This week i’m covering some of the many faces of remote viewing, maybe some people we already talked about, maybe some new people so let's jump right in and get acquainted with them in no particular order Please note there were many many people involved in these projects so I did pick and choose who I included in this episode Hal (Harold) Puthof Puthof has a PHD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford university and in 1969 and co-authored (with R. Pantell) Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics In the 70’s CIA and DIA granted funds to Puthoff to investigate paranormal abilities, collaborating w/ Russell Targ in a study of the purported psychic abilities of Uri Gellar, Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Joseph McMoneagle and others as part of the Stargate Project Puthof became the director of said project I need to get something out of the way now in regards to a few of these gentlemen we will be talking about so I won’t bring it up again Puthof, as well as Ingo Swann and Pat Price, to my surprise were Scientologists and Puthof attributed much of his personal remote viewing skills to his involvement w/ Scientology whereby he attained, at that time, the highest level in the church which is operating thetan All three eventually left Scientology in the late 70’s Aside over. His team of psychics is said to have identified spies, located Soviet weapons and technologies, such as a nuclear submarine in 1979 and helped find lost SCUD missiles in the first gulf war and plutonium in North Korea in 1994 In 1985 Puthof founded a for-profit company EarthTech international and the Institute for Advanced Studies which he also directed This institute was to pursue ideas Puthoff found interesting related to energy generation and propulsion Its a pretty interesting website, topics include fundamental physics, interstellar studies (including search for extraterrestrial intelligence), an entire heading for experiments (which were over my head), and life sciences Puthoff and EarthTech were granted a US Patent in 1998, with claims that information could be transmitted through a distance using a modulated potential with no electric or magnetic field components. These claims are generally considered to be false, and no such transmitter has been constructed. The case is used for educational purposes in patent law as an example of a valid patent for an inoperable invention. According to the Wisconsin Law School case study, "The lesson of the Puthoff patent is that in a world where both types of patents are more and more common, even a competent examiner may fail to distinguish innovation from pseudoscience." Fun fact- I knew his name sounded familiar, he co founded the company to the stars w/ Tom DeLonge in 2010 ish Russell Targ Targ is a physicist, parapsychologist and author and well known for the footprint he left on remote viewing somehow because he also was a pioneer in the development of the laser *pew pew* Targ joined the Stanford Research institute in 1971, as noted above w. Harold Puthof going on later to the stargate project In 1972 Puthoff and Targ tested remote viewer Ingo Swann at SRI (That is the Stanford Research Institute), and the experiment led to a visit from two employees of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. result was a $50,000 CIA-sponsored project known as the Stargate Project The SRI remote viewing project also encompassed the work of such consulting "consciousness researchers" (What a fancy title) as the artist/writer Ingo Swann and Military Intelligence Corps chief warrant officer Joseph McMoneagle Obviously he has written a couple books on his work in this realm, as well as a load of other books While Targ and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, Pat Price and Ingo Swann (who you will learn about in a moment) all had genuine psychic abilities; flaws were found with the controls in the experiments and Geller was caught using sleight of hand on many other occasions. The SRI tests gave Geller substantial control over the procedures used to test him, with few limits on his behaviour during the test. In 1982, Targ with Keith Harary and Anthony White formed a company, Delphi Associates, to sell psychic consulting services to individuals and businesses. In the book Mind Race, Targ and Harary claimed that all nine silver futures predictions made at Delphi in 1982 were correct; however, a later attempt failed. Targ retired as a senior staff scientist at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, where he developed airborne laser systems for the detection of windshear and air turbulence. Having retired in 1997, he now writes books on psychic research and teaches remote viewing worldwide. Pat Price An early remote viewer He is a former Burbank, California police officer and former Scientologist! But you already knew that because I spoiled it for you early on He participated in a number of cold war ear remote viewing experiments including the US Government sponsored projects SCANATE and the stargate project Price joined the program after a chance encounter w/ fellow