I dozed off, listening to the sounds of lapping water and Bob Monroe’s voice as they mixed down into phased tones.

I was in for an hour, apparently, and Atwater and photographer Justin Canning were able to hear my snoring through the microphones. I came out feeling incredibly spacey. I couldn’t say whether it had been any more positive an experience than your average mid-afternoon snooze, but I know I’d need a lot more Hemi-Sync before I could attempt Remote Viewing.

One thing is certain: Bob Monroe has achieved immortality, in a fashion, and proved his theories about life after death.

And it’s not just that the Institute is named after him. His voice lives on in the very fabric of the buildings, piped into the check-in units, the isolation chamber, spooling and spinning on tapes and discs. The Institute is a temple to Monroe, sculpted from the sound of his voice. His benign presence is everywhere. Whether it actually interferes with the video presentation equipment or forms non-corporeal hazes around the check-in units is open to debate. But it is undeniable that he lives on as long as the Institute remains in this beautiful corner of Virginia… and elsewhere, as long as his recordings are played.

This Article is Courtesy of Fortean Times

There’s a society that’s dedicated themselves to combing the field of science (including remote viewing) to discover what other scientists are still too afraid to acknowledge…

Below are details of their next conference, which includes:

Remote Viewing and PK across Space and Time Panel: Selected Presenters-

• Courtney Brown, Quantum Mechanics, Remote Viewing, and Time: Wheeler’s Delayed-Choice Experiment in a Macro Environment
• Simeon Hein, What Remote Viewing Tells Us about Extraterrestrials and UFOs

…among numerous  others.

The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) is a multi-disciplinary professional organization of scientists and other scholars committed to the rigorous study of unusual and unexplained phenomena that cross traditional scientific boundaries and may be ignored or inadequately studied within mainstream science.

The Society was founded in 1982 by fourteen scientists and scholars and now has approximately 800 members in 45 countries worldwide. The SSE publishes a peer reviewed journal, the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE) and holds annual scientific meetings in the USA and periodic meetings in Europe.

Society members include scholars from a broad range of disciplines. Topics addressed in its journal and in its regular meetings cover a wide spectrum, ranging from real or apparent anomalies in well-established areas of science to paradoxical phenomena that belong to no established discipline.

This unique multidisciplinary perspective provides challenging opportunities for creative professional dialog and innovative research. In addition to the Journal and the Annual Meetings, the SSE supports a Young Investigators Program.

This program is designed and implemented primarily by its participants, and its purpose is to provide information and resources pertaining to the scholarly study of anomalous phenomena and other frontier areas of science. An informal discussion in which many members participate can be found in the SSE Yahoo Group.

Next Event:

Conference Theme:

Emerging Paradigms at the Frontiers of Consciousness & UFO Research

Date:

27th Annual SSE Meeting (2008)
June 25-28, 2008

The best thing is: Open to the Public!!!

Website: www.scientificexploration.org

Click here for details and deadlines, or send an email to Scientific_Exploration to find out more about remote viewing.

Chances that it would happen again are very small.

New interview with Gerald O’Donnell is coming soon.

Last time Gerald was talking about:

Using the Mind’s Power to Remote Influence

Let me share with you some of the topics he is going to talk about:

This time the main subject will be the inner workings of the Mind.

He will explain in detail how the Total Mind works and the functioning of the human bio-electrical brain and the background of Quantum Light Higher Mind.

What are really mind states such as beta, alpha, Theta and Delta.

Do they really exist?

• And why reaching certain deep inner states allow one to access different Higher abilities.
• Why is it that when one goes into deeper states of mind psychic phenomena are common and so is the connection to someones’ else’s mind?
• The question will be asked as to the relationship between brain and mind.
• Is the brain the seat of thought?
• Why is it that when humans depart they can and do keep their memories alive (experienced in NDE)?
• Has the brain created the mind (intelligence) or has mind (intelligence) created the brain? Kind of a chicken and egg question.
• Gerald will explain why he perceives that the whole universe without exception is a universe made out of mind and that there’s really nothing besides Thought.
• This will then explain abilities such as remote viewing and remote influencing.
• He’ll talk about the relationship between the inner states outside of time and space and their projections upon the outer world operating in space/time.
• Do you know that you constantly blink in and our of reality with parallel selves and universes and they are all YOU?

What is really the Unified Field?

OK I stop here as I do not want to give out much more now.

