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Objective E, Task 3—Determine The Effects Of Hypnosis On RV Quality
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During FY 1987, we found that significant remote viewing was observed after a
hypnotic recall of an earlier viewing against the same target.
In FY 1988, remote viewing sessions
were conducted while the viewers remained in trance.
The idea was to determine
if factors that
lead to noise in the response could be reduced or eliminated using hypnosis.
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^ Two viewers (one experienced and one not) participated in the experiment.
Thj; results failed to meet statistical significance, and the qualitative assessment of the viewings
wa?
in agreement
with
the
statistical
result.
We
conclude
that conducting remote
viewing
experiments with the viewers in trance does not decrease or eliminate the confounding noise.
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Objective E, Task 4—Determine The Source Of “Mental Noise" In Binary
Psychoenergetic Tasks
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During the FY 1986 effort we conducted a formal series of 50 binary trials
using a forced-choice protocol.
One selected viewer (V002) produced a hitting
rate of
64%
(p < 0.033)
and an
effect
size
of
r =
0.26.
These
data were
collected
after a number of
exploratory trials that were conducted earlier in that year, but this formal result was declared to
be
a
fiducial point
(i.e.,
relative baseline)
with which to measure any future progress.
^
During FY
1987,
327 binary
trials were conducted
to
see
if V002 could
sense
if he
were
in
psychoenergetic
contact
with
the
intended
target, and
1341
trials
were
conducted to
if V002 could predict in advance his hitting rate.
V002 was unable to accomplish
the latter task, but but he was able to sense contact with the target in the former task. The effect
sizes
(i.e.,
a measure of psychoenergetic magnitude) that were observed for the in-contact and
not-in-contact conditions were identical
(r = 0.2), while
for the uncertain case chance
hitting
was observed
(r = 0.09).
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During FY 1988, 477 binary trials were conducted with the same viewer,
in
order to determine
(subjectively)
the source
of mental
noise
in binary remote
viewing.
The
excess hitting rate involved periods of growth followed by periods of consolidation.
One period
(68
trials) showed a marked decline.
This was the only period during which V002 attempted a
large number of trials at one sitting.
V002’s hitting rate (computed in trial increments) showed a
strong,
but
not
significant,
increase.
According
to V002’s
subjective
impression of
his own
internal mental processes, the sources of noise include (but are not limited to) beliefs about the
target, imagination, and comparison with past experiences.
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At the end of FY
1988, V002 participated in another formal series
of 50
trials each. He produced a
hitting
rate of 76% (p < 1.53 X
10*4
) for an
effect
size
Of
0.51.
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Assuming that the fiducial value of 64% hitting rate was the true rate in FY 1986, then the FY
1988
result
is significantly greater
(p < 0.038).
^Given that there was
a
significant enhancement
in
hitting rate during the
formal
trials, and that in FY 1988 there was
a strong improvement in
hitting rate during the
exploratory phase,
it
is possible, then, to conclude that some of the sources of noise found by
V002 might be valid.
Although
it
is unlikely (because of the decline effect)
that practice can
account
for the improvement, we
are unable
to
rule
it
out
with
the
current
protocol. The
challenge for future research
is to develop a protocol to test specific sources of noise.
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Objective F, Task
1— Determine Appropriate Parameters For Fuzzy Set RV
Analysis
, All of the remote viewings conducted during FY 1987 that used National
Geographic magazine have been reanalyzed during FY 1988.
The analysis of these data used a
subjective rank-order technique.
For each RV response, the intended target and 6 decoys were
ranked in order from most to least correspondence.
The combined average sum-of-ranks was
3.781 where the expected average was 4.00
(z =
1.87; p < 0.031).
Thus, even including the
real-time
versus
precognition
experiment
which
failed
to
reach
independent
statistical
significance, the total RV effort for FY 1987 showed statistical evidence for remote viewing.
(U) One
of
the
most
pressing problems
in
remote
viewing
is
to
determine
the
quantitative amount of information that
is transferred.
