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CO-ORDINATE REMOTE VIEWING (CRV) TECHNOLOGY
1981-1983
THREE-YEAR PROJECT
DRAFT REPORT
Prepared
for:
Dr.
H.
E.
Puthoff
Radio Physics Laboratory
SRI
International
Ingo Swann
(consultant)
30 August
1983
CLASSIFIED
BY:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
II
WHAT WAS THE GOAL?
Ill
TYPES
OF TRAINEES ENGAGED
IV
STAGES
OF TRAINING
V
WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
A.
Training Has
Been Achieved
B.
The Phenomena Trained
are not Unique
to "Gifted"
Psychics
C.
A New Understanding Has
Been Achieved
VI
WHERE ARE WE GOING
A.
Enlargement of
the Training Pool
B.
Delivery
of
Stage
C.
An R&D Potential
for
"SEARCH" Has Come
Into View
.
D.
The Electromagnetic Connection
VII
DISCUSSION
A.
Background
B.
The Definition
of Training
C.
Epochs
of
CRV R&D and Training
D.
The Precision
of CRV
E.
The CRV Training Course
is Carefully Designed.
.
.
.
F.
How
is Progress
Judged?
G.
CRV Training Course Methods
and Protocols
H.
Summary of
Increase
in Yields
'
ANNEX:
Examples
of Stage
1 progress
in graph form
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I
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1981,
a three-year training program concerning potentials
in CRV
was established.
I was mandated,
through consulting contracts,
to organize
the work and
tutor
the selected personnel
and technical elements
of
this
program.
The specific
sponsors and work designs
for this program may be
found
in other documents.
The
three-year program
is now at an end.
What follows constitutes
a summary report of
the work undertaken,
the results obtained,
and certain
projections
for future work
if
a renewed effort
is mandated.
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II
WHAT WAS THE GOAL?
The overall
goal
of
the CRV training program was
to create,
out of
the features
of CRV previously discovered,
a training program through
which
the elements
of
successful coordinate remote viewing would be
transferred
to client preselected
trainees.
Any success
in achieving
this,
implied answers
to
two
items which were
of paramount interest at
the
beginning of
the
three-year program:
(1)
That the specific elements
of
the CRV methodology
were not unique
to
their
inventor.
(2)
That these elements,
given instructional body,
could be transferred
into
the client community.
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III
TYPES OF TRAINEES ENGAGED
During the three-year program,
Viewer A acted
as
the general R&D
source person,
applied
to himself
as
a test what was discovered,
and what
was organized
as
a nucleus training course-
Subsequent
to
this,
the first group of viewer trainees
(Viewers
B,
C,
and
D)
embarked on training.
This
first group had the distinction
of being,
prior
to entering upon the training course,
composed of
persons who had had psi experience and had acted
as experimental subjects
in several other kinds
of parapsychological experiments.
Subsequent
to
the first group,
a second group
(Viewers
E,
F,
G,
H,
I)
was enrolled
as
a further
test
of
the methodologies evolved by Viewer A.
This
second group was composed
of professional people,
each of whom had
achieved success
in their various fields
of
interest,
but none
of which
had acted before as an overt psychic-type
of person
in parapsychological
experiments-
After positive results
of
the second group were well
in hand,
one of
the clients was
invited
to
send preselected trainees
(Viewers
J and K)
Subsequent
to
this,
another client sent one preselected trainee
(Viewer
L)
during the
last half
of
the three-year period.
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IV
STAGES OF TRAINING
The training procedures have been broken down
into several
stages
representing various elements
of
CRV phenomena.
These
stages both
facilitate
training,
and actually follow the predictable course
of
in-
creasing perception which builds
itself by specific
increments and
importances.
Stages
through
3 have been confirmed
and delivered
to
trainees.
Stage
4 and
Stage
6 have been confirmed and
are ready
to be
delivered
to
trainees upon their completion of
Stage
3.
Stage
is
understood,
but has not yet been solidified
into
a training package.