So If you have related question and subjects that you would like Gerald to cover please email it to me or post them here.

and

If for any reason you still haven’t listen to the amazing interview with Gerald O’Donnell, check it here

This is the second article, The CIA Gets Hip To A New Intelligence Tool, in the three-part series by Mike Jamieson.

You can read the first part (part 1) - Adoption of the term “Remote Viewing” by clicking here.

Part 2 - THE CIA GETS HIP TO A NEW INTELLIGENCE TOOL

First published 8th August 2007

Less than a year after Ingo Swann “remote viewed” weather conditions in Tucson, Arizona as part of experiments conducted at the New York City offices of the American Society of Psychical Research, the CIA would be giving an independent research organization, formerly a part of Stanford University until divested to its nuclear research projects, an “exploratory contract” of $49,909 to do classified research into the viability and potential of remote viewing.

The person at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) chosen to oversee this initial eight month project (called Biofield Measurements Program) was Hal Puthoff, at that time working on laser research at SRI. Joining him later would be a colleague (from laser research and also with an interest in parapsychology), Russell Targ.

Puthoff in a 1996 paper recounts the history of “CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute”.

That paper could be written because in July 1995 the CIA declassified papers and reports generated by SRI’s research and use of remote viewing for the benefit of the CIA.

(see http://www.militaryremoteviewers.com/cia_remote_viewing_sri.htm)

Another detailed account, in the form of an online book was written by Ingo Swann (who along with a man named Pat Price would be the remote viewing participants in this initial remote viewing project on the CIA’s behalf).

(see http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com and the link there)

And, perhaps most valuable of all due to the author’s access to not only his own notes of involvement in an unit of the government’s remote viewing operations since 1983 but also his interviews with most of the key figures (including Puthoff and Swann), is the book “Reading the Enemy’s Mind: America’s Psychic Espionage Program” by Paul H. Smith.

Famed Pulitzer Prize journalist Jack Anderson wrote the forward to this book and summarizes his own history of examining and reporting on this long secret program.

(People can see Smith’s website, http://www.rviewer.com, for more information.)

In March 1972, Swann saw some intriguing correspondence, a paper on “quantum biology” by Hal Puthoff, at Cleve Backster’s home in New York. (During this time Swann was still doing experiments at the American Society of Psychical Research.)

Swann soon wrote to Puthoff, sharing his experiences with the early experiments that attempted a PK influence over organic matter. Puthoff responded not longer after by phone and the stage was being set for Swann to visit SRI early in June 1972.

Puthoff prepared a surprise test for Swann on this first visit, involving getting access to a shielded, quark detecting magnetometer at Stanford University’s Physics Department. On his visit, it appeared Swann was able to disturb the operation of the magnetometer (while located on the floor above the vault).

He further went on to impress Puthoff by drawing details of the the complex interior of the magnetometer. (No such schematics had been published prior to this.)

All this so impressed Puthoff that he wrote a paper about it and circulated it among scientific colleagues. What in particular impressed Puthoff were Swann’s detailed drawings of the magnetometer’s make-up. And, this is what also what impressed the two CIA representatives who showed up shortly after Puthoff sending his report out. They also had a copy of the report.

(After this visit, Puthoff did write to Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green about the experiment. Green was then at the Life Science Desk, part of the CIA’s Office of Strategic Intelligence. Puthoff’s contact with him begin their many years of association.)

No one writing the history of remote viewing seems to know how these two CIA visitors came across Puthoff’s paper, but they were aware that Puthoff had worked as a Naval Intelligence Officer and then later as a civilian employee with the National Security Agency (NSA).

And, Puthoff reports in his account of this meeting that these representatives from the CIA expressed concern about Soviet parapsychological research and utilization of psychic skills as an intelligence tool. (Puthoff references a later-1978-paper by the Defense Intelligence Agency, identified as DST-18105-202-78 and entitled “Paraphysics R and D–Warsaw Pact U.)

The visitors explained that they had been looking for a research laboratory that was unconnected formally with an academic institution and that could serve as a quiet, low-profile place for classified research and investigation. SRI seemed to fit the bill. So, as a result, they gave SRI a small amount of money to fly Ingo Swann out to Stanford and have him participate in some tests to observe and evaluate his remote viewing skills.

This testing and evaluation happened in August 1972. CIA scientists came out to participating in testing and evaluating Swann’s potential enhanced perceptual abilities. Basically, Swann was asked to remote view the contents of sealed containers.

