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Remote viewing (RV):
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing
Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using subjective means, in particular, extrasensory perception (ESP) or "sensing with mind". There is no credible scientific evidence that remote viewing works, and the topic of remote viewing is regarded as pseudoscience.
Typically a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person or location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.[8] The term was coined in the 1970s by physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), to distinguish it from the closely related concept of clairvoyance.
Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s upon the declassification of certain documents related to the Stargate Project, a $20 million research program that had started in 1975 and was sponsored by the U.S. government, in an attempt to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena. The program was terminated in 1995 after it failed to produce any useful intelligence information
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing
Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using subjective means, in particular, extrasensory perception (ESP) or "sensing with mind". There is no credible scientific evidence that remote viewing works, and the topic of remote viewing is regarded as pseudoscience.
Typically a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person or location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.[8] The term was coined in the 1970s by physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), to distinguish it from the closely related concept of clairvoyance.
Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s upon the declassification of certain documents related to the Stargate Project, a $20 million research program that had started in 1975 and was sponsored by the U.S. government, in an attempt to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena. The program was terminated in 1995 after it failed to produce any useful intelligence information
The Military Applications of ESP:
Talk delivered at the Dublin Mind, Body & Spirit Festival, Sunday 17th March 2013 by
John Joyce Ph.D.
Talk delivered at the Dublin Mind, Body & Spirit Festival, Sunday 17th March 2013 by
John Joyce Ph.D.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and thank you for taking the time to be here today. My name is John Joyce, the author of the novel ‘Fire & Ice’ and I would like to share with you some of the results of the research that went into this book specifically on the subject of the military uses of ESP – otherwise known as ‘remote viewing’ or ‘psychic spying’.
It’s very fitting that this talk should take place here at the Mind, Body and Spirit Fair because this is where the idea for Fire & Ice was born back on the 24th October 1998 when I attended a lecture on the human aura and consciousness by the Russian scientist Professor. Konstantin Korotkov, who very kindly gave me a signed copy of his book.
Professor. Korotov had developed a way of photographing the natural biological energy field that exists around all living things using a technique he called Gas Discharge Visualisation (GDV). This technique involved state of the art computer, electronic and optical technology and was a development of Kirlian photography which you may be familiar with.
What really sparked my imagination about Professor Korotkov’s talk however, was his reference to research that had been done in Russia and the United States of America during the Cold War to communicate telepathically with nuclear submarines under the Arctic Ice cap where no other form of communication can reach. And the novel Fire & Ice was born.
It’s very fitting that this talk should take place here at the Mind, Body and Spirit Fair because this is where the idea for Fire & Ice was born back on the 24th October 1998 when I attended a lecture on the human aura and consciousness by the Russian scientist Professor. Konstantin Korotkov, who very kindly gave me a signed copy of his book.
Professor. Korotov had developed a way of photographing the natural biological energy field that exists around all living things using a technique he called Gas Discharge Visualisation (GDV). This technique involved state of the art computer, electronic and optical technology and was a development of Kirlian photography which you may be familiar with.
What really sparked my imagination about Professor Korotkov’s talk however, was his reference to research that had been done in Russia and the United States of America during the Cold War to communicate telepathically with nuclear submarines under the Arctic Ice cap where no other form of communication can reach. And the novel Fire & Ice was born.
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At this point I have to say that the use of extra-sensory perception (ESP) as a communications system in war, or as a weapon of war in its own right, is nothing new. In Roman times, soothsayers and fortune-tellers were paid to assist generals with the deployment of their forces and to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of enemies. Native American Indians speak of medicine men who could predict an enemy’s advance, as well as the number of warriors and weapons held, by simply going into a trance. It is known that Hitler placed great store in the occult and the power of psychic ability, with some initial, although thankfully short-lived, success during World War II, and that even Churchill was not above employing some of the more reliable mediums on projects that required their unique talents.
In both Russia and America interest in ESP for military purposes also dates back to the Second World War when the famous Polish psychic Wolf Messing, was pulled off the stage of a theatre in the Belorussian city of Gomel in 1940 in the middle of a sell-out performance, arrested and hustled into a waiting car. He was taken to meet Joseph Stalin and from then on used his unique gifts to advise the Soviet leadership for over twenty years. Messing is known to have told Stalin of his vision of Soviet tanks invading Berlin and to have predicted for Krushchev that the Cuban Missile Crisis – the subject of the novel Fire & Ice – would not end in World War III.
But the specific event that Professor Korotkov referred to that sparked my interest was the incident that became known as ‘The Nautilus Affair’ after the world’s first atomic submarine.
Soviet military intelligence was well aware that the American scientist J.P Rhine of the Parapsychology Lab at Duke University had received money from the US Office of Naval Research in 1952, but couldn’t understand why until the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine was launched in Groton, Connecticut in January 1954. Up until then, submarines had been powered by diesel engines and electric motors. They spent only part of their time submerged, and were relatively easy to track, since they had to dock for diesel fuel, surface for air and to recharge their batteries by running the diesel engines. But an American atomic submarine, which could remain submerged indefinitely and therefore be undetectable was a serious threat that could not be picked up by Russian spy trawlers, merchantmen or spies in ports. At 1100 hr on August 3rd 1958, Operation Sunshine – a brazen attempt by the Americans to steal the thunder of International Geophysical Year – came to fruition when Commander William R. Anderson surfaced the Nautilus at the North Pole.
In both Russia and America interest in ESP for military purposes also dates back to the Second World War when the famous Polish psychic Wolf Messing, was pulled off the stage of a theatre in the Belorussian city of Gomel in 1940 in the middle of a sell-out performance, arrested and hustled into a waiting car. He was taken to meet Joseph Stalin and from then on used his unique gifts to advise the Soviet leadership for over twenty years. Messing is known to have told Stalin of his vision of Soviet tanks invading Berlin and to have predicted for Krushchev that the Cuban Missile Crisis – the subject of the novel Fire & Ice – would not end in World War III.
But the specific event that Professor Korotkov referred to that sparked my interest was the incident that became known as ‘The Nautilus Affair’ after the world’s first atomic submarine.
Soviet military intelligence was well aware that the American scientist J.P Rhine of the Parapsychology Lab at Duke University had received money from the US Office of Naval Research in 1952, but couldn’t understand why until the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine was launched in Groton, Connecticut in January 1954. Up until then, submarines had been powered by diesel engines and electric motors. They spent only part of their time submerged, and were relatively easy to track, since they had to dock for diesel fuel, surface for air and to recharge their batteries by running the diesel engines. But an American atomic submarine, which could remain submerged indefinitely and therefore be undetectable was a serious threat that could not be picked up by Russian spy trawlers, merchantmen or spies in ports. At 1100 hr on August 3rd 1958, Operation Sunshine – a brazen attempt by the Americans to steal the thunder of International Geophysical Year – came to fruition when Commander William R. Anderson surfaced the Nautilus at the North Pole.
American scientist J.P Rhine of the Parapsychology Lab at Duke University:
Commander William R. Anderson:
The Russians immediately saw the sinister threat behind this adventure. No longer would the Americans have to fly over the Pole from their air bases in Greenland to menace Soviet cities. Nuclear weapons could now be fired at Russia from American atomic submarines lurking under the Polar Arctic ice near the very borders of the USSR. The Russians also reasoned that the Americans must have found a new way of communicating with these submarines while they were under the ice where radio waves cannot penetrate and, when the French magazine Constellation published an article the following year called “Thought Transmission – Weapon of War” (followed by a more in-depth treatment by Gerard Messadié in Science et Vie) the Soviets made the connection – that mental telepathy – or ESP – was being used.
