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Remote Viewing

Loads of stuff online about this, mainly concerning the CIA and
Sony, who closed their psi lab a while back.

The CIA remote viewers were usually just given a map and told to
get on with it.

The BBC used to occasionally run an all-night sequence of psi stuff,
taken from a BBC Wales series. There was a striking show on remote
viewing experiments carried out in New York City. I think they used a
psychic transmitter guy to convey the details from a particular map
reference to a Brit. visitor in a darkened room. Later she was able to
find the spot in Central Park, including such details as a pergola and a
striped awning. Of course, God only knows how many experiments
failed. Often it's what these shows omit. :rolleyes:

If you think you may have a gift for it, it should be a fairly easy thing
to play around with, if you can find areas you have absolutely never
visited. At worst, it would be an excuse for some fresh air. ;)
 
Why would Sony be interested in remote viewing? Surely a company that makes TV's wouldn't want people to develop an ability to see things that happen far away.
 
We've got a sort of RV experiment going in this forum -
it's called, with great originality, Remote Viewing Experiment. Give it a go, it might help you get your hand in (so to speak...)
 
Can't find another general RV thread so........

There are a number of experiments around if people are still looking for them.

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India successful in using remote viewing techniques and satellite technologies for counterintelligence and strategic intelligence

Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent
December 13, 2004

RAW India's equivalent of CIA has advanced quite a lot in recent days. Sources close to New Delhi reports that RAW is using advanced satellite technologies and remote viewing techniques to look into foreign intelligence activities within India. Remote viewing is the paranormal activities with psychics that can sense into the future and unknown. CIA in America has used remote viewing for many years. Many times remote viewing has worked very well for CIA and Russian intelligence.


Recent days India has seen a massive amount Pakistan's ISI agents arrested all over the country. The situation has gone so bad for Pakistan and Al-Queda that they are looking for reasons what is really happening. Taking clue for CIA, RAW Indian counterpart started remote viewing techniques many years back. They also tried to correlate the readings with high tech feedbacks like satellite sensing. This is being further validated with in the field agents' report. The net results for RAW and CBI (Central Bureau of Intelligence - equivalent of FBI) are astounding.

Sources say India has locked in close surveillance over most of foreign agencies within the country. RAW has recently expanded the efforts for strategic intelligence. This include spying over Pakistan, China and the Western nations.

The reason for the success is attributable to traditional Indian cultural richness over spirituality and paranormal activities.

The remote viewing activities are notthing new for India. Indians traditionally have been doing it for thousands of years. But now India is doing it for a reason.

Satellite technologies are also helping understand movement of Pakistan's ISI supported militants in South Asia. Sources close to RAW say Pakistan's ISI is more active in Bangladesh and North East India than Kashmir these days. In the field agents are supporting these information.

Bangladesh has recently seen enormous amount of violence around election. Pakistan's main goal is not Kashmir at this time. It is to hijack Bangladesh again and start a covert front on the east of India.

Remote viewing if applied in a wrong way can cause catastrophe and total embarrassment. An ideal example would be the WMD information Iraq. Seventy-three thousand pages of secret documents have recently been declassified in the United States. The information unveiled the activity of two special groups that worked with extrasensory individuals. The CIA had to acknowledge that it used remote viewers and other individuals possessing paranormal abilities for intelligence purposes.

According to Pravda.Ru CIA's remote viewers initiated quest for WMD in Iraq. Obviously they were wrong at least based what we know today.
CIA's remote viewing activities has been not all that failure.

"Psychic spy" Joseph McMoneagle also known as "remote viewing agent #001" was shown a spot on the map of the USSR, where the mysterious secret object was supposedly located, as CIA agents thought. McMoneagle put his finger on the map and described the image that he saw in his mind:

"It is a congregation of low stone and concrete buildings. A huge underground warehouse filled with lethal weapons. Not only missiles. There are other square and round items there. I see a very high column of smoke, bearing some semblance to a huge lifting crane, rising above the area (it was most likely the smoke of a nuclear blast). The people inhabiting that place are sick. Their hair is receding, their bones are putrefying. They deliver sick children, and they are still obsessed with some idea."