In three cases, the CIA visitors placed items in three sealed boxes (contents picked and known only by them). Swann did well altogether, though he was very puzzled by what he saw in one of the boxes prepared by the CIA visitors. He thought he saw a “brown leaf” floating up by the underside of the lid. In fact, the CIA guys had placed a large brown moth in the box.

These trials were sufficient to move the CIA to fund on October 1, 1972 (the first day of the government’s fiscal year for 1973) a contract with SRI in the amount of $49,909 for exploratory research into parapsychology. This contract would fund the research for eight months (which began in January 1973).

This is the third in a series of articles by Mike Jamieson, the well known researcher and former MUFON state section director for Napa County in California.
Mike is a valued member of the REALITY uncovered forums and this article is the second part of his enthralling “History of Remote Viewing” feature.

You can read Part 1 (Adoption of the term “Remote Viewing”) by clicking here, and Part 2 (The CIA Gets Hip To A New Intelligence Tool) by clicking here.

Part 3 - ALL YOU REALLY NEED IS AN ADDRESS

10th May 2008
The focus for the first few months of SRI’s initial 8 month long study for the CIA was on PK effects, but with minimal success (and a lack of consistency) in the results, SRI experimentation refocused on the potentials of RV for use by their current client.

It was not clear at first how remote viewing, in the way they had been experimenting with it, would be of use to any intelligence agencies. The most typical way they had been practicing it was to send “outbounder” teams to a site which the viewer would then focus on (via the presence of the team).

The group at SRI was mulling this over with only a short time left on the initial CIA contract (May ‘73 to Aug. ‘73, with the contract having begun in January). A visitor to SRI, Jacques Vallee, suggested a simple solution: “All you really need is an address.”

Swann in turn suggested the use of geographic coordinates, something Puthoff and Targ thought didn’t make sense due to the fact that coordinates were artificial and abstract representations.

But, preliminary experiements (sic) were satisfactory enough and the CIA itself offered coordinates to a wooded area in the hills of West Virginia. So far as the CIA person offering the coordinates knew, there was only a vacation cabin at the site.

Ingo Swann and another man named Pat Price were tasked with remote viewing this location. (Price had recently heard about the project and, feeling he had a psychic aptitude, volunteered for experiments.)

Both Swann and Price described a partially underground military like facility not far from the cabin! (Confirmed in followup visits and consultations.)

Not only were the descriptions of the site (again, unknown even to the provider of the coordinates) accurate, but the CIA’s project manager for the SRI contract, Dr. Ken Kress, noted: “Pat Price, who had no military or intelligence background, provided a list of project titles associated with current and past activities including one of extreme sensitivity.

Also, the code-name of the site was provided. Other information concerning the physical layout of the site was accurate.” [pages 72-73, Ken Kress, "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions", STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE, Washington, DC, CIA, Winter 1977.]

Other double-blind coordinates were tasked for the remote viewers before the CIA contract ended in August 1973 and since the results were good overall, CIA support for this research at SRI continued until 1975.

Ingo Swann would take a year long break from this study, but in addition to Pat Price, others would become involved: Hella Hammid (professional photographer), Duane Elgin (SRI employee), Gary Langford and Keith Harary.

Pat Price’s participation in RV efforts changed directions when he began working with the CIA directly, in the months just prior to his unexpected death in Las Vegas in July 1975. Not long after Price died (an event about which some people have questions), the CIA dropped out of the RV business. Being under fire in Congressional hearings over past questionable practices, they were reluctant to hold onto what might be controversial.

Also very important: there was strong disagreement within the CIA over using remote viewing. Many there felt it was neither real nor potentially useful.

Paul Smith reports in his book Reading The Enemies’ Mind (”chronicling America’s psychic espionage program”) that “even though a few in-house CIA employees had shown some success with remote viewing, and Price himself was now working exclusively for the agency and coming up with results corroborated by other intelligence information the CIA had already obtained, this ongoing debate contributed to the termination of CIA involvement after Price’s sudden death in July 1975″ [p.76, paperback edition]

A year before he died, Pat Price was still working for SRI, though, and that’s when he was given the task of remote viewing a research and development facility in the old Soviet Union (near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan). After receiving the coordinates (on July 19, 1974), Price reported his impressions of that location from the several remote viewing sessions he did over the following two weeks.

