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By NED MacKAY
Mental ability to view a distant
location
through
- someone
else’s
eyes— in some
cases
via
future
prediction — has been uncovered
by two physicists at Stanford Re-
search
Institute
(SRI)
in
Menlo
Park.
The physicists, Harold E. Puth-
off and Russell Targ, conducted 51
experiments during the past three
years, using both experienced and
in experienced subjects.
People’s
“remote
viewing”
skills,
as
the
scientists
termed
them, were tested using locations
as distant as Puerto Rico and as
close as
the Stanford
University
campus.
In four cases which the
scien-
tists admit reluctance to publish,
one
person
evidenced
ability
to
describe accurately the spot an-
other was visiting, before the visit
had occurred and before even the
visitor knew where
it would be.
The results of the experiments
are described in an article appear-
ing in the March issue of the Pro-
ceedings
of the
Institute
of
the
Electrical
and
Electronic
Engi-
neers.
Targ and Puthoff were the two
SRI scientists who studied the ap-
parent
psychokinetic
abilities
of
Uri
Geller, a young
Israeli who
toured the United States
in
1973
demonstrating his alleged psychic
powers.
’
Targ
and
Puthoff
concluded
that they had no scientific expla-
nation
for some
of
the
things
Geller could do, and that “further
investigation
is
clearly
warrant-
ed.”
In working on the more recent
research, Puthoff and Targ con-
' ducted a series of original experi-
ments, then five additional verifi-
cation
series" using
different
people.
In general the format called for
a member of SRI management not
otherwise connected with the ex-
periment to supervise selection of
the locations and keep each loca-
tion listed in a sealed envelope in
-
his office safe.
During an experiment a sedled
envelope was selected at random
and handed
to the experimenter
who was to visit the site. The ex-
perimenter proceeded
directly
to
the
site
accompanied
by
ob-
servers.
Meanwhile,
the
other
experi-
menter, who remained ignorant of
the site, was kept in the laborato-
ry with the subject for the entire
period. Some subjects were placed
in a Faraday Cage to screen out
most electromagnetic waves.
While the team was at the site,
the subject focused
his thoughts
on
the
outbound
experimenter
and
his
location,
describing
the
scene and making any drawings
he wished.
Ultimately judges not connect-
ed
with
the
experiments
were
asked
to match
the descriptions
with
the
sites.
Various
“double
blind” arrangements were used to
prevent
accidental
t information
leakage.
According to Puthoff and Targ
the results of five out of six stud-
ies were significantly better than
mere chance would
allow. Three
of
the
studies
differed
from
chance
expectations
by odds
of
1,000 to
I or better,- one by odds
of half a million to one.
In the long-distance experiment,
three
subjects
knew
only
that
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and describe
his location
at
1:30
p.m. on seven specific days.
At one of the appointed times,
a subject back
at SRI
said with
some misgivings that Targ’s loca-
tion was an airport with a sandy
beach and ocean nearby.
It was
correct — Targ had taken an un-
planned' side-trip
to
an
offshore
island and had just disembarked
from a plane.
In experiments closer to home,
subjects
described
with- varying
accuracy their
experimenters’
visits
to
the
Palo
Alto
Civic
Center, the pedestrian overpass to
the Bayshore Freeway at Oregon
Expressway, and various, parks.
One subject correctly identified
her
experimenter’s
locat'd®
as
White Memorial Plaza at Stanford
University.
The authors approached the fu-
ture
viewing
experiment
results
with extreme caution.
“If the authors may be forgiven
a
personal
note, we
wish
to
express that this section deals with
observations
that we have been
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gathered
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visit
to a
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reluctant
to
publish
because
of
their striking apparent incompat-
ibility
with
existing
concepts,”
Targ and Puthoff wrote.
"The motivating factor for pre-
senting the data at this time is the
ethical
consideration
that
theorists endeavoring
to develop
models
for paranormal
function-
ing should ,be apprised of all the
observable data
if their efforts to
arrive
at
- a
comprehensive
and
correct description are to be suc-
cessful.”
During the original experiments
some of the participants had vol-
unteered
that
they
had
, had
images
of
where
their
experi
-
menter would
visit
in
the
forth-
coming test.
So Targ and
Puthoff did
four
more experiments with one sub-
ject. The difference was that the
.subject was required
t/o describe
the remote location during a
15*
minute period beginning 20 min-
utes before
the
location was
se-
lected and 35 minutes before the
outbound
experimenter
arrived
there.
“For reasons we do not as yet
understand,
the
four
transcripts
generated
in the precognition ex-
periment show exceptional coher-
ence and accuracy
as
evidenced
by the fact that
all of the judges
were
able
to match
successfully
all of the transcripts to the corre-
sponding
target
locations,". Targ
and Puthoff reported.
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are under
way.
•
Targ and
Puthoff
cite
current
theories about extremely low
re-
quency waves as one possible ex-
planation of some of the experi-
ment results.
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of
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suggests
that
precognition “may be the easiest
of
apparent
paranormal
pheno-
mena to assimilate within the cur-
rent
theoretical
structure
of our
world view.”
"... Modern theory
is not with-,
out resources that can be brought,
to bear on the problems at hand,
and we expect
that
these prob-
lems will, with further work, con-
tinue
to
yield
to
analysis
and
specification,” they wrote.
The research was supported by
the
Foundation
for
Parasensory
Investigation
and
the
Parapsy-
chology Foundation of New York
City;
the
Insitute
of
Noetic
Sciences,
Palo Alto; and' the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration.
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terrorism, and domestic vio-
lence
in 1970 he authorized a co-
ordinated
' counter-operation
by
most
intelligence
agencies
but
called the operation off after a few
days after objections from the late
FBI
Director
J.
Edgar
Hoover,
Nixon said he was “surprised” at
Hoover’s
disagreement
because
the FBI
chief had
attended
the
meeting setting up the operation,
later to be known as the “Huston
plan.”
—The
quality
of
intelligence
during
the Nixon
administration
“was
relatively
adequate”
but
“better
intelligence
concerning
the 1974 Yom Kippur War
in the
Middle East might have permitted
moves to avert
it.”
—Nevertheless,
he
found
“re-
cent
efforts
to
emasculate
the
Central
Intelligence Agency
and
related
intelligence
organizations
to
be not only
incredibly
short-
sighted but potentially dangerous
to the security of all free nations.”
—“For
the
national
media
to
publish and disseminate classified
national security information
is in
my
view
irresponsible
journal-
ism.”
Nixon
apparently
felt
that
his
responses would
leak
or
be
re-
leased by the committee partially
or in a another form and instruct-
ed.
his Washington
attorneys
to
release
the answers
as
he made
them.
A spokesman for Miller, Cassidy
and Larrocca, the law firm repre-
senting Nixon, said that the White
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released in that form.
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