Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 (h) The “beep” must go! The automatic timer beep is annoying to participants and experimenters. (i) The date should be input as a normal date, not as a Julian date. (j) The system should be restartable under software control. Having to switch it off and on to reset it probably shortens the systerm’s life. (k) As a substitute for the beep, it would be helpful to have an onscreen display of available time left per trial or rest period. This display could be updated at minute intervals and left onscreen until the next update. (1) Documentation for the system outlining the generic operating system commands would be helpful. (m) A facility allowing comments to be input to the data set generated during the session, in an online mode, would also be helpful, because the system is not automatically self-validating, necessitating the commentary of a human witness to assure that the events are not due to fraud or artifact. (2) Hardware (a) As recommended in (a) of the preceding “Software” section, provision of analog feedback (certainly at sub-threshold levels) would greatly improve the system’s feedback characteristics for RA training purposes. (b) Longer optical fiber links are needed to enable the ED systems to be located at longer distances from the participants. (c) A cooperative JFK/SRI attempt to improve the isolation of the ED would be of great benefit. Construction of a multilayer vibration—resistant mounting would be helpful. [t would also be possible to construct a sound-attenuating shield in which to enclose the ED. (d) The JFK group is considering the possibility of locating the ED target systems in nonadjacent rooms-—locations where a “buffer” room is interposed between participants and the target systems. This should reduce problems of artifact to vanishing point. (e) An extension of Item (c) above would be to attempt long-distance RA oe training, using telephone lines to convey the feedback from the ED system to the remote participants. This would require inclusion of telephone equipment and expenses as part of the budget. c. Screening Device Characteristics The SD seems to be successful in its application environment. The noisiness of the strain gauge front end remains a problem, because it creates a zone of uncertainty in interpreting the scores obtained with its use. However, it well fulfills the important requirements of robustness, portability, and ease of use. Psychologically, the SD seems to be well accepted. 68 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Several tentative conclusions seem to emerge from consideration of the period under review. The mass screening technique does seem to work in the United States and can be adapted for use by a screening team, rather than an individual screener. The student population of JFK appears to show some considerable potential as a source of “psychic” profile individuals, some of whom may be suitable for Piezo-RA training. There also appear to be several individuals, at least, who live near enough to SRI to consider as experimental participants (who were identified as possible RA trainees by the Trellis screening). The Piezo-RA training technique also seems to function effectively in the United States, and the preliminary informal results look very promising, with the American RA trainees showing a response to training that is superior to the English RA trainee group. The techniques for RA training also seem successfully transferable to other individuals, and there seems good reason to expect that Scott Hubbard, for example, would easily be able to learn the RA training technique. The preliminary data indicate that performance is dependent upon the number of training sessions performed. The relevance of the elite PIF “PB” profile to good RA performance has not yet been clearly demonstrated, but the results so far certainly do not appear to contradict the use of this profile as one of a number of factors to be weighed in selecting possible RA trainees. Changes in training conditions that disrupt the participants’ environment have been shown, at least informally, to be detrimental to RA learning. The crucial importance of appropriate feedback from RA detection instrumentation also is indicated by the results. For formal studies, it seems essential that the Piezo-RA agents be trained to the point where they become capable of affecting instrumentation that is distant from them. Because some participants prefer to make noise while producing ostensible Piezo-RA effects, good isolation (by distance and shielding) of Piezo-RA detection systems from environmental noise and vibration seems essential. The development of methods of improving the efficiency of participant selection certainly seems worth investigating. The present PIF represents a first attempt to develop one element 69 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 of this approach. The further development of participant profiling might well prove fruitful. Equally, there may well be remedial or facilitating techniques that could improve the learning performance of Piezo-RA trainees, and these would be worth investigating also. An examination of the effects of feedback system characteristics and RA psychological induction strategies might also lead to the development of superior feedback and RA elicitation techniques that might improve RA performance. Of special interest would be the application of behavioral therapy techniques (used for ameliorating phobic behavior) for reducing RA task anxiety and inhibition due to formal, witnessed, or novel conditions. The characterization of RA production states seems an important goal. Electrophysiological studies of RA agents when producing effects could be very useful, because if characteristic states correlated with RA production, biofeedback devices could then be produced to train individuals to achieve the requisite states. Finally, the major challenge faced in the upcoming cycle’s activities is to retain the drive and motivation of the participants and the experimental team. This will require careful goal-setting and the provision of carefully graded, but successively more challenging Piezo-RA tasks for participants, which is consistent with the overall aim of achieving increasingly high-quality evidence of the existence of the Piezo-RA effect. 