Scientologists (at the time) Harold Puthoff and, did not know this one, Ingo Swann near SRI and he ended up being one of their best RV’s Working with maps and photographs provided to him by the CIA, Price claimed to have been able to retrieve information from Facilities behind Soviet lines He is probably best known for (not by me) for the description of the Soviet arms factory in Semipalatinsk in 1974, during which he sketched and described, true to scale and in fairly detail, a huge eight-wheel gantry crane and a camouflaged steel ball twenty meters in diameter under construction. His ability to read the inscriptions of files in a secret facility that he was viewing, which he has never seen before, also caused a sensation among the secret services. His drawings were confirmed in every detail by satellite photos and later educational work. Joseph McMoneagle Was also an early remote viewer, one of the first recruited for project Stargate, aren't you guys glad we already covered these things in the previous episode?! Joe enlisted in the Army at the ripe age of 18 to get away from family turmoil His early career in the military was as an NCO (not sure what that is) and retired 20 years later as a chief warrant officer and was involved in intelligence work for 15 years McMoneagle is best known for claims surrounding the investigation of remote viewing and the use of paranormal abilities for military intelligence He was known as remote viewer no. 1 He retired from the army in 1984 but continued working as a consultant for Stargate until 1993 After funding ceased on project Stargate, McMoneagle became a speaker at the Monroe Institute, where he had completed his RV training I’m just going to take a quick aside here as I brought up the Monroe institute which hasn’t come up until this point , and it’s literally a quick aside so you know- may be a good episode in the future because it has nothing to do with remote viewing but very cool nonetheless The Monroe Institute (TMI) is a nonprofit education and research organisation devoted to the exploration of human consciousness, based in Faber, Virginia, United States. Joe then moved on and opened a business entitled “Intuitive Intelligence Applications INC” in which he aimed at the corporate world and includes services such as “Can help a wildcatter find an oil well or a quarry operator know where to mine” Edgard Cayce wouldn’t do it so someone else did So… I know you’re wondering what has he done?? He claims to have remote-viewed a chinese nuclear facility As well as the red brigades…. which were a far left marxist-leninist armed organisation & guerilla group based in Italy responsible for numerous violent incidents, including the abduction and merder of former prime minister Aldo Moro Muammar Qadhafi who as a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist; the Brotherly leader and guide of the revolution of Libya, the Chairman of Revolutionary command in libya, then prime minister if Libya… among other things McMoneagle also claims to have predicted the location and existence of the Soviet “typhoon”-class submarine in 1979 and then in Jan 1980 it was confirmed by satellite photos Mars exploration 1 million years B.C which taylor read in last episode Oklahamo Bombing event https://www.remoteviewed.com/files/stargate/Joe_oaklaholma_bomb_session.pdf The Iranian hostage crisis Just to touch on this a little bit; The Iran Hostage Crisis in November 1979 52 US diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarised Iranian college students belonging to the Muslin Student Followers of the Imam’s Line supporting the Iranian revolution took over the U.S embassy in Theran and seized hostages. A diplomatic standoff ensued. The hostages were held for 444 days, being released on January 20, 1981. McMoneagle was on a team w/ 5 others on a mission to save 52 americans seized in November 1979 in the Iran hostage crisis July 1980 a vision of a sick man on a stretched in an aeroplane struck him; “They are going to release one of the hostages,” announced the psychic, a heavy-set 60-year-old man with glasses, whose name The Post is withholding. “I don’t know his name yet, but it’s found in a deck of cards. And he has multiple sclerosis.” Four days later, the Iranians let go Richard Queen, a 28-year-old US Embassy worker whose poor health had spiralled downhill after 250 days in captivity. Quickly after that it was learned that Queen — whose last name is indeed a playing card — suffered from multiple sclerosis and would likely have died without specialized doctors and a quick flight out of Tehran. McMoneagle's future predictions included the passing of a teenager's "Right to Work" Bill, a new religion without the emphasis of Christianity, a science of the soul, a vaccine for AIDS, a movement to eliminate television, and a 'temporary tattoo' craze that would replace the wearing of clothing, all of which were supposed to take place between 2002 and 2006. McMoneagle claims that remote viewing is not always accurate but that it was able to locate hostages and downed airplanes. Of other psychics, he says that "Ninety-eight percent