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Experimental Protocol:
Precognitive Remote Viewing
Time
Schedule
Experimenter /Subject Activity
10:00
Outbound experimenter
leaves with
10 envelopes
(containing
target
locations)
and random number generator;
begins half-hour drive
10:10
Experimenters
remaining with
subject
in
the
laboratory
elicit
from subject
a description of where outbound
experimenter will be
from 10:45-11:00
10:25
Subject response
completed,
at which time
laboratory part
of experiment
is
over
10:30
Outbound experimenter obtains
random number
from
a random
number generator,
counts
down
to associated envelope,
and
proceeds
to target
location indicated
10:45
Outbound experimenter remains
at
target
location
for
15 minutes
(10:45-11:00)
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Hella Haramid
(S4) who participated in
the nine-experiment
series
repli-
cating
the original
Price work described earlier.
The
traveling experi-
menter was
to drive continuously
from 10:00 until
10:30 before selecting
his destination with
a random number
generator.
(The motivation
for
continuous motion was our observation
that objects and persons
in rapid
motion are not
generally seen in the remote viewing mode
of perception,
and we wished
the
traveler
to
be
a poor
target until he reached his
target
site.)
At
the end
of
30 minutes
of driving,
the
traveling ex-
perimenter generated
a random digit
from
to
9 with
a Texas Instruments
SR-51 random number generator;
while
still
in motion,
he counted down
that number of envelopes
and proceeded directly
to
the
target
location
so
as
to arrive
there by
10:45.
He
remained at
the
target
site until
11:00,
at which
time
he
returned
to
the
laboratory,
showed his chosen
target name
to
a security guard,
and entered
the experimental
room.
During
the
same period,
the protocol
in
the
laboratory was
as
follows.
At
10:10,
the
subject was
asked
to begin
a description of
the place
to
which
the experimenter would
go
thirty-five minutes hence.
The
subject
then generated
a
tape-recorded description and associated drawings
from
10:10
to
10:25,
at which
time her part
in
the experiment was
ended.
Her
description was
thus entirely concluded
5 minutes before
the beginning
of
the
target selection procedure.
Four
such experiments
were carried
out.
Each
of
them appeared
to
be
successful,
an evaluation later verified
in
blind
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relativize space and
time
insofar
as
space presents
in
principle no obstable
to
their passage and
the sequence
of events
in time
is
inverted
so
that
it
looks
as
if an
event which has not yet occurred were causing a perception
in
the present.
We
shall
see
in
the next section
that such
a description,
though
poptic,
has
some basis
in modern physical
theory.
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V
DISCUSSION
It
is
important
to
note
at
the outset
that many
'contemporary
physicists
are
of
the view that
the
phenomena
that
we
have been
discussing
are
not
at
all
inconsisyent
with the
framework
of
physics
as
currently understood.
In
this
emerging view,
the often-held belief
that observations
of
this
type
are
incompatible with known
laws
in_ prin-
ciple
is
erroneous,
such
a concept being based on
the naive realism prev-
alent before
the development
of modern quantum
theory and
information
theory
.
One hypothesis,
put forward by
I.
M. Kogan,
of
the
USSR
is
that
information
transfer under conditions
of sensory shielding
is mediated
by extremely low frequency
(ELF)
electromagnetic waves
in
the
300
to
1000 -km region
[37]-[40].
Experimental
support
for
the hypothesis
is
claimed on
the basis
of:
slower
than inverse
square attenuation,
com-
patible with source-percipient distances
lying
in
the
induction
field
range
as
opposed
.to
the radiation field range;
observed
low bit rates
(0.005-0.1
bits/s)
compatible with
the
information carrying capacity
of ELF waves;
apparent
ineffectiveness
of ordinary electromagnetic shield-
ing
as
an attenuator;
and standard antenna calculations entailing biolog-
ically generated currents yielding results
compatible with observed
signal- to -noise
ratios
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CUMULATIVE
NUMBER
OF
MATCHES
AGAINST
"1"
TARGET
MESSAGE
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ENHANCEMENT OF SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO BY
SEQUENTIAL SAMPLING PROCEDURE
(p0
=
0.4,
p 1
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0.6, a =
0.01,
0 =
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TODAY
IS MONDAY,
OCTOBER
7TH.
IT
IS
11:00 AND THIS
IS A REMOTE VIEWING
EXPERIMENT WITH RUSS
TARG,
PHYLLIS COLE,
AND HAL PUTHOFF
.
IN THIS EX-
PERIMENT HAL WILL DRIVE TO A REMOTE
SITE CHOSEN BY A RANDOM PROCESS.
PHYLLIS COLE WILL BE THE REMOTE VIEWER,
AND RUSS TARG
IS THE MONITOR.
WE EXPECT THIS EXPERIMENT TO START AT TWENTY MINUTES AFTER ELEVEN AND
RUN FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES.
IS IS JUST ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES AFTER ELEVEN AND HAL SHOULD BE AT HIS
TARGET LOCATION BY NOW.
WHY: DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT KIND OF PICTURES YOU
SEE AND WHAT YOU THINK HE
MIGHT BE DOING OR EXPERIENCING.
The
first
thing
that came
to mind was
some
sort
of
a
large,
square kind
of
a
shape.
Like Hal was
in front of
it.
