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TO
Dr#
fl.E.
Puthoff
DATE:
15 April
1984
FROM.
I.
Swarm,
Consultant
LOCATION:
SRI,
NY
SUBJECT:
Work report
CC
1.
The following constitutes
a
report
on
the overall work achieved
in
the training program
1 January through
30 March.
2*
Beginning with
1 January
1984,
a
great part
of
the training program
was moved
to SRI NY#
Prior
to
the commencement
of work,
and with
regard
to
obtaining appropriate rooms
at
the NY office,
considerable upset was
experienced,
leading
to
a
small delay in beginning
the work which might have begun
two months
earlier#
Eventually,
however,
the rooms were
secured.
Because
of confusions
between SRI office management and
the contractors
in
the building,
it became
necessary
for me
to engage
a separate contractor
to complete
the changes desired
by
the client#
Finally,
during
the week of January
14,
the painting,
installation
of appropriate
lights,
etc*,
was
completed.
3.
The NY rooms were designed
to be
a duplicate of
those chambers designed
at
SRI.
Certain smaller changes were made*
The walls
are
a slightly different
color;
the
lights
in the viewing room are of "full spectrum" quality;
and
a good
negative
ion generator was placed in that
room.
As
a result,
all
the
trainees
claim that
this
set
up
is nicer
than the
one
at
SRI,
indicating
that
these small
changes configure
to help establish an even more optimum
(psychologically)
environment
than
that
at
SRI.
Since we have great interest
in just what kind of
environment
the trainees can most competently exercise
the benefits
of
their
training,
these comments
are given for
the
record.
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S4
training completion :
The client preselected trainee
(TM.)
who began S4 training during the second week of December 1983,
completed
the; requirements
of
S4 on 22 March
1984.
As
you are
aware,
this
is
the
first opportunity that we have had to train
another candidate on
the materials
that we believe comprise S4.
Because of
this,
I was very careful
to monitor
the daily reports
and
to oversee his progress during training with particular attention
to determining whether or not our designed materials
for S4
were
a natural
increment
on
the other stages we have managed
to
isolate.
5.
While
I did expect
to encounter some difficulties,
in fact
none at
all were encountered.
With
the possible effects
of
the upsets
acquiring the rooms initially
(which
the
trainee surmounted with
great elan,
due,
probably to his own abilities
at maintaining
productive
pox.se in the midst of difficulties),
the S4 work progressed
without faults and without any upsets
at all.
The cumulative
progress
of
the
S4
trainiixg
is
to be
fouxid in the trainee* s own
daily reports,
copies of
xrtxich will be forwarded
to you shortly.
6.
Originally,
X had extimatefl 8-10 working weeks, with
appropriate
rest and consolidation time interspersed,
for completion
of
a S4 training series.
The completed S4 training of
this particular
trainee
falls well within
this
estimate.
7.
As you know,
the simulated sites selected for S4 training
are
of
a complexity that
is such
that the trainee must acess
information
that would not generally be available
to him if he were actually
viewing the
site from the physical characteristics made available
through our
SI -S3 techniques.
Thus,
these selected simulated sites
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are those of considerable complexity.
This particular S4 trainee
used up
31 simulated training sites,
the
last seven of which led
to accurate descriptors
of
the site's major functions,
as well
as
to other particular and associated site-information.
Judging against
the strict standards
that
I believe should be
imposed,
then
this
trainee arrived
at
the culmination of S4 with
a particular excellence.
8.
As you are aware,
the usefulness and workability of S4
can not and should not be predetermined within our own competency.
The trainee and
the clients were,
therefore,
requested by myself
in advance of the training
to quickly have
this trainee produce work
in their own house
that: might
or might not quickly establish
the
efficacy of
the training here.
To my understanding,
this has already
been done or
is
in process,
and the comments
I have heard are positive.
9.
I believe
it
is appropriate here
to comment overall on the
character and nature
of
this particular trainee
(TM).
I recommend
that
we forward
to
the client our congratulations on this product
of
their selection methods,
which are,
apparently,
excellent.
In all
instances,
and even under certain project hardships,
this
trainee
exhibited what can only be rated as high and professional demeanor
throughout.
He was
able
to apply himself
at all times with
the
utmost
of intellectual accuracy to
all
the
tasks
and training drills
that were encountered.
He was
able
to perform even all
the tedous
drills necessary,
to maintain his performances within the standards
that have been inbuilt
into
the training model,
and,
finally,
to
emerge at
the other end of
the training with new and consolidated
aptitudes.
