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MEMO
SG1J
To: G.
Fox
Date: 9 Mar 1984
From:
Subject: Remote Viewing Protocols
With regard to protocols for eliciting the remote viewing (RV) function,
there are two prevailing approaches in the field, the "altered-states"
approach and the "naturalistic" approach.
The altered-states approach
holds that the RV function is best elicited by procedures that
approximate a type of altered state in which psi is sometimes evidenced
spontaneously.
These states include sleep, meditation or other
sensory-deprivation states in which attention is withdrawn from the
environment with a corollary focusing of attention inward.
The
naturalistic approach, on the other hand, posits that the RV function,
as with any other task in which attention must be focused (such as in
solving a mathematics problem), is best accomplished in a state of
natural alertness and attention to the task at hand.
Programs that
utilize the altered-states approach include the Monroe Institute of
Applied Sciences (Faber, VA) and the Psychophysical Research
Laboratories (Princeton, NJ); programs that utilize the naturalistic
approach include SRI International (Menlo Park, CA) and the Princeton
University laboratory under Dean R. Jahn (Princeton, NJ.)
With regard to specifics, the Monroe Institute approach utilizes audio
tapes to induce a profound state of relaxation and focus in the viewer,
who typically is relaxed supine on a waterbed.
These tapes include
low-level (subliminal) relaxation instructions and certain
"binaural-beat" audio signals thought to be conducive to a centered,
focused state of relaxation.
The Psychophysical Research Laboratories
utilizes the so-called "Ganzfeld" approach, in which the viewer,
seated in a reclining chair, is presented with homogeneous visual and
auditory inputs by means of illumination on ping- pong-ball halves taped
over the eyes, and "pink" (high-frequency suppressed) noise via
earphones to the ears.
In the naturalistic approach employed by SRI
and Princeton, on the other hand, the viewer simply sits alert, often
at a table, making sketches and verbalizing into a tape recorder in
response to questions or guidance from a monitor/interviewer with whom
he is in dialog in a conversational manner. As an example of the
differences, a point-by-point comparison of the Monroe Institute of
Applied Sciences (MIAS) technique and the SRI technique is given below.
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MIAS Procedures
1. Percipient is (typically) suppine on
a waterbed, in a highly relaxed state.
2. Audio relaxation tapes are used to
place the percipient in an increasingly
deep state of relaxation. (The tapes
can be dispensed with, once the
percipient is familiar with the
associated relaxation states.)
SRI Procedures
1. Percipient is (typically)
seated at a table, ready
to sketch, in a relaxed,
but highly alert, state.
2. No special techniques are
used to ready the
percipient; the session
begins in a
conversational mode, with
the monitor posing the
task of the day.
3. The percipient gathers data in a
deep state of relaxation, describing
his input occasionally, and taking
instructions from the monitor at
intervals, sketching and drawing
is carried out at session end.
4. The percipient ends off, "coming up,"
as it were, with a reversal of the
relaxation procedures used to begin
the session.
3. The percipient gathers
data somewhat relaxed
state, interacting with
the monitor in a
conversational mode,
and rendering sketches
and drawings as he goes.
4. When the task is
complete, the percipient
simply ends off, in the
same state of relaxed
alertness mainained
throughout the session.
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