It was
a
...
not
a building
or
something,
it was
a
square.
I don't know
if
it was
a window,
but
some-
thing
like
that
so
that
the bottom line
of
it was not
at
the
ground.
About where his waist was,
at
least.
That's what
it
seemed
to me.
It
seems outdoors
somehow.
Tree.
DOES HAL SEEM TO BE LOOKING AT THAT
SQUARE?
I don't
know.
The
first
impression was
that he wasn't,
but
I have
a
sense
that whatever
it was was
something one might
look
at.
I don't know
if
it would be
a
sign,
but
something
that
one might
look at.
CAN: YOU TELL
IF
IT
IS
ON THE GROUND OR VERTICAL?
It
seemed vertical.
I don't have
a
sense
that
it was
part
of anything particular.
It might
be
on
a building or part
of
a building,
but
I don't
know.
There was
a
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outside,
but
I also got
the
impression of cement.
I don't have
the
impression of very many people
or
traffic
either.
I have
the
sense
that
he
is
sort
of walking back and
forth.
I don't have
any more explicit
picture
than
that.
CAN YOU MOVE
INTO WHERE HE
IS
STANDING AND TRY TO
SEE WHAT HE
IS LOOKING
AT?
I picked
up he was
touching
something--something
rough.
Maybe warm and
rough.
Something possibly
like cement.
IT
IS TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES AFTER ELEVEN.
CAN YOU CHANGE YOUR POINT
OF VIEW AND MOVE ABOVE THE
SCENE
SO YOU CAN
GET A BIGGER PICTURE OF WHAT'S THERE?
I
still
see
some trees and
some
sort
of pavement
or
something
like
that.
Might be a courtyard.
The
thing
that came
to mind was
it might
be one
of
the plazas
at Stanford campus or something
like
that,
cement.
Some kinds
of
landscaping.
I
said
Stanford campus when
I started
to
see
some
things
in White
Plaza,
but
I
think
that
is misleading.
I have
the
sense
that he's not moving around
too much.
That
it's
in
a
small
area.
I guess
I'll
go ahead and
say
it,
but I'm afraid
I'm just putting on my
impressions
from Stanford campus.
I had
the
impression of
a
fountain.
There
are
two
in
the
plaza,
and
it
seemed
that Hal was possibly near
the,
what
they call Mem Claw.
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IS THAT?
It's
a
fountain
that
looks
rather
like
a
claw.
It's
a black sculpture*
And
it has benches around
it made
of cement.
ARE THERE ANY BUILDINGS AT THE
PLACE YOU ARE LOOKING AT?
ARE THERE ANY
BUILDINGS?
YOU DESCRIBED A KIND OF A COURTYARD.
USUALLY AT SOME PLACES
THERE
SHOULD BE A BUILDING,
LARGE OR SMALL THAT THE COURTYARD
IS ABOUT.
LOOK
; AT THE END
OR THE
SIDES OF THE COURTYARD.
IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE
SEEN?
I have
a
sense
that
there
are buildings.
It's not
solid buildings.
I mean
there are
some around
the periphery and
I have
a
sense
that none
of
them
are very
tall.
Maybe mostly one
story, maybe
an occasional
two
story one.
DO YOU HAVE ANY BETTER IDEA OF WHAT YOUR SQUARE WAS THAT YOU
SAW AT THE
OUTSET?
No.
I could hazard different kinds
of guesses.
DOES
IT SEEM PART
OF THIS
SCENE?
It
...
I think
it could
be.
It could almost be
a bulletin board
or
some-
thing with notices
on
it maybe.
Or something
that
people
are expected
to
look
at.
Maybe
a window with
things
in
it
that
people were expected
to
look
at.
WHAT KIND
OF TREES DO YOU
SEE
IN THIS
PLACE?
I don't know what kind
they
are.
The
impression was
that
they were
shade
trees
and not terribly big.
Maybe
feet
of
trunk and
then
a certain
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amount
of branches above
that.
So that
the branches have maybe
a
foot
diameter,
or
something.
Not
real big
trees.
NEW TREES RATHER THAN OLD TREES?
Yeah,
maybe
or
10 years
old,
but not
real
old
ones.
IS THERE ANYTHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE
PAVEMENT?
No.
It
seems
to
be not terribly new or terribly
old.
Not very interesting.
There
seems
to be
some bits
of
landscaping around.
Little
patches
of grass
around
the
edges and peripheries.
Maybe
some
flowers.
But,
not
lush.
YOU SAW SOME BENCHES.
DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT THEM?
Well,
that's my unsure
feeling about
this
fountain.
There was
some kind
of benches of cement.
Curved benches,
it
felt
like.
They were
of
rough cement.
WHAT DO YOU THINK HAL
IS DOING WHILE HE
IS THERE?
I have
a
sense
that he
is
looking at
things
trying
to project
them.
Looking at different
things and
sort
of walking back and
forth not cover-
ing
a whole
lot
of territory.
Sometimes
standing
still while he
looks
around.
I
just had
the
impression of him talking,
and
I almost
sense
that
it was
being recorded
or
something.
I don't know
if he has
a
tape recorder,
but
if
it's not
that,
then he
is
saying something because
it needed
to
be
remembered.
IT'S
11:33.
HE'S JUST PROBABLY GETTING READY TO COME
BACK.
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