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Final Report—Task 6.0.5
December 1989
Covering the Period
1 October 1988 to 30 September 1989
SCREENING FOR REMOTE VIEWING TALENT
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Prepared By:
Virginia V. Trask
Nevin D. Lantz
Wanda W. Luke
Edwin C. May
Prepared for:
Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative
SRI Project 1291
Approved by:
MURRAY J. BARON, Director
Geoscience and Engineering Center
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ABSTRACT
A
multi-level
screening
effort
to
identify
potential
high-quality
remote
viewers
was
continued during FY 1989.
Specifically, during FY 1989 the Cognitive Sciences Project was tasked
to:
(1) continue the two-stage screening of groups as we had in FY 1988, and
(2) evaluate individual experienced remote viewers from other research laboratories.
A total of 256 people (from three separate groups) participated in the group screening. Of these,
eight qualified for the second-stage screening. To date, no second-stage tests with these selected
indiduals has yet taken place; this work will be continued during FY 1990.
In addition to the group
effort, one person with claimed remote viewing ability from another laboratory was evaluated by
the second-stage screening task; this individual demonstrated robust (p <
0.0025,
effect size = 1.01) remote viewing ability.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF FIGURES
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I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Overview
B.
Objective
II
METHOD OF APPROACH
A.
General Description
B.
Group Screening Protocol
C.
Second-Stage Screening Protocol
III
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
A.
Summary
B.
First-Stage Results
C.
Second-Stage Results
D.
Conclusions
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LIST OF TABLES
la.
Military Target Category
lb.
Scientific/Industrial Target Category
lc.
Natural/Non-technical Target Category
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Projects Target Category
2.
Qualitative Rating Scale
3 .
Results of First-Stage Screening
4 .
Parameters of the Scoring Distributions
5 .
Two-Sample t-Test Results
6.
Results of Second-Stage Screening with Viewer 389
LIST OF FIGURES
1 .
Distribution of Scores
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I INTRODUCTION
A.
Overview
Traditionally, psychoenergetic experimenters
at SRI have
relied on the remote viewing
ability of a
relatively small number of talented persons.
But,
as the number and nature of
experiments
and/or
applications
increases,
the
necessity
for
discovering
additional
talented
individuals becomes acute.
In FY 1984, in anticipation of more process-oriented experiments, the
Cognitive Sciences Project at SRI International began to increase the number of remote viewers
available for experimental work. Three directions were pursued: (1) train selected individuals, (2)
screen using psychological correlates to remote viewing ability, and
(3) screen groups of people
using a carefully developed remote viewing task.*t
This report details the continuing screening
work conducted during FY 1989, as well as the work to evaluate the claims of individuals who
purport to have remote viewing abilities.
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B .
Objective
Although
it has not been documented to what extent remote viewing abilities exist in the
general population,
certain individuals appear to have a capacity for accessing information not
available by known sensory
processes.
Some
of these persons may have had spontaneous
experiences that lead them to be more or less aware of an extrasensory potential while others with
such potential may not have had these experiences and thus remain unaware of their remote
viewing abilities.
The goal of the FY 1989 group screening effort was to identify individuals who
possess a natural talent for remote viewing.
To accomplish this goal, we used a two-stage process, which we developed in FY 1988, for
screening large numbers of people. The objective was to screen several hundred people at the first
stage and then to invite the most promising persons to participate in eight individualized laboratory
trials in anticipation of finding a few persons who would show robust and consistent remote viewing
performance.
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Lantz, Nevin D., Edwin C. May, Mass Screening For Psychoenergetic Talent Using A
Remote Viewing Task, Final Report, Objective B, Task
1, Project 1291, SRI Interna-
tional, Menlo Park, CA (September,
1988).
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This report constitutes the deliverable for Statement of Work, item 6.0.5.
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