Before any basic physics model of remote
viewing can be developed,
it
is critical to know the amount of information.
There have been a
number of attempts to quantify the information content in natural scenes in the past, but none of
them appeared to work as a description of even that target portion of the remote viewing.
It
is an
even more
difficult problem
to
codify
the
information
content im natural language
(i.e,
the
response).
(U) A number
of
attempts were made
during FY
1988
to
use
various
entropy
encodings in order to discover what
is required for more precise determinations.
None of the
attempts produced satisfactory results.
We speculate that there may by a fundamental limit to
information encoding of an RV experiment.
The limit arises in that is appears impossible to
tell
whether a particular target element
is sensed by RV techniques or is simply due to a natural bias
on the part of the viewer.
It may be possible, however,
to construct an information encoding
based on a measure of average response
bias.
Much more work
is needed before an accurate
encoding
is possible.
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Objective
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(U) The
objective
of this program
.
Ul ine
psychoenergetics research and, based upon this assessment, to recommend avenues of app
for future investigations.
II.
(U) Background
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Psychoenergetic research can be divided into two major areas of interest:
(1)
Informational Processes
(2)
Causal Processes.
Each of these areas can be subdivided further into training, screening, and fundamentals such as
various type of functional correlates
(e.g., psychological, physiological, and physical).
^During FY 1985,
SRI
International completed a retrospective
analysis of a substantial body of open and classified literature
in order
to assess existence
issues,
research questions and potential applications
of the previously reported activity
in these areas.
Subsequently,
part
of
this analysis produced two reports that outlined an
improved remote
viewing analysis technique and provided
a meta-analysis of the random
number generator
literature.
(These
two reports are included
as Appendix
A and
B,
respectively.) What follows are the recommendations,
for
a
three-phase multi-year research effort.
III.
(U) Recommendation
A.
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Phase I—Knowledge Building
(U) Phase
I
is considered to be a knowledge building effort.
During this phase, SRI
recommends that some form of technical oversight be included in order to provide guidelines on
research protocols,
to
assess the
credibility
of the research, and to provide
insight
into new
directions for future research.
This phase should be as wide in scope as resources allow.
More
focused research should be delayed until a knowledge base
is established.
Table
1 shows the
specific areas that are recommended for consideration as research items for Phase
I.
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(U) PHASE
1 RECOMMENDED RESEARCH AREAS
Topic
Description
Informational Processes
Analysis
Trailing
Screening
Physical Correlates
Personality Correlates
Physiological Correlates
Medical Correlates
Feedback
Spatial Search
Temporal Search
A quantitative remote viewing (RV)
analysis technique.
Novice and advanced RV training methodologies.
Techniques to identify good remote viewers.
A search for RV correlates to the physical environment.
A search for personality traits in good remote viewers.
A search for physiological correlates to RV.
Monitor medical conditions of
all viewers.
Determine the role of feedback in RV experiments.
Determine
if items can be located in space.
Determine
if events can located in time.
Capsal Processes
Micro-remote Action
Intuitive Data Sorting
Macro-remote Action
Correlates
Remote action (RA) on random number generators.
Test the
Intuitive Data Sorting Model.
Test a variety of physical systems as RA targets.
As above, determine correlates to RA.
General
Information Services
Develop a user-accessible library system.
UNCLASSIFIED
(U> While some of the hems shown in Table
1 can be considered beyond existence
issues
and
thus
should
be
considered
durine Phase
II.
the
predominant
effort
is
toward
knowledge building.
B.
(U) Phase II-Development
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During
Phase
II.
research
areas
from
the
Phase
I
effort
that
yielded
incontrovertible
evidence
for
their
existence,
will
be
expanded.
With
the
assistance
of
a
technical oversight committee, hypotheses will formulated and tested.
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^ Those areas under Phase
I
that
showed the most promise.
will be expanded toward a potential application area.
For example,
if
a
physiological measure could be found that correlated strongly with
excellent remote viewing,
then that measure could be used to
improve
applications
.
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