Some of his descriptions were confirmed by satellite imagery: a large gantry crane that rode on rails and that passed over a 2-3 story building and the presence of gas cylinders. But not confirmed for another few years were 60 foot diameter steel spheres that Price described being assembled.

The story of this particular remote viewing impressed many in the intelligence community, but by July 1975 many others there felt that the fact Price produced a lot of bad data and otherwise descriptions that could be neither evaluated or confirmed made RV useless as an intelligence tool.

• For example, this was the conclusion of the officers at the CIA’s Office of Research and Development when the CIA’s involvement with RV ended in 1975.

The SRI team spent its last stretch of time under CIA contract partially examining the nature of RV phenomena (and seeing what factors enhanced successful use). But, they more importantly focused on remote viewing’s potential uses.

• For example, a series of double blind experiments, with 12 remote viewers targeting 7 pieces of instruments and machinery, yielded some very detailed and accurate sketches.

At this stage, Paul Smith reports in history that some key conclusions and observations had been made by those involved in the SRI study. He also notes that at this point “it was also just two years into the program, and many lessons about tasking, analysis, and reporting of remote viewing data were yet to be learned.” [p.68, paperback edition].

So far as some of the understandings acquired from the study, Smith summarizes some, like these key points: (1) concrete descriptions more accurate than labeling and analysis; (2) using several remote viewers for a single task improved quality of the final data; (3) anybody could be taught RV; and, RV improves with practice.

• Though the CIA ended its involvement with RV in the summer of 1975, later in the year SRI’s research effort would be sustained by funding from the Air Force Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson. This came about through the interest of a civilian employee there, Dale Graff.
• Then, two years later an Army Lt. (”Skip” Atwater) begins forming an Army RV program at the direction of Army Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Edmund Thompson.
• The DIA assumes control of the program.
• Early 1980s, the remote viewing procedure is structured and training CRV to government remote viewers begins.
• The Remote Viewing process (as commonly taught).
• Questions, controversies, debates.

Mike Jamieson, is a well known researcher and the former MUFON state section director for Napa County in California.

This article is the first of his three-part series on remote viewing from the REALITY uncovered Featured Writer Series.

Part One - A History of Remote Viewing.

Adoption of the term “Remote Viewing”

The development of a process and capacity that would later be called “remote viewing” was essentially due to a sequence of circumstances and events involving a self-described “ordinary” man whose vocation was as an artist and aspiring writer.

Ingo Swann meant ordinary in the sense that he was NOT a psychic (something he has asserted at all stages of his life), but instead he considered himself to be a “consciousness researcher” with an ability to occasionally enter altered states of consciousness.

Swann’s friendship and experimental work with Cleve Backster and others (such as ASPR leader Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler) would lead to him being invited to be a part of experiments that were organized by Dr. Karl Osis, director of research at the American Society for Psychical Research.

Backster was (and still is) a well known polygraphist whose early work in using polygraph equipment to detect plant sensitivity to human thoughts and emotions was chronicled in a popular book, The Secret Life of Plants (1973) by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird.

In early 1971, Swann was busy in Backster’s lab sending “psi probes” into gasses contained in small metal containers. Attached electrodes measured whether or not these probes succeeded in exciting the gasses. The results were mixed, so at Backster’s suggestion, Swann moved on to trying to affect organic material (from one celled animals to blood and seminal fluids).

When they began working with blood, it was found that Swann’s “project probes” (psychically) consistently caused a reaction in blood cells. With these types of results, Swann noted: “If you think carefully now, you might realize the ‘psychic threat’ potentials of this particular kind of phenomena. Cleve and his small circle of friends certainly did. We mused these over while eating junk food in the Times Square area.

If anyone knew what was going on in the world regarding things like this, Cleve certainly did because of his extensive network of contacts in law enforcement agencies and within the CIA. ‘Well,’ he suddenly blurted out through a mouth stuffed with frankfurter, ‘you’ve just done something the Soviets have been working on for a long time.’ I didn’t quite make the connection and asked him to explain. ‘The potential of invading someone’s body by mind alone.’” [1]

(There was an increasingly popular book out during this time which pointed to interesting Soviet activities in this arena: Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (1970) by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. A growing awareness that the Soviets were using paranormal capacities, apparently even in their intelligence services, probably had an impact on our own intelligence services’ interest in this type of thing.)