of the people are kooks He reports that he worked with Dean Radin at the Consciousness Research Laboratory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas to seek patentable ideas via remote viewing for a "future machine" Radin conceived. McMoneagle also says he has worked on missing person cases in Washington, San Francisco, New York and Chicago, as well as employing remote viewing as a time machine to make various observations such as the origin of the human species. According to McMoneagle, humans came from creatures somewhat like sea otters rather than primates and were created in a laboratory by creators who "seeded" the earth and then departed NOT DONE!!!! Courtney Brown Is a he Was an associate professor in the political science department at Emory university Known for promoting the use of nonlinear mathematics in social scientific research, i’m not sure what this is and upon looking it up I was left even more confused That being said it is not important to the story so let’s move on Because most important is known as a proponent of remote viewing Brown learned the basic Transcendental meditation (A form of silent mantra meditation) As well as an advanced technique called the TM-Sidhi program in 1991 (a form of meditation introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1975, The goal of the TM-Sidhi program is to accelerate personal growth and improve mind–body coordination by training the mind to think from what the Maharishi has described as a fourth major state of consciousness called Transcendental Consciousness) He claims to have engaged in “Yogic flying” at the Golden dome of Pure Knowledge at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield Iowa in 1992 Upon looking into Yogic flying I came up with a few answers in various places; a mental-physical exercise of hopping while cross-legged, is a central aspect of the TM-Sidhi program. With the introduction of the TM-Sidhi program in 1976, it was postulated that a group of people practising the TM-Sidhi program twice a day, together in one place, would increase "life-supporting trends" in the surroundings, with the threshold for the group size being the square root of 1% of the area's population. It’s controversial and labelled a pseudoscience by sceptics such as Carl Sagan So do with that what you will Courtney was also a founder of the farsight institute A nonprofit research and educational institute, offering a large library of free materials on remote viewing. Humour me and go to the website; farsight.org This promptly takes a turn in another direction Brown’s remote viewing findings have been dismissed by scientists and his colleagues at Emory University and others.. I’ll tell you why His colleague at his place of work (Emory University) Scott O. Lilienfeld, stated that Brown has refused to subject his ideas and his claimed psychic powers to independent scientific testing on what Lilienheld describes as “Curious” grounds. He normally acts as a data analyst while working with our remote viewers (who do the actual viewing, not Brown) who have been trained in procedures that were developed by the U.S Military Among a variety of controversial topics, Brown has claimed to apply remote viewing to the study of multiple realities, the nonlinearity of time, planetary phenomena, extraterrestrial life, UFOs, Atlantic and even Jesus Christ. I like Michael Shermer of Skeptics magazine’s take on Brown; “The claims in Brown’s two books are nothing short of spectacularly weird. Through his numerous SRV sessions he says he has spoken with Jesus and Buddha (Both apparently advanced aliens), visited inhabited planets, time travelled to Mars back when it was fully inhabited by intelligent ETs, and even determined that aliens are living among us- one group in particular resides underground in Mexico” Brown has written 6 books basically about everything laid out by Mr. Shermer of Sceptics magazine There is this other little thing that I came across in regards to Courtney being that he Inspired the heaven’s gate mass suicide?! This came about because Brown helped spread the idea that the Hale-Bopp comet was accompanied by a mysterious spaceship, a notion that may have inspired 39 members of the Heaven's Gate group to kill themselves Brown was told by his own team of remote viewers that a ship lurked behind the comet, and he spread this news on the airwaves and the Internet. This actually ties back to Coast to Coast AM, so with this brief commentary on it I think we may revisit it on a C2C lore episode Sooo yeah… lets move on to Uri Gellar – most of this was covered by Taylor in our last episode pretty well FYI I wanted to put Uri Gellar in because he seems to be, at least for me, someone I associated with remote viewing but he has very little to do with it so just going to briefly covering him He was a subject of a study by Targ and Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute (which, was where the term Remote viewing was coined prior to project Stargate) Uri is a Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self proclaimed psychic, is also said to stop watches or start