A summary of the material reported in the French press is as follows:
A rigidly controlled experiment on the pattern of J.B. Rhine’s card-calling ESP trials was said to have started on board the Nautilus on July 25th 1958, and run for a period of 16 days under the Arctic Ice pack. The experiment was “successful”, which meant that telepathy could convey information through ice, sea water and the steel hull of a submarine.\
The ‘sender’ of the telepathic messages was said to have been a student called ‘Smith’ of Duke University in America, where J.B. Rhine had his parapsychology lab. During the 16 days of the experiment, ‘Smith’ was located at the Westinghouse Laboratory, at Friendship, Maryland.
Aboard a private cabin on the submarine Nautilus, the ‘receiver’, a navy lieutenant called ‘Jones’, took down his ‘visual impressions’ of the Zener card symbols sent by ‘Smith’. The officer in charge of the project was said to be one Colonel William H. Bowers, director of the Biological Department of the Air Force research institute.
According to the French magazine articles, President Eisenhower had received a report from the Rand Corporation in Los Angeles recommending that telepathy experiments be conducted with an especial view to communicating with submarines under ice.
The US Navy press office denied the experiments had taken place, or indeed that the Navy was involved with such work at all.
What would a Soviet Naval Analyist have made of all this?
A summary of the material reported in the French press is as follows:
A rigidly controlled experiment on the pattern of J.B. Rhine’s card-calling ESP trials was said to have started on board the Nautilus on July 25th 1958, and run for a period of 16 days under the Arctic Ice pack. The experiment was “successful”, which meant that telepathy could convey information through ice, sea water and the steel hull of a submarine.\
The ‘sender’ of the telepathic messages was said to have been a student called ‘Smith’ of Duke University in America, where J.B. Rhine had his parapsychology lab. During the 16 days of the experiment, ‘Smith’ was located at the Westinghouse Laboratory, at Friendship, Maryland.
Aboard a private cabin on the submarine Nautilus, the ‘receiver’, a navy lieutenant called ‘Jones’, took down his ‘visual impressions’ of the Zener card symbols sent by ‘Smith’. The officer in charge of the project was said to be one Colonel William H. Bowers, director of the Biological Department of the Air Force research institute.
According to the French magazine articles, President Eisenhower had received a report from the Rand Corporation in Los Angeles recommending that telepathy experiments be conducted with an especial view to communicating with submarines under ice.
The US Navy press office denied the experiments had taken place, or indeed that the Navy was involved with such work at all.
What would a Soviet Naval Analyist have made of all this?
President Eisenhower:
What would a Soviet Naval Analyist have made of all this?:
The story had all the hallmarks of a CIA disinformation story in that:
a) the story had a number of bits of verifiable information touching on classified projects that was already mostly in the public domain.
b) The story was floated in a newspaper outside the United States.
c) How the foreign newspapers actually got the story was impossible to establish.
d) It followed the classic “pilots gorging themselves on carrots” story of WWII to disguise the fact that the Allies had developed radar.
- An initial check of the open American literature routinely collected and translated into Russian would have lead him to the New York Daily Herald of November 8th, 1958, where it was reported that Westinghouse Electric Co. – a major defense contractor – had begun to study ESP using specially designed apparatus, a story that was repeated in the Newsletter of the Parapsychology Foundation of Jan-Feb 1959.
- The experimental design, including the use of a card-shuffling machine to randomize the message at the ‘sending’ end, was unmistakably that developed by J.B. Rhine at his Parapsychology Lab at Duke University and published in various journals.
- The US Navy’s denial was obviously untrue, since the small print on various scientific papers published by J.P. Rhine acknowledged Navy funding.
- The ESP scores reported for the Nautilus project were much higher than the ‘significant’ results already published by Rhine from other experiments.
The story had all the hallmarks of a CIA disinformation story in that:
a) the story had a number of bits of verifiable information touching on classified projects that was already mostly in the public domain.
b) The story was floated in a newspaper outside the United States.
c) How the foreign newspapers actually got the story was impossible to establish.
d) It followed the classic “pilots gorging themselves on carrots” story of WWII to disguise the fact that the Allies had developed radar.
Very low frequency (VLF) radio technology:
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If the Soviets had made a thorough investigation, they would have found that the story was probably false and inspired a researcher called Estabrooks wrote to J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI in 1939 suggesting that hypnosis might be used by a foreign power to influence workers or crew of submarines to sabotage them during missions.
Given the detail of the story it is likely that the CIA floated it out in order to:
In Russia, parapsychology had not fared very well since the days of Wolf Messing, and in 1956 was described by serious Soviet scientific journals as “anti-scientific idealist fiction”. But the ‘Nautilus Affair’ and the reports that the US had conducted ESP successful experiments to communicate with an atomic submarine under ice – using such headlines as “US Navy Uses ESP on Atomic Sub!”. “Is telepathy a new secret weapon?” “Will ESP be the deciding factor in future warfare?” and “Has the American military learned the secret of mind power?” – convinced the Russians that they were now in a ‘mind race’ which they could not afford to lose.
If the Soviets had made a thorough investigation, they would have found that the story was probably false and inspired a researcher called Estabrooks wrote to J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI in 1939 suggesting that hypnosis might be used by a foreign power to influence workers or crew of submarines to sabotage them during missions.
Given the detail of the story it is likely that the CIA floated it out in order to:
- Afford protective deception for the growing fields of hydrophones planted across the North Atlantic.
- Conceal the emerging Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio technology which made it possible to send messages to a submarine underwater.
- To play upon the perceived ‘superstitious peasant’ characteristics of the Russians creating fear and paranoia
- To tie up Soviet scientific resources in useless research.
In Russia, parapsychology had not fared very well since the days of Wolf Messing, and in 1956 was described by serious Soviet scientific journals as “anti-scientific idealist fiction”. But the ‘Nautilus Affair’ and the reports that the US had conducted ESP successful experiments to communicate with an atomic submarine under ice – using such headlines as “US Navy Uses ESP on Atomic Sub!”. “Is telepathy a new secret weapon?” “Will ESP be the deciding factor in future warfare?” and “Has the American military learned the secret of mind power?” – convinced the Russians that they were now in a ‘mind race’ which they could not afford to lose.
Dr Leonid Leonidovich Vasiliev:
In Leningrad the Nautilus reports went off like a depth charge in the mind of sixty-eight-year old Dr Leonid Vasilev, an internationally recognised physiologist, Chairman of Physiology at Leningrad University, author of the book ‘Experiments in Mental Suggestion’ and a holder of the Lenin Prize. He was also a leading, perhaps the only, Soviet expert on telepathy, which he viewed dispassionately from the Marxist position of dialectic materialism – i.e. he rejected any romantic ‘ESP’ notions and “any other superstitious notions of the soul like those pushed in capitalist countries by rabid idealists”.
“We carried out extensive and, until now, completely unreported investigations on ESP under the Stalin regime!” Vasilev told a gathering of top Soviet scientists. “Today the American navy is testing telepathy on their atomic submarines. Soviet science conducted a great many successful telepathy tests over a quarter of a century ago! It’s urgent that we throw off our prejudices. We must again plunge into the exploration of this vital field.” Within a year Vasilev was heading up a special laboratory for parapsychology at the Institute of Physiology in Leningrad University to investigate the possibility that telepathy was transmitted by extra low frequency waves emanating from the brain. Thus Soviet telepathic research was taken out of the hands of psychologists and redefined as a kind of radio engineering – ‘hard’ science that readily attracts funds and military interest.
