ESP

Remote Viewing (ESP)

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


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

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

• a subject (the remote viewer)
• active ESP abilities
• a distant target
• the subject's recorded perceptions
• a confirmatory positive feedback
• remote viewing sessions lasts about one hour.

In 1972, talented remote viewer, Ingo Swann, was tested by physicists Harold Puthoff, PhD, and Russell Targ, PhD, at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Swann was able to accurately describe the features of a uniquely designed magnetometer at a Stanford physics lab, buried beneath the floor in six feet of concrete and encased in three other types of shielding designed expressly to exclude all known types of extraneous influences.

The SRI group received funding from CIA for further research and implemented structured remote viewing into their experimental protocols. In the ensuing years, the validity of the RV methodology was demonstrated over thousands of laboratory trials by viewers Swann, Pat Price, Hella Hamid, and others, and more reliable methods were developed. After Puthoff and Targ published some results of their work in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in 1976, CIA imposed tighter security on the program and added operational tasking.

In 1978 and with guidance from SRI, INSCOM created a small group under the name GRILL FLAME at Ft Meade to use RV for collecting foreign intelligence. In 1985, CIAs research program was transferred from SRI to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Palo Alto under the direction of physicist, Edwin May, PhD. The SAIC and INSCOM programs continued independently until 1986, when DIA assumed control of both operations and research under the leadership of physicist, Dale Graff, MS. In 1991 DIA renamed the program STAR GATE.

In 1995, responsibility for STAR GATE was transferred from DIA to CIA. That fall, for its own reasons CIA publicly declared the program ended, declassified portions of it, and released a controversial research report purporting to show that remote viewing was not useful for intelligence collection.

In the years since, a number of persons previously associated with the Government-sponsored RV programs have gone public by giving media interviews, publishing books, and offering training in RV methodology. In 1999, the International Remote Viewing Association was established as a means for professionals in the field to cooperatively advance their craft and foster public understanding.
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