old watches– noted on places such as Coast to coast AM and television shows Best known for his TV performances of spoon bending The extent of Uri’s officially remote viewing doesn’t go much further than being involved in the Stanford research institute His abilities were tested by the CIA in 1973 and were concluded that Gellar had "demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner" Then a study was commission by the DIA as part of the Stargate project conducted also in 1973 at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) by Puthof and Targ Geller was isolated and asked to reproduce simple drawings prepared in another room and they concluded that he had performed successfully enough to warrant further serious study This study is very controversial He’s quite controversial given what he is most well known for noted above and many people claim to have debunked Gellar as a fraud Ingo Swann A prominent research participant in remote viewing As with Ingo Swann and Pat Price, Puthoff attributed much of his personal remote viewing skills to his involvement with Scientology whereby he had attained, at that time, the highest level. All three eventually left Scientology in the late 1970s So Ingo is also a co-creator along with Russell Targ and Harold E Puthoff of remote viewing and specifically project stargate Swann is a claimed psychic who calls himself “consciousness researcher who had sometimes experienced altered states of ‘consciousness’” He has said “he does not get tested, I only work with researchers on well designed experiments” According to Targ and Puthoff “Swann inspired innovations” have led to impressive results in parapsychology and experiments not controlled by Swann have not been successful, and are rarely mentioned Swann researched the process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research institute, previously mentioned many times, which experiments caught the eye of the CIA Commonly credited with proposing the idea of the controlled remote viewing, the process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates, developed and tested with CIA funding Targ and Puthoff write about their pilot experiments, "We couldn't overlook the possibility that perhaps Ingo knew the geographical features of the Earth and their approximate latitude and longitude. (It is Swann who suggests these Coordinate Remote Viewing tests, not the experimenters. He is in control.) "Or it was possible that we were inadvertently cueing the subject (Swann), since we as experimenters knew what the answers were." Soon Targ and Puthoff performed more experiments with Swann and the controls were tightened to eliminate the possibility of error. This time Swann was given the latitude and longitude of ten targets, in the end there would be ten runs, for a total of 100. Only the evaluations of the ten targets from the tenth run, the last, were disclosed. The results of the targets from the previous ninety (runs 1–9) are ignored. For the tenth run Swann had seven hits, two neutral and one miss. The experiments came to a close. Targ and Puthoff were positive "Something was happening, but they are not clear what it is." What did Swann Remote view? Swann proposed a study to Targ and Puthoff. At first they resisted, for the resulting descriptions would be impossible to verify. Yet, on the evening 27 April 1973 Targ and Puthoff recorded Swann's remote viewing session of the planet Jupiter and Jupiter's moons, prior to the Voyager probe's visit there in 1979. Swann asked for 30 minutes of silence. According to Swann, his ability to see Jupiter took about three and a half minutes. In the session he made several reports on the physical features of Jupiter, such as its atmosphere and the surface of its core. Swann claimed to see bands of crystals in the atmosphere, which he likened to clouds and possibly like the rings of Saturn. The Voyager probe later confirmed the existence of the rings of Jupiter, although these rings are not in the planet's atmosphere. However, Swann's claim that crystals are present in the atmosphere is supported by observations by NASA's Galileo spacecraft of clouds of ammonia ice crystals in the northwest corner of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The following are Swann's own version of his statements from 1995, 22 years later than the 1973 experiments took place:[39] [6:06:20] Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals ... they glitter. Maybe the stripes are like bands of crystals, maybe like rings of Saturn, though not far out like that. Very close within the atmosphere. [Unintelligible sentence.] I bet you they'll reflect radio probes. Is that possible if you had a cloud of crystals that were assaulted by different radio waves? [6:08:00] Now I'll go down through. It feels really good there [laughs]. I said that before, didn't I? Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look beautiful from the outside. From the inside they look like rolling gas clouds – eerie yellow light, rainbows. [6:10:20] I get the impression, though I don't see, that it's liquid. [6:10:55] Then I came through the cloud cover. The surface – it looks like sand dunes. They're made of very large grade crystals, so they slide. Tremendous winds, sort of like maybe the prevailing winds of Earth, but very close to the surface of Jupiter. From that view, the horizon looks orangish or rose-colored, but overhead it's kind of greenish-yellow. [6:12:35] If I look to the right there is an enormous mountain range. [6:14:45] I feel that there's liquid somewhere. Those mountains are very huge but they still don't poke up through the crystal cloud cover. You know I had a dream once something like this, where the cloud cover was a great arc ... sweeps over the entire heaven. Those grains which make that sand orange are quite large. They have a polished surface and they look something like amber or like obsidian but they're yellowish and not as heavy. The wind blows them. They slide along. [6:16:37] If I turn, the whole thing seems enormously flat. I mean, if I get the feeling that if a man stood on those sands, I think he would sink into them [laughs]. Maybe that's where that liquid feeling comes from In his 1998 autobiography Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy, Swann described his work with individuals in an unknown agency who study extraterrestrials, his remote viewing of a secret E.T. base on the hidden side of the Moon and his "shocking" experience with a sexy scantily dressed female E.T. in a Los Angeles supermarket. He concludes that extraterrestrials are living on Earth in humanoid bodies. Swann deduces that there are many extraterrestrials, that many are "bio-androids", and that they are aware their only foes on Earth are psychics. Later, Swann and an individual known as "Mr. Axelrod" took a flight to an unknown northerly destination, deduced by Swann as possibly Alaska. Along with two "twin" bodyguards, Swann and Axelrod attempt to secretly watch a recurrent UFO appear and suck up the water of a lake. Mr. Axelrod discloses that the silent, growing, oscillating triangle is simultaneously scanning the area and eliminating any animals in the area and that the silent "beams" emanating from the object were "blasting deer or porcupines from the woods or something." The "twin" bodyguards come to attention they've been discovered and the group is "attacked" by the UFO. Swann was thrown to safety by his colleagues and sustained a minor injury Ed Dames Dames was one of the first five Army students trained by Ingo Swann through Stage 3 in coordinate remote viewing.Because Dames' role was intended to be as session monitor and analyst as an aid to Fred Atwater rather than a remote viewer, Dames received no further formal remote viewing training. After his assignment to the remote viewing unit at the end of January 1986, he was used to "run" remote viewers (as monitor) and provide training and practice sessions to viewer personnel. He soon established a reputation for pushing CRV to extremes, with target sessions on Atlantis, Mars, UFOs, and aliens. He is a frequent guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio shows Major General Albert Stubblebine A key sponser of the research of project Stargate at Fort Meade, Maryland Maj. Gen. Stubblebine was convinced of the reality of a wide variety of psychic phenomena He required that all of his battalion commanders learn how to bend spoons like Uri Geller and he himself attempted several psychic feats, even attempting to walk through walls In the early 1980s he was responsible for the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, during which time the remote viewing project in the US Army began After some controversy involving these experiments, including alleged security violations from uncleared civilian psychics working in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs), Major General Stubblebine was placed on retirement. Lyn Buchanan One of the U.S military’s controlled remote viewing from 1984 through 1992 in which he worked first as a viewing and then as a database manager, trainer, training officer and property book officer Upon retirement he worked as a computer systems analyst at the DIA… odd to retire and work somewhere else, perhaps he means from the remote viewing program When the CIA declassified the existence of the military's remote viewing effort in 1994, it became public knowledge that Lyn had been the unit's trainer, and he was quickly overwhelmed with applications for training. About this time, he started the Assigned Witness Program, which uses trained and experienced Controlled Remote Viewers to do pro bono remote viewing work for police and other public service organisations. The original intent of the program was to help police find missing children. However as cases met with success, the various departments and agencies began to enlist the remote viewers in other projects. Presently, Problems Solutions Innovations continues to work with both public service agencies and the corporate world to train and make use of talented and qualified Controlled Remote Viewers. Lyn has written about his experiences and what he learned about the human mind in a book entitled "The Seventh Sense"