It was quite an eloquent description for secret agents to understand, what kind of an object was located in Semipalatinsk (which is now a town in the republic of Kazakhstan). Then CIA Director Richard Helms moved the paranormal espionage from the category "Research" to the category "Practice." Joseph McMoneagle's success as a remote viewer increased the funding of such unusual activities, not to mention the improved moral aspect. The US authorities spent about $2 million a year on a rather small group of 20 extrasensory individuals in the 1990s.

Other achievements of American psychic agents include: factories making weapons of mass destruction in third world countries, including Iraq (it is not ruled out that the information about WMD in Iraq sprang from remote viewers. Extrasensory intelligence officers also developed certain recommendations to recruit CIA agents and rendered some other services too.

India's achievement in remote viewing and use of advanced technologies is remarkable in recent days. According to some international experts what really worked for India is not just remote viewing but the availability of in the field agents who could confirm the remote viewers clues.
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The real reason?

CIA's remote viewers initiated quest for WMD in Iraq

Dec. 13, 2004



Seventy-three thousand pages of secret documents have recently been declassified in the United States. The information unveiled the activity of two special groups that worked with extrasensory individuals. The CIA had to acknowledge that it used remote viewers and other individuals possessing paranormal abilities for intelligence purposes. The groups of extrasensory individuals apparently worked without having any links with each other. One of those groups was searching for information about spying on the territory of the USA (counterintelligence), another one was dealing with identification of nuclear and other secret objects in the country of an enemy (strategic intelligence). The two groups achieved quite impressive results in their work. The Polish and East-German residents, as well as other agents from several "NATO-friendly" countries of Western Europe were destroyed owing to the efforts of the first group. Aldrich Ames, a KGB agent, was detected with special groups'' help too. American counterintelligence officers had a suspicion of having a spy within the CIA, although there was absolutely no information about him. A remote viewer involved in the detecting process gave the following description: "The man lives on the outskirts of Washington, owns a very expensive foreign car, he is married to a Latin American woman, most likely a Colombian, and he likes grey." Six CIA agents matching the description were put under strict observation - Aldrich Ames was caught as a result of the further investigation. Extrasensory individuals from the strategic intelligence unit helped the CIA find a Soviet nuclear test ground in Semipalatinsk and a Chinese test ground in Lop-Nor. American agents had information about certain objects of paramount importance in those areas. However, it was impossible for them to find out, what kind of object they were exactly - secret factories, military grounds or powerful centers to test and launch ballistic missiles. "Psychic spy" Joseph McMoneagle also known as "remote viewing agent #001" was shown a spot on the map of the USSR, where the mysterious secret object was supposedly located, as CIA agents thought. McMoneagle put his finger on the map and described the image that he saw in his mind: "It is a congregation of low stone and concrete buildings. A huge underground warehouse filled with lethal weapons.Not only missiles. There are other square and round items there. I see a very high column of smoke, bearing some semblance to a huge lifting crane, rising above the area (it was most likely the smoke of a nuclear blast). The people inhabiting that place are sick. Their hair is receding, their bones are putrefying. They deliver sick children, and they are still obsessed with some idea." It was quite an eloquent description for secret agents to understand, what kind of an object was located in Semipalatinsk (which is now a town in the republic of Kazakhstan). Then CIA Director Richard Helms moved the paranormal espionage from the category "Research" to the category "Practice." Joseph McMoneagle's success as a remote viewer increased the funding of such unusual activities, not to mention the improved moral aspect. The US authorities spent about $2 million a year on a rather small group of 20 extrasensory individuals in the 1990s. Other achievements of American psychic agents include: factories making weapons of mass destruction in third world countries, including Iraq (it is not ruled out that the information about WMD in Iraq sprang from remote viewers. Extrasensory intelligence officers also developed certain recommendations to recruit CIA agents and rendered some other services too. The CIA administration has apparently come to conclusion that it was not profitable to spend time and money on paranormal activities against the background of the up-to-date technological development. The above-mentioned declassified materials were accompanied with a statement that the work of psychic groups was shut down within CIA's framework in 1997. Now the agency prefers to use spying satellites and "live bugs" - microchips, which can be implanted in flies, cockroaches and ants. Journalists thanked the CIA administration to exposing such interesting materials, although they did not believe that the remote-viewing project had been closed. Reporters managed to find out that the paranormal project had been handed over to the Pentagon's intelligence, the directors of which declined all comments. An anonymous colonel of the US Air Force said that the American government would eliminate the project completely only if Russia abolished it first.
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Those interested in Remote Viewing may find the Hawaiin religion, Huna, also Charles (Chucky) Cosimano, of interest.
 
