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ISSUE 5 JUNE 2011

Linear thinking is useless in a nonlinear world - Teresa L. Frisch P.4

My Experiences With Telepathy And Before They Were Called Remote Viewing - Part 2 By Jean Millay, PhD P.8

How I Became a Remote Viewer Robert J. Durant P.14

The Impact of Personal Feedback 14 By Rick Hilleard P.38

Interview with Courtney Brown P.42

Remote Viewing in France by Hélène Pau & Alexis Champion P.46

RV Notice Board P.50

Remote Viewing websites & blogs P.51 3338

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eight martinis 3 linear thinking is useless in a nonlinear world

Teresa L. Frisch Aesthetic Impact Informational Services, LLC April, 2011

My interest in , synchron- the Future: Rethinking Business, Princi- herself in extra-ordinary circumstances. icity and non-locality began with my ples, Competition, Control & Complexity, Like them, I frequently found myself at a study of nursing . Eventu- Leadership, Markets, and the World. The crossroad in life. Should I disregard my ally, after two hours of rudimentary in- concept represented in the quote also precognitive, deja’ vu experiences like a struction at a “ fair” I sketched a makes sense when applied to human night of bad pizza, or consider them as remote viewing target for the first time interaction in the nonlocal environment, opportunities for growth and step out and my world changed, never to be the currently defined as remote viewing, or into the unknown? I chose the latter and same. I felt a deep sense of duty toward anomalous cognition. Remote viewing is what I hope is the high road. My many my fellow man after sketching that tar- an information gathering tool that uses yet-unexplained-experiences have be- get. The concept of remote viewing or the communication of the conscious come personal defining moments. our ability to do it was, and still is, essen- and subconscious minds to gather sen- tially unheard of. Not making a personal sory perceptions across time and space. In the foreword of Toward a Psychology effort to share something that could so Freeing the mind of the boundaries of of Being, Abraham Maslow teaches us significantly impact the potential of the linear thinking is the first step in a pro- “Because they are no longer slaves to the evolutionary process of the human race cess of many as we learn that it is pos- hopes and fears of deficiency motivation, and the human condition would mean I sible to function in the nonlinear world self-actualizing persons are not threat- was participating in and perpetuating a of the nonlocal environment. ened or frightened by the unknown: on travesty in every sense of the word. the contrary, they ‘accept it, are com- Like the people whose stories are docu- fortable with it, and often are even more Not on my watch. mented in Seeing the Invisible: Modern attracted by it than by the known’….. Religious and Other Transcendent Expe- and “Another respect in which self-ac- The title of this article, “linear- think riences, and The Common Experience: tualizing persons live their lives more ing is useless in a non-linear world” is a Signposts on the Path to Enlightenment, efficiently is that they tend to be prob- quote from Rowan Gibson’s Rethinking I am an ordinary person who has found lem-centered rather than ego-centered.

4 eight martinis When they encounter something that Extended Remote Viewing and Out-of- mote viewing are all aspects of the needs to be solved or fixed, they do not Body Experiences. Lyn Buchanan intro- same thing - nonlocal consciousness. work at it for the sake of scoring points, duced Theory, Psychology and Analysis But remote viewing is especially impor- but simply for the sake of getting it done. of Controlled Remote Viewing and the tant because, unlike the others, it can Because they do not need to score the development of the communication be- be brought about under controlled cir- points, they can approach the task with tween the conscious and subconscious cumstances. Remote viewing proposes greater clarity and focus.” (Maslow) I do minds. Paul O’Connor brought informa- to us that an aspect of human mentality this, the Aesthetic Impact website, the tion about Energy Psychology techniques exists independent of time and space. webinars, this article, because for the that combine cognitive psychology and Schwartz illuminates his points by ad- sake of people and the human condition, neurolinguistic programming with the dressing how near-death experiences, it needs to be done. energetic nature of the human biofield. studies, research into therapeutic intent, precognition, and Why does it need to be done? There are the power of the placebo-effect are all people suffering in silence and someone evidence for the reality of nonlocal con- needs to champion their cause. They sciousness - and are directly linked with call, or stop me to share their stories, “I sketched a the discipline of remote viewing. A spe- hoping that science will provide answers cial treat is his account of a visit he paid to their questions. For them, the agony remote viewing to what he thought of as the ‘primitive’ of uncertainty created by their unan- Bushmen of the Kalahari desert while on swered questions is as real as any physi- target for the assignment for National Geographic, and cal pain. how they taught him the things about first time and culture and consciousness that the sup- I receive letters from people who say posedly ‘sophisticated’ society he came “thank you for letting me feel normal for my world from has yet to figure out.” (IRVA 2007). just a little while.” These are ordinary people who observe patterns and chang- changed, The nursing profession is represented es in their environment. They have in the many sciences studying intuition trusted witnesses, such as their spouse never to be and our human interaction with and in but it does no good because they cannot the nonlocal environment. Martha Rog- be plugged into an outlet and their expe- the same” ers, PhD, RN, with her theoretical model rience scientifically replicated. So they The Science of Unitary Human Beings suffer their questions and their burden appears to be a visionary well ahead in silence lest they speak and draw atten- of her time. Janet Wessel Krejci, PhD, tion to themselves. They go to bed with MS, RN, documented her observations questions, not answers. Science may not The audiences are not large but that is in Synchronous Connections: Nursing’s be able to answer all of their questions not what I consider the win. The win Little Secret. Victoria Slater, MSN, RN, but it is on the cusp of being able to give is not a prize or money or one-upping gives us Modern Physics, Synchronicity them some peace of mind. someone. Those things do not interest and Intuition and Janet Macrae, PhD, RN, me. What does interest me is that just Nursing as a Spiritual Practice. The cross-disciplinary webinars offered one person might be suffering a little less by Aesthetic Impact Informational - Ser when they go to sleep at night. These, For those interested, current research vices are proving to be networking op- coupled with my hope that a common can be found through several sources. portunities. I watch quietly from the reporting language amongst the scienc- There are conferences, books, websites, cyber-balcony as audiences connect es will eventually emerge, are the reason videos and DVDs available through The with speakers. I listen while research- Aesthetic Impact, the webinars and the Institute of HeartMath, The Institute of ers and scientists excitedly trade ideas. newsletter exist. Noetic Sciences (IONS), The Internation- I will never forget watching Melvin al Society for the Study of Subtle Ener- Morse, MD, find common ground with Stephan Schwartz opened the 2007 In- gies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) and Dr. Jay Kappraff, and the discussion that ternational Remote Viewers Associa- The International Remote Viewers As- followed regarding the study of both tion Conference with his presentation sociation (IRVA) to name just a few. All math and humans as “complex systems.” Opening to the Infinite and explained to are available for questions should you Marty Rosenblatt, with his expertise in us that we are pioneers. “In this often choose to contact them. Associative Remote Viewing and precog- thought-provoking and always inspiring nition, kept us on the edge of our seats presentation, Stephan Schwartz explains with his down-to-earth explanations of this theme: That moments of genius, the same from the perspective of phys- special epiphanies, great achievements * ics. Dr. Angela Smith addressed both of creativity, and certain aspects of re-

eight martinis 5 References: Web. 04 June. 2011. Maxwell, Meg, and Verena Tschudin. Seeing the www.instituteofnoeticsciences.com/research/psi. Invisible: Modern Religious and Transcendent cfm Experience. London: Penguin Group, 1990. Print. Bradley, Raymond Trevor. “The Psychophysiol- McCraty Rollin, Mike Atkinson, and Raymond ogy of Entrepreneurial Intuition: A Quantum- International Society for the Study of Subtle Trevor Bradley. “The Electrophysiological Evidence Holographic Theory.” Institute of HeartMath. Web. Energies and Energy Medicine. ISSSEEM, 2009. of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the 2009. Third AGSE International Entrepreneurship Web. 04 June. 2011. www.issseem.org. Heart.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Research Exchange. Auckland, New Zealand. 8-10 Medicine. 10.1 (2004): 133-143. Print. Abstract. Feb. 2006. Address. International Remote Viewing Association. IRVA, Institute of Heartmath. Web. 2009. www.heartmath.org/research/overview. 2008. Web. 14 Mar. 2009. www.irva.org. www.heartmath.org/research/overview html#research_overview_intuition html#research_overview_intuition. Krejci, Janet Wessel. “Synchronous Connections: Buchanan, Lyn. Home Page. Nursing’s Little Secret.” Journal of Nursing Care “The Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Problems>Solutions>Innovations: Lyn Buchanan’s Quarterly. 9.4 (1995): 24-30. Print. Essential Part 2. A System-Wide Process?” Journal of Alter- Controlled Remote Viewing, Training and Readings in Holistic Nursing. Ed. Cathie Guzetta. native and Complementary Medicine. 10.2 (2004): Professional Services. Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1998. 77-82. 325-336. Print. Abstract. Institute of Heartmath. Problems>Solutions>Innovations, 2007. Web. 15 Print. Web. 2009. www.heartmath.org/research/over- Mar. 2009. www.crviewer.com view.html#research_overview_intuition. Macrae, Janet A. Nursing as a Spiritual Practice: A Cohen, J. M., and J. Phipps. The Common Experi- Contemporary Application of Florence Nightin- Slater, Victoria. “Modern Physics, Synchronic- ence: Signposts on the Path to Enlightenment. gale’s Views. New York: Springer Publishing Co. ity, and Intuition.” Holistic Nursing Practice. 6.4 Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing House, 1992. Inc., 2001. Print. (1992): 20-25. Print. Essential Readings in Holistic Print. Nursing. Ed. Cathie Guzetta. Gaithersburg: Aspen Maslow, Abraham H. Toward a Psychology of Be- Publishers, Inc., 1998. 72-76. Print. Institute of Noetic Sciences. Research & Educa- ing. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999. Print. tion.” Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). 2009.

Teresa Frisch is a 1975 graduate of St. Stargate Military Intelligence Unit. Her Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing CRV courses include Basic through Ad- and is currently employed in a Level I vanced Levels as well as Post Graduate Emergency Trauma Center. Her thirty- Medical Applications (enhanced guid- five years of varied clinical and mana- ed imagery). She is currently pursuing gerial roles within the field of medicine CRV Operational Project Management provide a wealth of holistically diverse and is an Analyst in training. situational models of the human con- dition as well as the foundation for her In 2010 she founded Aesthetic Impact study of applied intuition. Informational Services, LLC. Certified Reiki Master / Teacher, Frisch contin- In 1992 she began to notice an increase ues to pursue her interests in Holistic in personal intuitive and precognitive Nursing, Integrative Medicine, subtle experiences outside of nursing as well energies and human bioelectromag- Teresa Frisch as , and realized that netics. our medical knowledge of the human condition is far from complete.- Even w: www.aestheticimpact.com tually her empirical observations and E: [email protected] studies of intuition led to the study of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) with Lyn Buchanan, former member of the

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eight martinis 7 My Experiences With Telepathy And Clairvoyance Before They Were Called Remote Viewing Part2

By Jean Millay, PhD

(End of Chapter 1 — Esalen, CA, June 1972 Russell Targ wanted the first and only one so far. The other electronic machine to borrow two more brainwave analyzers from the inventor that the conference participants enjoyed was the portable ESP Tim Scully to demonstrate during his ESP conference at Esalen, teaching machine that Scully had adapted from a standup pin- CA. I offered him the use of the two that operated the “Stereo ball-type model that Targ and David Hurt had devised earlier. * Brainwave Biofeedback Light Sculpture,” if he would cover my costs of driving from Albion, CA, and my stay at Esalen while I was there. He agreed. That is how I met Russell Targ.)

CHAPTER 2 The world’s first Stereo Brainwave Biofeedback Light Sculp- ture (SBBLS) was created by Tim Scully (electronics) and me (design), with seed money from Dr. Stanley Krippner, and sup- port from my parents. The design required 8 layers of 18” X 24” Plexiglass with dots carved to form different, but related, mandala patterns on each one. In this way, the dots would carry light from the edge so they would appear to be float- ing in space, as I had seen them in auras. I didn’t see auras as stable mondala patterns, but I did see them as dots of light in constant motion, with changes of colors relating to changes in thoughts. The design, however, as EEG feedback, had to be a mandala to prevent too much eye movement, as the dominant frequency of both signals shifted and changed color. That’s A high school student in M. King’s science class learns to increase his ability to why the mandala design of the 2nd version was more com- focus attention with EEG feedback. pact. (Chapter 1 shows some of the different colors of the 2nd version as the EEG changed.) At this conference, Targ told us about the Research Group (PRG) that he helped to establish, and now Naturally, the SBBLS was a hit at Targ’s ESP conference at served as its president. (Of course, I wanted to become a Esalen. (The term “Remote Viewing” had not yet replaced the member.) He also hinted that he might receive a grant to study term “ESP.”) No one had seen anything like it, since this was ESP at SRI by fall — an amazing accomplishment, considering

8 eight martinis ing circle that met every other week. The leader, Rev. Klein, had served as a healer for a Christian church on the east coast. However, she preferred our little community where she orga- nized her own healing center, with a steady circle of 10 loving participants. All healing requests were welcome from within the circle or from others that participants brought with them. (No one here would consider using sacred herb or other en- theogens at these meetings, and I respected that.) Rev. Klein would ask anyone with a healing request to sit in the center of our circle. First we would meditate together as she asked for divine assistance. Then we would hold hands in the circle, visualize a light around the one sitting in the center, and then “tune-in” to the energy. Anyone was welcome to speak if they were moved to do so, or had a vision to share. (Today, this might be called “remote viewing” of a person’s energies.) The one in the center could respond to the comment to confirm, deny, or open a discussion of his/her situation. Sometimes the healing would release floods of tears as the person became open to the love from the group. Sometimes a physical pain would actually disappear with this much love and focused attention.

Millay demonstrated the 1st version of the the SBBLS at the 1972 ESP Synchronizing My Own Brainwaves Produced Three Impor- Conference at U.C. Davis organized by Dr. Charles Tart. tant Insights the general prejudice against the subject. However, the book “Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain” (Ostrander & (During this time, I had to find a job, an apartment, and Schroeder, 1970) had stirred up some government interest, settle the children into the familiar schools of their choice. because scientists in the U.S. would have to come to know I wanted to apply for a job in Palo Alto — the center of more about mind power than scientists in the U.S.S.R. Targ all the interesting psi activity, but my children out-voted was trusted to check this out, because government agencies me about moving there. They preferred to stay where they appreciated his innovative work in lasers. knew the school and had friends, so they eagerly helped me find a job in Sacramento by looking through all the help At the end of his Esalen conference, most of us went down to wanted ads there — these were times of heavy unemploy- the geothermal hot springs that made Esalen famous. Volca- ment. They discovered an opening to teach Interior Design nic rocks deep in the earth heated the water, which came in a at a private woman’s college — a two-year course, finish- steady flow up from the ground to be piped into several large ing with an AA degree and a recommendation to work in tubs on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Geothermal a furniture store — but there were 150 applicants with springs occur naturally in the countries around the “ring of teacher’s credentials besides me. However, since I had fire” that border the Pacific Ocean. For many years, my friends also put in years of designing wallpaper, fabrics, carpets and family found these places to be safe and sacred environ- and murals, the job was mine.) ments where one (or a group) could ingest in a peaceful setting. By 1972, many of the hot springs in California This new stability of income and schedule finally gave me some and Nevada accepted co-ed nudity, and we all had learned to time to explore the extended range of feedback provided by 2 overcome our inhibitions to be comfortable with this practice. EEG signals at the same time. I had neither time nor place to So, when an Esalen couple sharing our tub passed a joint of do that before, because we had barely finished the stereo ver- sacred herb, I naturally accepted it, and passed it on. (Targ is sion in time to demonstrate it at the Metropolitan Museum of naturally psychic and he declined to share this with us. He had Art in NYC. no interest in it. In any case, there were still laws against it at that time.) Even though the SBBLS was designed to enhance telepathy be- tween two people, I now took the opportunity to check all of But this spectacular environment, and the exceptional herb the technical issues by attaching the electrodes to symmetrical guided me into a very powerful psychic experience about the places on both sides of my own head. As I focused total at- potential power of a healing circle. tention on the brainwave analyzers, isolation switching boxes and various connectors, both mandalas were in beta-green Psychic Diagnosis and Spiritual Healing (between 13 Hz – 25 Hz). (See illustrations in Chapter 1.) As I When I returned to my parent’s home in Fair Oaks (a suburb focused on the point of light in the center of the back wall of of the Sacramento area), I found and participated in a heal- the light box (behind the eight mandala panels), the green and