This method of studying ESP for military purposes differed from the ‘New Age’ approach taken later by the Americans based on mediation and a “suck it and see” attitude, which also led to unreliable results. The Hard Science approach taken by the Russians using proven experimental techniques to work out the fundamental mechanisms of how ESP can be harnessed in a controlled way not only to send messages but also to engage in what is known as ‘psychic spying’ or ‘remote viewing’.
There are, in fact, three very different approaches to Remote Viewing:
a) The Shamanistic approach taken by native Indians and other nomadic tribes – that it’s a natural gift – like any other talent – so why bother to understand it?
b) the Hard Science approach taken by the Russians using proven experimental techniques to work out the fundamental mechanisms of how Remote Viewing is carried out so that you can understand and control it completely.
c) the New Age approach taken by the US team, based on meditation and a “suck it and see” attitude.
“We carried out extensive and, until now, completely unreported investigations on ESP under the Stalin regime!” Vasilev told a gathering of top Soviet scientists. “Today the American navy is testing telepathy on their atomic submarines. Soviet science conducted a great many successful telepathy tests over a quarter of a century ago! It’s urgent that we throw off our prejudices. We must again plunge into the exploration of this vital field.” Within a year Vasilev was heading up a special laboratory for parapsychology at the Institute of Physiology in Leningrad University to investigate the possibility that telepathy was transmitted by extra low frequency waves emanating from the brain. Thus Soviet telepathic research was taken out of the hands of psychologists and redefined as a kind of radio engineering – ‘hard’ science that readily attracts funds and military interest.
This method of studying ESP for military purposes differed from the ‘New Age’ approach taken later by the Americans based on mediation and a “suck it and see” attitude, which also led to unreliable results. The Hard Science approach taken by the Russians using proven experimental techniques to work out the fundamental mechanisms of how ESP can be harnessed in a controlled way not only to send messages but also to engage in what is known as ‘psychic spying’ or ‘remote viewing’.
There are, in fact, three very different approaches to Remote Viewing:
a) The Shamanistic approach taken by native Indians and other nomadic tribes – that it’s a natural gift – like any other talent – so why bother to understand it?
b) the Hard Science approach taken by the Russians using proven experimental techniques to work out the fundamental mechanisms of how Remote Viewing is carried out so that you can understand and control it completely.
c) the New Age approach taken by the US team, based on meditation and a “suck it and see” attitude.
Electromagnetic mantle (HEF), can that EM field be projected outside the body to act as the platform for remote viewing:
Astral body projection (Outside body experience): ability to project one’s consciousness out of one’s body to a remote location.
‘Remote Viewing’ or ‘Astral Travel’ as it is more commonly known outside military circles, is the ability to project one’s consciousness out of one’s body to a remote location and return safely. For this to work, ‘something’ must leave the body so that remote locations can be seen. As we have already seen from the work of Konstantin Korotkow, our physical bodies are surrounded by a mantle of electromagnetic energy. So, if the body has an intrinsic electromagnetic mantle, can that EM field be projected outside the body to act as the platform for remote viewing?
Dr Ross Adey:
Dr Ross Adey, formerly of the Brain Research Centre at the University of Southern California, worked on projects for the CIA and identified a pathway by which EM fields could directly affect the brain. Could information-gathering by roving biophysical EM fields be the basis of RV? An interesting clue lies in the frequency of brainwaves at which RV takes place. Normal thought takes place in the region of “beta-waves” at around 20 Hz, psi-effects take place in “Alpha” – at around 7 – 14 Hz and military RV operatives are supposed to work at around 4 – 7 Hz.
Could the act of calming the mind and lowering the frequency of brain wave patterns release psi and RV ability? ( by means of mediation, religious practices, drugs etc.).
Australian Aborigines (and North American Indians) have a whole body of knowledge about their Dream time reality, which is also manifested in out-of-body-experiences (OOBE’s). Do hunter-gatherers, such as Aborigines, Indians and Kalahari Bush-men still have Remote Viewing capabilities within their culture. Native American Indians venerated psychic-abilities and would probably have a repository of psi-active genes, had not they been wiped out by the witch hunts of the invading Europeans who were suspicious of that any form of occult practice.
Cultures which have not persecuted their women may have many females in their populations with enhanced remote-viewing performance, as there appears to be significant sex-related psi-amplification in women. So in Cold War Russia, the KGB told their operatives to pick up people displaying paranormal abilities for use in their vast para psychological research projects.
The Russians used every means at their disposal to develop biophysical remote viewing – drugs, hypnosis, invasive brain surgery, electronic implant technology and a number of electromagnetic, electrostatic, magnetic and psychotronic means to boost the latent psi abilities of carefully selected Russians who showed latent ability. However, the Americans only began to research the subject in the 1960’s because they had heard that Communists were doing it. Their research was based on New Age phenomena and methodology. This meant the Americans never achieved any great breakthroughs in biophysical field phenomena, hampered as they were by the more fuzzy New Age way of thinking at the expense of cold scientific methodology. So let’s look at what went on over on this side of the Iron Curtain in America and the West with regard to Remote Viewing.
Since Victorian times experiments had been carried out by such eminent scientists as the famous physicist Michael Faraday and Darwin’s contemporary, the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace into psychic phenomena, mainly through focused experiments on specific individuals who were thought to be psychically gifted. But their findings were viewed with skepticism by the scientific community
Alfred Russel Wallace (British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist):
In 1922, the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes – the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – gave a lecture on ESP and communicating with the dead which in turn inspired the famous botanist and psychic researcher J.B. Rhine (who was later implicated in the Nautilus Affair), to write several books and learned articles on the subject, which he in turn was afraid to publicise to early in fear of being ridiculed by the scientific community.
Later on however, in the 1960s, the emergence of the new culture of ‘Flower Power’ and ‘New Age Thinking’ relaxed scientific scepticism and renewed public interest in studies to do with consciousness and psychic phenomena. This led to financial support being made available for research and a seriously funded programme emerging in the USA, which was accelerated when the American Intelligence Services learned that both the USSR and China were conducting ESP research and became receptive to developing an American ESP programme of their own.
Later on however, in the 1960s, the emergence of the new culture of ‘Flower Power’ and ‘New Age Thinking’ relaxed scientific scepticism and renewed public interest in studies to do with consciousness and psychic phenomena. This led to financial support being made available for research and a seriously funded programme emerging in the USA, which was accelerated when the American Intelligence Services learned that both the USSR and China were conducting ESP research and became receptive to developing an American ESP programme of their own.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ , DL was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
In 1922, the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes – the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – gave a lecture on ESP and communicating with the dead which in turn inspired the famous botanist and psychic researcher J.B. Rhine (who was later implicated in the Nautilus Affair), to write several books and learned articles on the subject, which he in turn was afraid to publicise to early in fear of being ridiculed by the scientific community.
Later on however, in the 1960s, the emergence of the new culture of ‘Flower Power’ and ‘New Age Thinking’ relaxed scientific skepticism and renewed public interest in studies to do with consciousness and psychic phenomena. This led to financial support being made available for research and a seriously funded programme emerging in the USA, which was accelerated when the American Intelligence Services learned that both the USSR and China were conducting ESP research and became receptive to developing an American ESP programme of their own.
Later on however, in the 1960s, the emergence of the new culture of ‘Flower Power’ and ‘New Age Thinking’ relaxed scientific skepticism and renewed public interest in studies to do with consciousness and psychic phenomena. This led to financial support being made available for research and a seriously funded programme emerging in the USA, which was accelerated when the American Intelligence Services learned that both the USSR and China were conducting ESP research and became receptive to developing an American ESP programme of their own.
