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of client representatives. The Phase
II effort was focussed on the generation
of physical data which could be client-verified,
providing a calibration in
the process.
The end of Phase
II
gradually evolved into
the
first part of
Phase
III,
the generation of unverifiable data not available
to the
client,
but of interest nonetheless
.
Evaluation of the data by
the client
is under-
(b)
Costa Rica Remote Viewing Experiment
Subjects
lfi
and 4 participated in a long-distance experiment
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involving a Central American target series.
In this experiment,
one of the
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experimenters
(Dr.
Puthoff)
spent
a week traveling through Costa Rica on a
(ft)
combination business/pleasure
trip.
That
is all that was known to
the subjects
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about
the
traveler's
itinerary.
The experiment called for Dr. Puthoff to
keep a detailed record of his location and activities,
including photographs,
each day
at
1330 PDT.
Six daily responses were obtained from Subject
1,
five
from Subject
4.
The results were of high quality and are
presently being
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evaluated
in detail,
containing as they did a large amount of material.
Samples of that data are
as follows
Of
the
five daily responses obtained from Subject
4,
two
were
in excellent agreement,
two had elements in common but were not clear
correspondences,
and one was clearly
a miss.
In the first of the
two matches,
Dr. Puthoff was driving in rugged terrain at the base of
a volcano
(Figure 4)
and
the subject's response was "large
bare table mountain,
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jungle below,
dark cool moist atmosphere,"
a match both with regard to
. topography and ambience.
In
the
second match the subject submitted that
all
she got was
a "picture of Dr. Puthoff sitting in
a beach chair by
a
pool," which was entirely correct.
During the course of
the Central America experiment,
on one
occasion when the
test subject was unavailable
,
an experimenter volunteered
a drawing of an image
he obtained at
the beginning of one of the daily ex-
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periments.
(The
target for that day was an airport,
an unexpected target
associated with a side excursion at midpoint of
the week's activity.)
The
match was good,
as shown in Figures
5 and
; 6.
The transcript data will be
examined further to determine
fine structure,
resolution,
etc.
(c)
Local Targets with Feedback
In this series of experiments, designed to give
immediate
data to experimenters,
a subject
is asked to take part
in a remote
viewing.
experiment under the following conditions.
The subject and two experimenters
(one of whom was R.T.)
are in a first floor laboratory
in building 30
at SRI.
A second experimenter
(H.P.)
leaves
the area and proceeds
to
a remote location of his choosing.
None of the experimenters with the
subject knew of
the
remote target location.
H.P.
and R.T.
are
in two-way radio communication via walkie-talkie,
(a)
to
provide the experimenter at
the
target location real-time data and
(b)
to give
the
subject immediate feedback after he has made his assessment of
the
target.
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FIGURE
AIRPORT
IN
SAN
ANDRES,
COLOMBIA,
USED
AS
REMOTE
VIEWING
TARGET
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SKETCH PRODUCED BY SUBJECT FROM SAN ANDRES, COLOMBIA, AIRPORT
USED AS REMOTE VIEWING TARGET
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By this means the subject has an opportunity to learn to
separate real from
imagined images.
This
is not considered
to be
a demonstration -of -ability
test,
but rather a training step on a gradient scale
of ability.
In many
of these experiments we monitor physiological correlates
as discussed in
Section B.3
(b)
.
(Nine of these experiments have been completed to date,
seven with the measurements of physiological correlates.)
The following
is
a sample of an experiment with Subject 4.
In this experiment we monitored physiolocial correlates of the remote
viewing activity.
As
is apparent in the following text,
the
subject initially
had only a fragmentary picture
of the remote
site,
but with what we judge
to
be a small amount of feedback,
the
subject was
able to put images together
into
a correct description.
Accompanying the verbal description presented
below is
a photograph of the actual scene
at
the remote location (Fig.
7).
The experimenter with the subject
(R.T.)
was,
as always,
kept ignorant of the
target location to prevent guidance
in the questioning.
The capital letters
signify walkie-talkie
communication.
R.T.:
It
is now 12:35.
S-4:
....very strong diagonal ... .like a zigzag that goes this way ,
vertically.
R.T.:
S-4's FIRST IMPRESSION IS OF A VERY STRUNG DIAGONAL ZIGZAG THAT'S GOING
VERTICALLY. OVER.
(Talking on walkie talkie to H.P.)
H.P.:
THERE
IS A STRONG ZIGZAG AT MY PLACE, BUT IT
IS NOT VERTICAL BUT RATHER
HORIZONTAL;
BUT IF SHE
IS LOOKING FROM THE AIR, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT
WOULD LOOK LIKE . OVER.
R.T.:
Can you tell what the zigzag
is attached to?
Whether it's
part of
a
building or a fence on the ground?
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R.T.:
It's
12:41.
S-4:
My head gets
in the way now that he's said that it's horizontal.
I
usually think of a fence.
R.T.:
Why don't you go up and look down and view the whole thing from above
and see
if you can get
the whole gestalt of where he is.
definitely a non-yege t at i on.
. .almost no vegetation around.
It's
mostly concrete
and whatever that zigzag
is—either water or steel—shiny,
zigzag,
. .definitely shiny.
R.T.:
7267, THE ZIGZAG
IS A SHINY THING WHETHER IT’S STEEL OR
S-4:
Water..