While we
do not,
of course,
yet have enormous numbers
from which we might draw comparisons,
it should be stated
to
the
client
that
in the case of
this
trainee, he exhibited the
least
of
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difficulties,
if we compare his performances
to
those few we have,
including
my own.
In addition
to his professional poise,
this
trainee was,
as
a person,
always considerate of
the problems
at hand,
and
a pleasure
to interact with.
I believe that these
traits,
although not uncommon,
yet are rare enough,
especially
in our
field which has
a history of demonstrated antagonisms,
personality
clashes and unwillingness
to comprehend the subtle natures
of esp and psi,
that this trainee must in some form constitute an ideal model for future
selection procedures.
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As
of January 1984,
four new client: preselected trainees
embarked on the difficult training procedures
of
SI,
phase
1.
The first
two
weeks were held,
at
the client's
request,
at SRI Menlo Park.
Due to the
importance of four selected, highly intelligent
and qualified individuals
incoming as
a group,
I took the opportunity to redeliver all
the
lectures in
person, with
a view to tightening up
the overall procedures.
11.
Each of
the four new trainees
(CC,
BR,
PS and ED) exhibited from the
outset great interest and enthusiam. for
the work to be undertaken,
and this
interest only grew as
they began
to become familiar with
the implications implied
by the training sequences.
From the outset,
no problems have been encountered
and the work at
the
SRI office has proceeded
in quietude
and peace.
These trainees
are
invited,
as
is usual,
to comment on
the daily procedures
in their daily reports.
12.
Each of
the four trainees has since completed SI,
phase
L,
and are
embarked on phase
2.
As we are all now aware,
SI
is probably the most difficult
of our designed stages,
due mostly
to
the
fact
that in addition
to understanding
the mental processes involved,
the trainees must for the
first
time
in their
experience bring them also
into objective use.
The following chart illustrates
the beginning,
completion and number of simulated sites required for
each, trainee’
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Completion
Sim-sites used
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19 Jan
Feb
BR
If
Feb 84
PS
22 Mar 84
ED
?r
27 Mar 84
With regard
to
the above statistics,
it
is clear that two trainees
consumed
more simulated sites
than the other two.
It
is natural
to interpret this
fact
as meaning that
two had
a harder time of
it
than the other two.
This interpretation
is
to be definitively discouraged..
The difference
in the amount of simulated
sites necessary only reflects
that before consolidation of
the new and emerging
aptitude,
a greater "noisy" period was encountered.
It has been my overall
experience as
training monitor
to find that each
trainee
is different,
and that
each trainee will
experience! a
"bulky" noisy sequence somewhere in the training
line;
and that
this major noise will
not. always occur at
the beginning of SI.
Within the training procedures
as we understand them,
therefore, whether one
person uses up numerous or few sites
during
the course of any given
training
sequence means nothing at
all.
Since we can monitor the progress
through the
learning curve, we can anticipate
the
"turn over" into consolidation and thus
the emergence of
a new level of ability.
Each of
the four new trainees performed
therefore along the
lines of our expectations,
and did
so admirably.
13,
Each of these new trainees
is considerably different from the rest,
but
all have several
things
in common;
an apparently high intelligence,
a quick grasp
of fundamentals,
diligence in pursuing the repetitive training tasks necessary,
and,
on
the personal
level,,
open and pleasing personalities
14.
I should like
to take
this opportunity to ask you
to forward
to
the
client my personal appreciations
at
this
time.
It goes without saying that
I am
gratified they have confidence
in the work at hand,
and have undertaken the
enormou^^^f^
f
Is,
and
I hope
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that my personal appreciation will*
at this
time,
be entered into
the written
record.
In addition,
since
the outset of ail
this work was not without
its
rather enormous upsets,
I hope
you will
inform the client that
I am personally
grateful at
this
latter end of
the work that
they have taken utmost new care
to
help ensure
the peaceful progress
of
the work at hand.
This has not gone
unnoticed by myself,
and
it
is
due
to
this development that we can say and see
that
the work overall proceeds without enturbulation;
when,
indeed,
at: times
in the
past, we had begun to wonder
if
it ever could.
15.
In closing,
I wish also
to extend
to you personally,
as well
as
to
the relevant people
at SRI, my appreciation for making available
the
rooms
at
SRI NY.
This has
indeed made my life easier,
but also
it has enabled us
to
ascertain that
the training work can and does have an integrity that suggests
it
is
transportable,
and
that
it can go foward in environments other than those
at SRI Menlo Park.
Cordially yours,
Ingo Swann
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