Colonel John Alexander of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (1981 – 1984):
Colonel John Alexander of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (1981 – 1984) has stated that it was reported that multiple Soviet laboratories were involved and that they were screening candidates for psychic abilities – such as healers and clairvoyants – in a variety of experiments. It was even suggested that the Soviets were trying to induce ill health and even death remotely using psychic powers.
To catch up with the Russians in this ‘mind-race’ the US Government turned to the Stanford Research Institute, America’s second largest ‘think tank’ with more than $70 million annually in funding, which was already involved in advanced high-tech defense projects and seemed a natural home for this kind of project.
To catch up with the Russians in this ‘mind-race’ the US Government turned to the Stanford Research Institute, America’s second largest ‘think tank’ with more than $70 million annually in funding, which was already involved in advanced high-tech defense projects and seemed a natural home for this kind of project.
Dr. Harold E. Puthoff , (physicist and parapsychologist): Ingo Swann (psychic):
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Respected physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff, who had been working on lasers at SRI and had already been trying to work out the physics behind psychic phenomena was approached by a number of government agencies and eventually put in charge of the SRI Remote Viewing Programme where he remained from 1971 – 1985. In 1972 the CIA gave Hal Puthoff $50,000 under a project code named ‘Star Gate’ to develop a psychic technique that could be demonstrated reliably and, if possible used operationally. Puthoff then focused on ‘Extrasensory Perception – ESP’ as the technique most likely to work.
He brought in well known psychic Ingo Swann and tested him scientifically by hiding things in boxes and envelopes and asking him to tell the team what was inside. Swann soon got bored with this and said ‘If you want to know what’s in the box – open it up. If you want to know what’s in the envelope – tear it open. What I can do is close my eyes and see anywhere on the planet. Why don’t we look at that?’
So Puthoff tested Swann by giving him the latitude and longitude of places on a map and asked him to describe what was there – which worked very well. Then, to make sure Swann hadn’t managed to somehow memorise the globe, they gave him co-ordinates of specific buildings, which also proved successful to the point where the team began to take the technique very seriously indeed. When given the co-ordinates, Swann would remain in an alert state of mind and focused on the impressions that bubbled up from his subconscious – as if he was physically standing at the location. Then, in what he called ‘Stage 2 Responses’ – Swann began to notice sizes, shapes and textures so that he could begin to draw the scene where he was present in his mind.
He brought in well known psychic Ingo Swann and tested him scientifically by hiding things in boxes and envelopes and asking him to tell the team what was inside. Swann soon got bored with this and said ‘If you want to know what’s in the box – open it up. If you want to know what’s in the envelope – tear it open. What I can do is close my eyes and see anywhere on the planet. Why don’t we look at that?’
So Puthoff tested Swann by giving him the latitude and longitude of places on a map and asked him to describe what was there – which worked very well. Then, to make sure Swann hadn’t managed to somehow memorise the globe, they gave him co-ordinates of specific buildings, which also proved successful to the point where the team began to take the technique very seriously indeed. When given the co-ordinates, Swann would remain in an alert state of mind and focused on the impressions that bubbled up from his subconscious – as if he was physically standing at the location. Then, in what he called ‘Stage 2 Responses’ – Swann began to notice sizes, shapes and textures so that he could begin to draw the scene where he was present in his mind.
Dr. Keith Harary – Parapsychologist and Author:
Dr. Keith Harary – Psychologist and Author, who was with the Stanford Remote Viewing Unit from 1980 to 1982 described the impressions coming through as quick images, almost subliminally, as if one part of one’s brain was communicating with another part – as though you are actually touching, smelling, tasting the experience you are perceiving remotely. This technique allowed remote viewers to explore inside buildings under the direction of a ‘monitor’ who would suggest they go ‘left’ or ‘right’ or ‘down’ – into a hidden basement of a target.
In the spring of 1973 Hal Puthoff was able to report back to the CIA that he had discovered a method that could work and they tested him by giving him a co-ordinate about 12 miles from Washington – that of a colleague’s vacation cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains that did not appear on any map. But as it happened, the co-ordinates were slightly off and when Swann viewed them remotely, all he saw was ‘a bunch of trees’. So he focused on something he considered far more interesting close by, a government restricted area with a US flag. The co-ordinates were also given to another remote viewer on the programme Pat Price, who also described a military installation – but in far more detail than Swann had. The site turned out to be a secret satellite eavesdropping station run by the super-secret National Security Agency. This was a good result as far as the CIA was concerned and Hal Puthoff’s team was soon dealing with enquiries not only from them, but also from the Navy and the Defense Intelligence Agency – the DIA.
In fact it was the DIA who funded a multi-million dollar remote viewing programme that began in 1978 and was code-names Grill Flame. The US Army also became interested and Major General Ed Thompson himself experienced remote viewing first hand when he was given a target and successfully describe what was there. He then set up the Army’s own Remote Viewing Unit at Fort Meade. Army personnel admitted to the Unit were those who were thought to already possess some ability at remote viewing – these included imagery interpreters, people like Ruth Weylon – the heroine of Fire & Ice – who could accurately analyse aerial photographs to determine what they show, because they have a knack for visualisation. Other candidates included artists, entrepreneurs, risk-takers and people who had had near-death experiences.
In the spring of 1973 Hal Puthoff was able to report back to the CIA that he had discovered a method that could work and they tested him by giving him a co-ordinate about 12 miles from Washington – that of a colleague’s vacation cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains that did not appear on any map. But as it happened, the co-ordinates were slightly off and when Swann viewed them remotely, all he saw was ‘a bunch of trees’. So he focused on something he considered far more interesting close by, a government restricted area with a US flag. The co-ordinates were also given to another remote viewer on the programme Pat Price, who also described a military installation – but in far more detail than Swann had. The site turned out to be a secret satellite eavesdropping station run by the super-secret National Security Agency. This was a good result as far as the CIA was concerned and Hal Puthoff’s team was soon dealing with enquiries not only from them, but also from the Navy and the Defense Intelligence Agency – the DIA.
In fact it was the DIA who funded a multi-million dollar remote viewing programme that began in 1978 and was code-names Grill Flame. The US Army also became interested and Major General Ed Thompson himself experienced remote viewing first hand when he was given a target and successfully describe what was there. He then set up the Army’s own Remote Viewing Unit at Fort Meade. Army personnel admitted to the Unit were those who were thought to already possess some ability at remote viewing – these included imagery interpreters, people like Ruth Weylon – the heroine of Fire & Ice – who could accurately analyse aerial photographs to determine what they show, because they have a knack for visualisation. Other candidates included artists, entrepreneurs, risk-takers and people who had had near-death experiences.
Sergeant Mel Riley:
Sergeant Mel Riley was an image interpreter who had experienced visions in his childhood.
Edward A. Dames is a retired US Army major:
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By 1983 the Army had begun to expand its remote viewing unit, following the development by Ingo Swann of a training programme that he claimed could make anyone as good as the best psychic. Major Ed Dames was taken on by Ingo Swann in a very intensive programme and then put to work training more remote viewers within the unit.
America now had two remote viewing units – one at Stanford Research Institute and one at Fort Meade. Supporters of the remote-viewing programme in the US argued that it was just another part of the jigsaw of getting information about the enemy – together with human intelligence provided by spies, photo-reconnaissance by spy planes and satellites and electronic intelligence by eavesdropping. Psychic spying was relatively cheap in comparison to other methods and, as one enthusiastic congressman put it – ‘they’re a low cost radar system. And if the Russians have them, then we should have them too!”
