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Coordinate Remote Viewing
(CRY) with
Immediate Feedback
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.
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 orientation'
in
psychocnergetic phenomena,
rather than being particularly related to
coordinate systems
per
sc.
An orientation program for CRV has
been designed at
SRI,
and
is
being
applied with success with RVers
inexperienced
in
CRV.
The
details
are
as
follows
.
A target pool of more than
100 geographical
sites
from around the
globe has
been prepared and
is
being
continually expanded.
The
locations
are
chosen to embody some particular well-defined characteristic
(e.g.,
mountains,
oceans,
deserts,
lakes,
cities,
islands,
rivers).
The
coordi-
t
nates
of these
locations,
obtained from standard reference atlases,
are
each written on one
side
of
a
3" X
5"
file
card,
on the other
side
of which
is
a descriptor
(e.g.,
Mt
.
Hekla volcano,
Iceland)
along with an atlas
reference.
The
cards are then placed in envelopes,
coordinates facing the
back,
and randomized.
R.
Targ
,
H.
Puthoff
,
B.
Humphrey,
and
C.
Tart,
"Investigations
of
Target
Acquisition,"
Research
in Parapsychology
1979
,
Scarecrow Press,
Metuchcn,
N. J.
(In press )
.
tThe
Times Atlas
of
the World
,
Houghton Miflin Co.,
Boston,
1971.
People
* s
Republic of
China Atlas,
U.S.
Gov't.
Printing Office,
1971.
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The CRV orientation procedure
is
as
follows.
(1)
RVer and facilitator
seat
themselves
at opposite
ends
of
a table
in
a quiet environment
,
the former with
a
supply of paper and a pen,
the
latter with target
envelopes
(contents unknown)
and the reference atlases.
(2)
The CRVer^is
instructed that the
facilitator will begin
the CRV process
by selecting an envelope and reading
aloud the target
coordinates.
The CRVer
is
to note down
on paper any immediate impressions
(which he may also
express
aloud)
and then,
rather than embellishing on
his
first
impressions,
to
ask
for
the
coordinates
to
be read aloud again so that
the
original
process
may
be repeated,
etc.,
until
a coherent picture
of
the
site emerges.
(3)
Following these instructions,
the facilitator selects an
envelope
at random,
opens
it
from the
rear
so
as
to
be
exposed to
the
coordinates
only,
and
then begins
the
process
described above.
(4)
After one
or more repetitions
of the coordinates
(each
followed by
a CRV response)
leads
to
a recognizable
target
characteristic,
the
card
is turned over
by the
facilitator,
and the atlas consulted
(if
necessary)
in order
to give feedback.
A line
is
drawn on the
CRVer' s
data sheet
to separate the data generated thus
from further data,
since up to this
point
the data
were generated
in a double-blind protocol and
can be
objectively evaluated
later
as
a test
of target
acquisition.
(5)
Having terminated the
target acquisition "test
phase,
feedback can now be given and/or further data solicited.
The feedback given at
this
point
is nonnegative,
ranging
from "that's
the
target" through "near the target"
to
"you are
at another target"
(giving the
CRVer the benefit
of the
doubt).
The
facilitator then has
the option of
terminating
the viewing, asking
for more detail
("there's
something ten miles
north that
should be visible")
or
restarting the process when the viewer's original
descrip-
tion did
not
correspond to the target
site.
In the
latter
case the facilitator
can,
of
course,
guide
or
cue the CRVer
into
a
correct
response,
but
(a)
this
is acceptable in the
nontest
part
of
the sequence,
(b)
this
can be checked
for
by asking
for
detail in the surrounding region,
and
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(c)
provides an opportunity to investigate whether such
cueing procedures
can be useful in operationally-
oriented applications
(c.g.,
guiding
the CRVer onto the
target
site with cues
"a,"
"b,"
...
"f,"
and then
asking for
"g" )
.
RVer
518 was exposed to this
protocol,
a few targets
per session,
over
a several-day period, resulting
in a data pool
of 26 CRV target
viewings.
They were:
Salt Lake Desert,
Utah;
Lake
Erie;
Chicago;
Mono Lake;
Aruba
Island;
Lake Okeechobee;
Yount's
Peak, Wyoming;
Pitcairn
Island;
Pike's
Peak;
Los Angelos;
Atlantic Ocean;
Rio
de
Janeiro;
Kansas
plains,
St.