eight martinis 9 blue lights shifted between one side and the other. As I let my told me that would be tested at SRI, and because eyes go out of focus, or closed them, both patterns were in Geller had sometimes performed as a magician, hostile skep- alpha-blue (between 8Hz – 12 Hz). When my eyes were closed, tics would study everything Targ and Puthoff did hoping to this simultaneous alpha rhythm was confirmed by the digital find evidence of carelessness or fraud. Brown was concerned feedback sound. These Aquarius Electronics brainwave analyz- that the controls would have to be so strict (carefully watching ers were unique in 1971, but they were also simple enough to for a magician’s tricks), that the negative mental environment provide feedback for only the most dominant frequency. (Now might inhibit Geller’s natural ability, which Brown knew was 40 years later, gigabyte computers measure, record and feed- real. Therefore, Brown would recommend to them that I be back multiple signals simultaneously.) included as part of that team to add a mellow influence to the environment around Geller. I was measuring both sides of my head independently at the occiput, and right away I could see a dynamic relationship be- By the fall of 1973, I was “hired” to come down to SRI to draw tween the changing colors and patterns relative to events in whatever pictures Targ chose randomly out of a dictionary. I my consciousness. I had not found any of this in the biofeed- was given a large black marking pen and poster-sized paper. back literature, because those studies used feedback for only Since I am short, filling up the paper with a simple, spontane- one side, which had been analyzed as a wavy line on a chart ous, drawing became a full body movement — almost a dance. recorder. One night I was listening to a favorite Ravi Shankar The drawings were very crude — childlike — the worst I have recording that began with a lovely, serene alap. At the same ever done. Geller had a small pad and a regular pen to use time, I could hear the simultaneous analogue feedback of my as he sat in the electromagnetically shielded room. (It was re- alpha brainwave response. When Alla Rakha began to play a markable that some of our drawings looked so similar when re- fast teental on the tabla, I was exhilarated. I could hear that produced to be the same size.) Anyway, Targ and I focused on the analogue warble of my alpha rhythms on both sides ex- each one in turn to “send” the image to Geller, whom Puthoff actly matched his tabla rhythm — not just a mellow simultane- had locked in the EM shielded room three buildings away. ous alpha feedback somewhere between 8Hz –12 Hz. Both So with Targ and I in one building, and Puthoff and Geller in signals beat in precisely the same rhythm. In that moment, I another, the four of us decided to begin with a meditation. experienced two powerful insights: 1) I knew why simultane- Sometimes I felt like all of us had been stirred together into a ous alpha between two people was not close enough to train “mind soup.” for telepathy. We needed an extra tone to feedback the mo- ment when the two signals were in absolute synchronization; At first Geller thought that perhaps UFOs gave him the power 2) Synchronizing my EEG integrated the verbal brain and the from time to time. However, we discussed the need to focus on non-verbal brain electrically, which could give rise to insight. each other for better results. We did establish a good rapport, 3) Music can entrain brainwaves. so that I could tell during this “sending” period when he felt he had “received” the right image, and when he wasn’t sure I needed to talk to someone else who had done some work about it. I learned so much from this experiment with Geller, in the field. My first biofeedback teacher, Dr. Barbara Brown Targ and Puthoff that I set up my own telepathy research later was in Southern CA. The second biofeedback teacher, Dr. Stan- in a similar protocol. ley Krippner was even farther away in Brooklyn, NY. A friend showed me a 1970 paper about the educational potential of Eventually, Ingo Swann, Targ and Puthoff decided to call the biofeedback by Dr. Dean Brown (a scientist and a major teach- PSI activity at SRI “Remote Viewing” to separate it from any er of many disciplines) and Dr Robert Kantor (a psychiatrist and discredited terms associated with the . Targ and Puthoff researcher) — using EEG lab equipment that took up a whole published their version of the RV events in “Nature, October room. In this they wrote: “…Machine augmentation of self- 18, 1974”. education in the inner states will help us to know and develop new dimensions of the self….” That was just what I wanted to know more about. I set up an appointment to meet Dr. Brown (The SRI team neglected to say at SRI with my 100 lb. box of SBBLS and its necessary electronic that I had participated, which later equipment, and set it up on his desk. After he had a chance gave skeptic Randi (a TV magician) to explore the changing colors of the SBBLS for himself, he ini- a chance to attack their work as tiated a long inspiring conversation about consciousness and fraud. He discovered that a person psychic activity that has guided my own studies ever since. with my name was present, but (This will be discussed in Chapter 3.) not acknowledged, so when the AAAS invited him to the meeting Telepathy Experiments with Russell Targ, Hal Puthoff and Uri in S.F., for the purpose of discredit- Geller at SRI ing the SRI study, Randi said I was Dr. Brown also told me that Targ and Puthoff had received Geller’s secret accomplice, who their grant to conduct parapsychology research at SRI and slipped him messages under the they had named him to be a consultant on the project. He door.

10 eight martinis he bends metal, he could heal bones.) Later, I published my own version, along with my other research projects with the SBBLS — first in my PhD dis- None of the physicists at SRI could provide any solid explana- sertation (1978), and also in “Multidimensional Mind: -Re tions about Geller’s PK ability. In spite of all of these strange mote Viewing in Hyperspace” (1990), Berkeley, CA: North things that happened spontaneously, the SRI team had yet to Atlantic Books, also at http://www.amazon.com.) see it happen under the controlled conditions they had de- vised. The last day for them to try was on the winter solstice of 1973. For this experiment, Targ and Puthoff had set up a paper with evenly spaced black horizontal lines on the wall ap- Uri Geller and PK proximately 20” behind Uri. Puthoff set up an old version of The first Parapsychology Research Group meeting that- Iat a BW video camera to record him and show the lines behind tended in Palo Alto was the first time I saw Uri Geller. He him. Geller was offered a tray of different pieces of metal so he spoke to the group about his life and seeing UFOs, and how could choose one that “felt right” for bending. Earlier Targ had he discovered that he could bend metal. When he asked for a shown me a 3/8 inch cold rolled steel bar that he had cut into volunteer, a woman walked up to the front of the room. She 3 pieces so he could study for any differences, in case Geller didn’t want any of her keys bent, so he asked her to hold her could bend one of them. glasses, which she did with each hand holding the edges of the frame. He put his hand over her right hand, but the side As the session started, I was sitting next to Uri, and when that bent was not being touched. Everyone was pleased. He he asked me what I thought he should pick, I suggested that put the glasses down on the table, and they all went into the one. He held it horizontally with his left hand, between the kitchen for coffee. I moved up closer to the table, so I could black lines and video camera, and rubbed it gently with the study it. As I watched, the stem continued bend, with no one forefinger of his right hand. I closed my eyes when he began else near it. to focus, so I could “feel” and to “tune into” his brainwaves. His mind held a steady frequency for a time, and when that During the few days that I worked at SRI, I saw that strange shifted suddenly, my eyes popped open just as Uri said, “I think things happened unexpectedly all around Geller. Sometimes it’s working.” We both watched the bending take place, with when he walked down the hall, magnets would fall off file cabi- a sense of amazement that this was actually happening. The nets, and the notes they held floated to the floor. When we bend was slight, too slight for the old video camera to notice, went to lunch, spoons and forks would bend just as he put his or the widely spaced black lines on the wall far behind him arms on the table. Geller seemed to be as surprised as any of to show, but enough so that it wouldn’t roll smoothly on the us when that happened, however, when individuals asked him table any more. We knew it was real, but noise and disbelief to bend a key, the key usually bent. He also wondered why the rang up and down the halls of SRI. Targ felt the results weren’t key? What was the significance of a key? At first, I thought at good enough to fight against a world of skeptics. Uri was very least some of the events seemed similar to poltergeist activ- discouraged that his best effort was judged to be “not good ity — ultra-dimensional — rather than extra-terrestrial. What- enough.” He was ready to give up. We all took a break. I ever it was, it must have been from another dimension. dug a chocolate bar out of my purse for him, and Phyllis gave him a neck rub. Together we convinced him to try again. This Henry Dakin and Jim Hickman had taken a Kirlian picture of time he chose a pair of surgical tweezers from the tray. Again Uri’s fingertip with black and white Polaroid film. It shows a I tuned in to his brainwaves. Suddenly, I felt something extra steak of light emanating from Uri’s fingertip toward a watch was added, and looked up to see Pat Price standing in the open that lost 10 minutes without him touching it. Dakin first pub- door, also focused. The bottom part of the tweezers lifted lished this image in his “High-Voltage Photography” (1975). up, and then broke off falling to the table with a clunk. Many Dakin gave me permission to re-publish it in “Multidimensional more noisy discussions followed. All possible contradictions by Mind: Remote Viewing in Hyperspace” (1999), and again in his skeptics were considered. In the end, the SRI team would not own chapter included in “RADIANT MINDS: Scientists Explore formally corroborate Geller’s PK ability. I disagreed with their the Dimensions of Consciousness” (2010). decision, and Targ spent some time to explain it to me. Later, I realized why. They suffered so much irrational criticism just Dean Brown described some extraordinary events that hap- for publishing the telepathy studies, adding PK on top of that pened when the two of them were together. Brown had in- might have caused the whole program to be cancelled. The vited Geller to dinner at his home. There, three large decora- established science of materialism would not give in easily. (3) tive keys, made of pot metal with a covering of shiny gold were It was enough for me to know it was true. After this event, carefully arranged on the wall near the dinning room table. I spent 2 days in meditation attempting to re-wire my brain Uri waved his hand at them from across the room and said, “I to accept the fact that mind power alone could bend metal. wonder if any of those keys might bend.” As the dinner party What we are dealing with is nothing less than a major change watched in amazement, the end of the largest key (about 12”) in scientific thinking. It is as fundamental a change asthat bent out from the wall from its center 45º. Brown brought this caused by the Darwinian shift in thinking. Western science one to show us. (Shaman Rolling Thunder told me to tell Uri if has studied evolution with the idea that the single cell (not so

eight martinis 11 simple, really, since it formed the beginning of life on earth) BRAINWAVE SYNCHRONIZATION evolved until the human brain was complex enough to produce I still hoped that I could convince Targ to look at brainwave syn- consciousness. Mind, in that belief system, is believed to be chronization between two people with their expensive room- the epiphenomenon of the matter and energy of the brain. But sized EEG tools. He said I would have to take that up with the a mind that is limited by such matter as the physical brain can- psychophysiologist, though their equipment was only pro- not remotely view things or events at a distance. This is what grammed to look at one channel at a time. The psychophysiol- causes the science of materialism to reject all psi phenomena. ogist was willing to explore the effect of a distant flashing light It can’t exist, therefore it doesn’t. on alpha waves (without feedback), and I agreed to produce some alpha for that. As he hooked the electrodes up to my The belief system that creates the fundamental change we are head in the EM shielded room, I asked him if he might be able now experiencing means that it is the consciousness of life that to measure two people at the same time. His response was produces the matter and energy through which life evolves. both sexist and insulting. “What do you know about brainwav- The mutations that occur during climate change to produce a es, you’re only an art teacher?” At which point he closed the life form that can adapt to such changes are created by con- heavy door without waiting for an answer. I was so incensed sciousness. (This would also explain Stephen Jay Gould’s 1970 at such treatment that I knew my attempt to produce alpha theory of “punctuated equilibrium.”) (4 & 5) The life forms waves that day would not be as continuous as usual. (This was that formed early on this did not have the same mix a perfect example of how the ignorance of the experimenter of oxygen in the air that we require now. They created it dur- effect works to skew experiments. First ask someone to prac- ing their life processes. (6) Since scientists have assumed also tice alpha rhythms, and then insult them!) I had already seen that to find life on other , those planets have to include on my SBBLS, that my anger produced asymmetrical bursts of water. However, we believe that the Consciousness of Life has theta. He was only looking at one side, but his wiggly lines on its own agenda, since organisms on earth can exist living on the chart recorder would show those occasional high ampli- sulfur (in the deep Atlantic ridge) and bacteria can exist living tude slow waves (theta). I knew he would see those bursts of on arsenic in Mono Lake, California. theta, and think from the limited literature he had available to him that it indicated relaxation. When the session was over, he Physicists have named only 4 Fundamental Forces in the uni- did have a strange look on his face when he asked, “You must verse (the weak and the strong nuclear forces, gravity and be very relaxed?” His over-the-edge ego would never accept electromagnetism), but with this change in thinking, we have any explanation from me that contradicted what his advanced to consider a 5th Fundamental Force — Life and its Conscious- degree convinced him that he knew. So I didn’t try. I responded ness. While many living scientists will dispute this idea, it is im- with some heat, “What do you know about brainwaves, when portant to remember that life comes from life. Scientists may you’ve never looked at those of your own head?” Of course, I modify cells in a test tube, but they have to start with some- realized that my own anger represented my own ego response. thing that is already alive, even if it is only a small cell. Life may For one attempting to follow a spiritual path, this is to be dis- be ubiquitous throughout the universe, as this 5th Fundamen- couraged. However, I have learned over the years how to focus tal Force of Life and its Consciousness chooses its own path; its anger adrenalin into the energy needed for a creative project, own combination of chemical exchanges with its environment. so I marched straight down the hall to a pay phone (they still We evolved as we have on earth because we have adapted to had those in those days), and called Tim Scully. I asked him if and co-created our environment. We are still doing that. he could build a machine to feedback information when both signals were in phase. He said he could.

That was my last formal association with the parapsychology project at SRI, though Targ and I are still friends. In 1974, after Scully delivered the new “phase-comparator” he built at my re- quest, Targ and David Hurt installed a counter for me so I could continue with my own EEG synchronization research. Targ also has included a chapter in our new PRG Anthology, “RADIANT MINDS: Scientists Explore the Dimensions of Consciousness.” (Eventually, my research in brainwave synchronization and te- lepathy will be covered in Chapter 3, along with our successful remote viewing of four distant places at the same time. If you want to know the details, check out Multidimensional Mind: Remote Viewing in Hyperspace. If you want to know more about how the remarkable work by 55 members of the Para- The 1973 winter solstice was also Uri Geller’s birthday. He invited psychology Research Group (PRG), influenced the whole mod- us to a party at his hotel. This is a photo of part of that group who ern field of consciousness studies, look for: Millay, J. (2010) attended his birthday party. Left to Right: Russell Targ, Phyllis Cole, RADIANT MINDS: Scientists Explore the Dimensions of Con- Dean Brown, Jean Millay, Uri Geller & friend of Uri’s. (Sorry, I can’t sciousness on http://www.amazon.com.) remember her name, after 38 years.)