Phew - no need to worry:

Remote viewing Tibetan monks see Extra Terrestrial powers saving the World from destroying itself in 2012

N.K. Subramanium, Special Correspondent
December 26, 2004

Remote viewing is nothing new in Tibetan monasteries. For thousands of years remote viewing in the middle of other spiritual activities have dominated Tibetan culture. What some Indian tourists came to learn from a few Tibetan monasteries under the current Chinese rule is extremely alarming and fascinating.


According to these tourists remote viewers are seeing world powers in the course of self-destruction. They also see that the world will not be destroyed. Between now and 2012 the world super powers will continue to engage in regional wars. Terrorism and covert war will be the main problem. In world politics something will happen in and around 2010. At that time the world powers will threaten to destroy each other.

Between 2010 and 2012, the whole world will get polarized and prepare for the ultimate dooms day. Heavy political maneuvers and negotiations will take place with little progress.

In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war.

And at that time something remarkable will happen, says, Buddhist monk of Tibet. Supernatural divine powers will intervene. The destiny of the world is not to self-destruct at this time.

Scientific interpretation of the monks’ statements makes it evident that the Extra Terrestrial powers are watching us every step of the way. They will intervene in 2012 and save the world from self-destruction.

When asked about recent UFO sightings in India and China, the monks smiled and said the divine powers are watching us all. Mankind cannot and will not be allowed to alter the future to that great extent.

Every human being though their current acts in life called “Karma” can alter the future lives to some extent, but changing the destiny in that large extent will not be allowed to that great an extent.

Monks also mentioned that beyond 2012 our current civilization would understand that the final frontier of science and technology is in area of spirituality and not material physics and chemistry. Beyond 2012, out technologies will take a different direction. People will learn the essence of spirituality, the relation between body and the soul, the reincarnation and the fact we are connected with each other are all part of “God”.

In India and China UFO sightings have increased in many folds. Many say the Chinese and Indian Governments are being contacted by the Extra Terrestrials.

In recent days most UFO activities have been seen in those countries who have indigenously developed Nuke capabilities.

When asked if these extra-terrestrials will show up in reality in 2012, the answers remote viewers are giving is: they will reveal themselves in such a way that none of us scared. They will reveal themselves only if they have to. As our science and technology progresses, we are destined to see them and interact with them any way.

According to the remote viewers, our earth is blessed and is being saved continuously from all kinds of hazards all the time that we are not even aware of. As our technologies progress we will realize how external forces saved us.
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firstly id like to say that i whole hartedly belive remote veiwing works not just for tebetan monks and the like but for us all..but
storys of us getting into trouble but we will somehow be majically saved by said "whoever" do my head in.
whats wrong with the ordinary joe doing it?
arnt we all quite able to sort out our own lives /troubles ourselves,possibly with help from family/freinds?
because if not we dont deseve any help no matter who they are.
 
There is a lot of material about RV on the net. But my personal favourite is this site by the "Para Researchers of Ontario". They did an on line RV experiment whose reults you can see here:

http://www.pararesearchers.org/remoteview0203/

And you can participate in their current experiment:

ParaResearchers Online Interactive Remote Viewing Experiment
JULY 3RD, 2004 through June 17th, 2005

http://pararesearchers.ontarioghosts.org/
 
To remote view I choose my bed as the ideal place. I prefer night time as darkness kills any light that might be bouncing around inside my closed eyes. My method is to relax in bed with my eyes closed in total darkness. I then stare into the darkness and try to find any specs of light to focus on. When a spec of light or patchy image appears I try to let it develop on its own. If I rapidly inrease my focus on the image and try to judge its content - it often fades away. Simply look at what's to be seen. Using this method I regularly see school room scenes from what appears to be a 1950's (or earlier ) period. Peoples faces and clothes along with details of the room regularly appear as real as if I were standing in the room with these people. I never recognise any of them but it's a curious experience. Sometimes in the darkness I will see a street and other times a heavily wooded valley. Occasionally I'm able to move along the street sometimes having full control over the speed at which I do so. In the valley scene I'm able to leave the ground and race skyward at great speed. Controlling these excursions is a little hit and miss and I can find myself hurtling towards the ground completely out of control. There is another type of locomotion that I've heard called "Skating". It's where the remote viewer/astral traveller glides across the ground at any speed he/she wishes. I have experienced this and its magical. Again I should mention that skaters can also loose control suddemly and find themselves racing at hundreds of miles per hour straight into an office block. I've never had a what could be termed as a frighteneing trip and can say that generally its an uplifting event. I'd be interested to hear of anyone else's methods and experinces if possible.
 