Remote viewing could also reach targets that conventional methods of intelligence gathering failed to reach. Some remote viewers were adept at locating, describing and feeling the mental attitude of individual people. Another viewer could detect nuclear material – which he saw as having a green glow around it.
America now had two remote viewing units – one at Stanford Research Institute and one at Fort Meade. Supporters of the remote-viewing programme in the US argued that it was just another part of the jigsaw of getting information about the enemy – together with human intelligence provided by spies, photo-reconnaissance by spy planes and satellites and electronic intelligence by eavesdropping. Psychic spying was relatively cheap in comparison to other methods and, as one enthusiastic congressman put it – ‘they’re a low cost radar system. And if the Russians have them, then we should have them too!”
Remote viewing could also reach targets that conventional methods of intelligence gathering failed to reach. Some remote viewers were adept at locating, describing and feeling the mental attitude of individual people. Another viewer could detect nuclear material – which he saw as having a green glow around it.
Jim Schnabel – author of the book Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies personally tested remote viewer Mel Riley for a Channel 4 TV documentary and found him to be surprisingly accurate – successfully identifying an American nuclear test site at Bikini Atoll in 1946 from map co-ordinates. In fact, Schnabel found that it was not necessary to give co-ordinates at all in that an experienced remote viewer would instinctively know what target they were being asked to view without that information being required – except as a ritual to start the remote viewing process in motion. Schnabel trained briefly with Ingo Swann as part of his research for the Channel 4 documentary and is convinced that remote viewing is a real ability and not an illusion.
So successful was the US remote viewing programme that they were soon approached by a variety of government agencies including the Secret Service, the FBI, CIA, the DIA, Navy and Air Force and sometimes drug enforcement agencies
And their success received the official seal of approval from the military when Remote Viewer Joseph McGoneagle was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1984.
But one important factor that must be taken into account however is that remote viewers are living, feeling human beings with a high degree of sensitivity. The closer they got to their targets the more they became immersed in the atmosphere and feelings associated with those targets.
So successful was the US remote viewing programme that they were soon approached by a variety of government agencies including the Secret Service, the FBI, CIA, the DIA, Navy and Air Force and sometimes drug enforcement agencies
And their success received the official seal of approval from the military when Remote Viewer Joseph McGoneagle was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1984.
But one important factor that must be taken into account however is that remote viewers are living, feeling human beings with a high degree of sensitivity. The closer they got to their targets the more they became immersed in the atmosphere and feelings associated with those targets.
Joseph McMoneagle - Retired U.S. Army NCO and Chief Warrant Officer (Remote viewer):
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One incident, which involved the remote viewing of what looked initially like a prison camp in a remote forest by Ingo Swann, turned out to be cover for an illegal underground biological warfare research establishment where inhuman experiments with highly infectious diseases were carried out on live animals and even people. Swann himself admits that he was deeply disturbed by the experience – which I have adapted for the first chapter of Fire & Ice – and was a wreck afterwards, in tears for over an hour on his return. Swann remained with the programme from 1972 to 1989. He now lives in New York and no longer does remote viewing for government clients. This incident, and the potential of remote viewing to expand the mind of the viewer, also demonstrates the effects it had on individual viewers and why the American programme went into decline.
During the time when the programme focused only on the practical nuts and bolts of intelligence gathering it did very well but, after General Thompson – the head of the Fort Meade Remote Viewing Unit – moved to another posting, his position was taken by Major General Albert Stubblebine – head of the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command. General Stubblebine enthusiasm also extended into other paranormal phenomena which earned him the nickname ‘Spoon bender’ after he gathered his officers together to use psychokenesis – the manipulation of physical objects using mental energy – to bend cutlery – which was witnessed by many qualified observers.
During the time when the programme focused only on the practical nuts and bolts of intelligence gathering it did very well but, after General Thompson – the head of the Fort Meade Remote Viewing Unit – moved to another posting, his position was taken by Major General Albert Stubblebine – head of the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command. General Stubblebine enthusiasm also extended into other paranormal phenomena which earned him the nickname ‘Spoon bender’ after he gathered his officers together to use psychokenesis – the manipulation of physical objects using mental energy – to bend cutlery – which was witnessed by many qualified observers.
Major General Edmund R. Thompson: Albert "Bert" Newton Stubblebine III - United States Army major general
Eventually there was the perception that General Stubblebine had lost his perspective and he resigned in 1984 – (he has since been reported as living in New York with a new wife who claims to have been abducted by a UFO) and the remote viewing unit at Fort Meade was taken over by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under the control of DIA’s chief scientist Jack Vorona. Vorona introduced a even less structured approach to include a variety of civilian outsiders such as channellers, tarot card readers and mediums who became known to the army personnel as ‘The Witches’. This relaxation of discipline and structure eventually led to the decline of the unit. This was accelerated by the long-term effects of psychic experiences on individual viewers, several of whom suffered personality changes and marital breakdowns. Ed Dames for example, tried to find the Ark of the Covenant, Noah’s Ark and UFOs.
In the late 1980s, as part of the review of covert military units and the scandal over Colonel Oliver North, and the end of the Cold War, the Secretary of Defense closed down the Army unit at Fort Meade. By this time, the Stanford Unit had already closed down.
The Stargate Project : Psychic Warriors and the CIA:
In spite of its rather ignominious end, US STAR GATE programme did achieve some valuable results. These include:
- The description of “a big crane” at a Soviet nuclear research facility by remote viewers Pat Price and Joseph McMoneagle
- a description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of three viewers which included McMoneagle
- and Rosemary Smith’s location of a downed Soviet bomber in Africa.
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi:
Between 2001 and 2002 it was reported that the UK government performed experiments on untrained subject to see if the activity of remote viewing caused higher than normal energy fields to be emitted from the brain. But since the experimenters did not find any evidence that the ‘remote viewers’ had visited the targets given to them during the experiment, the work was abandoned.
Which leaves us with two questions:
If the induction of RV means reducing the frequency of brain waves, then methods of relaxing the mind and shutting out ‘inner dialogue’ should work. Once this is achieved, the subject moves to directed attention – usually conducted by a second person acting as a ‘guide’ – using one of two methods:
1) Relaxing the mind – By meditations of one sort or another ( one way is to pack all your troubles into a mental ‘suitcase’, shut it and fasten it, and then imagine you are skin diving between the surface and the sandy bottom with the surface as consciousness and the bottom as sleep.)
2) Directed Attention using what is known as ‘The Cinema Method’ of imagining the mind as a blank screen and using remote viewing as the moving pictures is a good way of stopping ‘inner dialogue’ – the incessant mental conversation we have with ourselves inside our heads. Mental silence is a key ingredient of successful remote viewing.
Which leaves us with two questions:
- How – practically speaking – can a person ‘Remote View’? and
- Is it actually possible?
If the induction of RV means reducing the frequency of brain waves, then methods of relaxing the mind and shutting out ‘inner dialogue’ should work. Once this is achieved, the subject moves to directed attention – usually conducted by a second person acting as a ‘guide’ – using one of two methods:
1) Relaxing the mind – By meditations of one sort or another ( one way is to pack all your troubles into a mental ‘suitcase’, shut it and fasten it, and then imagine you are skin diving between the surface and the sandy bottom with the surface as consciousness and the bottom as sleep.)
2) Directed Attention using what is known as ‘The Cinema Method’ of imagining the mind as a blank screen and using remote viewing as the moving pictures is a good way of stopping ‘inner dialogue’ – the incessant mental conversation we have with ourselves inside our heads. Mental silence is a key ingredient of successful remote viewing.