12 eight martinis would have given her a new one. I said we should try to “fix” it the way Uri REFERENCES AND NOTES: Geller did. I put the watch in the middle of the table, and on the count of 3, we should all shout “work, work, work” at it. By then, those family members still there were mellow, and agreed to humor me. We all shouted on cue. 1) Early Studies Of Mind-To-Mind Telepathic Communication: Mom picked up her watch, and sure enough, it was working again. It contin- a) Sinclair, Upton. (1930) Mental Radio (with and introduction by Albert ued to work for weeks until someone in the family finally gave her a new one. Einstein.) New York: Macmillan. b) Warcollier, R. (1948 – 1963) Mind to Mind. New York: Farrar Strauss 3) Tart, C. T. (2009) The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the andStrauss & Co. Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together. http//:paradigm-sys.com/cttart c) Hardy, A., Harvie, R. & Koestler, A. (1975) The Challenge of Chance: A Mass Experiment in Telepathy and its Unexpected Outcome. New York: 4) Eldredge, N. & Gould, S. J. (1972) “Punctuated equilibria: An alternative to Vintage Books. phyletic gradualism.” In T. J. M. Schopf, (Ed.) Models in Paleobiology. 82-115. San Francisco: Freman, Çooper & Company. 2) When I went to the traditional large family Christmas gathering, I was a day late for some of the major annual house cleaning, that Mother always 5) Gould, S. J. & Eldredge, N. (1993) “Punctuated equilibrium comes of age.” insisted on doing first, though was able to finish the rest of it. I had no In Nature, 366: 223-27. money, and only a bent key and a broken spoon to show for my recent major mind-changing experience, though I did mount them nicely in clear plastic 6) Lovelock, James (1988) The Ages of Gaia: A biography of Our Living Earth. boxes. My parents were always supportive, though skeptical, my sisters were mute, but their scientifically educated husbands and children were downright A volume of The Commonwealth Fund Book Program under the editorship of insulting. (Crazy ol’ Aunt Jeannie was really over the edge.) Lewis Thomas, M.D. New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company

The next day, when most had left for their own homes, 5 of us were sitting around the table after lunch. My mother discovered that her watch had stopped. She said she wished it had stopped before Christmas, so someone * Dr Millay is the editor of RADIANT MINDS: psi research and the study of conscious- Scientists Explore the Dimensions of ness. She was president of the Parapsy- Consciousness, a collection of papers chology Research Group (PRG) in San about research and philosophy by 55 Francisco for six years. She participated in prominent authors. She is also one of most of Dr. Ruth-Inge Heinze’s 22 annual those authors. This is a revised and conferences on “The Study of Shaman- updated version of the 1993 PRG book ism and Alternate Modes of Healing,” Silver Threads: 25 Years of Parapsy- which published her presentations in the chology Research, which had three proceedings. These include: The use editors —Kane, B., Millay, J. & Brown, of trancestates for age regression, to D. (Praeger, 1993.) Her own book explore past-life-like experiences, and “MULTIDIMENSIONALMIND: Remote OOBEs. She is a channel for spirit Dr Jean Millay Viewing in Hyperspace” (1999) was a communication. Some of her presenta- UniversalDialogue Book, published by tions at other conferences include:- ISS North Atlantic Books. SEEM, IRVA, AHP, FMBR, various biofeed- back societies, the conferences of Sorcery For thirty-five years she was involved in in Bogota, Colombia, and parapsychology teaching biofeedback, parapsychology, in Brazil.

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eight martinis 13 How I Became a Remote Viewer

Robert J. Durant - 18 February 2004

Major Dames figure in the development of remote The response was an exercise in stud- In 1992 I attended a UFO conference in viewing. Later, I got the spelling right: ied diffidence. Yes, this seemed to be Atlanta, Georgia, organized by psychia- Ingo Swann. real ESP. But there were many other ex- trist and UFO abduction researcher Dr. amples, and researchers had no funding, Rima Laibow1 . One of the speakers was a Upon returning from Atlanta, I called a and all positive findings in the field were new name to me, and to nearly all of the friend who has spent decades in para- instantly attacked by the organized skep- 200 attendees -- Major Edward Dames2 , psychology, including laboratory work. tics, and the press always misrepresent- recently retired from the U.S. Army. “Psychic phenomena” was a subject of ed the work, and who cares, anyhow? only passing interest to me. I was unread This was my introduction to the mind- Dames stunned the crowd with what and untutored, and didn’t really care set of academic parapsychologists - dili- struck me as a preposterous tale, even in that much about it in the first place. But gent researchers but beaten down by an the context of the dozen other presen- I wanted to run the Dames story by my unthinking skeptical culture to the point tations dealing with such arcane topics learned friend, and fully expected him to where they avoid the most dramatic evi- as the UFO abduction claims. He spoke draw on his fund of special knowledge dential results, and instead hide behind about a psychic skill called remote view- and dismiss “remote viewing” as arrant clouds of statistics. ing, developed in secrecy at the Stanford nonsense. To my great surprise, he said Research Institute, and then applied by that such a skill does indeed appear to I Meet Swann teams of military “viewers” on a sys- exist, and has been replicated at various Several months after this conversation I tematic basis to gain information about laboratories over the years. He was un- was invited to an afternoon at the sum- operational targets of great interest to aware of the military program, but knew mer place of a prominent Manhattan the American intelligence community. through the parapsychological grapevine psychiatrist with a long-standing interest Remote viewing, said Dames, was a la- about the work done at SRI, presumably in the paranormal. The guest of honor tent ability common to the human spe- under CIA sponsorship. was none other than this mysterious fel- cies, but it required long and demanding low, Ingo Swann. I listened to his rather training. With this sobering confirmation in hand, short talk, and then introduced myself I wondered out loud why this skill had over cocktails. That was the beginning of Another name unfamiliar to me was in- not been followed up. Where was the a deep friendship, and a pivotal point in voked several times during this presen- parapsychological community? Where my life. tation, by way of singling out the central was the scientific community at large?

14 eight martinis By 1994 I had done enough reading concerns were this thing called remote sort of question a gentleman would ask on remote viewing, interspersed with viewing, the 12 days of instruction that of another gentleman, and I only raise it discussions with Swann, to persuade loomed ahead, and the seeming impos- here because other parties confronted me to take the plunge. Swann was not sibility of accomplishing the goal. him with this and in response he freely teaching, and said he would never teach acknowledged his employment with that again, having had enough of that at SRI, “firm”, though he says it was long ago among other vaguely proffered reasons. I Meet Schnabel and far away. I would imagine there was So I signed up with Ed Dames, who at the My partner turned out to be about half nothing sinister about this, just the sort time was the only source of instruction my age, with dark hair arranged in de- of thing many temporarily expatriate using the Swann protocols. Also, I knew liberately informal style, skin fair and Americans are asked by their country to Dames had been trained by Swann, smooth like a child’s, and a bit of pink do from time to time, which is to report which gave me some confidence that I in the cheeks making him appear much on activities of other Americans that would have a tutorial pipeline back to younger than his 30 years. His manner might warrant a closer look. Which of us, the exhaustive research and develop- was reserved to the point of reticence, if asked, wouldn’t do the same? ment my tax money had paid for. Nor and there was an air of unease or even did Swann try to dissuade me when I an- evasiveness about him. He had the dis- The Curriculum nounced my intentions. concerting habit of rarely looking you Swann’s curriculum began with two 12- in the eye during conversation, prefer- hour days of extraordinarily intense drill- Two weeks before I was to depart for Al- ring to stare at his shoes. But he seemed ing on the theory of remote viewing. We buquerque, Swann called. “I’ve decided to have a keen mind, the ability to ex- learned about the difference between to teach a fellow named Jim Schnabel, press ideas precisely, and a sporadically automatic and autonomic, what a limin and I can teach two about as easily as evinced but genuine sense of humor. is, and what it is not. This came in fairly just one, and you are welcome, if you short doses, usually 30 to 45 minutes in want.” The days of training that followed were duration, often accompanied by -over long, intense ordeals. I came to ap- head projector “slides” that still had the This was one of those offers one can’t preciate Schnabel’s reserve, because a dust of Stanford Research Institute on refuse. I cancelled my appointment with more emotional person might well have them. The slides had been prepared for Ed Dames, who was upset but gentle- caused a serious problem in the pressure use in Top Secret briefings of skeptical manly about it. And I learned that Schna- cooker of Swann’s Academy. CIA and Pentagon audiences during the bel had also signed up with Dames, but 1970s, but were declassified now, and cancelled when Swann made him the of- Generally, we shared at least the mid- put away on Swann’s shelves. Then we fer of instruction. day meal, and there was plenty of time would be asked to write a short essay between training sessions when the on what we had just learned, or tried to As Swann explained the situation to me, three of us would talk. Despite the am- learn. Then on to another topic. And so Schnabel was a journalist who wanted ple opportunity, I learned little about Jim on for two very wearying days. to write a book about remote viewing. Schnabel. He had a bachelor’s degree in Schnabel had obviously done his home- electrical engineering, and had worked The object was to teach us the theory of work on the topic, and had already inter- for a firm developing electronic devices remote viewing, along with all the care- viewed most of the “names” in the open for aviation applications, until it went fully recorded details of how it works, literature, but Swann told him that the out of business. This seems to have been per the many years of research at SRI, in only way to understand remote view- the only “real” job he had had since order to help collapse the cultural bar- ing, particularly if the goal was to write graduation from college. He had written riers that almost force us to reject the a competent book about it, was to learn two books on paranormal topics, one on very possibility that something like re- the skill. That is why Schnabel had signed UFO abductions, the other on crop- cir mote viewing exists or can be done by on with Dames. Then Swann got to ru- cles4 . He was enrolled at a university in mere mortals. We even had homework. minating about it, and decided that per- England and was hoping to get a doctor- This consisted of reading various techni- haps the writer of the definitive book on ate in the sociology of science. Much of cal papers, none of them dealing directly remote viewing ought to be taught by his spare time at Swann’s was spent on with remote viewing or any other “psy- the original “armchair traveler,” as Targ the telephone - to England, he confided chic” topic, but all of them pertinent to, and Puthoff3 had whimsically dubbed - and on occasion he would receive a call and supportive of, the theory of remote him during the epochal early research at from England. It was hinted that most of viewing as developed at SRI and now SRI. the transatlantic telephoning had to do taught to us by Swann. with a lady friend. That’s what I knew about Jim Schnabel Although Swann had agreed to teach us when I rang the doorbell at Swann’s low- Other sources told me that Schnabel had for a total of 12 days, he said we would er-Manhattan townhouse in the early worked for the CIA while in England. I work two days, then take two days off, morning hours on Day One. My main didn’t raise that, it seeming to be not the and so on until the 12 days of instruc-

eight martinis 15 tion were complete. We thought this as our “preconscious processing” got Schnabel’s complaint about being “led” silly, but soon discovered that we were more sensitive and productive of - cor evoked the only really heated exchange exhausted by the remote viewing, and rect data about the site. I especially re- between the two that I observed dur- really needed the breaks. Why three or member one session that Schnabel did ing the entire program. (I can attest that four sessions, each lasting only 30 min- that astonished me and also brought out Swann had not been leading Schnabel.) I utes or so, should exhaust us physically more than a bit of jealousy. The coordi- was resting on a couch nearby, in a rever- and mentally, remains a mystery. But nate was that of a platform many miles ie, and only half-listening to the action at Swann learned this is the case when he off the east coast of the US, where the the table, until things got loud. It was one taught the initial class of military-intel- Air Force had a radar station. Schnabel hell of an exchange, with Swann refusing ligence viewers, and was not going to made a beautifully precise sketch of the to budge, and telling Schnabel that he abuse us by failing to provide adequate place, the platform, the sea around it, never, but never, led a student, and that rest. the large plastic balls enclosing the radar Schnabel would either apologize or pack antennas, and, to make things better (for his bags. Schnabel wasn’t the least bit With this out of the way, we began re- him), he had a little something hanging resilient, instead giving Swann what-for, mote viewing. Swann uses only geo- off the side of the platform that looked but eventually he backed off. Incredibly, graphical coordinates (latitudes and mighty like a small crane. When Swann after all this, they simply continued the longitudes), and for our course stuck en- showed us the feedback photo, there it session, with a very good remote view- tirely to geographical locations or struc- all was - including the crane! ing job done by Schnabel on the target. tures. There were no events in the list of targets, just sites. Both Schnabel and Schnabel was something of a whiner. He I have already hinted that Schnabel is I progressed at about the same pace, was forever arguing with Swann about not an easy man to draw out or to talk to which is to say that we made no progress this or that. Usually this amounted to about other than business matters. But I at all the first day or two, while we made nothing. But once Schnabel complained am much the same sort, and so is Swann. repeated attempts to produce an ideo- in the midst of a session that Swann So it was a surprise when, after one par- gram in response to the infinitely patient was “leading” him. In other words, that ticularly good session, with all of us won- droning of North and South and East and Swann was giving him clues about the dering out loud about this marvel called West from Swann’s end of the long table target. remote viewing, that Schnabel spoke to where we worked. me in a rare moment in which the wall of During the first dozen or so training ex- reserve broke down. He said that he had The sites, like the teaching slides we had ercises, Swann would reply to our spo- spent so much of his life studying anom- seen earlier, were originals from SRI. ken statements about the site. Even alies, or alleged anomalies (like the crop Manila folders contained color photos when we were obviously “on target,” circles and the UFO abductions about of each site, together with worksheets we would make descriptive statements which he had written entire books) and from previous students who used the that either he knew to be correct, or that everywhere he looked, he discov- same coordinates. The outer face of the thought it reasonable to assume were ered bunk and nonsense. “But this, this folder showed only a latitude and longi- correct, or about which there was simply is real. This is amazing!” he said, staring tude, and a notation about the “phase” no way of knowing if they were correct me straight in the eye. level the particular site was meant to or not. He would limit his comments to evoke in the trainee. When Swann left one of three: (1) correct, (2) probably At the end of each day we were required SRI, he had been given the folders, num- correct and (3) can’t feed back. But he to write summaries of what we had bering no less than 2,600! On occasion never said, “not correct.” It was Swann’s done, listing the sites that were remote Schnabel and I peeked at the work done theory that this is “negative reinforce- viewed and our personal evaluations of by our predecessors, partly to judge their ment,” and as such it would not help how well we did. Those self-critiques, results against ours, and partly for the the student. When, as occasionally hap- together with the work sheets, are titillation of seeing some very interesting pened, we simply did not come close to stored in Swann’s files. As the course names, some of whom have no publicly the target, this would be evident early in progressed, both Schnabel and I contin- known connection with remote viewing. the session, and Swann would tell us to ued to add our personal appreciations to end it. And, for the record, I must add what was obvious from the work sheets. An Ideogram, At Last! most emphatically that he never gave us At some moment, one of us (I the slightest hint or clue about the na- On the evening of the tenth day of train- can’t recall which) finally let it happen, ture of the target site – only that specific ing, Swann unwrapped blocks of mod- and produced a real ideogram. Whether data we enunciated were “c” or “pc” or eling clay and announced nonchalantly from morphogenetic resonance or just “can’t feed back.” The use of the three that our task for the following day would practice I can’t say, but from that point comments continued throughout the be to make a clay model of a site. This forward both Schnabel and I were do- training, although it occurred much less struck us as an absurd leap for a pair ing well. We were taken through vari- frequently during the final stages. of neophytes. But the next day came, ous stages, patiently and systematically, and I was as usual the first man at the

