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7. THE FIVE YEAR PROGRAM (U)
(S/NF)
In FY 1986,
a five-year psychoenergetics research program was
launched
at
SRI using Army Medical Department R&D funds.
Although the
Army currently provides all
the
funds,
the effort,
from the outset,
included the needs
of
the
intelligence community.
In addition,
research
and development
on medical
and biological aspects
of psychoenergetics was
initiated.
The Five-Year Program has three major objectives:
•
Document
that
psychoenergetic
phenomena
are
real
and
reproducible
•
Determine
the
mechanism
underlying
psychoenergetic
phenomena
•
Bring
psychoenergetics
into
the
mainstream
of
human
performance research.
(U) The categories of research interest form a hierarchy ranging from basic research on
fundamental mechanisms to methodologies for applications.
These include:
•
Identify
explanatory
mechanisms
(e.g.,
electromagnetic
effects,
neurophysiological
mechanisms).
•
Specify phenomenological properties
(e.g.,
effects of distance and shielding).
•
Determining
physical,
physiological
and
psychological
correlates
(e.g.,
geophysical environment, EEG and GSE measures).
«
Develop optimal strategies for use in applications
(e.g., statistical averaging)
A.
(U) The First Year—FY 1986
(S/NF) Technical reports for each of the research areas
investigated
are available.
Advances
in several technical areas were made during this
fiscal year.
Much of
the work was follow-on efforts
to research begun
in
past fiscal years.
In addition some new topics were also
investigated.
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1.
(U) Remote Viewing Enhancement - Advanced Training
(S/NF) Two of the most experienced remote viewers who have been
responsible for helping to formulate advanced training directions were
formally calibrated during FY 1986.
Both demonstrated strong
statistically significant evidence of
functioning.
They also brought
their attention
to developing an advanced training manual.
One of
the
experienced viewers also continued to train some of
the advanced students
and some progress was noted.
Both demonstrated strong statistically
significant evidence
of functioning.
They also brought their attention
to
developing an advanced training manual.
One of the experienced viewers
also continued
to train some of the advanced students and
some progress
was noted.
2.
(U)
Novice Training
(C)
Nine students were chosen on
the basis
of personality
screening criteria to participate
in
a novice RV training program.
Four
of
the nine showed promise.
3.
(U) Remote Viewing Evaluation
(S/NF) The primary evaluation procedure,
figure of merit
analysis,
was brought
to the point where
it was well understood and
stable.
In addition
to
its capacity to provide an assessment
of RV-
derived data,
it
is also useful
in assessing the ability of RV evaluators
(i.e.,
analysts).
Other technologies
to evaluate RV data have been
identified
for preliminary research.
They will be discussed
in future
studies
.
4*
(U)
Screening And Selection
(C)
The greatest amount of research on selecting potentially
good remote viewers was on examining the Personality Assessment
System.
During 1986 that system accurately predicted the best and worst remote
viewers among ten novice trainees
.
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