70 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 REFERENCES SRI International, Services Contract No. C-11488. Issacs, J., “A Mass Screening Technique For Locating Pkmb Agents,” Psychoenergetic Systems, 4, pp. 125-158 (1981). Houck, G., “pk Party Format And Materials Required,” Unpublished Monograph, New Port Beach (1982). Isaacs, J., “Some Aspects Of Performance At A Psychokinetic Task,” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University Of Aston, Birmingham, England (1984). Isaacs, J., “Directly Detectable Psychokinetic Effects: A New Category Of Psychokinesis,” Paper Presented At The 1986 Parapsychological Foundation Conference (“Parapsychology And Human Nature”), In Press. Batcheldor, K. J., “Contributions To The Theory Of Pk Induction From Sitter-group Work,” Journal Of The American Society For Psychical Research, 78, 2, pp. 105-122 (1984). Robinson, D., “Motivation In Parapsychology: Competence, Control, And The Choice Effect,” Journal Of Parapsychology, 45, 3, pp. 215-232 (1981). 71 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
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JOHN BprdRaw For R&IEHSS2 001 0876? Y OIA -REB96-007 SUROG2SOGNIGGO F-BUD IES REMOTE ACTION PROJECT: PARTICIPANT INFORMATION Thank you very much for aiding our study ! Please answer all the questions on the top half of this page and on the other pages now. Your answers are strictly voluntary and will be kept confidential - no information you have given will be released without your written permission. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Name Date Address Phone Number(s) 3i. If you are unsure whether to answer the question below "yes", please answer this question after you have heard the presentation, and participated in the remote action session. Please don’t forget to answer. May we have your permission to contact you regarding participation in the Remote Action Project or other parapsychology studies at John F. Kennedy University? YES NO Please Indicate your Availability NOW TURN OVER THE PAGE AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS we ew eee ewe mee ewe eee Re eee ee eee ee eR we eH BO wee ww eM en eww wm em ww ow ewe ewww mw wenn ANSWER THIS SECTION AFTER_THE METAL-BENDING AND REMOTE ACTION _ SESSIONS Ne et NN a ENE Please check the appropriate answers. NO YES Did you bend any cutlery ? If yes, how much physical force did you have to use to make it bend ? Great _ Moderate _._—s-—sLittle _ None ___ Did you experience any of the following while bending ? Metal getting hot ? __ Suddeness of bend ? ___ Metal going soft ? _ Feelings of bodily heat ? _ Tingling in hands or body 7? ___ Was your attention on the metal when it happened ? On ___ Off What was your mental state when the bending occurred ? Laughing ? ___ Distracted ? __ Concentrating ? ___ Other wn nnn nnn nee ---- TO BE FILLED OUT BY THE EXPERIMENTER-------------------7--7-- a a sae LE Screening: Screener: Referral/Other: Lv  eEDEEEEEEEEERGEEeedl Machine No. Macro Events Machine Results. mas Intuitive Hit/Impressions: 75 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
10. ii. 12. i3. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 om HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PHENOMENA ? If "NO", place a check mark on the line under "no": If "YES", please circle how often: 1 equals ‘once’, 2 equals ‘’more than once, several times’, or 3 equals ‘often, frequently’. Have you ever tried to do anything physical with the power of your mind? Have you ever had raps, bangs, footsteps, or other unusual! noises occur ? Have you had doors or windows open or close, or lights turn on or off without physical cause ? Have you ever had objects disappear or appear in new places when you were certain of their location or have you ever felt that they moved without physical cause? Does normally functioning equipment occasionally fail to operate for you or does malfunctioning equipment work unexpectedly for you ? Have clocks or watches stopped or changed speed,or have metal objects bent without physical force in your presence ? Have you ever felt that you had received information about a person or event from touching an object ? Have you ever had an unusual strength experience ? Have you ever had any of the following experiences while awake: The feeling or thought that an unexpected event a) had happened, b) was happening, or c) was going to happen - and later learned that you were right ? Have you ever felt that you received information about something which happened before, during, or after a dream which you did not know about or did not expect at the time of the dream ? (veridical dream, symbolic dream) Have you ever had an experience while awake in which you felt you were located outside of or away from your physical body ? Have you ever felt you have seen a location or event at a distance ? Have you ever had, while awake, a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by another being, or a sensation of cold, which you felt was not due to any external physical or natural cause ? 76 NO YES Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
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