16 eight martinis table, Schnabel preferring to sleep late large sums of money were being spent in the site. This sounded ridiculous, be- in Swann’s penthouse, while Swann and the Soviet Union for studies of “psychic cause everyone knew that latitude and I ate breakfast at a local diner and then phenomena,” and that several first-rate longitude is an entirely arbitrary, man- returned to begin work. With this rou- scientists were involved in the research. made system for defining locations on tine, I would be nearly finished by the It is the business of the CIA to worry the surface of the Earth. How could time we heard Schnabel bounding down about such things, and the worry took the viewer make the connection? But five stories of metal stairway to the the form of asking two questions. First, Swann insisted on testing the idea, and basement workshop. The whole building have the Soviets made an important dis- several days later he was presented with would shake as he struck the steps, leap- covery in a field that science has tradi- a series of ten sites, each defined only by ing over four or five at a time. Then he tionally rejected as nonsense? Second, its latitude and longitude. These were would creep, silent-Indian-like, down the is the Soviet research only disinforma- laboriously worked out by a secretary remaining flight, in order not to disturb tion, a way to confuse the CIA and make at the research project, using an Atlas of us. Swann and I never let him know that it waste resources chasing an imaginary the world. his stealth was in vain. threat? There was only one way to re- solve this problem, and thus the CIA To everyone’s surprise, the system Starting with nothing other than a- lati asked two physicists -- not two para- worked. Swann was able to describe tude and a longitude, I constructed out psychologists -- to investigate ESP. They seven out of ten sites on the first test. of clay a fairly accurate three-dimension- were to do this very, very quietly, and of On one of the sites, Swann’s result was al model of a temple located somewhere course, the CIA funding was never to be entirely incorrect, but he insisted that in Southeast Asia. The very unusual mentioned. they go back and check the coordinate carved concentric designs on the temple again. It proved to have been wrongly spires are clearly depicted in the model. The physicists set up shop at the pres- transcribed by the secretary. The place I am very proud of that, and Swann, to tigious Stanford Research Institute in indicated by the coordinates Swann whose credit all this really redounds, Menlo Park, California. They gathered used matched his description! This has expressed himself as equally proud. individuals with a reputation as “psy- discovery -- the use of geographical He keeps the model handy, and shows chics,” and began to test them. The re- coordinates to define the target --was it from time to time to persons who in- sults were positive, but extremely errat- the second foundation of the Swann quire about remote viewing. ic. That is, there were spectacular “hits,” system. It also suited the CIA, because but also equally spectacular failures. for most Soviet targets of interest all Schnabel took over the table after I had And nobody could predict which session they knew was the location of the site. cleaned up my mess. About an hour and would be successful. a half later he had produced a clay model, with necessary cardboard appurtenanc- Ingo Swann was among the cast of psy- The Process es, that was a dead ringer for the dam chics. He was unique in that he had In the course of practicing viewing by at Lake Victoria. This includes the unique made a study of psychic phenomena and coordinates, Swann and his colleagues spillway, and the roads on either side of insisted on being a research associate, noticed that immediately after writing the dam, as well as the lake behind it and not simply a laboratory curiosity. down the coordinates he would make the river into which the dammed waters a quick mark on the paper. This was flow. A superb job, and a job that thrilled As one might guess, the focus of the apparently an automatic, unconscious all of us, mainly Jim Schnabel, the very research was to determine if it is pos- movement of the pen, and had no obvi- accomplished remote viewer. sible, using “psychic” means, to gather ous meaning. But after a while it became information about distant locations. In clear that these scribbles were part of That was the last time I saw Jim Schna- sum, psychic spying. Swann had already the process, and the first response of the bel. I had finished 11 days out of the shown success with what he called “re- viewer to the coordinate. agreed-upon 12, but was called away mote viewing,” meaning description of on business. Schnabel stayed for day 12, places at a great distance. He also intro- Further research showed that these which consisted of doing one more clay duced a novel idea -- instead of a verbal scribbles were in fact a very highly com- model. This was of a unique building in description, he found that sketching the pressed of the nature of the the American Southwest, and again he target site was somehow more “natural” site located at the place defined by the proved unambiguously the power of for him, and allowed production of ad- coordinates. In other words, the initial remote viewing. These three clay mod- ditional and usually more accurate data. scribble showed, in highly compressed els, mine and Schnabel’s two, stand as This discovery was one foundation for form, whether the target was man-made an unanswerable argument on behalf of the Swann system of remote viewing. or natural, for example. remote viewing. One day Swann got the idea that he Careful examination of Swann’s sketches Stanford Research Institute might be able to “view” a site if he were also showed a progression from the ini- In the late 1960s, the CIA learned that given only the latitude and longitude of tial scribble to a series of descriptions of

eight martinis 17 color, temperature, texture and other prepared to “take the coordinate.” The During the initial training, very simple similar characteristics of the site that student indicates readiness by plac- targets are given. Examples would be one would find using the normal physi- ing the tip of his pen on the paper. The remote places with no buildings such cal senses. Then there would begin a teacher reads the coordinate, such as as the middle of a lake or a desert, or a series of sketches, first two-dimensional, “Fifteen degrees, twenty-three minutes, swamp in South America. As the student then three-dimensional. And following forty seconds North, two degrees, seven becomes more sensitive, more detailed that, information would flow about the minutes, four seconds East.” targets are used. Examples would be the general purpose of the site, particularly Eiffel Tower, Mount Etna, and lighthous- if humans were using it for a specific pur- Immediately, the student’s hand moves, es. At this level of competence, it is im- pose. producing the ideogram. Usually, he does portant to select targets that literally rise a quick analysis of the ideogram, writing above the surrounding terrain, and are The initial scribble was named the whether it appears to show something easy to distinguish from the surround- “ideogram.” The progressions of data man-made or natural, smooth or hard. ings. The remote viewing process is flow were called “stages.” And these Little else can be seen or felt. much like ordinary vision in this respect stages always progressed in the same -- the most obvious thing is noticed first. sequence, making it possible under most Within seconds, the “tactiles” begin to circumstances to know if the viewer had form in the student’s mind, very vaguely. in fact made “contact” with the target It is important not to allow any thinking A Remote Viewing Session site. This entire process is what came to or analysis to take place when these are On 1 May 1994 I sat at the table in be known as Coordinate Remote View- appearing. They take the form of colors Swann’s basement, roller ball pen in ing, or alternatively, Controlled Remote first, but soon mix with other results of hand, small pile of blank paper within Viewing, CRV. normal sense organ signals. The student reach, and a single blank sheet in front of verbalizes these, and writes them on me. A paper cup with coffee was within CRV was thus distinguished from tra- the paper. For example, “brown, yellow, reach, a reminder that the excursion ditional psychic modes. It was written white, cold, rough.” I was about to make into the farthest down, it was systematic, and it contained reaches of another universe would take internal ways to check for accuracy. Shortly after, the pen will begin to move, only my mind, not my body. seemingly by itself. Again, it is impera- My training in the process of CRV was or- tive that no thoughts be allowed to inter- At the opposite end of the table, Swann ganized as follows. Swann would sit at fere. The seasoned remote viewer will sat smoking a cigar, patiently waiting for one end of a long table. He had a folder be able to rise above the process and me to indicate my readiness to “take the containing a photograph of the site, and observe the drawing, almost as if he is coordinate.” As usual, I was nervous. the latitude and longitude of the site. I watching another person draw. The re- But I had no choice, did I? Moreover, hasten to add that if the reader thinks sult is likely to be a very rough sketch, in this was to be a special session – Swann anyone can produce a description of a two dimensional form, of the target site. had brought modeling clay, and said that site from some kind of memory exercise, the exercise would include construction knowing what is at this or that coordi- Then more movements of the pen, of a three-dimensional model of the nate, he should give it a try. Very quickly and then on to a second sheet of pa- target site. How this could possibly be he will discover that this is impossible. per. Some exercises consume ten or 12 done, I could not imagine. But I found Also, later research showed that a purely sheets of paper. Typically, a session will it nearly impossible to understand how I random number coordinate assigned to last from 20 to 45 minutes. For reasons had successfully described 30 or 40 sites a site works nearly as well as the latitude not understood, the data eventually during the past weeks, using only the and longitude. In any event, for all but ceases to flow. However, the sequence latitude and longitude of the sites as the the very first training sites, the coordi- of the flow never changes. initial trigger for the remote viewing that nates are so precise that they define the followed. site within a hundred meters. Perhaps the most difficult part of the entire process is to simply let it happen. But it was time to remote view, and if Seated at the other end of the table is There is always “performance anxiety.” nothing else, it meant time to absolute- the student -- me. I have a set of about Regardless of the success of a previous ly stop thinking. If I had learned noth- ten sheets of 8.5 by 11 inch unlined pa- exercise, I think every remote viewer ing else by now, it was that thinking is per, and a pen. We always used “roll- believes he is about to attempt some- the deadly, merciless enemy of remote er-ball” pens, because these move so thing that is ridiculous, impossible. And viewing. So I did my little trick, which I smoothly on the paper, but a piece of the great enemy is allowing the mind to can’t really put into words, but the best charcoal would work. override the process. This can occur by description is that I shift my conscious attempting to analyze the results as they mind sideways, leaving the remote view- The teacher asks if the student is ready, appear on paper, or otherwise intruding ing portion of my mind ready to begin. and waits until the student agrees he is the intellect upon the process.

18 eight martinis And then I placed the tip of the pen on tially the same. The second and third offer a polite nudge. (I was privileged to the paper, this act being the universally emphasize the sharp angular shape rep- act as monitor for several remote view- accepted signal that the viewer is ready resenting the target, but with each rep- ing sessions done by Swann many years to take the coordinate. Speaking might etition making the essence of the ideo- after my training, and discovered that disturb the delicate mind-set. And the gram more obvious. That is to say, it is even The Master needed that “polite viewer is in charge of the session. Thus definitely a man-made structure. nudge” from time to time!) Swann waited, and then, seeing the pen drop to the paper, he intoned the coordi- This time I did not take another break. On the second page. I wrote “S-2,” and nate, quietly but deliberately. Instead, by now the “signal line” had be- began to list those, but got only two: come very strong, and the characteristic “grey” and “checkered surface.” Imme- “Fourteen degrees, 20 minutes, North. flow of the remote viewing stages was diately after those notations, I began One hundred degrees, 35 minutes East,” strongly moving the pen. I wrote S-2, drawing the set of squares. The squares said Swann. expecting the second stage to emerge, really should have been underneath the producing colors, textures, and other S-2 items, but the “automatic writing” I wrote the numbers as he spoke. As the “tactiles.” However, they did not appear. aspect was in control, and they intruded word “East” ended, my hand scrawled, Instead, I was being sucked into the site, on top of the words. Then I drew the left to right, forming the ideogram. This though I could not visualize it. This is an vertical shape. movement of the pen was entirely -in excellent example of how “feeling” is voluntary, uncontrolled by my conscious so predominant in remote viewing, be- Picking up the next blank sheet, and thought, and in fact the entire arm is in- cause I wrote “lofty, up, high, breath in.” numbering it, I drew [Page 3] a cone volved in directing the pen, not just the In other words, I had contacted the site, with some vertical lines, but mainly wrist and fingers. as if confronting it with my body, and with a series of horizontal lines, and a was nearly overwhelmed by the sudden horizontal line under the entire figure [This CRV session in full can be found at realization of its height. At that point, marked “ground.” Then I drew the three the end of this article] because of the strong emotional impact, interlocking hook shapes, and noted I took an AI break, meaning in our tech- “round shaped.” None of this sketching Then I interpreted the ideogram, from nical jargon, an Aesthetic Impact break. involved any sort of conscious thought. its “feel” and shape: A: flat, rolling, soft, If the viewer succumbs to such emotion- These marks appeared on the paper, as then, A: up angle, B: structure. Thus my laden impressions, he will never proceed the pen moved, but with me observing initial conclusion that the site defined by to gathering the unemotional but neces- as if from a distance watching someone those coordinates was flat, rolling, soft sary data required to describe the site. else do the drawing. I still had no idea land, with a structure located there, or And under the AI break notation, I have what the target was, or even if I was re- prominent there. (The A: is the general said what it was that made for the AI, ally “on target” or if I had totally missed description of the ideogram, the B: is the namely, “Makes me draw my breath in.” the assigned site. Swann would not, at general conclusion, if any.) this stage of my training, have said any- As I was writing, I was also speaking. thing even if he thought I was wildly off Below that I wrote “Break!” The view- Swann was my instructor, but also my the mark. He just sat there at the far end er can call a break in the session at any “monitor.” In fact, at this point in my of the table, silently, in a cloud of cigar time. There are technical reasons for this training, there was really no instruction smoke, seeming almost bored. under certain circumstances, but here I involved, and his function was that nor- believe I simply was having an especially mally played by the monitor. That is, Then on to the next page [Page 4], where strong case of “performance anxiety.” he kept a parallel record showing what the previous sketches are elaborated After a short while, probably only ten or I was saying. This is important because into one much more detailed represen- 15 seconds, I told Swann I wanted to take the viewer will often say something, but tation. Here we have a cone, and for the coordinate again, put the pen to the neglect to write it on the paper. Or, par- the first time a rough but obvious three- paper, and Swann replied by repeating ticularly in the early stages of training, dimensional sketch. There are still those the coordinate. the viewer will “draw pictures in the air,” weak vertical lines, but now there is a meaning with hand gestures, instead strong indication showing the shape of I wrote the coordinate as it was spoken, of using the pen and paper. Another the edge of the cone. This seems to be a and produced another ideogram, noted function of the monitor is to prevent series of parallel grooves on the left side “up angle,” and took yet another break. the viewer from becoming entranced of the cone. Obviously, that side is not Then I asked for the coordinate again. by some aspect of the site, and stop- smooth, but in some way sculpted in a ping the natural flow in that way. The regular and perhaps symmetrical man- Swann spoke the coordinate, I produced viewer can engage in normal conversa- ner. the third ideogram, and wrote “A: sharp tion during a session, but is definitely in acute, up, angle, down, B: structure.” an “altered state of consciousness,” and Page 5 develops the previous concept, Note that all three ideograms are essen- the objective monitor must on occasion this time showing that these grooves ex-

eight martinis 19 tend throughout the cone, and are seen deliberately written S-2 at the top of the it was comprised of four or five roughly on both edges. The vertical line below page in order to evoke them. The result cone-shaped objects with peculiar paral- that is simply marked “high,” and I can’t was “feel solidity, complex surface,” and lel grooves, and that the objects rested recall why I thought it appeared. That is a third word that I can not read. As I was on a rectangular platform. But now I why it is important to write down all im- recording these S-2 items, I got another wanted more information about the pressions. One interpretation is that the Aesthetic Impact (AI) very similar to color and texture of the surface. Was it “signal” is still telling me that the height the one that occurred on the first page smooth, like iron, steel or glass? What of the target is important, as it did imme- of the session. This time it is “up” and I got was colors, and then the process diately after the third ideogram [Page 1]. “heaven.” Then the notation on the right rolled on beyond the S-2s. A more ex- side, “AOL temple.” An AOL is an Ana- perienced, more disciplined remote The next page [Page 6] began with lytic Overlay, which is an impression the viewer could have remained focused on another cone, but note the evolution viewer gets that is probably the result the S-2s, moved within inches, “asked” of the shape of the cone as it becomes of imagination or logical analysis of the how the surface “felt” to the touch, and thinner in each succeeding sketch. The data. This must be discarded, or at least so on. But I drifted off, carried away by circular parallel markings are empha- put aside for the time being, and it is the force of the basic process, which by sized. I think Swann might have asked identified on the worksheet for this rea- now was firmly in the three-dimensional me to give the height of the cone, and son. However, as the session progresses, sketching phase. I have what turned out to be an errone- it becomes likely that these AOLs are in ous number, “400 – 500 feet?” on the fact a true representation of the target. The next page [Page 10] shows three side. Also of interest, and consistent Note that the AI and the AOL are concep- cones on blocks. Note again how the with the development of this “stage,” is tually quite close. shape of the cones has changed during that I continue to do three-dimensional the course of the session. sketching, although this time it appears Still on, we see more S-2 data, this time by insertion under the cone of a circle yellow, gray, blue, green. (And see how I believe it was at this point that Swann with the notation “circular.” Although I the legibility of my handwriting has de- told me to begin making a clay model don’t know it at this time in the session, teriorated, even though I have done very of the site. I proceeded, partly with my this is a view from the top, so that we little writing. My guess is that this results worksheets [Pages 1 through 10] laid out have a side view and a view from above from deeper immersion in the altered in sequence for reference, but I must say, of this cone-shaped object that from the state of consciousness.) And at the right mainly by reference to some kind of in- outset has been the primary focus of the another AOL, which I confess is com- struction my hands were getting from a remote viewing process. Also, at the pletely illegible. Finally, more sketches, truly unknown source. In the course of bottom of the cone and to the right are notated as “series of right angles,” and building the model, I had difficulty get- very rough sketches that indicate more another sketch of angular objects. ting one of the “cones” to stand straight than just that single huge cone is at the on the block. Thus I was forced to make site. Earlier I mentioned that Swann would a tiny ball of clay, and to insert it under occasionally give us a response to our the cone. The repair was not visible, and The next page [Page 7] is another three- statements about the site. These con- had the desired effect of straightening dimensional representation, but very sisted only of saying that the particular the cone. But immediately, I got a strong crude. As shown, it is almost meaning- statement was correct, probably cor- impression, and went back to the page less. But we will return to this page later, rect, or “can’t feed back,” meaning that to write it. when we know what the target really even though Swann knew the target, was, and find much to our surprise that the viewer’s statement could neither See the bottom half of [Page 10] where this sketch is full of meaning. be confirmed nor denied. I notice that an AI is written out: “Faking it (correcting Swann used this same commentary, verticality of the cone by inserting blob The next page [Page 8] is an elaboration though very sparingly, during the session of putty) outraged the designers/build- of the previous page. Remember, the we are discussing. Note on [Page 9] for ers.” The sense of this was that I seemed data flows in a very regular fashion, and example, where I scribbled the letters to be so strongly connected with the site we are now depicting the target site in CFB next to the colors yellow and gray. that I “understood” the builders, who three dimensions, even though the “art- Swann was telling me that he could not long ago had lavished love and care on ist” is primitive. Here we see four cones, confirm or deny whether such colors ex- the construction, and were appalled by of different height, a large rectangular ist at the site. my crudeness. I fully realize that none block upon which the cones rest, and of this makes any sense, but in all hon- at the lower left of the block there is a When I tried to evoke the S-2 tactiles, I esty I feel obliged to record it here for circle. The base is noted “base.” was focusing on the surface of the ob- the reader. These impressions came in ject at the site. At this point in the ses- an instant, and were fully developed, al- On the next page [Page 9] I once again sion, I had enough data to know it was lowing for only a very short summary on attempt to get the “tactiles,” and have indeed a man-made structure, and that the worksheet.

