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Appreved.For Release L—l—vw— 300170002-9 P| To take advantage of the most recent developments in remote viewing, and to achieve the goal of continuing to develop remote viewing . we strongly recommend further development of capabilities in the following areas: ¢ Applications of Remote Viewing. A training procedure has been developed that appeares to greatly increase both the accuracy and reliability of remote viewing by coordinates. This technique should continue to be examined, and applied to targets of nterest * Effects of Feedback, An extensive examination should be made of the necessity for providing feedback in remote viewing trials, A systematic variation in the presence or absence of feedback should be used to determine the importance of this factor. * Target Demarcation. Coordinate remote viewing experiments should be carried out in which the target is demarcated by means of various types of coordinates (e.g., geographic, .and arbitrary). This should be done in order to discover the part played by the target coordinate in determining remote viewing accuracy. * Audio Analysis. In an effort to separate correct from incorrect data available from taped subject descriptions of remote viewing target sites, the use of speech and audio analysis techniques should be investigated as a tool to provide selective editing. This should include semantic analysis, in which analysis of written transcripts are. carried out to look for variations in grammar, style, or vocabulary to help separate correct from incorrect statements in the RV transcript. * Tracking. Further effort should be pursued to perfect the RV process whereby, instead of demarcating a location to obtain a target description, one provides a target description and asks for. location | { a SRI has under development certain ' strategies involving FRV feedback, computer averaging of multiple trials, and so forth, which appear from pilot efforts to hold promise, e Spatial Resolution. A study should be carried out to determine the extent to which it is possible to aid 103 Approved For Release 2000 iaiaiaiaag 9b 728R00" 300170002-9
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INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
(U)
A.
Basic Program Structure
(u)
In this report we present results and assessments
of a one-year
program for the optimization of remote viewing
The objective of this program was
to familiarize these
individuals with the
SRI remote viewing protocols,
to produce enhanced
levels of ability,
and to establish screening tests and procedures
for
#
enlarging the population from which such individuals are selected.
(U)
For the past seven years
SRI
International has been investigating
a human perceptual/processing ability called remote viewing
(RV)
.
This
is
the subject
matter of the
current study,
and
it pertains
to the
acquisition and description,
by mental means,
of information blocked from
ordinary perception by distance or shielding and generally considered
to
be secure from such access
.
w
At
the start of this program,
six individuals were
chosenjj
to participate in an RV technology transfer.
With the exception of one of
the six who had participated in an ESP study
several
years earlier,
these participants when selected were inexperienced
with regard to paranormal perception in general, and RV in particular.
A variety of different training protocols were examined with the goal of
helping the participants familiarize themselves with the
SRI RV techniques.
Formal assessment and transfer series were carried out with each of
the
six participants,
in which they were asked to use mental imagery processes
to describe distant geographic locations
(bridges,
roads,
buildings,
etc.),
hidden 35-ram slides
of similar sites, and objects placed in a controlled-
access
location.
Several other information series were
carried out.
These
are all described
in
later sections of
this report
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With the overall objective of improving the reliability of
psychoenergetic functioning, we have in the past investigated several
different screening procedures,
familiarization/training protocols,
and
judging techniques,
both with the goal of developing procedures useful in
identifying gifted remote viewers,
and of providing the most optimal
strategies
to permit
individuals
to exploit
the RV phenomenon to useful
ends.
In this
# section we provide background data on each of
these areas.
A.
Screening
(U)
OpP^One of the goals of the program was
to pursue the question of
the establishment of screening procedures
to enlarge t#e population from
which individuals are selected for RV work.
(U)
In the psychoenergetics
field in general,
two approaches
to
screening have been pursued;
screening by profile, and screening by
performance.
Both have been examined to a
limited degree
in this program.
(U)
In screening by profile, ^one attempts
to establish physiological
and/or psychological parameters which differentiate high-performance from
low-performance individuals^
In an early program SRI carried out an
extensive profiling program on gifted individuals and controls.
The tests
included a comprehensive medical evaluation,
including X-ray scans 4>f
the
brain, and comprehensive psychological and neuropsychological profiling.
The following
list of tests administered gives an idea as
to the thorough-
ness of the evaluations:
Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale
(WAIS),
Bender
Gestalt Visual Motor Test,
Benton Visual Memory Test, Wechsler Memory
Scale,
Luscher Color
Test,
Strong Vocational
Interest Blank,
Minnesota
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in the experiments
(to prevent direct knowledge
of
the
target pool by the interviewers).
