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VIEWER
No.
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ERV
RESPONSE
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4.
Discussion
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For an assessment
as
to the quality of remote viewing
obtained in the ERV series
,
the results were submitted to two analysts
for blind judging.
The judging packet submitted to the analysts
con-
sisted of the remote viewer drawings, and target photographs,
each in
their own random order different from the order of target usage.
The
analysts were instructed to blind rank order, on a scale of
1 to
(best
to worst match),
each of the five drawing packets against each of the
five target photographs.
(Target number
5 was omitted as
described
above .
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One analyst obtained three direct matches,
one second-
place match, and one fourth-place match;
the other obtained one direct
match, three second-place matches and one fourth-place match.
The dif-
ference between the two was a pair of responses that were essentially
indistinguishable with regard to a particular pair of targets
(food mill
and hat).
The matrices were analyzed using the direct-count~of~permutations
method- discussed earlier.
The results of one of the two judges reached
statistical significance at the
p = 0.05
level.
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With regard to a comparison between ERV and the ordinary
RV process , the data obtained are roughly of the same quality as those of
ordinary RV.
There was therefore no apparent advantage in committing
the greater time period required for the ERV process.
By report of the
RVer, however,
the subjectively more intense ERV state was never fully
achieved in this series
, and therefore no definitive comparison between
RV and ERV is possible at this point.
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See,
e.g.,
the technology series
in H.
Puthoff and R.
Targ
,
"A Per-
ceptual Channel for
Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances,"
Proc.
IEEE 64,
pp. 329-354
(March 1976).
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D.
Remote Viewing of Alphabet Letters
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether an isolated
remote viewer could learn to discriminate between and identify alphabet
letters.
The participant,
Viewer 372, was
located in a third-floor
laboratory of the Radio Physics Building at
SRI, while the monitor and
the target materials were in an office trailer in a nearby parking
lot
(as
in the slide series).
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The protocol in all twelve trials
in this series was for the
viewer to identify a randomly chosen three- letter word exposed to view
in the target room.
The targets used in this
series were red block
letters eight inches high,
cemented to white cardboard.
The three
letters
making up each word were placed on the chalk tray of
the target room
blackboard
.
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Twelve trials were
carried out.
A satisfactory protocol was
not
developed until the third trial,
so the first two must be considered
exploratory.
In Trial
1,
the target word was randomly chosen from a group
of
ten previously prepared words placed in opaque envelopes.
In all
other trials the target word was
chosen by random entry into
a 1700-page
college dictionary
(selecting the first three-letter word on the page)
using a Texas
Instruments
SR-51 random number generator.
In Trials
and 2,
the viewer was given feedback after each letter.
In both of these
trials
he failed to name the first
letter,
but after being told the first
letter G for GUN and V for VAT,
he was able to confidently and correctly
name the following two letters in quick succession.
In Trials
3 through
12,
feedback was given only after all three letters were named,
to
counteract analysis
strategies on the part
of the viewer.
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The letters were displayed one at a time, and the viewer would
give his impressions of each in turn.
After each description, that letter
would be removed, and the viewer would be informed that the next letter
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was in place.
Except for Trial
5,
the
letters were always presented in
their order of occurrence
in the word.
(In Trial
it had been decided
in advance
to display the
letters
in random order,
to discourage end-
letter guessing.
T?his turned out
to
be unsatisfactory, however,
apparently producing confusion for the viewer, who named all three
letters
correctly,
but had them in the wrong order.
He then could not
think of a word,
and changed two of the letters.)
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Of the nine 3-letter words presented in a consistent manner
(3,
4,
6-12),
the viewer was
correct
in
6 of his
letter assignments
(i.e.,
of the 27
letters presented,
6 were identified),
a significant
departure from chance expectation.
This pilot result was therefore
encouraging.
E.
Coordinate Remote Viewing
(CRV) with
Immediate Feedback
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Of special interest for operational applications
is
a particular
form of RV known as
coordinate remote viewing
(CRV).
CRV is
a procedure
whereby the RVer accesses
the target
location on the basis
of an abstract
locator such as geographical coordinates.
As
inexplicable
as such
a
phenomenon might seem, we appeal simply to pragmatism,
in that
it appears
to work.
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It has
been shown that good results
can be obtained even with
the use of special arbitrarily-constructed coordinate systems;
the CRV
phenomenon thus appears to provide yet another example
of
"goal orienta-
in psychoenergetic phenomena, rather than being particularly
related to coordinate systems per
se.
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R.
Targ,
H.
Puthoff
,
B.
Humphrey, and
C.
Tart,
"investigations
of
Target Acquisition," Research in Parapsychology 1979
,
Scarecrow Press,
Metuchen, N.J.
(in press).
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