20 eight martinis I also recall, though there is no written this, and from the appearance of the col- ican intelligence establishment? The record on the worksheets, the impres- or photograph of the temple, it is “prob- former military remote viewers whom I sion that the purpose of the place was ably correct” that the mini-flora covering have asked simply do not know. How- to honor ancestors, and that fires were the stone would consist of moss and li- ever, they are unanimous in saying that lit there so that the smoke would rise to chen, presenting the “up close” observer if the program was really abolished, that heaven, where the ancestors still reside. with the general colors of “yellow, gray, would be a crime. Thus it was fundamentally a religious blue, green.” place, though devoted to ancestors rath- er than the worship of particular gods. So that is an example of the Ingo Swann Parapsychology and Remote Viewing method of Coordinate Remote Viewing, Professional parapsychologists seem dif- And then I proceeded with another carried to the point of a model of the fident about remote viewing. Many rep- sketch, showing two thin cones around target site. I urge the reader to review lications of remote viewing experiments a third “fat” cone, all set upon a large the illustrations to see the relentless pro- have been done, with the majority find- rectangular base. In fact, the notation gression of the data, from the extremely ing positive results. A review of these is, “rectangular base,” and “large dome compressed ideogram through to the was written by George Hansen, and the with spires around it.” elaborate details of the final sketches paper by Jessica Utts focuses on statisti- and the model. If you were to attempt cal analysis of research done at Science At this stage in the evolution of the re- to summarize in one two-dimensional Applications International Corporation, a mote viewing session, although I had figure the absolute essence of the archi- “think tank” with many government con- done no analysis of the data, I had al- tecture of the site, could you do better tracts. It does not appear, however, that ready drawn the target and begun mak- than what my “preconscious” did when the systematic “Swann” system has been ing a model. Moreover, I had described it produced those ideograms at the very tested outside of SRI or even acknowl- the cones as “spires,” with details about beginning of the remote viewing ses- edged by professionals. how they were configured and the un- sion? usual concentric rings forming their pri- For example, the only current research mary esthetic feature. And I had also on remote viewing that I am aware of said it was a temple, and associated “Unpromising” is being done at Princeton University, heaven and both a physical and spiritual In September 1995 the CIA, responding at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies uplifting with the place. to a query from the Senate Government Laboratory (PEAR). They are replicating Operations Committee, issued a report the earliest SRI “beacon” experiments, in The last page only slightly changes the stating that over a period of 20 years which a viewer attempts to describe the previous sketches, this time making approximately 20 million dollars had surroundings of an individual sent to a more obvious the different height of the been spent in the research and develop- randomly selected location. spires, and emphasizing the “fat” spire ment of remote viewing. However, the or cupola on its own base, all on the larg- CIA concluded that remote viewing was At least equal emphasis at PEAR is be- er base. The written notes are, “large “unpromising.” This was greeted with ing given to psychokinesis. The military base,” and “on a rectangular platform.” cheers from the skeptics, and hoots of uses of controlled PK are obvious, and derision from those intimately connect- some thought was given to this at SRI, Having finished my clay model, and ed with the remote viewing program. but never followed up. Swann’s first stated to Swann that I was losing further Neutral observers wondered out loud hour at SRI produced a spectacular PK data, he opened the folder and showed how an “unpromising” program could event, which was done not by volition, me two photographs of the site. We continue for two decades of uninter- but when Swann, at a loss when asked were both extremely pleased with the rupted patronage at a rate of one million to affect a thoroughly shielded research result. It was indeed a temple in Thai- dollars per annum. magnetometer...remote viewed it! The land, though we never found out if it magnetometer displayed a violent reac- was devoted to ancestor worship5. [See The CIA furnished two technical reports tion, to the consternation of the scien- Feedback] to the Senate committee. One is by Dr. tists who were operating it. This pertur- Ray Hyman, a psychologist and inveter- bation was repeated when Swann was Swann had an ancient Polaroid camera, ate skeptic, which concludes that there asked to once again “view” the device. and took several photographs of the is absolutely no validity to the claims for Much more could be said on this count, model, with the picture of the temple remote viewing. The other report is by but it is beyond the scope of this sum- alongside. Dr. Jessica Utts, a mathematician, which mary report. concludes that remote viewing is a scien- See the previous comments regarding tifically- established fact. the S-2s on [Page 9]. The target site is an CRV Method Hidden ancient temple made from gray stone, Does there remain a deeply hidden Another factor which persisted through- and situated in a tropical zone. Knowing remote viewing project within the Amer- out the life of the SRI work was attacks

eight martinis 21 from organized, fanatical skeptics and relativity works on the very large scale, target site. fellow-traveling journalists. Swann has where the traditional Newtonian phys- Then, as surely as summer follows spring, stated that the furor caused by the skep- ics fails, but does not work at all on the the next “stage” unfolds, this one spin- tics was such that without the tight -se micro-scale of the atom, where Newton ning off the “tangibles,” which are colors, curity little if any work would have been also falls down, and thus quantum phys- smells, temperature, texture, and many possible. ics was born. It is the currently received other similar physical characteristics. standard physics. Then a rough two-dimensional sketch, The skeptics knew only of a few of the then better sketches, melding into three- lines of exploration underway at SRI. Many of the results of the equations of dimensional sketches. And so on, with The discovery of the natural evolution quantum mechanics are “counter- intui- some sessions ultimately producing of the remote viewing “signal line” and tive.” That is, they don’t make “common abstract, intangible characteristics con- its concomitant tutelage were insulated sense.” The apparently insuperable dic- cerning the purpose of the site and the from all outside scrutiny. These -top tatorship of time, for example, becomes mind-set of individuals at the site. ics remain hidden, not any longer from meaningless in QM. A result called considerations of official secrecy, but be- “quantum interconnectedness” is the Another aspect of quantum mechanics cause of the failure of central figures to main reason Boehm has been cited with that is pertinent is the proposition that publish openly and coherently. respect to remote viewing. This effect the observer always affects the thing -- and it is an experimentally observed observed. This is also an experimen- Ingo Swann is most notable in this re- effect, not just a postulate -- means that tally verified result. Please note that spect, having refused to consign to everything in the universe is connected these quantum effects are on a scale so writing anything specific about his pro- with everything else. There is a sort of small that we could never detect them cess for remote viewing. Under a curi- constant communication, each minute with our gross bodily senses, or even ous arrangement with SRI and the CIA, particle to each other, regardless of dis- with any physical apparatus of ordinary the systematic method for initiating tance, and perhaps regardless of time. sensitivity. This result of quantum me- and evolving a remote viewing session There is no need for an intervening me- chanics explains how Swann affected was assigned to Swann as his personal, dium to effect this communication. The the magnetometer, which I hasten to proprietary property. Edward Dames communication exists because the - par add was an extremely sensitive device acknowledges this, advises his students ticles or things exist. yielding results measurable on the quan- that he is using “the method developed tum level. In short, Swann observed the by Ingo Swann,” and pays Swann a roy- So Quantum interconnectedness pro- heart of the device, through many layers alty on tuition income. vides the physical basis, at least in the- of shielding as though they were clear- ory, for the ability to “know” everything est glass, and produced the predictable Targ and Puthoff, the project directors, about everything, without respect to the quantum mechanical effect. wrote an excellent book about their physical senses. Other terms for this are work at SRI, but never mentioned the the “cosmic sea,” or, in the technical jar- (My dream is that a New Physics will topic of systematic (CRV) remote view- gon of remote viewers, “the matrix.” some day emerge, and that Swann and ing. They probably were under security the Magnetometer will be described to constraints, or the omission may have Of great interest is that Boehm also de- bored students along with the two-slit been caused by the fact that the book veloped the concept of the unfolding or experiment.) was published several years prior to ini- systematic elucidation of information tiation of the formal training program. when it is accessed in the quantum me- Holograms are photographs produced chanical sense. It begins with an infinite- by interference of light waves, rather ly tiny atom, as it were, of information, than by direct exposure to light. In this The Theory of Remote Viewing and then grows, all the while radiating respect they have properties analogous The explanation for how remote view- information, more and more of it as the to the QM interpretation of the true na- ing works can properly be dignified as a expansion continues. The initial “atom” ture of physical objects and energy. theory, because it rests on an accumu- contains all the information, but it is in lation of well established knowledge in extremely compressed form. Holograms allow one to view the pho- such disparate fields as quantum phys- tographed object in three dimensions. ics, neurology, and psychology. This is quite a precise description of Another very peculiar property of ho- the technical remote viewing process. lograms is that they can be cut apart Physics When triggered, the initial signal is the with scissors, and unlike an ordinary The late David Boehm was a preemi- “gestalt” of the target, in practice a very photograph, each remaining piece con- nent figure in the development of a short squiggle on the paper, produced tains the entire three-dimensional image mathematical description of the physi- by the viewer’s pen. These rude lines contained in the original. These results cal universe known as “quantum phys- are called “ideograms,” and can often be have attracted the intense interest of ics” or “quantum mechanics.” Einstein’s quickly identified as summations of the researchers wrestling with the puzzle

22 eight martinis of the workings of the mind, because of ous other schools of psychological theo- and analytical functions. The left brain the analogy with the way the brain is so ry, together with associated therapeutic is concerned with words, numbers and often able to exhibit non-locality of men- modalities, have achieved popularity logical analysis. The right brain deals tal functions. An example is the way the and usefulness. All of them postulate a with shapes, geometric perspective and brain transfers functions subsequent to sort of “mind within the mind,” mean- emotions. gross physical trauma. ing that our conscious awareness is only part of the total functioning organ we Finally, there are reasons to suppose For the purposes of this discussion, ho- call the brain/mind. that remote viewers are in an “altered” lography reinforces the idea that quan- state of consciousness during a session. tum mechanical considerations support Attempts to construct a more rigorous This has been confirmed by several cri- the theory of remote viewing. scientific model of the mind have met teria, perhaps the most concrete of with some success. These efforts are which is observation of distinct changes Neurology not concerned with human behavior or in brain wave frequency correspond- So much for physics. Biology, and more therapy, but rather with explanations ing to the onset and immersion in the specifically the biology of the human or- in mechanistic terms of the manner in remote viewing process. However, the ganism, also lends credence to the prop- which the mind functions. viewer can carry on a conversation dur- osition that remote viewing is consistent ing the process, and as noted earlier, can with what we know to be true about the A landmark publication in the field is observe and make judgments about the “real” world, and thus does not need the Professor Norman Dixon’s Preconscious material he or she is reducing to writing. invocation of magic. Processing. Where the therapeutically oriented psychologists dwelled on the Synthesis The autonomic nervous system is part of subjective elements of mentation, Dixon The remote viewer is trained to send the human nervous system that acts as looked for the objective mechanism. a signal to the preconscious process- a sort of “automatic pilot” controlling a ing unit asking it to initiate a search for vast array of bodily functions without re- Through ingenious experimental design, a specific set of data contained in the quiring or initiating any conscious aware- he demonstrated the existence of an cosmic sea. In practice this is done by ness. “unconscious” mental processing that is writing the coordinate of the site to be vastly wider in range than the autonomic viewed. For example, it stimulates and arouses nervous system. Moreover, it is much to activity smooth and cardiac muscle more sophisticated. This unconscious The preconscious processing unit singles tissue, and controls secretions of the processing system is fully capable of han- out that requested data from the infinite glands. It governs actions that are more dling abstract signals, as distinguished store of data available. The data initially or less automatic, such as the constric- from the purely physical signals normally manifests as an “atom” of information, tion of blood vessels, thereby increasing associated with the autonomic nervous and through the autonomic nervous sys- and decreasing blood pressure, and the system. And the “preconscious” pro- tem the data is sent to the viewer’s mus- successive waves of contraction of the cessing mechanism can send its results cle network controlling writing. Other walls of the intestine that are part of the into our awareness or to various parts body functions controlled by the auto- digestive and elimination process. of our bodies via the autonomic nervous nomic nervous system receive signals, system. The “preconscious processing” but training emphasizes writing because The autonomic system monitors a be- system is always “thinking,” but rarely do it is the only practical means of recording wildering variety of human functions, we consciously perceive that fact. the required data. sequentially receiving, processing, and then transmitting appropriate signals to One well known function of the mind is Following the natural flow of informa- the appropriate organs. When a muscle to filter the vast range of sensory and tion as it expands, the viewer’s hand twitches, it is likely responding to a sig- parasensory inputs constantly flowing transcribes the data. He also senses tac- nal from the autonomic nervous system. inward from the external environment. tile information such as colors and tex- In a general sense, whenever the body Without this filtering process, we would tures, verbalizes these, and writes them reacts without conscious intervention, be overwhelmed and go mad. One ex- down. The conscious, analytical mind is some signal has been received, pro- planation for the operation of psychedel- oblivious to the process, but notes it, as cessed, and then action has been taken ics is that they break down the filtering a somewhat distant observer. by this covert but powerful “computer.” process to some degree, thus flooding the mind with novel but biologically use- After about 30 minutes the data ceases Psychology less (though doubtless entertaining) in- to flow. The remote viewing session Sigmund Freud developed the concept of puts. results in documentation consisting of the “unconscious” mind, and formulated the pages written upon by the viewer. a system of psychology based on his per- The right and left hemispheres of the In a typical exercise, the main “right ceptions of its nature and function. Vari- brain specialize in different perceptual brain” characteristics of the target site

eight martinis 23 are shown on the last pages. That is, a bravado to reckless practitioners and en- tary remote viewers successfully used fairly accurate perspective sketch of the thusiastic but untutored observers. Ex- this modality in locating several missing site, along with associated colors, tem- amples of extreme claims made by a few persons, most notably General Dozier peratures, and so forth, and in some in- remote viewers include dialog with ex- in Italy, and three hostages held by Iran stances an idea of the general purpose traterrestrials. We have no way of test- subsequent to the invasion of the U.S. of the site. In addition to the sketched ing these claims, and the data may be Embassy in Tehran. data, modeling clay is occasionally used the result of unconscious confabulation. to make the final record of the site. Certainly, there is nothing in the known These exceptions give some hope of research base on remote viewing to sup- refining techniques to the point where At least in broad outline, every step of port that purported use. money can be made on a regular basis the remote viewing process is consistent using remote viewing. For the moment, with known results in various branches “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” we must accept the fact that neither of science, as published by august au- That challenge applies fairly to remote finding lost objects nor predicting even thorities. viewing. Getting rich by using remote the very near term future is possible in viewing requires one of two abilities: any dependable manner. There is no Limitations of Remote Viewing (1) the ability to view the future, or (2) reason to impute fraud or fallibility to The very name “remote viewing” is a the ability to find lost objects. Neither remote viewing on the basis of failure to misnomer. It is rare for a remote viewer capacity has been demonstrated as an perform in these two specific areas. to literally see the target. Something ordinary feature of remote viewing. But akin to that happens from time to time, both are worth a few words. Summing Up but in the vast majority of viewing ses- Coordinate Remote Viewing is a dis- sions the data flows out on to the paper Various remote viewers have, in theory covery of immense importance. It without the viewer experiencing any- at least, viewed into the future. What subsumes and reduces to practical use thing like a vision or other mental virtual they report has no way of being tested. a great variety of other “psychic” phe- construction. This is in stark contrast to viewing terres- nomena known by a multitude of names trial features, which admit to either in- since antiquity, and that have been an In theory all knowledge should be avail- stant feedback, or in the case of some of accepted though ill-understood part of able through the remote viewing pro- the intelligence targets where function every culture except modern European cess. For example, one should be able to was a key datum of interest, feedback in reductionist materialism. Ironically, the view with equal confidence the past and a matter of a few months or years. tools of mechanistic science unlocked the future, or the exact configuration the door to this new modality of percep- of a set of numbers on a license plate, A series of experiments have been car- tion, and did so with funds and impetus or each letter in a written document. It ried out attempting to view the very drawn from warfare. Remote Viewing ought also to be a reliable channel for near- term future. The target was the tells us that all men are not just brothers, telepathy. movement of the silver commodities “fu- but brothers bound in a psychic nexus, tures.” These are very volatile, and one and the exploration of that central fact It may be that eventually, through fur- can trade daily, thus permitting many should properly be a prominent goal of ther experimentation and research, all of test runs and a short time horizon. Re- the science of the 21st Century. this will become feasible. But the state sults were positive until substantial sums of this art, to the extent that it can be of money were on the line, and then be- The Ingo Swann Coordinate Remote demonstrated through repeated exer- came ambiguous. More such tests are Viewing procedures are the result of cises, is that only physical objects can be underway at the moment. years of labor carried out by exceptional remote viewed. Further, only the “right men at a prestigious research facility, lav- brain” data can be extracted. In practice, Finding lost items or people presents ishly funded by the U.S. government. In this means that remote viewing can be huge problems. This has vexed remote a sane world, Swann and his colleagues used to describe a spot on this planet, viewers from the outset. Note that the would be Nobel laureates. Sadly, they or perhaps on any planet, and the struc- remote viewing protocol consists of first are already marginalized, and consigned tures or geological features prominent giving an “address,” and then letting the to the dust-bin of history. at that site. Numerical data, even our preconscious processing produce a flow hypothetical license plate number, and of data about that address. What hap- The impact of remote viewing on me has most “left brain” data, remain elusive, at pens when you know the nature of the been profound in the sense that I have best. target, but not the address? This turns been forced to accept a “Buddhist” phil- the process upside down. osophical position about the nature of That geographical sites and structures existence. That is, we are undoubtedly can be reliably remote viewed is a stu- Nevertheless, the remote viewing pro- only partly “individuals,” and we inhabit pendous claim in itself. Success in this cess seems flexible enough to permit a vast “cosmic soup” with which we are narrow field probably gives unwarranted some degree of this sort of search. Mili- intimately connected. I find it both -hu