In October 1971, Swann was invited to participate in experiments at the American Society of Psychical Research. The experiment was staged in an upstairs room (formerly a bedroom) that was divided into two by a partition and it was designed to see if the subject (i.e. Swann) could “go out of the body” and up about 14 feet to see what objects had been placed in a tray hanging 2 feet from the high ceiling. Swann was always hooked up with electrodes connected to a brainwave recorder.

On the other side of the partition was Janet Lee Mitchell, Dr. Osis’s research assistant.
Interestingly, Swann had no experience with out of the body experiences and he did not feel anyone was capable of doing this at will. But, that didn’t bother Dr. Osis who told Swann he would be paid $50/day. The way it was supposed to work was for Swann to try and see the contents of the tray and narrate into a tape recorder his perceptions. Later, the transcript would be compared to various drawings by a psychologist (not part of ASPR) who was unaware that OOBE perceptions were the focus of the experiment.

Despite some interesting early successes, Swann found the initial stretch (of several weeks) difficult going and, as a result, he pondered what may be inhibiting him. He realized that he was “having trouble…..articulating what I thought I was seeing into the microphone. I found I had to stop ’seeing’, and think about how to say what I felt I was ’seeing’ [and] then I had to verbalize it.” [2]

Everyone agreed then to let Swann sketch what he was seeing in his mind’s eye (in the attempts to perceive contents in the tray). A clipboard of paper and a pen were balanced on his knees and since any movements while drawing did not result in “artefacts” in the brainwave readout, all was set to go.

(Drawing and writing would become the standard practice in the later remote viewing tasks conducted by covert government teams. From the first to the last stages of RV efforts, typically with the guidance of a monitor, either forms and shapes or words would be utilized to illustrate the deepening perceptions in accordance with the focus of each stage.)

Like was implied before, in Swann’s description of the process of “seeing” the contents of the tray, his perceptions in these experiments did not seem to generally involve a vehicle of consciousness travelling outside of the body.

Therefore, a new language or vocabulary was adopted, influenced (Swann reports) by talking with Martin Ebon (apparently very aware of the Soviet scene and their use of terminology for describing enhanced perceptual capacities). So instead of struggling to fly out of his body and viewing the tray’s various contents, Swann began seeing the process as involving what he called the “perceptual faculties of the biomind.”

In late November 1971, Swann reports, good (albeit often partially successful) results began to emerge more consistently and by early December results were becoming repeatable and stronger. By this time, Swann’s drawings were more and more clearly matching all the various objects placed in the tray above his head.

Needless to say, these picture drawings and the frequent matching’s with the target objects not only excited the ASPR staff and board members, but caused them to deepen their consideration of actual process and design more challenging experiments. So, they decided to try something harder and definitely different: to see if Swann could determine the weather conditions in a distant city.
On December 8, 1971, Swann was hooked up as usual and waited while his monitor (Janet) opened up a sealed envelope; revealed was the target city of Tucson, Arizona.

Swann has described (in his online book on this history) what happened next:

And when I first heard the mention of ‘Tuscon, Arizona’, a picture of hot desert flashed through my mind. But then I had the sense of moving, a sense that lasted but a fraction of a second. Some part of my head or brain or perception blacked out—and THERE I was….something I would refer to years ahead as ‘immediate transfer of perceptions.’

So fast was the whole of this, or so it seemed to me, that I began speaking almost as soon as Janet had narrated the distant site through the intercom. ‘Am over a wet highway, buildings nearby and in the distance. The wind is blowing. Its cold. And it is raining hard.’ I didn’t even have time to sketch this, for it was easy enough to articulate into the tape recorder.’
‘That’s it?’ questioned Janet through the intercom.

‘Yeah, that’s it—only that I’m slightly dizzy. I thought this would take longer. It’s raining and very cold there.’ ‘Okay’, Janet replied….Through the intercom I heard her dialing the number of the weather service in Tucson.

Before I could stand up, though, Janet said through the intercom: ‘Well, you’re right on, baby. Right now Tucson is having unexpected thunderstorms and the temperature is near freezing?’[3]

This was only a first experiment of its kind (except for the much more moderate distance of trying to see objects recently on Dr. Osis’s coffee table upstairs). In order to provide a new descriptive term for this new type of experimenting, Swann suggested that the experiments be called either “remote sensing” or “remote viewing“.

Dr. Osis and Gertrude Schmeidler preferred “remote viewing“. And, that’s the term that would be used from that point on.

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