Peter and Paul
Islands;
Randall
Dam,
South Dakota;
Lake
Titicaca;
Cape
May;
Niagra Falls;
Munich;
Amazon River;
Midwestern
plains;
Venezuelan Peninsula;
Sierra Blanca Mountain;
Oregon Desert;
Panama Canal;
Puerto Rico.
Following the first pilot session of
five,
in which essentially
immediate feedback was
given,
the remaining twenty-one were
carried out
with delayed feedback and thus provided material which could be assessed
objectively.
Categorizing the
targets
into five groups
(mountains,
flats,
water,
cities,
islands/peninsulas,
the target/response matrix
(before
feedback)
is
as
shown in Table
3.
The probability
of such an alignment
occurring by chance alone
can be
calculated by the direct— count—of-
permutations method discussed earlier and
leads
to p = 0.0083.
The
distribution of responses
is
therefore statistically significant.
Further-
more,
beyond simple statistics,
certain individual responses were excep-
tionally accurate during
the acquisition "test"
phase,
c.g.,
a good drawing
of an island
(the target was Puerto Rico)
and indication that
coordinates
given were at
the southeast
shoreline
(correct).
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Table
DISTRIBUTION OF TARGET/RESPONSE MATCHINGS
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Targets
Mountains
Flats
Water
Cities
Islands/
Peninsulas
Mountains
Flats
Water
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Cities
Is lands /Peninsulas
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IV
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The principle observations deriving from our experience
thus
far with
client remote viewers
is
that,
first,
there
is
considerable evidence
for
successful remote
viewing,
there
is
less variability in overall performance
among
the viewers
as
a group,
than there
is from trial
to trial with
a
given viewer.
These observations
are exemplified by viewer
518,
Some
of
the highest quality remote viewing we have
seen came from the
series with
Viewer
518 describing remote
slides;
whereas,
this particular viewer was
the
least
successful,
four weeks earlier,
in
a
series
involving the
description
of remote geographical
locations.
Our findings
that
a viewer may be able
to describe
and identify
alphabet
letters
is
a most encouraging
development.
Previously we have
obtained only very nonanalytic descriptions
of
letters, with the viewer
failing when he was
asked
to identify the
letter.
We consider this
new
result deserving
of
further work,
and we plan to pursue
it
during
the
remaining months
of this program.
Extension of
the
RV process
to include
reading would constitute
a
significant breakthrough
for operational
applications
,
The
data indicating that
a viewer
can describe an individual
slide
as
it
is shown on
a screen answers an important
question;
namely, whether
the viewer
is
able
to focus
his attention on
a particular slide
of interest,
or whether his viewing would become generalized
to the actual
location
associated with the
slide.
This observed degree
of specificity indicates
that
contamination of specific targets
may not
be
as
great
a problem as
one
might
hypothesize.
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Further,
in the
trials with extended remote viewing
(ERV),
it appears
that
the viewer was able to identify significant elements
of
a hidden
object
in each
of
the trials.
These trials were
carried
out under
con-
ditions
of tight security,
and
the results
indicate
a
level
of reliability
that suggests that
the
more
leisurely pace of those trials might
be
beneficial
to
a viewer in his efforts
to avoid premature analysis
or
labeling,
and to rid
his mind
of material from the day’s activities which
might otherwise overlay his perceptions
of
the target.
Further work
is
required, however, before
a definitive comparison of
RV and ERV can be
made
.
The procedures
developed for yielding success
on coordinate remote
viewing
(CRV)
also appear to be fruitful,
and will
be employed with the
remaining client personnel during their second orientation period at
SRI.
In the
coming months we will
complete the
judging of all trials
and work with the remaining four viewers whom we expect
for two-week
periods
of work at
SRI.
With regard to further work,
it appears extremely desirable to
establish and determine some measures,
physiological and/or psychological,
to determine when
a viewer
is providing accurate
as opposed to inaccurate
data
.
One approach involves training the viewer to develop the ability to
discriminate,
himself;
that
is,
to
label each of his
data bits
as
correct,
analytical overlay,
and so forth.
As
this report
goes
to press, we have
evidence
that
a procedure we have developed to do this
is producing success
in this area.
As
a complementary approach,
several reports
in the
literature during
the past
decade indicate that galvanic skin response
(GSR)
,
electromyo-
graph
(EMG )
,
and measurements
of blood volume with
a plethysmograph may
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serve
as
indicative and noninvasive measures
of so-called psi-condusive
states
,
and therefore could potentially be used
to
’'gate”
the information
content
of RV sessions.
To this
list we would add voice stress analysis
techniques
as
a possibility.
We therefore suggest
that
these approaches
be given some
consideration as
candidates
for future investigation.
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