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"A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances
Historical Perspective and Recent Research"
By H.
E. Puthoff
& R.
Targ
Remote Viewing:
Pertains to the ability of certain individuals to access
and describe, h^eans of mental processes,
information sources blocked from
ordinary perception, and generally accepted as
secure against
such access.
The phenomenon we have investigated most extensively is the ability of
a sublect to view remote geographical locations up to several thousan
kilometers distant from his physical location
(given only a known person on
whom to target),
2.
Our accumulated data thus indicate that both specially selected ^nd
unselected persons
can be assisted in developing remote perceptual abiliti es
up to a level of useful information transfer.
3.
Three Principal Findings
:
a.
It
is possible to obtain significant amounts of accurate descriptive
information about remote locations.
b.
An increase in the distance from a few meters
the
subject from the scene to be perceived does not in
the quality or accuracy of perception.
up
“to
4 000 km separating
any apparant way degrade
c.
Use of FARADAY case electrical shielding does not prevent high quality
descriptions from being obtained.
.
Current State of Research:
USSR
1.
Since 1930 's
a.
Laboratory of L.
Vasiliev (Leningrad Institute for Brain Research)
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There has been an interest
in the use of telepathy as
a method of influencing
the behavior of a person at a distance.
b.
I.M. Kogan - Chairman of the Bioinformation Section of the Moscow
Board of the Popov Society.
Doing work in behavior modifications.
c.
Kholodov - spoke about the nonthermal effects of microwaves on
animals'
central nervous
systems.
.
SRI Investigations of Remote Viewiiqg
a.
Pupil
(Star)
- INGO
SfSfANN
b.
Target location selected was kept blind to subject and experimenter s.
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e.
Often observe essentially correct descriptions of basic elements and
patterns coupled with incomplete or erroneous analysis of function.
d.
Many people are more influenced by their environment and are
reluctant under public
scrutiny to attempt activities that are generally
thought to be impossible.
e.
We try to
stress the nonuniqueness of the ability .because from our
experience p#Aormal functioning appears to be
a latent ability that
all subjects can articulate to some degree .
^PARANORMAL:
Not within the range of normal experience or scientifically
explainable phenomena.
f.
Most essential ability - to separate memory and imagii^ion from para-
normal inputs.
This
is the key to bribing the remote-viewing channel to
fruition with regard to
its potential usefulness*
g.
Because remote-viewing is
a perceptual ability, we considered it important
to obtain data on its resolution capabilities
.
h
It appears that the principal difference between experienced subjects
and inexperienced volunteers
is not
that the latter never exhibit the faculty
,
hut rather that their results
are simply less
reliablg_, more sporadic*
Such observations indiaate a hypothesis that remote-viewing may be
a la
,e
.n_
and widely distributed perceptual ability .
i.
Motion
i s
seldom reported.
j.
Have learned to urge our subjects simply to describe what they see
as opposed to what they think they are looking
at.
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