The
locations are chosen to satisfy
the following criteria:
(1)
Target sites must be within a half-hour drive
of the
SRI Menlo Park complex so that
a uniform target access
time exists
for all experiments.
(2)
The target pool
is
constructed to contain several targets
of various types— that
iSj
several fountains,
several
churches,
several boathouses, and so forth— specifically
to circumvent analysis strategies
of the type
"there was
a fountain yesterday,
so it
is unlikely that
there
is
a
fountain today.”
Furthermore, targets
of different types
are not chosen to be particularly distinct from each other,
so that overlapping features exist.
In this manner the
content of a given target,
determined by random entry
into the target pool,
is essentially independent of the
contents
of other targets
("open-deck"
design)
.
(3)
The definition of what constitutes each target
is
established in advance of the entire RV series
by written descriptions on a set
of 3" X 5"
target
„
cards.
(Ex:
Four Seasons Restaurant
,
on El Camino
Real,
just north of San Antonio Road.
Stand under the
entry arch and feel the bricks.)
These
cards constitute
the outbound team's instructions
at
the beginning
of
the trial,
and the
judge's target
list during the
evaluation phase.
4.
Target Storage and Access
(U)
(U)
The target
cards are numbered and placed in individual
envelopes,
similarly numbered, by the target selection team,
and then
stored in a GSA-approved secure container not available to project remote
viewers
.
(U)
At the start
of an RV session the interviewer, remote
viewer, and target person rendezvous in the laboratory and establish the
trial start time
(30 minutes hence).
The target person then leaves
the
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(a) Ratings
[
Transcripts
Targets
A
B
C
D
E
F
Shielded Room
3.55
5.85
2.20
3.80
2.90
2.20
Alta Mesa
3.40
4.00
6.05
2.85
3.00
4.70
Ely Chevrolet
3.50
2.60
1.75
2.00
4.45
4.30
Four Seasons
4.90
3.20
4.80
2.80
2.60
4.85
Methodist Church
2.15
2.60
3.50
3.20
4.70
6.45
Library Stacks
4.05
3.90
3.80
3.80
4.30
6.25
Targets
Shielded Room
Alta Mesa
Ely Chevrolet
Four Seasons
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B
C
D
E
F
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into
the.
"Zeitgeist"
of contemporary
clement in.
Thin
in
mfor tunnto
for psychology,
since
this also means considerable
talent
of new understanding
present
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could
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we stand confirmed
in our original conclusion that
remote viewing
is
a viable human perceptual capability.
We wish
to thank
Prof.
Charles
T.
Tart,
University of California,
Davis,
for his contribution in carrying out
the independent rejudging
study necessary for
the test of
the Marks -Kammann hypothesis.
Harold
E.
Puthoff
Russell
Targ
Radio Physics Laboratory
SRI International
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6.
Qualified on
the basis
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of similar materials--
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REANALYSIS OF SRI REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT
Marks and
Kammann'*' examined the transcripts of the first remote-
viewing experiment published by Targ and Puthoff
and hypothesized
that
inadvertent cues
in
the subject's
(Pat Price)
and experimenter
s
remarks might have provided an artifactual basis
for matching the
transcripts and
target
sites.
They also report attempts by two judges
of their own selection to match a subset
of five of
the transcripts
(with potential artifactual cues
edited out)
and
target
sites.
This
judging produced only chance results,
leading them to conclude
that no
evidence
for extrasensory perception
(ESP)
exists
in this particular
r emote-viewing series.
Although
the case
for
ESP in general and
remote-viewing
in particular
is based on many other experiments
to
which this artifactual cueing hypothesis
is not applicable,
I felt
it was important
to test
the Marks and Kammann hypothesis,
because the
published
examples
of data from the Price series
seemed
to show
exceptionally strong
ESP functioning.
My independent reanalysis of
the Price series,
after
eliminating possible artifacts
of the type
hypothesized by Marks and Kammann,
shows
it
to be exceptionally
significant and
indicative of
ESP functioning*
In analyzing experimental results
of this
type,
somewhat ambiguous
verbal material must be skillfully matched
to see
if there
is
ESP
"signal” among the noise of guesses and generalities.
Such analysis
involves
two assumptions
that
should be made explicit:
(1)
The judge
has whatever specialized
intellectual
faculties are needed
to
discriminate the signal
from the noise
in the transcripts,
and
(2)
the
judge
is motivated
to use these faculties
effectively.
If these
two
assumptions are not reasonably well met,
then we cannot reliably decide
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