Remote viewing takes energy to make it work, and it can take some time to “rev up” these powers through relaxation and focus. It can also be a strain. One celebrated telepath had her pulse increase to 250 beats per minute and actually lost weight during the session (this is a common experience of other telepaths in the West).
Does it work?
Opinions on this point vary.
In 1995, as we have seen, the CIA terminated the US programme following an independent report by the American Institutes for Research which concluded – and I quote:
“Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the origins or nature of the phenomenon, assuming it exists, nor do they address an important methodological issue of inter-judge reliability . . .
Most importantly, the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy of information for actionable intelligence. Thus, we conclude that continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted.”
However, as I can say with certainty from personal experience, it does make a great subject for a exciting and thought-provoking work of fiction . . .
Thank you.
Reference books:
Blackmore, Susan J. Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences. London: Paladin Books, 1983.
Doxey, William. ESPionage. New York: Leisure Books, 1979.
Korotkov, Dr. Konstantin. Aura and Consciousness: New Age of Scientific Understanding. Saint Petersburg: Federal Technical University “SPIFMO”, 1998.
Kress, Kenneth A. Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions. Published in the winter 1977 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s classified internal publication and released to the public in 1996 (see:www.parascope.com/ds/articles/parapsychologyDoc.htm)
Morehouse, David. Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA’s Stargate Program: The True Story of a Soldier’s Espionage and Awakening. New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 1996.
Ostrader, Sheila and Schroeder, Lynn. Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. New York: Marlow & Company, 1971.
Purvis, Vaughan. The Nautilus Affair. Extracted from The CIA and the Battle for Reality. 1997
(see: http://www.raven1.net/mcf/hambone/nauti.html)
Rifat, Tim. Remote Viewing: The History and Science of Psychic Warfare and Spying. London: Century, 1999.
Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies. New York: Dell Books, 1997.
Targ, Russell and Harary, Keith. The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Powers. London: New English Library, 1985.
Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold. Mind-Reach. London: Paladin, 1978.
Tomlin, Simon. The UnXplained: Psychic Powers. Bath: Parragon, 2000.
Does it work?
Opinions on this point vary.
In 1995, as we have seen, the CIA terminated the US programme following an independent report by the American Institutes for Research which concluded – and I quote:
“Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the origins or nature of the phenomenon, assuming it exists, nor do they address an important methodological issue of inter-judge reliability . . .
Most importantly, the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy of information for actionable intelligence. Thus, we conclude that continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted.”
However, as I can say with certainty from personal experience, it does make a great subject for a exciting and thought-provoking work of fiction . . .
Thank you.
Reference books:
Blackmore, Susan J. Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences. London: Paladin Books, 1983.
Doxey, William. ESPionage. New York: Leisure Books, 1979.
Korotkov, Dr. Konstantin. Aura and Consciousness: New Age of Scientific Understanding. Saint Petersburg: Federal Technical University “SPIFMO”, 1998.
Kress, Kenneth A. Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions. Published in the winter 1977 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s classified internal publication and released to the public in 1996 (see:www.parascope.com/ds/articles/parapsychologyDoc.htm)
Morehouse, David. Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA’s Stargate Program: The True Story of a Soldier’s Espionage and Awakening. New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 1996.
Ostrader, Sheila and Schroeder, Lynn. Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. New York: Marlow & Company, 1971.
Purvis, Vaughan. The Nautilus Affair. Extracted from The CIA and the Battle for Reality. 1997
(see: http://www.raven1.net/mcf/hambone/nauti.html)
Rifat, Tim. Remote Viewing: The History and Science of Psychic Warfare and Spying. London: Century, 1999.
Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies. New York: Dell Books, 1997.
Targ, Russell and Harary, Keith. The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Powers. London: New English Library, 1985.
Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold. Mind-Reach. London: Paladin, 1978.
Tomlin, Simon. The UnXplained: Psychic Powers. Bath: Parragon, 2000.
Like many other belief systems that are born from any pseudo-scientific examination of paranormal concepts, the government’s analysis of the psychic phenomenon eventually resulted in a whole community of believers within the government’s scientific community.
In 1979, when the DIA took over funding and tasking of remote viewing research, interest within intelligence and scientific circles was spreading rapidly. While the majority of folks who were in charge of funding and tasking of this specific government experimental research were believers, there was also a contingent of scientists who were not quite as enthusiastic about the subject matter under analysis. As Kenneth Kress pointed out in his analysis, many government insiders felt that SRI’s procedures and experimental controls were quite unscientific. By 1980, project “GRILL FLAME” was the collective code for all ongoing projects under the collective oversight of the DIA. SRI alone was estimated to run close to $1 million annually (Schnabel). (This is valued at $2.9 million in 2006)
Headquarters for GRILL FLAME were Fort Meade, Maryland. This was the location where the NSA and the Army’s INSCOM conducted a majority of the RV research. In 1979, very few individuals knew of the existence of the government’s RV program. According to a particular Army memo: “Access is limited to those personnel approved on a ‘by name’ basis.” It was at this point when most of the military folks began undergoing Swann’s “training” procedures, which were mostly based upon the principles of Scientology’s “auditing” procedures.
Listed here are the individuals who were influenced either directly or indirectly from their interactions with SRI labs, remote viewing research, and/or the established “training/auditing” procedures that were involved. In almost all cases, you can see how this period of “research” in the government’s history resulted in the formation of a cult, of sorts. Today, you can find most of these individuals still actively supporting a set of beliefs that’s based more on faith than on science.
Members of the U.S. Government Remote Viewing Cult of the 1970′s
The following comes from “Doc Hambone’s” research found here.
Skip Atwater – From 1978 to 1988, Skip Atwater was the Operations and Training Officer for U.S. Army Intel remote viewing surveillance program. He worked closely with the SRI RV program and trained intelligence personnel to remote view. After retiring in 1988, became Research Director at The Monroe Institute – he has published technical research on methods for expanding consciousness.
Lyn Buchanan – Remote Viewer with INSCOM/DIA at Fort Meade from 1984-1992.
Ed Dames – INSCOM/DIA remote viewing program at Fort Meade. Claims to have been trained, along with five others, by Ingo Swann in 1983.
Conducted RV operations from 1983/84-1987/88.
Werner Erhard – Former Scientologist who in the mid-70’s financed Jack Sarfatti and the Physics/Consciousness Research Group. Also gave funds to the SRI remote viewing project.
Keith Harary – long time subject in the SRI remote-viewing study, starting in late 1979/early 1980.
Edwin May – Joined SRI remote viewing program in 1976. Became the head of the program after Hal Puthoff left in 1985.
Joseph McMoneagle – Military remote viewer with INSCOM/DIA at Fort Meade from 1978-84. Worked as a consultant to SRI and SAIC. In 1978, met Hal Puthoff and colleagues at SRI and became involved with their experiments in remote viewing.
David Morehouse – Military remote viewer with the INSCOM/DIA program. Served from 1988-90 at Ft. Meade during SUN STREAK.
Sen. Clairborne Pell – Along with Charlie Rose, one of Washington’s biggest supporters of psychic research. In 1988 he introduced a bill to get government funding for the new age group the National Committee on Human Resources (Al Gore was a co-sponsor). On the advisory board of the International Association of Near-Death Studies, and on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Human Potential Foundation.
Michael Persinger – Conducted research on “neuron-impacts” of various EMFs and ELFs. Previously funded by Navy, is/was friend of C.B. Jones and other government signal propagation experts, and did research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on the brain for a Pentagon weapons project. Former Boss – Jack Verona. Informal advisor to SRI’s remote viewing program.
