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TO:
Dr.
H.E. Puthoff
from:
X.
Swann,
Consultant
subject
Work report
date:
15 April 1984
LOCATION
SRI, NY
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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4.
s4 training completion :
The client preselected trainee (m)
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,
1 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 poise in the midst of difficulties),
the S4 work progressed
without faults and without any upsets at all.
The cumulative
progress of the S4 training is
to be found in the trainee's own
daily reports,
copies of which will be forwarded to you shortly.
6.
Originally,
I had extimate^ 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
access 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
ray 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,
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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.
10.
Mew trainees
:
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
1,
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 beginnihg, completion and number of simulated sites required for each trainee:
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Start
19 Jan 84
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Completion
27 Feb 84
29 Feb 84
22 Mar 84
27 Mar 84
Sim-sites used
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 experienceua "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
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