Isn't remote viewing supposed to have some purpose to it, like looking at something specific rather than wandering aimlessly around your mind's eye? This sounds more like lucid dreaming.
 
I usually find that a CCTV camera on a pole is a more effective means of remote viewing than just lying in bed.

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Re Remote viewing

Remote viewing = seeing things from afar. I see things(times) from afar but I'm only a beginner. Experts can choose their target time and place and this is used for crime solving / alien communication etc. The thrill and realism of actual astral travel fear exceeds that of watching CCTV images I can assure you.
 
Re - Remote viewing

This is not lucid dreaming as I can scratch my arm or open my eyes at anytime. I fully awake during these trips.
 
That's really interesting Grey,
While lying in bed, I can sometimes put myself in a state where I feel as though I'm suddenly my real "inner self" which I can only get to last for a second and I do occasionally try and convince myself that I'm lifting up out of my body and once it felt like one leg started rapidly quivering or vibrating and I'm sure I was close to getting something to happen but this actually distracted me and I was back to reality
Your tips sound good - I'm gonna give it a go!
Dan
 
Researchers Use ESP to Make Thousands of Dollars on the Stock Market

If telepathy and precognition are real abilities, why is it that nobody has cashed in on them by using their 'psi' talents to predict or mind-read sporting results, casino games, or changes in stock markets? It's a common criticism leveled by skeptics, but there is actually research out there showing that people *have* done exactly that - and made some serious money!

The most recent example is an experiment into the validity of using 'remote viewing' - that is, the practice of attempting to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to 'see' targets at a distance (geographically, and/or in time) - to predict the stock market. Published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration (Vol. 28, No. 1) under the title of "Stock Market Prediction Using Associative Remote Viewing by Inexperienced Remote Viewers" (PDF), the study was carried out as part of a class project (in a course entitled “Edges of Science”) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The ten 'remote viewers' were neophytes, nine of them being students and one a professor.

The experiment went like this: Firstly, two visually distinct 'target' images were selected and printed out from a pool of pictures depicting objects and scenes. A coin toss was used to decide which target was going to symbolise the market going up, and which would be down. The two target images were then sealed in dated envelopes by an independent party (to keep participants and judges blind to the targets as much as possible).

Then, every few days the study participants were tasked to remotely view one of the pre-selected targets during class, the identity of which would be revealed to them at the beginning of the next remote viewing period a few days later. The remote viewers were given five minutes to quickly describe on paper and sketch the image they would be shown in the future. Afterwards, judges compared each remote viewing session to the two targets, selecting the one they thought matched the session best. See the image below showing the two targets, and the remote viewing session notes by one RVer.

If the majority of the ten viewers’ sessions were judged to most accurately describe the Up target, that was taken as a prediction that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) would close up at the end of the next market day. If the majority were judged to describe the Down image, that would be a prediction that the DJIA would close down. At the beginning of the next market day, the experimenter purchased DJIA options according to the prediction, then just before the close of the market, he would sell the options and actualize any loss or gains.

The experimenters - Christopher Carson Smith, Darrell Laham and Garret Moddel of the Department of Electrical, Computer, & Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado - repeated the procedure for seven trials using the same 10 remote viewers. The result? Of the seven trials performed, all seven resulted in correct predictions, showing statistical significance at p < .01. More tangibly, however:

Regarding the financial results, on an initial investment of $10,000 we gained approximately $16,000 with a total of $26,000 at the end of trial 5. The first five trials were conducted on days of large market swings, therefore the potential gains were very large. Trials 6 and 7 happened on days of small market changes and, despite resulting in correct predictions, produced small losses because of the mechanics of the options trading vehicle. A timing issue in the trade of trial 7 resulted in an additional monetary loss of approximately $12,000. However, it is important to stress that this was in spite of the prediction itself being correct. (Without this timing error, total
cash at the end of the project would have amounted to $38,000, or a return of almost 400% on the investment in a span of about two weeks.)
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The study concluded that remote viewing "appears to be a reasonably accurate way to predict the future of binary outcomes... RV has dramatic implications for how we view time and our ability to perceive the future".

