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A study was published in 1976 by Harold E. Puthoff and Russel Tarq
entitled "A PERCEPTUAL CHANNEL FOR INFORMATION TRANSFER OVER
KILOMETER DISTANCES:
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND RECENT RESEARCH"
Stanford Research Institute elicited high-quality remote viewing
from a half dozen individuals who agreed to act as subjects in
over fifty experiments.
These experiments were conducted under
controlled laboratory conditions at SRI with several remote
viewers whose perceptual
abilities have been developed
sufficiently to describe correctly and often in great detail
geographical or technical material such as buildings, roads, and
laboratory apparatus.
The phenomenon investigated was the ability
of both experienced and inexperienced subjects to remote view
geographical locations up to several
thousand kilometers distant
from his or her physical location.
The difference between
experienced and inexperienced subjects is not the quality of
remote viewing, but that the inexperienced viewers results are
generally more sporadic or less reliable.
An increase in the
distance from a few meters up to 4000 km separating the subject
from the scene to be perceived does not in any apparent way
degrade the quality or accuracy of perception.
The accumulated
data concluded that the phenomenon is not a sensitive function of
distance and that it is possible to obtain significant amounts of
accurate descriptive information about remote locations.
Even the
use of Faraday cage electrical shielding does not prevent high-
quality descriptions from being obtained.
A Faraday cage is
double-walled with a copper-screen and provides 120-dB attenuation
for plane-wave radio-frequency radiation over a range of 15 KHZ
and decreases
to 3dB at 60 HZ.
The experiments were conducted by the use of double-blind
protocols which ensures that none of the persons in contact with
the subject can be aware of the target.
The results of all
sessions were recorded on a master log and all data associated
with a given experiment remained unedited.
Remote viewing results are generally better when verbal
transcripts are augmented with sketches.
As a matter of fact,
some viewers drew visual images that they could not identify in
any cognitive or analytic sense.
A few transcripts correctly
identified and named the target.
However, most of the correct
information that subjects relate is of a nonanalytic nature
pertaining to shape, form, color, and material, rather than
to
function or name.
Each subjects overall approach suggests that
just as individual
descriptions of a directly viewed target
scene
differ, differences occur on an individual basis in the remote
viewing process.
Some areas of physics are currently being explored as a possible
¥
explanation to the phenomenon
itself.
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