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Is Remote Viewing Real? What is the Evidence? |
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
There are sites on the net that claim to
teach the ability, there's an International Remote Viewing
Association that even has conferences (there's one
starting on October 19th, apparently), the US government has funded
research in it (in the 1970's), we've even had customers buy
our mind machines to help them with remote viewing and claim great
success. I've never had any type of experiences that are anything
like remote viewing - and I'm not sure that I believe that it is
even possible - but I'm open to the idea.
What is it? I think a simple explanation for it is just the ability
for an individual to descibe locations not yet visited. The CIA and
the US Army spent millions of dollars on researching remote viewing
and other parapsychological activities and dubbed it 'Star Gate'. They began the program in 1970
(then called SCANATE - good thing they changed the name to
something that sounded cooler) at the Stanford Research Institute
in Menlo Park, Ca. This program continued in different forms using
both soldiers and civilians who were believed to posess natural
psychic abilities for over 24 years.
The remote viewing program was shut down by the CIA in 1994 because
they were convinced that remote viewing was of no practical value
to the intelligence community.
What is a sketpic supposed to believe? (That's a trick question)
There is so much controversy surrounding the people in these
programs, the programs themselves, the data from the programs, etc
etc etc - that there really isn't anything to go off of.
Unfortunately there have been no peer reviewed studies that prove
that remote viewing is a reality. darn. Research the links below
and see what you think.
An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic
Functioning - by Profressor Jessica Utts of UCDavis
Critique of the PEAR Remote Viewing Experiments
- by Jessica Utts, Betty Markwick and George P. Hansen
The STAR GATE Program - From the Federation of
American Scientists
An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and
Applications - prepared by the American Institutes for Research
(PDF)
The American Institutes for Research Review of the
... STAR GATE Program: A Commentary - by Edwin C. May, PhD from
Cognitive Sciences Lab.
The
Cognitive Sciences Laboratory Web Site
A Skeptic's Notebook - Scientific Remote
Viewing - by Robert A. Baker
This is supposedly the original remote viewing manual used by SRI
International - HERE
Remote
Viewing? Remote Chance... - From Karen Stollznow, The Naked
Skeptic
Here is a PDF of the original remote viewing manual - COORDINATE REMOTE VIEWING, STAGES I-VI AND BEYOND
FEB 1985
The Farsight
Institute
Remote Viewing Timeline
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