This is not, however, the first time someone has made money through remote viewing research. The paper discusses some previous history, including a study conducted by pioneering remote viewing researcher Hal Puthoff in 1982, in which a series of 30 RV trials attempted to predict the outcome of the silver futures market. Financially, the trials netted a profit of approximately $250,000 for their investor, "of which Puthoff’s share was ten percent, or more than $25,000, which he used to help fund a new Waldorf School". And in that same year, researchers Russell Targ and Keith Harary also used remote viewing to predict silver futures in an attempt to raise funds for their research, with their first experiment yielding $120,000.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to practice some remote viewing for a while...
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Carl Grove said:
I think that as far as remote viewing is concerned, it seems to be the case that much of the stuff that pops into the heads of the viewers is irrelevant or fantasy, but (certainly for the better exponents) a fair percentage is amazingly accurate. For Intelligence work this is nothing out of the ordinary -- 90% of the info they get from conventional sources proves unreliable anyway. But the accurate 10% is the reason why the project was continued for so long, and why they were still getting requests for info from all the major agencies even when the decision was taken to close it. It's a fair bet that a similar project, protected under a higher level of classification, is still ongoing somewhere.

Regarding the hypnotist involved, his conclusion was only that the two witnesses believed in the reality of what they recalled -- which of course will cover both the fantasy and the mind control theories.
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I would counter that by saying chance and guesswork combined is more accurate than 10% of the time. But we all know about The Men Who Stare at Goats, and the military who basically wanted to be the X-Men with no ability to fulfil that pipe dream.
 
GNC said:
I would counter that by saying chance and guesswork combined is more accurate than 10% of the time. But we all know about The Men Who Stare at Goats, and the military who basically wanted to be the X-Men with no ability to fulfil that pipe dream.
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There's no doubt that when tested statistically, the RV results were very highly significant, at least for the telepathic protocol where someone was sent to a target and the subject was asked to say where he or she was. But RV as used in spying is dependent on use of geographical co-ordinates, and may not be so reliable. Also there was huge variation in the ability of the remote viewers, Pat Price being the most efficient performer. (Most viewers could only report basic visual details, but Price was said to be able to read notices and even documents at the target area.) As for the staring at goats angle, that seems to have been a confused reference to the delayed action death blow known to advanced kung fu experts, but whether it would have worked on goats is debateable!
 
Well, I was using the "Men Who Stare at Goats" phrase as a catch-all for the military who wanted science fiction to be true, rather than the specific killing goats bit!
 
Carl Grove said:
Excellent paper, which confirms that the evidence for the effectiveness of remote viewing is overwhelming. All those people who repeat, parrot fashion, in these and other internet forums, that "there is no evidence for the reality of ESP" should be forced to read it. Great discovery!
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Agreed! :cool:
 
Jessica Utts, who wrote that paper way back in 1995, was attempting to prove that Remote Viewing was a real phenomenon. The CIA disagreed, and terminated the program.
Shame, really.
 
eburacum said:
Jessica Utts, who wrote that paper way back in 1995, was attempting to prove that Remote Viewing was a real phenomenon. The CIA disagreed, and terminated the program.
Shame, really.
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Well, it wouldn't be the first time that the CIA has claimed to terminate a programme and continued it under greater security. I'm sure that happened with MKULTRA. But the huge amount of information that came out regarding remote viewing and the army project, which was a bit shambolic, probably led the CIA to develop something genuinely secret along the same lines. The CIA couldn't "disagree" with the experimental data presented in that paper -- they are extremely powerful, and would certainly establish any less controversial phenomenon as genuine.
 
She doesn't appear to be completely impartial, but she still could be correct in her meta-analysis. The conclusion was that it was real, but not useful for surveillance as it wasn't reliable enough. Better to discredit it and walk away, then. There is a similar division with scientists over UFOs.
She hardly appears fringe:
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jutts/
 
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