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The Non-local Mind: Remote Viewing                                   by Richard Stammler       © Rich Stammler, 2008      Imagine the discovery of a phenomenon that gives evidence that time may only be an artifact of human perception. Imagine the discovery of a phenomenon that indicates that the past, present, and future exist simultaneously (that is, all at once in the here and now), and that alternate futures and even alternate pasts may also exist.1                            ~ Remote Viewer Courtney Brown      Remote viewing is the ability to produce accurate information about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space from the location of the viewer. The time and place can be completely blind to the remote viewer and, in double blind studies, to the experimenter.      The definition of remote viewing in the Stanford Research Institute Manual (created under government funding) for the process states:      Remote Viewing (RV): The name of a method of psychoenergetic perception. A term coined by SRI-International and defined as “the acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shielding, or time.” 2      The initial research was headed by physicist Harold Puthoff beginning in 1972 at the Cognitive Science Laboratory (CSL) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) under an intelligence compartmented (at that time) security program. Due to some related research proposals, Puthoff invited an artist and (I would have to say) psychic, Ingo Swann, to the SRI lab. While visiting the lab, Swann remote viewed a complex and unpublished shielding device located on the floor below the lab. As a result of this experience the CIA sent representatives to the lab and discussed their concerns about Russian research into parapsychology and convinced Puthoff to conduct more formal tests with Swann. The initial tests, in which Swann remote viewed objects in a box in a blind study, were sufficiently compelling that the CIA funded a more elaborate investigation in a “Biofield Measurements Program.” 3 A colleague of Puthoff, Russell Targ, a fellow laser experimenter who had an interest in parapsychology, joined Puthoff and the program was up and running. Puthoff describes the results:       To summarize, over the years the back-and-forth criticisms of protocols, refinement of methods, and successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories… has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. . .4       Early tests included objects in boxes, documents in envelopes and target remote viewing where an individual (the beacon) visits a site unknown to the remote viewer who then describes the location of the target individual. Ingo Swann then suggested that they not have a beacon but remote view based on geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) instead. This next phase entailed a double blind experiment (the location is unknown to the remote viewer and the experimenter) of a classified government site in West Virginia where the one remote viewer described the exterior layout of the facility and another remote viewer described the interior along with the classified project. The results of the remote viewing were substantially correct as verified by responsible government authorities.      An interesting result of one of these early tests occurred when Swann wanted to show that distance is not a limitation in remote viewing. He remote viewed what the NASA Pioneer 10 probe would find as it snapped pictures of Jupiter. With disappointment Swann reported that he saw rings around the planet and given the state of knowledge about the planet then, he concluded that he was mistaken and had remote viewed Saturn instead. This turned to scientific surprise when, for the first time, unknown to astronomers, the probe discovered faint rings around that planet.5      Much of what was done is still classified, but what was revealed was the establishment of at least one operational unit for remote viewing to mine intelligence information critical to the US Government. It was established at the Defense Intelligence Agency (one of its monikers was STARGATE).6 Joe McMoneagle, one of the early government remote viewers, has written authoritatively on the exacting protocols that were developed. Sophisticated training programs are now available to the public that teach what is now known to be a near-universal capability. Targ notes that the government spent $27 million dollars on this program (in all likelihood the expenditure is much higher).7      Puthoff summarizes this early research:      Regardless of one’s a priori position, however, an unimpassioned observer cannot help but attest to the following fact. Despite the ambiguities inherent in the type of exploration covered in these programs, the integrated results appear to provide unequivocal evidence of a human capacity to access events remote in space and time, however falteringly, by some cognitive process not yet understood. My years of involvement as a research manager in these programs have left me with the conviction that this fact must be taken into account in any attempt to develop an unbiased picture of the structure of reality.8      So there you have it, a respected physicist’s conclusions. Remote viewing does have something to say about the structure of reality and the capacity for the human mind to apprehend it. These results are not the tenuous experimental effects found in the Duke parapsychological studies starting in 1927 and continuing for many years, but something much more substantial.9 Joe McMoneagle states that reliable double blind studies of accomplished remote viewers yield an astonishing 80 percent hit rate.10      That this is a “real” phenomenon and not some trick was eminently established by the government funded research at SRI. They discovered that virtually everyone has some capacity to remote view and this ability improves through training. The singular accomplishment of the program, however, and what distinguishes remote viewing from most other so-called psychic activity is the establishment of strict protocols, a series of procedures, to gather a whole range of data about a target and keep confounding information from degrading the results.      Indeed the fathers of remote viewing concluded that it works and is not temporally or spatially limited – the effects are not mitigated by distance or time – and have further concluded that our current view of reality is wrong. The upshot is that they have posited four additional dimensions to reality such that any two temporally separated points in our physical reality are contiguous in the additional dimensions and any two spatially separated points in physical reality are also contiguous in the additional dimensions.11 When the mind operates in these additional dimensions, it is non-local temporally and spatially, and everything has access to it.       If you want to work on this some more – call me. ___________________ 1 Brown, C. (2005). Remote viewing. Atlanta, GO: Farsight Press. 2 Smith, P. H. (1998). The Coordinate remote viewing manual. Austin, TX: Stanford Research Institute – International. This is purported to be one of the original manuals that was built for the government as a part of the SRI research. 3 Putoff, H. E. (1995). CIA-initiated remote viewing at Stanford Research Institute. Austin, TX, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin Retrieved January 20, 2007 from http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid. 7 Targ, R. (2005). Signs. DVD, Long Beach, CA: Lost Arts Media 8 Puthoff, H. E. op. cit. 9 For a summary of this research see the noted transpersonal psychologist, C. T. Tart, who wrote the introduction to: Swann, I. Everybody’s guide to natural ESP: unlocking the extrasensory power of your mind. (1991). New York: Jeremy Tarcher. 10 McMoneagle, J. (1993). Mind trek: exploring consciousness, time and space through remote viewing. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads. 11 Rouscher, E. A. & Targ, R. (2001). The Speed of thought: investigation of a complex space-time metric to describe psychic phenomena. Palo Alto, CA: Bay Research institute.