R.T.:
WATER, WE CAN'T TELL.
IT’S SHINY AND THERE'S VERY LITTLE VEGETATION- -NO
VEGETATION AROUND ; . .
.
S-4:
Mostly concrete.
.
.
R.T. :
IT'S MOSTLY CONCRETE ...
S-4:
He's standing on concrete....
R.T.:
YOU'RE STANDING ON CONCRETE.
OVER.
H.P.:
IT CERTAINLY IS TRUE THAT THIS
IS SHINY AND IN MY NEAR VICINITY IT
IS
BARREN AND CONCRETE OR CONCRETE -COLORED EARTH.
SHE SAID THAT IT LOOKED
LIKE STEEL OR WATER.
CAN SHE MAKE THE DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN THE TWO?
R.T. :
He wants to know whether it looks more
like steel or water.
S-4:
It seems
to have movement—that's why
I would deduce
that it's water.
R.T.:
What
if you try
to look at the whole thing.
S-4.
I m trying to get an eagle's eye view.
That's
a waterworks.
R.T.:
Why does
it look like
a waterworks?
In what way?
S-4:
There seems
to be
a man-made layout of channels
and connections
to conduct
it
.
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R.T.:
S-4 SEES MOVEMENT
IN THE ZIGZAG THING,
SO SHE THINKS THAT IT'S
WATER, AND A KIND OF LAYOUT OF CHANNELS AS THOUGH IT WAS A MAN-MADE
WATERWORKS WITH WATER RUNNING
IN ZIGZAG CHANNELS.
OVER
H.P.
THAT
IS PRECISELY CORRECT.
IT
IS A ZIGZAG MAN-MADE WATER CHANNEL WITH
CONCRETE SIDES.
OVER.
S-4:
I can't believe
it.
The above
is an excerpt from an early experiment,
and is typical, rather
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a sample of exceptionally good quality.
That experiment continued with four &
W
more
site
. descriptions,
three of which were of equal quality.
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One experiment of this nature has been carried out with Subject
1,
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one with Subject
2,
two with Subject
3,
and five with Subject
4.
A number
of descriptions were essentially free of error and with no feedback other than
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a
-
verification following the remote viewer's description.
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A complete analysis
is
to be carried out on these transcripts following
more experimentation.
To date
it appears that
the viewing
is weak in the
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following areas:
(a)
perspective and dimension are often distorted
(an
eight foot tower is
taken to be
50 feet
tall,
a 20 foot separation between
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^rx
buildings may appear to be
100 feet,
etc.)
and,
(b) written material
generally cannot be
read.
(d)
Local Targets with Azimuth Bearing
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In two remote viewing experiments,
the second of which was
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clearly correct from a descriptive standpoint,
an effort was made
to determine
whether in driving the
subject around the area
it would be possible
to determine
the location of the target team by triangulation with
a bearing compass.
The
triangulation lines were essentially uncorrelated with each other and with
the
target location,
and therefore provided a
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B.
Basic Research
In addition to the
testing of individuals under conditions which
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yield data indicating the feasibility of the application of paranormal
abilities
to operational needs,
fifty percent of the effort
is devoted
to:
1.
Identification of measurable characteristics possessed by
gifted individuals
(20%)
;
2.
Identification of neurophysiological correlates which relate
to paranormal activities
(20%)
;
3.
Identification of
the nature of paranormal phenomena and energy
( 10%).
To meet
these objectives four specific requirements must be
ful-
filled during the course of experimentation:
1) establishoand apply criteria
to differentiate between those for whom paranormal ability
is considered
to be
functional and those
for whom
it
is not;
2)
obtain sufficient medical
and psychological data to establish baseline profiles against which
(a)
one
individual may be compared with another,
and
(b)
an individual
may be compared to himself
at different times
to determine whether para-
normal functioning occurs
in an altered neurophysiological state,
3)
specific
validation experiments must be
conducted with sufficient control to ensure
that all conventional communication paths
are blocked,
and with outcomes
sufficiently unambiguous
to determine whether paranormal functioning
occurred;
4)
obtain neurophysicological data during experimentation to
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determine
those correlates,
if
any, which relate
to paranormal activity.
In the following paragraphs, each of these
items
is considered in turn
and the progress to date reported.
The milestone
chart for the basic re-
search program is shown in Table
1.
The work
is progressing in accordance
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with the
schedule prepared for this program,
and the
remaining time and
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;
funds
are sufficient to meet all program objectives.^
1.
Criteria for the Determination of Gifted Individuals
One of the key issues in the program is
the establishment of
criteria capable
of differentiating
individuals apparently gifted in
paranormal functioning from those who are not.
Three experimental paradigms were chosen to act
as screening
tests on the basis that these tests had been useful for such purposes
prior to this program
( in the
sense that certain apparently gifted
individuals did exceedingly well on at least one of
the
tests, whereas
the results of unselected volunteers did not differ significantly from
chance expectation).
The
tests are
(a)
remote viewing of natural targets,
(b)
reproduction of simple
line drawings hidden from the
subject but viewed
by an experimenter,
and
(c)
determination of the
state of a four—state elec-
tronic random stimulus generator.
The
first
test constitutes
a so-called "free -response
' paradigm
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in which the subject originates freely about contents of his awareness,
furthermore,
the
channel
in general may involve both direct perception
of the remote site
and perception of the mental contents of an observer
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