Pat Price – After participating in an early SCANATE experiment, Price joined the remote viewing program at SRI. Price died in 1975 (under questionable circumstances). 1974 – left SRI and allegedly worked for the CIA with Ken Kress as his handler. (Schnabel) Rumors have circulated that Price had been murdered by the KGB, or that he faked his death and continued to work for the CIA.
Harold “Hal” Puthoff – During the 60’s, served as an officer in the Navy at the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. Worked for 8 years in the Microwave Lab at Stanford University. Joined SRI in 1971 as a specialist in laser physics. Headed the SRI remote viewing program from 1972-1985. Since 1985 has been the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, initially working for Bill Church full time working on alternative fuel sources and zero-point energy. According to Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, in The Secret Life of Plants, while at SRI, Puthoff did experiments with chicken eggs. Using a Scientology e-meter, he attempted to see if an egg would react if another was broken nearby. Also is President of Earthtech International at the same address as the IAS. Puthoff worked with Robert Bigelow and NIDS.
Dean Radin – Took a leave of absence from Bell Labs in 1985, and spent the entire year at SRI International, working with Hal Puthoff and Ed May. Since then, his academic research has been exclusively on psi phenomena, and industrial research at least 20% psi. As of 1996, was working with Joe McMoneagle in a project remote-viewing future technology. Once funded by the Bigelow Foundation. Prior to becoming President of the Boundary Institute, he was in charge of a psi research program at Interval Research Corp in Palo Alto, California. Dean Radin earned a BSEE in EE, with honors, from Univ. of Mass, and an MS in EE and PhD in Educational Psychology, both from Univ. of Ill. For 10 years was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs and later a principle member of the tech staff at GTE Labs, where he was engaged in R&D on a wide variety of advanced telecommunications products and systems.
Mel Riley – Military remote-viewer at Ft. Meade, 1978-1990. RV session with Riley monitored by Ed Dames was shown in “Psi-Files: The Real X-files”, written and narrated by Jim Schnabel. Riley left the Army in 1991, and lives in Wisconsin, where he is considered to be an expert in American Indian culture.
Charlie Rose – Congressional Democrat from NC, and one of the bigger supporters of the government remote viewing program. Friends with Ingo Swann and Jack Verona.
Stephan Schwartz – Former Navy officer and psychic researcher. Schwartz helped procure a submarine for a July 1977 experiment with SRI. These experiments included some on behalf of Dale Graff of the Air Force. A Research associate with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory.
Paul Smith : Joined the operational remote viewing unit at Ft. Meade from 1983 to 1990. Personally trained by Ingo Swann at SRI-International. He was the primary author of the government RV program’s CRV training manual, and served as theory instructor for new CRV trainee personnel, as well as recruiting assessment officer and unit security officer. Prior to this, he was with an INSCOM operations unit in Germany.
General Albert Stubblebine: Former head of U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM) 1981 – 1984. Signed classified contracts with the Monroe Institute. Former box with Col. John Alexander, and the two have held numerous “spoon-bending” parties. Married to ufologist Rima Laibow. Soon after becoming head of INSCOM, Stubblebine began a program called the “High Performance Task Force”, a series of methods to improve his officer’s performance. These ranged from the neruo-linquistic programming of Tony Robbins to the hemisynch tapes of the Monroe Institute, where Stubblebine often sent his officers. Following an incident involving an officer having a psychotic episode at the Monroe Institute, Stubblebine resigned in 1984.
Ingo Swann – Swann helped establish Scientology’s “Celebrity Center” in Los Angeles. According to Peter Tomkins and Chirstopher Bird, Swann “attributes his success to techniques he learned in Scientology”. Swann and Puthoff attended the First International Congress on Psychotronic Research in Prague, Czechoslovakia. “Ingo was there to present a paper on the Scientology paradigm as model for developing and exploring paranormal abilities.” (Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, pg 42) He is/was friends with Rep. Charlie Rose. He left the program in 1988.
Russell Targ – “Russell Targ is a senior research physicist at Stanford Research Institute, having joined their electronics and bioengineering laboratory in 1972. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in laser and plasma physics research with Sylvania Corporation, developing gas lasers…He is also president of the Parapsychology Research Group, Inc., in Palo Alto, California.” (Mitchell, Edgar, Psychic Exploration, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974, pg 522-3). In 1982, Targ left SRI and founded Delphi Associates with Keith Harary. Delphi Associates was a consultancy which sought to apply psi to finding oil, gas, etc. Using Harary as a viewer, they claimed to have successfully traded in the silver market. (Targ and Harary, pg 176)
In Spring, 1982, Targ turned in a research report to his DIA contract manager at SRI, Jim Salyer. Salyer and the DIA considered his work to be unprofessional, and they soon refused to pay his salary. Under SRI rules, Targ had eight months to find new funding. In early 1983, he left SRI, reportedly claiming that he left because he didn’t like the military applications of psychic research. (Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 264)
Charles Tart – Around 1979, SRI funded a project of Tart’s which screened university students and faculty for psychic ability. Currently teaching (as of 1997) at Univ of Las Vegas as part of Robert Bigelow’s Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies.
Ed Thompson – Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), US Army, 1977-81. During this time, he was briefed by SRI on the remote viewing program. After having tried it himself, viewing a Masonic temple near the target train station, Thompson set up Project Grill Flame at Fort Meade. Thompson left the Army in 1985.
Jack Vorona – Former head of DIA’s Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate. Oversaw the funding and tasking of Grill Flame. Oversaw “Sleeping Beauty” – which dealt with researching microwaves and how they effect the human mind. (Schnabel). Friends with Rep Charlie Rose. Retired late 1989.
In 1979, when the DIA took over funding and tasking of remote viewing research, interest within intelligence and scientific circles was spreading rapidly. While the majority of folks who were in charge of funding and tasking of this specific government experimental research were believers, there was also a contingent of scientists who were not quite as enthusiastic about the subject matter under analysis. As Kenneth Kress pointed out in his analysis, many government insiders felt that SRI’s procedures and experimental controls were quite unscientific. By 1980, project “GRILL FLAME” was the collective code for all ongoing projects under the collective oversight of the DIA. SRI alone was estimated to run close to $1 million annually (Schnabel). (This is valued at $2.9 million in 2006)
Headquarters for GRILL FLAME were Fort Meade, Maryland. This was the location where the NSA and the Army’s INSCOM conducted a majority of the RV research. In 1979, very few individuals knew of the existence of the government’s RV program. According to a particular Army memo: “Access is limited to those personnel approved on a ‘by name’ basis.” It was at this point when most of the military folks began undergoing Swann’s “training” procedures, which were mostly based upon the principles of Scientology’s “auditing” procedures.
Listed here are the individuals who were influenced either directly or indirectly from their interactions with SRI labs, remote viewing research, and/or the established “training/auditing” procedures that were involved. In almost all cases, you can see how this period of “research” in the government’s history resulted in the formation of a cult, of sorts. Today, you can find most of these individuals still actively supporting a set of beliefs that’s based more on faith than on science.
Members of the U.S. Government Remote Viewing Cult of the 1970′s
The following comes from “Doc Hambone’s” research found here.
Skip Atwater – From 1978 to 1988, Skip Atwater was the Operations and Training Officer for U.S. Army Intel remote viewing surveillance program. He worked closely with the SRI RV program and trained intelligence personnel to remote view. After retiring in 1988, became Research Director at The Monroe Institute – he has published technical research on methods for expanding consciousness.
Lyn Buchanan – Remote Viewer with INSCOM/DIA at Fort Meade from 1984-1992.