24 eight martinis morous and satisfying that the “cosmic of investigating reports of “alien abductions.” Sev- session, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994, describes soup” concept is now accepted by main- eral formal conferences were held which featured Schnabel’s immersion into the world of those who scientists and medical professionals as speakers. claim to be victims of alien abductions, and the stream physics as a corollary of Quan- 23 TREAT ceased operation in 1995. Laibow mar- researchers who use hypnosis to study these tum Mechanics! However, only a few ried Major General Albert Stubblebine, who was claims. He concludes that the abductees are more scientists have given thought to remote commander of the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and likely to be suffering from psychological prob- viewing, and the obvious application of Security Command, and a vigorous supporter of the lems than from aliens, and has little good to say military remote viewing program. about the researchers. Round in Circles: physicists, these Quantum Mechanics principles. poltergeists, pranksters and the secret history 2 This public appearance by Edward Dames was of the cropwatchers, Hamish Hamilton, London, On the other hand, it has had no prac- the first open description of the military useof 1998, should be read by all who believe crop cir- tical effect. My daily activities andmy remote viewing for “psychic spying.” It is fair to say cles are truly anomalous. Schnabel joined the crop that without Dames, the topic would have faded circle fakers, and recounts his adventures with relations with other people have not from view. He was among the initial cadre of Army these strange but ingenious characters, as they changed. But most certainly, I am not intelligence officers trained by Ingo Swann, but did fake circles and UFOs, and lead a gullible public the same man I was before I became a not complete the course. Dames has become an ex- by the nose. Remote Viewers: the secret history remote viewer. Put another way, would tremely controversial figure in the remote viewing of America’s psychic spies, Dell, New York, 1997, community, because of his regular appearances on is a history of remote viewing with emphasis on I recommend training in remote view- radio programs where he proclaims various immi- the military program. Generally regarded as very ing? Not if you want to make money or nent global catastrophes revealed to him through accurate, but in my view (RJD) fails to convey the in any other way influence your physi- remote viewing. Unfortunately, his predictions importance of remote viewing and comes close to cal existence. So it is not like learning a have proven uniformly incorrect. demeaning the topic by emphasizing the personal idiosyncrasies of some of the prominent view- new language, or building muscles or be- 3 Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff, PhD. Targ ers. Schnabel’s enthusiasm during his training is coming an expert violin player. Rather, was an electrical engineer and physicist who had never hinted in this book. Dark White and Round in I would commend it to those for whom done very productive research on lasers, and had Circles are written in wonderfully elegant prose, but the world of ideas is paramount, and an interest in parapsychology. Puthoff had an Remote Viewers is on a flat, journalistic level. undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and who travel in that world of thought like a doctorate in physics, had worked for the National 5 A long Internet search finally revealed the temple others travel awestruck through the un- Security Agency, and was the author of a textbook to be Wat Phra Sri San Phet, located at the ancient mapped territories of Africa. on quantum electrodynamics. In 1977 they wrote capital city of Ayutthaya, about 140 kilometers Mind Reach, New York, Delacorte Press, an account north of Bangkok. First construction was in about of the research on remote viewing at Stanford Re- 1450. Three main spires were built after the death Notes: search Institute. This book has long been out of of succeeding kings in order to serve as their me- print, but Hampton Roads Publishing, Charlottes- morial. A fourth spire was designed to hold reli- 1 Rima Laibow, M.D., a specialist in psychiatry, ville, Virginia, intends to republish it in 2004. gious relics. organized Treatment and Research on Experienced Anomalous Trauma (TREAT) in 1990 for the purpose 4 Dark White: aliens, abductions, and the UFO ob- 6 See endnote 3

I studied electrical engineering, then Since the early 1950s I have studied accepted an appointment to Navy the issue of Unidentified Flying Ob- flight training. After six years asa jects. In that connection, I have writ- naval aviator, I resigned my commis- ten numerous articles and reports sion as a Lieutenant in order to join based on original research. These Pan American World Airways as an air- have been published in journals line pilot, where I flew six different air- devoted to the UFO topic, such as the planes, mainly on international routes, MUFON UFO Journal, the Interna- in the capacity of navigator, flight tional UFO Reporter, Fate Magazine engineer, copilot and captain. Also, I and the Bulletin of Anomalous Experi- was a flight operations manager, super- ence. I have also appeared on many vising 1,100 pilots and flight engineers. radio “talk” shows dealing with this I served on the Professional Standards topic, and have lectured extensively. Committee of the Air Line Pilots Asso- ciation. In 1991, upon the bankruptcy Along the way, I had the immense of Pan Am, I was hired by Delta Air good fortune of meeting Ingo Swann, Robert J. Durant Lines. I retired from flying in 1998, but and that began a friendship that has continue my involvement with profes- continued to this day, and allowed me sional aviation as President of the Pan to join that very small group who were Am Pilots’ Retirement Foundation, Inc. trained in remote viewing by Swann.

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the next one. When a session is complet- it has been reported that when we get Feedbak / feed-bak / Noun ed it is then dispatched to a cardboard feedback and have hit the target cogni- box, once the feedback has been given trons form and neural pathways in our “The return of a portion of to me. A standard type box will suffice, brain are made. This is a major player the output of a process or one with a lid, I put large black numbers in our development of Remote Viewing system to the input, espe- marked on the top and two sides, denot- skill. cially when used to maintain ing the year in which the Session was per- formed, this is simply for easy retrieval. Have you ever seen the look on the face performance or to control a I have a number of boxes, and often told, of a person who has completed their system or process, an evalu- too many, which should be relegated to Summary and presented this work of art ative response” the loft! This is my filing system, one that they have laboured over for the last 45 has been in use with me for a number minutes or so, waiting in anticipation for of years. I like it! It is simple and holds the feedback? When they are given the Essential or not? Why have it? What use Sessions from as far back as . . .1997! feedback envelope, they cautiously open is it and what would we do without it? The Sessions always have the feedback it up and possibly discover a photo of a All these questions I have been asked stapled to them, top left corner, a pho- structure that is so remarkably similar to over time and now more so with the to, magazine snippet or print out of the their own Site Template that they are in new people we train. They have heard feedback. Or where a question has been a mild form of shock! I have encountered the term but are unsure what it means. written, which would consist of a simple this on numerous occasions. strip of paper, the cue written along its “Would you do a target without the length then stapled into position, I would This, I say is the reason why you have possibility of feedback?” was the ques- then copy this onto the last page. It is ba- come here, to be trained, as a Remote tion I overheard. As a newbie I would sically insurance, against the strip of pa- Viewer and to hit the target, so why... have said “no way!” and then launch into per parting from the session and getting why are you so ...shocked? The retorts a diatribe about how I need to satisfy the lost. There is nothing worse than losing I get range from, “it works!”...”jeeez..will subconscious once the target had been that strip of paper, having a Session, and you look at that!”....or one that I will nev- put to bed a with a well written Sum- not knowing what the cue was! er forget was a student who had made mary and some recovery time thereafter. a really good sketch and actually named Why do we have a photo as feedback? the target, then upon receiving the feed- Today I would say; “fine ok” ...but prob- It simply feeds the subconscious, tells back photo, which mirrored her sketch ably still have a hankering to get some us if we are on or off target, allows us on the site template, promptly tried to kind of feedback. I tend to just put those to score our session or maybe see where dismiss it by saying, “Oh, it could be a Sessions to one side and carry on with we only picked up parts of the target, coincidence” I felt like hitting my head

38 eight martinis against the wall!~ “Why do people do form of feedback and I believe it works this? I ask myself” “How on earth could very well, gives a good overview, allows this be a coincidence?”, There are sim- the panoramic and relative positions of ply millions of possible targets out there, the structure to be assimilated better by you hit and named the target, then try the viewer, and along with sounds that to dismiss it and put it down to ...coinci- maybe present. The next stage is 3 D vid- dence?” I asked. eo cameras, I would like for them to be able to incorporate “smell” and “taste”, Is it the ‘realisation factor’ ...that they or perhaps “dimensions” like a heads up have just discovered the potential of this display, think how that would reinforce powerful tool? Has the fact that they can rectangular boxes both sides of the path, feedback ! That, I know, is wishful think- actually ...hit the target when perform- on top of the boxlike structures were life ing, but if it happened we could then ing a remote viewing session, dumb- forms. This is an example where some of truly call them RV cameras. founded them so much they are in some the feedback was given, but not all. This kind of apoplectic shock? I think I will shows us that we may have to do some Early days of Remote Viewing usually de- simply have a smile on my face when this research of our own to see if we are mand that primarily photographic based happens next time and say, “well, this is correct with our session work. This has targets for feedback are used, this is how why you are here!” happened now and then, a similar one we learn, how we build cognitrons in the was with the “wailing wall’ Jerusalem. I brain and how these neural pathways The feedback photograph can carry so had the structure and Life forms etc, but will grow with each successive target hit. much weight, and also not enough, at there were some mysterious wavy lines Cognitron a word that was invented in times. Having experienced it from both at some distance from the site, once the Remote Viewing community about ends of the barrel, I decided to do some- more a Google search was required, with 1984, Derived from the words Cogni- thing about this when we performed time I found the wavy lines which were tion, the process of knowing, and the our outbound experiments, which I will the entrance roof to this site! Zooming acronym TRON which references “The discuss later. The photo, depending on in can hold similar problems. This can, Real-time Operating-system Nucleus”, the target/subject matter can take in so of course be self corrected with a move- as worked on by Dr. Ken Sakamura, Uni- much and also leave out so much, de- ment directive from the viewer, as to the versity of Tokyo. Cognitrons are simply pending on the perspective it was taken distance and or elevation they should neural networks dealing with learning or from. ( During some of my sessions I have then move, in order to obtain a better memory, specifically glial cells, which are tended to take the zoom out position) I perspective of the target/site. now considered to be an inherent part of find myself with more information about the brain’s cognitive functioning. Specifi- the target/site than is required. A Tasker will put together a practice cally the more remote viewing sessions Target and should be aware, in most we work and find that they are correct, I once sketched some rectangular box- cases, of what is at the location and the more this could increase our perfor- like structures, all lined up with space surrounding areas, or the object to be mance. It has been said by some that af- between them, going off into the dis- targeted, unless this is a target that is ter the viewer has a “hit” with the feed- tance, they were mirrored on the oppo- an unknown, ie building, what its con- back that we should allow time for these site side of the sketch, so it was in effect tents or primary function are etc. Photos cognitrons to build and gel, in these neu- like a path with these on either side. I usually are not able to get the whole ral pathways, thus taking a break and al- eventually got the feedback, opened it panoramic of a target, this is why, where low some time before the next session up, there was something wrong! I was possible I like to give video feedback of is worked. looking at what appeared to be half of the target/site. the feedback! I had to crank up Google A classic target example is the Eiffel Tow- and set about doing some detective Over the past year we have been orga- er; most new viewers will have at some work. The first mistake on the target nising PreCognitive Outbounder Experi- stage been given this as a target. Upon was the lack of identifiers, i.e. Country ments, similar to the ones performed having a hit, a broad smile may appear and specific site name; this has always sometime back at SRI. We wanted on their face, a sort of ‘aha!’ moment been an imperative for remote viewing to give the remote viewers a better or recognition, the metal structure, requirements, especially in the earlier perspective of the target, so instead of which they may have pieces, or the days of my remote viewing career, now, of simply supplying the standard whole thing, comes together for a re- not so much. The photo was reasonably photograph(s) we decided to supply alisation. The viewer is happy and then easy to track down, this time, it was in them with video footage of the target moves on the next day to a new target. Egypt, this I could see but I did not know site, edit it and make a DVD which we The “first time effect” comes into play exactly where. It turned out to be a fa- could post to them. We have received with new viewers. mous entry path to...The Avenue of the many positive comments about this Sphinxes in Luxor, 3 kilometres in length,

eight martinis 39 As is demonstrated with the graph in people’s lives, why? Because these done 4 maybe 5 years back, he still has (below) there is a clear rise with perfor- are the things that bring us happiness... not moved and appears content to make mance for new remote viewers, which usually. improvements to this house. subsequently has a tailing off effect, but with more practice a gradual rise will If you are seeking some of the aforemen- An ‘assumption’ was made. Yes, we do eventuate, and plateau out. tioned, they are usually classed as Pre- make these when viewing, but try and cognitive targets, and will come about keep them to a minimal. We make an New viewers are happy assumption that there will be to have hit the target and an Optimum Mate for us or eagerly talk about this with a Next...whatever. I am con- other viewers, as time goes on stantly reminded by my better they may eventually want to half, be careful what you wish explore cued targets, or ‘Pan- for! This can come into play dora’s Box’, as I call it. These big-time when doing precog- are often with or without feed- nitive targets, as I found out. back, they can encompass the Maybe you will get a great known and unknown, there description of someone who are so many different targets appears to be this mystical Op- and areas, the mind boggles. timum Mate, someone who This reminds me of a 3 month you have yet to encounter, vacation I took travelling all but as you eventually meet up over South America. I was at you soon discover perhaps she an old monastery in Bolivia, the name sometime in the future; therefore you does not like you…drinking or smoking of which escapes me, but it was quite will not have any feedback for a period so much, at which you may take offence. majestic, overlooking the town, weath- of time. How does this tally with our Little do you know that it is intended that ered and old, I was led to the library. mind set? As long as viewers work a this eventual change you will make is for A guide opened the old creaking wooden combination of cued targets and photo- your self development, O T Mates/ Part- door, it looked as though it was some- graphic targets I personally do not see it ners help us grow, assist us, challenge us, thing out of a film set. This library was as a problem. are life partners, without whom, where picture perfect. It was like stepping back would you be? Me ?...I would be under in time, rows and rows of old dust cov- I continue to work cued targets along a rock doing RV Sessions! Thanks to RV ered books lined the shelves, a glimmer with photographic targets, primarily for I am with my OT Mate/partner and have of sunlight entering the window at the calibration. When scored it establishes a been for the last 3 years, and looking for- far end. I felt so at home, but was quick- percentage which I am currently working ward to many more. I have RV sessions ly reminded by the voice in my head, at. This in turn can assist viewers when that contain sketches that came about with words that someone once told me, working targets of a precognitive nature. from OT Mate sessions I worked - some “There are a lot of targets out there, you Nonsense and rubbish have appeared in 18 months before I even met my part- cannot possibly work all of them”, and some sessions whereby I once had a re- ner and mate! When the “First meeting” so it was with the books I could not read quest from a friend, who was so intent occurred, there were so many indicators all of them, I would have to be selective, on moving house that he wanted me to to this person being my OT Mate that I as with targets. There does seem to be give him a heads up on what it would was shaking my head trying to take it all a few areas which remain constant, for look like. I duly made a couple of cued in. I wanted to run to my sessions and choice of Precognitive targets these targets for my target pool. One by one check the sketches, but I could not as I have been referenced by Ingo Swann they came up over a period of some 6 was 10,000 miles away in London! This sometime back and are held as the months. In both sessions I had what ap- was feedback big-time and when I least basics, Basic Human needs. This was put peared to be junk ! I paid my friend a visit expected it. I had organised a remote slightly better by Maslow’s hierarchy of and informed him that it looks like he will viewing meet up in London, then pow! needs which is a theory in psychology not be moving. How?... Why? Were the It was like someone had thrown a rubber proposed by Abraham Maslow in 1943, questions he shot at me in quick succes- brick at my head to say “Hey! wake up” A Theory of Human Motivation. Trans- sion. I then had to explain what I got in ...this is what you asked the Matrix about, late this into remote viewing terms and my sessions. It was the sort of situation and now here she is. This is feedback on we have people wanting to know about whereby you say; Hey! I have done the a very different scale, as opposed to be- their Optimum Mate, their Optimum Vo- sessions as you requested as a favour. ing given an inanimate photograph and cation and how to make money, there I now give you the answer, not the one you say oh great I got the....whatever may be a few variants or additions along expected, now you are not happy with and a knowing smile surfaces, versus this the way like Optimum Residence, Health the information I give you. Please do not personal feedback which has far greater etc, but these appear to be the mainstay shoot the messenger! The sessions were impact on us, in my opinion, my sketch-

