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'Remote viewing': A look into the unknown
By NED MacKAY
Mental ability to view a distant
location through . someone else's
eyes-in some cases via future
prediction - has been uncovered
by two physicists at Stanford Re-
search Institute (SRI) in Menlo
Park.
The physicists, Harold E. Puth-
off and Russell Targ, conducted 51
experiments during the past three
years, using both experienced and
in experienced subjects.
People's "remote viewing"
skills, as the scientists termed
them, were tested using locations
as distant as Puerto Rico and as
close as the Stanford University
campus.
In four cases which the scien-
tists admit reluctance to publish,
one person evidenced ability to
describe accurately the spot an-
other was visiting, before the visit
had occurred and before even the .
visitor knew where it would be.
The results of the experiments
. are described in an article appear-
ing in the March issue of the Pro-
ceedings of the Institute of the
Electrical and Electronic Engi-
neers.
Targ and Puthoff were the two ments, then five additional verifi- the site accompanied by ob-
SRI scientists who studied the ap- cation series using different
servers.
parent psychokinetic abilities of
people.
Uri Geller, a young Israeli who
toured the United States in 1973
demonstrating his alleged psychic
powers. .
Targ and Puthoff concluded
that they had no scientific expla-
nation for some of the things
Geller could do, and that "further
investigation is clearly warrant-
ed."
In working on the more recent
research, Puthoff and Targ con-
· ducted a series of original experi- : perimenter proceeded directly to
In general the format called for
a member of SRI management not
otherwise connected with the ex-
periment to supervise selection of
the locations and keep each loca-
tion listed in a sealed envelope in
his office safe.
During an experiment a sealed
envelope was selected at random
and handed to the experimenter
who was to visit the site. The ex-
Meanwhile, the other experi-
menter, who remained ignorant of
the site, was kept in the laborato-
ry with the subject for the entire
period. Some subjects were placed.
in a Faraday Cage to screen out
most electromagnetic waves.
While the team was at the site,
the subject focused his thoughts
on the outbound experimenter
and his location, describing the
scene and making any drawings
he wished.
Ultimately judges not connect-
ed with the experiments were Puthoff was on a 10-day trip to
asked to match the descriptions Costa Rica and would photograph
with the sites. Various "double
and describe his location at 1:30
p.m. on seven specific days.
blind" arrangements were used to
prevent accidental ; information
leakage.
According to Puthoff and Targ
the results of five out of six stud-
ies were significantly better than
mere chance would allow. Three
of the studies differed from
chance expectations by odds of
1,000 to 1 or better, one by odds
of half a million to one.
In the long-distance experiment,
three subjects knew only that
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At one of the appointed times,
a subject back at SRI said with
some misgivings that Targ's loca-
tion was an airport with a sandy
beach and ocean nearby. It was
correct - Targ had taken an un-
planned side-trip to an offshore
island and had just disembarked
from a plane.
In experiments closer to home,
subjects described with varying
accuracy their experimenters'
visits to the Palo Alto Civic
Center, the pedestrian overpass to
the Bayshore Freeway at Oregon
Expressway, and various, parks.
One subject correctly identified
her experimenter's location 25
White Memorial Plaza at Stanford
University.
The authors approached the fu-
. ture viewing experiment results
with extreme caution.
"If the authors may be forgiven
a personal note, we wish to
express that this section deals with
observations that we have been
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planation of some of the experi-
ily declared he ment results.
Their discussion of the apparent
"time reversibility" of observa-
volves electromagnetic and quan-
tum theory, and suggests that
precognition "may be the easiest
of apparent paranormal pheno-
mena to assimilate within the cur-
rent theoretical structure of our
world view."
". .. Modern theory is not with -.
out resources that can be brought.
to bear on the problems at hand,
and we expect that these prob-
lems will, with further work, con-
tinue to yield to analysis and
specification," they wrote.
The research was supported by
the Foundation for Parasensory
Investigation and the Parapsy-
chology Foundation of New York
City; the Insitute of Noetic
Sciences, Palo Alto; and the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration.
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ings, terrorism and domestic vio-
lence in 1970 he authorized a co.
ordinated 'counter-operation by .
most intelligence agencies but
called the operation off after a few
days after objections from the late
FBI . Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Nixon said he was "surprised" at
Hoover's disagreement because
"the FBI chief had attended the
meeting setting up the operation,
later to be known as the "Huston
plan."
-The quality of intelligence
during the Nixon administration
"was relatively adequate" but
"better intelligence concerning
the 1974 Yom Kippur War in the
Middle East might have permitted
moves to avert it."
-Nevertheless, he found "re-
cent efforts to emasculate the
Central Intelligence Agency and
related intelligence organizations
to be not only incredibly short-
sighted but potentially dangerous
to the security of all free nations."
-"For the national media to
publish and disseminate classified
national security information is in
my view irresponsible journal-
ism."
Nixon apparently felt that his
responses would leak or be re-
leased by the committee partially
or in a another form and instruct-
ed. his Washington attorneys to
release the answers as he made
them.
A spokesman for Miller, Cassidy
and Larrocca, the law firm repre-
senting Nixon, said that the White
responses,
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Seeing' through another's eyes
The sketches shown at right are one person's mental images gathered
truct them to : during another's visit to a Palo Alto pedestrian overpass. The first par-
ticipant stayed at Stanford Research Institute and did the sketch, describing
the image as. "some kind of a diagonal trough up in the air."
SRI's 'remote viewing' study
tells of parasensory 'sight'
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flu two weeks
their striking apparent incompat-
ibility with existing concepts,"
Targ and Puthoff wrote.
on the panel.
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"The motivating factor for pre -.
senting the data at this time is the
ethical consideration that
theorists endeavoring to develop
models for paranormal function-
ing should be apprised of all the
observable data if their efforts to
arrive at, a comprehensive and
correct description are to be suc-
cessful."
During the original experiments
some of the participants had vol-
lunteered that they had .had
images of where their experi -
menter would visit in the forth-
coming test.
So Targ and Puthoff did four.
more experiments with one sub-
ject. The difference was that the
subject was required to describe
the remote location during a 15-
minute period beginning 20 min-
utes before the location was se-
lected and 35 minutes before the
outbound experimenter arrived'
there.
"For reasons we do not as yet
understand, the four transcripts
generated in the precognition ex-
periment show exceptional coher-
ence and accuracy as evidenced
by the fact that all of the judges
were able to match successfully
all of the transcripts to the corre-
sponding target locations,". Targ
and Puthoff reported.
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