Ed Dames – INSCOM/DIA remote viewing program at Fort Meade. Claims to have been trained, along with five others, by Ingo Swann in 1983.
Conducted RV operations from 1983/84-1987/88.
Werner Erhard – Former Scientologist who in the mid-70’s financed Jack Sarfatti and the Physics/Consciousness Research Group. Also gave funds to the SRI remote viewing project.
Keith Harary – long time subject in the SRI remote-viewing study, starting in late 1979/early 1980.
Edwin May – Joined SRI remote viewing program in 1976. Became the head of the program after Hal Puthoff left in 1985.
Joseph McMoneagle – Military remote viewer with INSCOM/DIA at Fort Meade from 1978-84. Worked as a consultant to SRI and SAIC. In 1978, met Hal Puthoff and colleagues at SRI and became involved with their experiments in remote viewing.
David Morehouse – Military remote viewer with the INSCOM/DIA program. Served from 1988-90 at Ft. Meade during SUN STREAK.
Sen. Clairborne Pell – Along with Charlie Rose, one of Washington’s biggest supporters of psychic research. In 1988 he introduced a bill to get government funding for the new age group the National Committee on Human Resources (Al Gore was a co-sponsor). On the advisory board of the International Association of Near-Death Studies, and on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Human Potential Foundation.
Michael Persinger – Conducted research on “neuron-impacts” of various EMFs and ELFs. Previously funded by Navy, is/was friend of C.B. Jones and other government signal propagation experts, and did research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on the brain for a Pentagon weapons project. Former Boss – Jack Verona. Informal advisor to SRI’s remote viewing program.
Pat Price – After participating in an early SCANATE experiment, Price joined the remote viewing program at SRI. Price died in 1975 (under questionable circumstances). 1974 – left SRI and allegedly worked for the CIA with Ken Kress as his handler. (Schnabel) Rumors have circulated that Price had been murdered by the KGB, or that he faked his death and continued to work for the CIA.
Harold “Hal” Puthoff – During the 60’s, served as an officer in the Navy at the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. Worked for 8 years in the Microwave Lab at Stanford University. Joined SRI in 1971 as a specialist in laser physics. Headed the SRI remote viewing program from 1972-1985. Since 1985 has been the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, initially working for Bill Church full time working on alternative fuel sources and zero-point energy. According to Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, in The Secret Life of Plants, while at SRI, Puthoff did experiments with chicken eggs. Using a Scientology e-meter, he attempted to see if an egg would react if another was broken nearby. Also is President of Earthtech International at the same address as the IAS. Puthoff worked with Robert Bigelow and NIDS.
Dean Radin – Took a leave of absence from Bell Labs in 1985, and spent the entire year at SRI International, working with Hal Puthoff and Ed May. Since then, his academic research has been exclusively on psi phenomena, and industrial research at least 20% psi. As of 1996, was working with Joe McMoneagle in a project remote-viewing future technology. Once funded by the Bigelow Foundation. Prior to becoming President of the Boundary Institute, he was in charge of a psi research program at Interval Research Corp in Palo Alto, California. Dean Radin earned a BSEE in EE, with honors, from Univ. of Mass, and an MS in EE and PhD in Educational Psychology, both from Univ. of Ill. For 10 years was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs and later a principle member of the tech staff at GTE Labs, where he was engaged in R&D on a wide variety of advanced telecommunications products and systems.
Mel Riley – Military remote-viewer at Ft. Meade, 1978-1990. RV session with Riley monitored by Ed Dames was shown in “Psi-Files: The Real X-files”, written and narrated by Jim Schnabel. Riley left the Army in 1991, and lives in Wisconsin, where he is considered to be an expert in American Indian culture.
Charlie Rose – Congressional Democrat from NC, and one of the bigger supporters of the government remote viewing program. Friends with Ingo Swann and Jack Verona.
Stephan Schwartz – Former Navy officer and psychic researcher. Schwartz helped procure a submarine for a July 1977 experiment with SRI. These experiments included some on behalf of Dale Graff of the Air Force. A Research associate with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory.
Paul Smith : Joined the operational remote viewing unit at Ft. Meade from 1983 to 1990. Personally trained by Ingo Swann at SRI-International. He was the primary author of the government RV program’s CRV training manual, and served as theory instructor for new CRV trainee personnel, as well as recruiting assessment officer and unit security officer. Prior to this, he was with an INSCOM operations unit in Germany.
General Albert Stubblebine: Former head of U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM) 1981 – 1984. Signed classified contracts with the Monroe Institute. Former box with Col. John Alexander, and the two have held numerous “spoon-bending” parties. Married to ufologist Rima Laibow. Soon after becoming head of INSCOM, Stubblebine began a program called the “High Performance Task Force”, a series of methods to improve his officer’s performance. These ranged from the neruo-linquistic programming of Tony Robbins to the hemisynch tapes of the Monroe Institute, where Stubblebine often sent his officers. Following an incident involving an officer having a psychotic episode at the Monroe Institute, Stubblebine resigned in 1984.
Ingo Swann – Swann helped establish Scientology’s “Celebrity Center” in Los Angeles. According to Peter Tomkins and Chirstopher Bird, Swann “attributes his success to techniques he learned in Scientology”. Swann and Puthoff attended the First International Congress on Psychotronic Research in Prague, Czechoslovakia. “Ingo was there to present a paper on the Scientology paradigm as model for developing and exploring paranormal abilities.” (Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, pg 42) He is/was friends with Rep. Charlie Rose. He left the program in 1988.
Russell Targ – “Russell Targ is a senior research physicist at Stanford Research Institute, having joined their electronics and bioengineering laboratory in 1972. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in laser and plasma physics research with Sylvania Corporation, developing gas lasers…He is also president of the Parapsychology Research Group, Inc., in Palo Alto, California.” (Mitchell, Edgar, Psychic Exploration, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974, pg 522-3). In 1982, Targ left SRI and founded Delphi Associates with Keith Harary. Delphi Associates was a consultancy which sought to apply psi to finding oil, gas, etc. Using Harary as a viewer, they claimed to have successfully traded in the silver market. (Targ and Harary, pg 176)
In Spring, 1982, Targ turned in a research report to his DIA contract manager at SRI, Jim Salyer. Salyer and the DIA considered his work to be unprofessional, and they soon refused to pay his salary. Under SRI rules, Targ had eight months to find new funding. In early 1983, he left SRI, reportedly claiming that he left because he didn’t like the military applications of psychic research. (Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 264)
Charles Tart – Around 1979, SRI funded a project of Tart’s which screened university students and faculty for psychic ability. Currently teaching (as of 1997) at Univ of Las Vegas as part of Robert Bigelow’s Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies.
Ed Thompson – Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), US Army, 1977-81. During this time, he was briefed by SRI on the remote viewing program. After having tried it himself, viewing a Masonic temple near the target train station, Thompson set up Project Grill Flame at Fort Meade. Thompson left the Army in 1985.
Jack Vorona – Former head of DIA’s Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate. Oversaw the funding and tasking of Grill Flame. Oversaw “Sleeping Beauty” – which dealt with researching microwaves and how they effect the human mind. (Schnabel). Friends with Rep Charlie Rose. Retired late 1989.
Dr. Jolly West – West was a veteran of CIA’s MKULTRA, and worked on interrogation techniques using hypnosis and LSD. West allegedly once killed an elephant by grossly overestimating a dose of LSD. According to an anonymous BBC television reporter, West headed up the medical oversight for the Ft. Meade remote-viewing operational unit. (Alex Constantine). According to Schnabel, he was a member of the medical oversight board for Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) remote-viewing research in the early 1990s.