40 eight martinis es had...come to life. Two weeks later I way, because believe me it will hit you! he appears to be content and very happy had returned to Perth and quickly be- I have worked sessions for people close with his new found employment. A pho- gan searching through my OT Mate ses- to me and have had the Sessions come to to will be attached to my session, of him sions; altogether I had about five, which fruition; the latest was one that I worked working in the situation I sketched, this included description, first meeting, and over a year back, for my son Blake. A is my feedback. Depending on the target so on. Being specific about a person’s sketch that was absolutely nothing to do with Precognitive sessions your -feed hair length, colour, the body aroma, the with the work that he was at that time back can take on some very unexpected fact that she was wearing boots! It re- engaged in. Infact it was a complete de- areas, be ready for change! ally did blow my socks off. This impact parture and seemed so unlikely, at that is quite different from photographs. time, as to make me question the whole Keep Viewing. It changes our lives, what we do next session. One year later saw him change how we go about things, it all changes jobs, the Site Template I sketched had 100%. I hope you are ready for the im- with him performing a particular task, pact you will receive when it comes your which he is now engaged in doing, and * Rick Hilleard Originally from the UK, Rick now Sandra, he founded the Australian lives and works in Western Australia Remote Viewing Unit to promote in the Security Industry. Rick started and teach Remote Viewing in Remote Viewing in 1997 after Ed Australia. They are currently the only Dames training course and travelled RV trainers in Australia. to the US to do the advanced training with Major Ed Dames. Also CRV & Web: www.remoteviewingunit.org ERV training with David Morehouse. Rick has 12 years of experience in Remote Viewing and he has done thousands of Remote Viewing Rick and Sandra sessions. Together with his wife Hilleard

eight martinis 41 Interview with Courtney Brown 17 April 2011

Daz: We’ve gotten used to the idea that tions. I am talking about people- inter crack in the wall obstructing news about you are always involved in some new ested in the reality of the phenomenon remote viewing, and also extraterrestrial project. What’s new? and wanting to see actual results with life. Finally, I decided to create the news an open mind, to see proof. So, why are broadcast that I wanted to see. The add- Courtney: We’re doing movies. Actually, we doing movies? It is another way to ed kick was to make it humorous, show- more accurately, we are currently doing address the new generation of young ing the comedic side of life wherever it web series, which are short films that people, to break out of the confines play on the Internet. of our limited numbers. This is a video generation. They express themselves Daz: The “Galactic Times.” Before you through video more than anything else. tell us about that, why are you doing it? If we are to relate to the current young Most people got used to the idea that generation, we need to speak their lan- you were a scientist who studied the guage, and movies, both short and long, remote-viewing phenomenon. Why now are a key element. movies? Daz: OK. So what is the idea behind the Courtney: Daz, remote-viewing has the “Galactic Times.” Galactic Times: Earth Report potential to create the most profound and healthy revolution in thought on Courtney: The “Galactic Times: Earth may be, on Earth or in space. We are put- this planet that has ever happened. Yet, Report” is a humorous science fiction ting out a new show at the end of each remote-viewing has not made an impact web series that is essentially an - ex month, and we expect to continue doing on society despite the existence of a long traterrestrial news broadcast directed this for a bit longer. Most of it is anima- string of public experiments and demon- at the Milky Way Galaxy. The subject tion, and it took a lot of start-up time to strations. The entire universe of people of the broadcast is news about Earth, get an understanding of the technology actively interested in remote viewing on especially as it relates to the remote- involved. But now that this is done, we this planet consists of about 200 people viewing experiments we are conducting are free to build the series. We are also or less. I am not talking about the peo- at The Farsight Institute. The idea of the planning other projects. ple who get adrenaline thrills listening broadcast came about because I was to late night radio while hearing about getting tired of scouring the mainstream Daz: Any hope the series may hit big unsubstantiated remote-viewing predic- news outlets every evening looking for a time?

42 eight martinis Courtney: Well, this can happen either data suggesting this might be the case, is not easy to do it well. Extensive train- of two ways. The first is for one of the but we don’t have enough to make a ing is crucial, so we do our experiments episodes to go viral. This has not hap- firm argument. differently than many other scientists do pened yet, but we are working with each their experiments. This does not dimin- episode to try to give it that potential. If Daz: Let’s move on to the science stud- ish the value of the other studies. There this happens, then tons of people will be ies at The Farsight Institute. You seem to is a place for all sorts of scientific stud- directed to our science projects, and that have created a model for many viewers ies. But those other approaches are not will cause a real revolution in education. using different methodologies to work the way we want to conduct our science, The second way is for the entire series together. so we need a place to do our work the to be picked up by a major channel, such way we want to do it. Again, this does as a cable station. The Syfy Channel has Courtney: The Farsight Institute is clearly not diminish what others do, but rather picked up a few web series in this man- a multiverse in the remote-viewing field. defines what we do. ner, Sanctuary and Riese, for example. There are numerous schools of remote But we are mostly just enjoying the cre- viewing, each developing their own ver- Daz: OK. Give a brief rundown of the ation of the series.” sions of remote-viewing procedures. For studies that you have conducted over some projects involving remote viewing, the past few years. Why are they unique, Daz: Give us an example of something be they scientific experiments or opera- or different, or important. In short, why like this. tional projects, it is sometimes useful to should anyone care? involve remote viewers that come from Courtney: Well, we recently did a sci- more than one school. This requires col- Courtney: We have tried to hit only big ence project addressing the origin of the laboration among viewers using various impact projects. For example, we have asteroid belt. The results are stellar, if methodologies. The primary reason for an ongoing project relating to the year you pardon the pun. Everything is very such collaboration may simply be that 2012 where we look at climate and en- clear. The dominant theory of the origin more viewers are needed for a particu- vironmental change between the years of the asteroid belt is that it resulted lar project than any one remote-viewing 2008 and 2013. That is the Climate/2012 from the primeval solar nebula, essen- school can supply. But other reasons Project and the results are huge. More- tially junk that never formed into a plan- may also exist. For example, it may be over, the results seem to find a great et. But that is not what happened. What that members from one school may be deal of corroboration with anomalous happened is that there was a planet in involved in different areas of a project governmental behavior. We have to wait that location, and it exploded. This fol- than members from another school, until June 2013 to wrap that project up, lows up a theory that was developed in such as when one group sets up an ex- of course. But so far it is truly intriguing. detail by the late Thomas Van Flandern, perimental design, viewers from an- We also did a project aimed at trying an astronomer who worked at the U.S. other school do the actual viewing, and to detect the presence of multiple uni- Naval Observatory. What we did not an- yet members from another school do verses or alternate realities. The results swer in our remote-viewing study is why the analysis of the remote-viewing data, are stunningly positive, although I have the planet exploded. We are not used thereby sharing the workload. found that it has been difficult to con- to the idea that planets can explode, so vince people that alternate versions of coming up with a reason is important. Daz: What does that make The Farsight our perceived reality is the cause of the But our study did not go far enough to Institute? results, even though the theory led to an determine the cause of the explosion. So explicit prediction that was confirmed. It in the Galactic Times report, we said it Courtney: It is a nonprofit educational seems just too much for many people to was a result of war. This is a possibility and research institute where remote handle, even if it is true. We also have even if we do not have the data to back it viewers can conduct rigorous studies us- a project where we look at an anoma- up yet. There is a recently released scien- ing remote viewing as it is performed us- lous spray on Mars. Those results are an tific study arguing that there is evidence ing U.S. military or military derived proto- absolute must see. It appears to be an of a nuclear blast on Mars in the distant cols, and that is something no one else is active facility with high levels of technol- past. The radiation patterns on the sur- doing, at least not fully. Nearly the entire ogy. Many people have proposed that face seem to suggest this. The scientists extant scientific literature addressing re- there may be bases on Mars, but no one involved are trying to find a reason to ex- mote viewing is based on perceivers who before actually found the exact location plain a “natural nuclear blast,” which is are minimally trained or not trained at of one. If our results are correct, this is a sort of humorous in the sense of people all, often college kids trying to perceive, milestone discovery. trying to do anything they can to avoid say, objects in a box in an adjacent room. admitting that extraterrestrial life may And when “trained,” the training is often Daz: With all these discoveries, why isn’t exist. Anyway, if there can be a nuclear done by scientists who themselves are remote viewing all over the mainstream blast on Mars, then there could certainly not trained to a level we would be com- news? Why has The New York Times not have been one on the nearby planet. We fortable with, or at all. Remote viewing reported any of this, for example? have some very limited remote-viewing may be a natural ability, but it certainly

eight martinis 43 Courtney: That is the real trick, getting coming solar storms. Also, governmental unprepared for fundamental change lat- the mainstream media to report this behavior seems highly anomalous, es- er. We are not impotent as a species to seriously. The mainstream media is ex- pecially the construction of huge under- control our own destiny. We will emerge Thetremely conservative. Cassandra It took years for ground facilities under military Syndromebases in from the event with a determination to The New York Times and nearly all of the the inhospitable southwest of the U.S., make a better future for ourselves that other mainstream media to report that the cancellingBy Rick of the Hilleard U.S. manned space will be unlike anything we have ever ex- the Wright Brothers flew an airplane. program beginning June 2011, the seal- perienced in the past. They just did not believe it. There is also ing of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the idea that there are lots of big mon- the dismantlement of the U.S. economy Daz: Wow. That is a big order. What is ey corporate interests at stake, and the and the dollar, and the list goes on. The stopping this from happening? media do not want to risk losing reader- government is acting as if the 2012 thing ship by reporting something that could is real. I can only assume that the par- Courtney: We are waiting for a small hurt their credibility, even if it is true. allel with our remote-viewing data is group of scientists and other leaders to They see no cost to waiting until the is- significant. We will find out for sure by make an announcement that remote sue is forced upon them. In general, es- 2013. We are all curious to see how this viewing is a real phenomenon. After this tablished institutions resist change; they will turn out, however it turns out. But happens, public attention will be turned cling to the status quo since that is what for now, remote viewing is the ONLY way in our direction, and we will conduct a got them to be where they are. humanity can currently perceive into the public demonstration of remote viewing future. It is also the best way available that will rivet the world, and nothing will Daz: Is there a conspiracy in all of this? to make fundamental discoveries about be the same after that. We are aware the nature of our physical and nonphysi- that such a group has been watching our Courtney: A conspiracy is any plan made cal realities. very public experiments for a long time. by two or more people. Planning to go This group has been sitting on the fence out to dinner with a friend is a conspir- Daz: So, what is the bottom line? Why is all this time. But this group also knows acy of sorts. So do people communicate remote viewing important if civilization about the approaching event. We have about these issues, and jointly deter- as we know it may be changing dramati- been making the case to this group that mine not to report them? I think that is a cally in less than two years. they should act. If they do act, there will safe bet. But is this an evil plot to deceive be a widespread call for a major public the masses? I think not. The masses are Courtney: This is the key question. Why demonstration of remote viewing, and getting exactly what they want to get. If does remote viewing matter, especially we have shown over the years that we the mainstream media forced these is- IF everything is going to fall apart? (Re- are now organized and fully capable of sues upon the masses, there would be member that there is an “IF” in that reliably making such a public demonstra- a reaction, especially if the information question.) Remote viewing cannot stop tion. We have made such demonstra- involved is true. So they see “caution” the event from happening. But the wide- tions a great many times in the past, but as the buzzword. The trouble with this spread recognition of remote viewing only a few tens of thousands of people model, however, is that we apparent- can fundamentally affect how humanity have watched. There are nearly seven ly do not have much time. The issues encounters the event. This is huge. You billion people on this planet, and for this are going to be forced upon everyone know the old saying, “Garbage in, gar- to make an impact, at least millions need whether we are ready or not. bage out?” Well, how humanity enters to watch. Thus, we are now waiting to the event will determine how it exits the see if that small group of scientists and Daz: How is that so? Who is doing the event. The better prepared we are psy- other leaders is sufficiently courageous forcing? chologically going in, the better we will to act. Unless they make an announce- be as a species after the event. The more ment that turns public attention in our Courtney: It is not who, but what. Our unprepared we are going in, the more of direction, we are dead in the water. 2012 data suggest that there really are a mess we will have on the other side. What else are we supposed to do, run huge planetary changes coming our This is not an issue of physical prepara- down the street screaming our heads way. This apparently is not just a lot of tions, but psychological preparations. off? We do not live alone on this planet. emotional madness, like the so-called If humanity hits the event in its current Others need to do their part if we are to “Millennium Bug.” The results seem to condition, there will be panic and cha- work together to make a better future suggest the widespread loss of electric- os that is grounded in the idea that we for ourselves and the species. ity, the collapse of the rescue capabili- are out of control as a species. But the ties of many nations, the breakdown of widespread recognition of the reality of Daz: Is there anything the remote-view- vehicular transport systems, tsunamis, remote viewing will change all that. Hu- ing community can do to help while we and apparently meteors. Everything ex- manity will know that it is possible for are waiting for the small group of scien- cept the tsunamis and meteors match us to see into the future, to determine tists and other leaders to gather their the dire warnings coming out of NASA what kind of future we want to have. Hu- “mojo?” over the past few years relating to up- manity will know that we will not be so

44 eight martinis Courtney: Actually, there are two things. are not going to publish novels that fea- one is going to laugh, they are laughing The first is that the community would be ture remote viewing, we need to write already, and using remote viewing to greatly helped if it developed a habit of them. If pop artists are not going to sing study really interesting subjects such as not attacking its own members no mat- songs about remote viewing, we need to extraterrestrial life is not going to change ter what. Focus on the positive. The sing them. As a community, I find that that. Besides, very few people are laugh- public is confused by such attacks, and we are much too timid, much too afraid ing any longer. Remote viewing has at it is better at this stage if the attacks are of criticism. We are already “out there” least created a “waiting to exhale” mo- not made. But I doubt this advice will in terms of everyone else. We are not ment on this planet. We can loosen up as be taken, even if it is good advice. There going to lose any credibility by express- a community and explore vigorously in are factions in our community, and just ing ourselves in ways that will catch the all directions. We should be limited only as with politics, our factions never miss attention of the masses, especially the by our own creativity, and ideally our a good tussle. But the second thing that younger generation. I think this - timid creativity should have few if any limits. the community could do is to encourage ity is the reason why so many in the re- all remote viewers to think in the broad- mote-viewing community shy away from est of terms, to think creatively. If Hol- using remote viewing to explore extra- lywood is not going to make our movies, terrestrial life. They are afraid of being we need to make them. If the publishers laughed at. But that is so wrong. If some- *

Courtney Brown is a mathematician and founder of The Farsight Institute and social scientist who teaches in (www.farsight.org), a nonprofit re- the Department of Political Science at search and educational organization Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. dedicated to the study of a phenome- non of nonlocal consciousness known He has published numerous books on as “remote viewing.” He recently applied nonlinear mathematical mod- published a book entitled Remote eling in the social sciences, including Viewing: The Science and Theory of two new volumes, one on applied Nonphysical Perception. In this book differential equation systems (2007) he analyzes data and develops a new and another on graph algebra (2008), theory that explains the remote-view- a new graphical language used for ing phenomenon as a consequence of Dr. Courtney Brown modeling systems. superposition formation on the quan- tum level. Independent of his work as a col- lege professor, he is the Director www.farsight.org

GALACTIC TIMES

Courtney Brown’s animated news broad- casts to the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy about events on Earth relating to remote viewing. You can find the series at: www.farsightpresentations.com. Each episode is 7 to 10 minutes long.

www.farsightpresentations.com

eight martinis 45 Remote Viewing in France A pioneering and uniting event: the IRIS Remote Viewing conference

by Hélène Pau & Alexis Champion

On March 12th and 13th, a milestone knowledge and their experiences with The first day con- in the history of Remote Viewing took the audience. cluded with the place in Paris: the IRIS Remote Viewing French Premiere Conference. of 3 documentary films: Early Re- For the first time in France and under search at SRI, a film the sponsorship of IRVA (International presenting vari- Remote Viewing Association), IRIS Intu- ous experiences on ition Consulting spearheaded the orga- psychic ability con- nization of the event, gathering of some ducted by physicists of the greatest names in Remote View- Hal Puthoff and Rus- ing. During two exceptional days, Alexis sell Targ in the early 70’s. Deep Quest, a During Saturday, March 12th’s program, film about an exper- 7 presentations allowed us to revisit iment in marine archeology created and the civilian and military history of Re- directed by Stephan Schwartz in 1976, mote Viewing along with the scientific using a sub-marine technology. research that led to the creation of the process and the numerous applications The Alexandria Project, a documen- and implications derived from it. Other tary about an extraordinary adventure themes closely linked to RV were also in intuitive archeology, conducted by discussed such as parapsychological re- Stephan Schwartz between 1978 and search, intuition and associated -tech 1981. niques, clairvoyance, dowsing, psycho- Champion, Stephan Schwartz, Paul kinesis, transpersonal psychology and The following day, with conferences Smith, Dominique Surel, Russell Targ, applied areas such as corporate consult- over, participants had the opportunity to Alexis Tournier, Jacques Vallée and Paul ing, archeology, judiciary, medicine or develop and test their own intuitive tal- O’Connor shared their research, their military intelligence. ent against those of the presenters and

46 eight martinis they did not hold back! The 6 workshops IRIS Intuition Consulting and IRIS-Psi & Stephan A. Schwartz, who really intro- offered on Sunday, March 13 were sold Applications duced me to the tangible applications of out and their success point to a bright fu- Founded in June 2008 by Alexis Champi- Remote Viewing. I immediately sought ture for Remote Viewing in France. on, IRIS Intuition Consulting is a France- to come up with projects that would based professional Remote Viewing encompass applied research. At IMI, at Why such an event? consultancy and training service. IRIS I.C. the time, with archeologist Jean-Olivier In Europe and especially in France, we is the largest company in Europe fully Gransard-Desmond, we had begun to are often closed-minded about such sub- dedicated to RV and plays a major role in develop projects in what we refer to as jects, deemed irrational. We are stagger- the international RV community, in par- “intuitive archeology”. After two years ing due to a lack of information, disinfor- ticular due to its R&D program and its of research and with early customers mation and nonchalance. Still, until the role in the industrialization of RV. Aside satisfied with the results, I figured that 30’s and 40’s, France held a forefront from these activities, the non-profit our experience and our avails were suf- position in scientific research on extra- association IRIS Psi & Applications also ficient to offer such services outside the sensory perceptions. However, that era pursues an applied research program, research community, so I decided to cre- belongs to another time! Through this including self-funded projects, and ate a consulting and training firm: IRIS event, the first of its kind in Europe, we develops partnerships involving several Intuition Consulting. wished to demonstrate that scientific players in the field of Remote Viewing, research has produced applications that such as Stephan A. Schwartz and the In- Consulting can change our daily life and the way we ternational Remote Viewing Association. As its name indicates, IRIS Intuition Con- think. We also wanted to emphasize that sulting is first and foremost a consultancy a human being is much more than what Alexis Champion – Founder cabinet. Remote Viewing serves as a sup- he or she usually believes one self to be. IRIS was created following a personal port to our services, constituting the way quest lasting over a decade into the ar- we generate information subsequently When IRIS Intuition Consulting decided eas of consulting and scientific parapsy- delivered to our clients. Our team now to set up this conference, many thought chology. As soon as I joined the work comprises 2 full time employees working we were irrational, unconscious even. force, I was involved in research in infor- at IRIS Intuition Consulting’s offices near Even though in the US and elsewhere mation technology, notably with service Paris and 2 other freelance contributors in the English speaking world, Remote enterprises. My specialty was in distribu- who work part-time. A team of a dozen Viewing’s major players are known, here tion of artificial intelligence. That led me, Remote Viewers, 3 of which reside in the in France, there are few who are even through trial and error, to understand USA, all participate in our projects on a familiar with the term “Remote View- how the human mind works, since the freelance basis. ing”; and of those, even fewer under- goal is to be able to simulate its behav- stand it. To gather a large crowd around ior... Naturally, I became interested in Our advice is based on our customers’ a practically unknown subject was there- phenomena and extra-sensory percep- needs. They usually contact us about fore a great challenge. tion as well as the processing of such pragmatic matters such as business strat- acquired information. Since I was always egy, specific problem causes or reconsti- Fortunately, many personalities from attracted to the paranormal, I studied a tution of a past event. We are geared as the RV community trusted us and lent curriculum in advanced parapsychology, much towards corporate entities as pri- their support. Without the panelists, a science dedicated to the study of phe- vate parties, with a focus on enterprises several of whom traveled a great nomenon, as it is linked to consciousness and institutions: our clients are generally distance, and to whom we are extreme- and how it relates to the world around decision makers, researchers, law en- ly grateful, this event could have never us. forcement personnel and even people taken place. in the creative field. We have also col- I was passionate. Finally I was able to get laborated with public organizations such Today we can say that the challenge through to IMI (Institut Métapsychique as the Museum of Man, the National Su- has been successfully met. Nearly 250 International), in Paris, the only - exist perior School of Arts and the Supreme people attended. Of course, RV experts ing body involved in parapsychology in Court. and professionals were in attendance France at the time, and where I would but a great majority of the public was eventually become director. Simultane- Going beyond a private clientele, today being exposed to Remote Viewing for ously, for the past 7 years, I have delved our services are geared towards specific the first time. To our great surprise, the deeper in the study of Remote Viewing needs. Such needs may mean that the participants were not only French. We techniques, in France first (ERV, GRV) client will take an action that will reflect had the pleasure to welcome people then in the with Paul Smith the information we will have provided, from may countries (United States, and Lyn Buchanan (CRV). either to gain time or to avoid excess ex- Canada, UK, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, penditures. There is literally a proactive Morocco). It is under those auspices that I met and dynamic side to this undertaking. Of

eight martinis 47 course, Remote Viewing can also cater to isolate the strongest elements as they the scientific community and society in to broader questions or address more pertain to the case. Such analysis leads general. Such thought process relies on personal matters. That is, as a matter of to a synthesis that features various as- our partnerships with enterprises, asso- fact, what makes this tool so productive pects of the case and indicates how the ciations and independent researchers. and interesting in that it can help solve information garnered may be applied to an infinite number of problems. solve the problem at hand. Each project The Warcollier Prize is obviously conducted ‘blind’ in that the IRIS-Psi & Applications (IRIS-PA), in All projects we undertake are different information is compartmentalized and collaboration with The International Re- and it is often through clients, from their segregated in order to insure its valid- mote Viewing Association, launched a original requests, that we come to ex- ity, therefore optimizing results for the competition for an international research plore new applications. The complexity client. award in order to encourage original and diversity of the projects we take on research in all aspects of Remote Viewing force us to make Remote Viewing evolve Training Courses and to uphold distinguished examples of and adapt. With each outing, IRIS Intu- Besides consulting, since 2009, we are new research meant to draw attention ition Consulting deepens its knowledge now offering Training Courses. Open to the future role of Remote Viewing. on the functioning of Remote Viewing to all, these gatherings cater to people Alexis Champion, Jeffrey Mishlove, Dean and its applications. from all walks of life and draw several Radin, Stephan Schwartz and Jessica Utts clairvoyants and , be they pro- compose the jury and a financial prize of Projects that come our way are not limit- fessional or amateur. Remote Viewing $2,000 USD will be presented to the win- ed to a consultation or a Remote Viewing offers a controlled environment in which ning scientific experience proposal. session: there is a whole lot of work in- to work and offers means to develop and volved, before and after. These different enhance one’s proficiency at intuitive The Warcollier Prize has been endowed stages in project management involve all perception and that is what the attend- in honor of René Warcollier, the French members of the operational team. In a ees come looking for. Such discipline chemical engineer and parapsycholo- project, the viewer(s) intervene(s) solely gives them the tools necessary to better gist (April 1881 - May 1962). Warcollier during their own session. Beforehand, a understand the process at hand, to hone devised and conducted a series of ex- counselor will have defined the specific in their skills and better their practice. periments in telepathic communication needs of the client in order to figure out where the participants, using only the how those might be best defined and One of our goals for 2011 is to bring our power of the mind, sought to transmit how to best confront a given problem. Training Courses to businesses. Since the drawings, at varying distances, to sub- That allows us to clarify the intentions beginning of the year we have been con- jects who would record their impressions regarding the precise framework (tem- centrating on an outreach to become in- on paper. More information: http:// poral and conceptual) of the information tegrated within the business community. www.irva.org/news/warcollier.html that one is looking to obtain. Things are looking up since we just had great success with a formation confer- Archaeological Project Then there is the session(s) proper: each ence held for over forty people with Hu- 30 years after the famous Alexandria viewer involved is obviously not informed man Resources backgrounds. That is an Project, a similar project with a target of the specifics nor does he or she ever area, as many others, where the needs located in France, is now underway. For meet the client. The viewer is guided and and expectations of what Remote View- nearly 4 years, IRIS-PA has been conduct- supported by a ‘monitor’ who maintains ing has to offer are as diversified as they ing research on an archeological site as the attention on the pertinent informa- are numerous. of yet to be determined. This project tion. Next, an analyst working from tran- is co-directed by Alexis Champion and scripts of the session(s) evaluates and Non-profit projects Stephan Schwartz, the father of modern classifies the information. In order to best deepen, extend and ex- intuitive archeology. Research is con- ploit its experience, IRIS I.C. systemati- ducted at a distance and on-site by an in- That stage of the process required us to cally engages its resources in a program ternational team including 25 volunteers develop a new software program to pro- of consideration and research, striving to and 15 viewers. This broad-scale project cess the information faster and more ac- first face head-on the problems raised is also the subject of a documentary di- curately. That point is essential to maxi- by the RV session, namely addressing rected by Olivier Kauffer and produced mize our performance, saving time and the promotion of research in Remote by IRIS Intuition Consulting, Schwartz money for the client and allowing IRIS Viewing, its integration as a new tool in and Kauffer. I.C. a margin of profitability. closely related disciplines, in ethics, so- cial acceptance and even law and the ju- On a given Remote Viewing project, dicial system. This program composed of there can be several viewers. The analy- several projects with multiple outcomes * sis work will only be richer and that will at stake, aims to benefit practitioners Re- allow for cross-referenced information mote Viewing and their clients as well as

48 eight martinis Alexis Champion, Ph.D. applications. He interacts with entre- Alexis Champion is the Founder and preneurs, archeologists, journalists, Director of IRIS Intuition Consulting, artists, and law enforcement person- and President of IRIS-PA a non-profit nel. He also collaborates with individu- organization. He holds a Ph.D. in Com- als such as Stephan Schwartz and orga- puter Science with a specialty in Artifi- nizations like the International Remote cial Intelligence. In 2008-2009, he was Viewing Association. Director of the Institut Métapsychique For many years, he has been active in International (IMI) which, under the remote viewing (ERV, GRV), dowsing, French legal system, is a public inter- and has been trained in Controlled est organization specializing in the re- Remote Viewing (CRV) by the original search of paranormal phenomena. military viewers Paul H. Smith and Lyn For the last few years, at IRIS Intuition Buchanan. Consulting, Alexis Champion’s work has been focused on managing Re- Alexis Champion, Ph.D. mote Viewing research projects and

Hélène Pau That is how she met Alexis Champion Degreed in Foreign Languages and and discovered Remote Viewing. Con- International Marketing, Hélène Pau vinced by the potential of that disci- has occupied several posts in market- pline and seduced by the research and ing and communications in France application projects conducted by IRIS and Spain. In 2008, her interest in Intuitive Consulting, she joined the en- unexplained and unexplored human terprise in January 2011 as an execu- experiences led her to join the INREES tive assistant and has been training in (Institut de Recherche sur les Expéri- Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) with ences Extraordinaires), where she Alexis Champion and Alexis Tournier. notably contributed to the produc- tion of events on themes such as con- W. www.iris-ic.com sciousness, quantum physics, energy, E. [email protected] Hélène Pau , dreams and parapsychol- Facebook ogy, that drew the best minds from research, science, medicine and even show business communities.

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50 eight martinis *eight martinis The State of the Art of Remote Viewing

Remote viewing training & trainers RVIS - Paul Smith (CRV) - http://www.rviewer.com P>S>I - Lyn Buchanan (CRV) - http://www.crviewer.com Angela T Smith (CRV) - http://www.remoteviewingnv.com Stephen S Schwartz (Natural) - http://www.stephanaschwartz.com Ed Dames (LearnRV/TRV) - http://www.learnrv.com David Morehouse (CRV) - http://www.davidmorehouse.com Australian Remote Viewing Unit - http://www.remoteviewingunit.org The Farsight Institute (SRV) - http://www.farsight.org Remote viewing Resources Ten Thousand Roads [TKR] - RV resources - http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr Remoteviewed.com (RV examples, documents) - http://www.remoteviewed.com Firedocs - massive RV resources and files - http://www.firedocs.com Remote Viewing Targets RV Targets.com - http://www.rvtargets.com Ten Thousand Roads - http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr Target Monkey - http://www.remoteviewed.com/target/ Lyn Buchanan’s Target of the week - http://www.crviewer.com/TARGETS/TargetIndex.asp Remote Viewing Groups The Farsight Institute - http://www.farsight.org IRVA (International Remote Viewing Association - http://www.irva.org Remote Viewing - Individuals Ingo Swann’s Biomind website - http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com Joe McMoneagle website - http://www.mceagle.com Russell Targ website - http://www.espresearch.com Daz Smith Cosmic Spoon blog - http://www.cosmicspoon.com/blog Intuitive Recon - http://www.intuitiverecon.com Shelia’s Rv News blog - http://www.remoteviewingnews.net Pj’s Red Cairo Rv blog - http://redcairo.blogspot.com Dean Radin website - http://www.deanradin.com Marty Rosenblatt website - http://www.p-i-a.com Jon’s 120 RV links blog - http://mprview.blogspot.com Alexis Champion - IRIS I.C. - http://www.iris-ic.com *

eight martinis 51 Remote viewing represents one “set” of super- “ power faculties -- our innate perceptual channels across distances. Rudiments of RV faculties occasionally manifest in almost everyone, even if only in dream states. For the most part, it is only in the United States where their faculties are laughed at and where skeptics control mainstream antagonism to them. If you out there who feel we have superpower faculties don’t speak up and shout down the skeptics, then it’s YOUR nascent superpowers that are quailing before their ridiculous stupidities. And you belong to the great but - silent - superpowerless majority. The WorldWide Web is - yours, - you know. Not theirs. - Ingo Swann ”