Stages
through
3 appertain
to
large
site
features, which become
increasingly refined
as
a result
of command over the
Stage
techniques.
Stage
involves perception
of
specific
and often invisible
site
elements,
a good portion of which may not be available
to any other
intelligence gathering techniques,
save
for actual penetration of
the
site.
Stage
5 will allow the viewer
to
"turn around" and begin
to interro-
gate
the signal
line
for specific
subtle features
of several kinds.
See
Figure
1 below.
Stage
allows
for
the construction
of 3-dimensional models
of
the
major site characteristics with increasing refinements
in particulars.
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THE STAGES
SKILL GAINED
SIGNAL BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL
STAGE
1.
IDEOGRAMS AND IDEOGRAM
PRODUCTION
SIGNALS THAT INDUCE/PRODUCE
IOEOGRAMIC RESPONSES (GESTALTS)
STAGE
2.
SENSATIONS EXPERIENCED
PROM DISTANT
SITE
SIGNALS PRODUCING
TACTILE, SENSORY,
DIMENSIONAL
ESTIMATES, DIRECTIONAL
FEELINGS, AND SO FORTH
STAGE
3.
MOTION AND MOBILITY
(LIMITED) AT DISTANT
SITE
RESULTING
IN PRIMARY
ARTISTIC RENDERINGS
SIGNALS PRODUCING AESTHETIC
RESPONSES
IN VIEWER, SIMPLE
SKETCHES AND "TRACKERS"
STAGE 4
QUANTITATIVE AND DUAL!
TATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF
VARIOUS DISTANT
SITE
CHARACTERISTICS
SIGNALS (MANIFOLD) THAT INDUCE
ANALYTICAL COMPREHENSIONS
STAGE
6.
METHODS OF INTERROGATING
(STILL
IN
RI<D>
THE SIGNAL
LINE
STAGE 6
CREATING 3-DIMENSIONAL
MODELS
SIGNALS (CONSOLIDATED) THAT YIELD
SIMPLE
REPLICAS OF DISTANT SITE
FEATURES
STAGE
7.
SONICS
(STILL
IN
R&D)
SIGNALS THAT INDUCE VERBAL CONTENT
STAGE
B.
HUMAN TO HUMAN
INTER-
FACES (R&D,
1684/19851
SIGNALS THAT IMPLY HUMAN PSYCHIC
EMPATHY AND INDUCE/PRODUCE
IOEOGRAMIC RESPONSES (GESTALTS)
FIGURE
THE STAGES
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V
WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
A.
Training Has
Been Achieved
Relevant
to Stages
through
3,
all
trainees who embarked on
the
training course responded exceedingly well
to
the training procedures.
The second group worked quite
slowly due
to other personal committments
and scheduling.
Among
the
first sponsor-selected
trainees,
Trainee K
is nearing
completion of
Stage
3;
Trainee
J has
temporarily
left
the course due
to
serious health problems.
The
second sponsor-selected candidate only
entered
the program
in
1983,
but
is progressing satisfactorily.
FIGURE
THREE-YEAR PROGRAM CRV TRAINEES /ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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B .
The Phenomena Trained are not Unique
to "Gifted" Psychics
The overall context of
the training course
and
the success
of
the
given trainees has established that
the basic
ps i-perceptual phenomena
are not unique
to
"gifted" psychics
and
that given adequate understanding
of
them and carefully constructed
training and practical
exercises,
selected candidates
can take command
of
the phenomena encountered.
C.
A New Understanding Has
Been Achieved
With
the comprehensions we now have
in hand,
it
is clear
that
the
psychical perceptual
task
is
of
a delicacy and complexity that goes
far
beyond
any given understanding of
it entertained
in parapsychology
in
general.
This places
us
in a
status
that obliges
us
to bear two
things
constantly
in mind:
(1)
So-called
standard approaches normally utilized
in parapsychology are predictably limited.
(2)
The most fruitful future work probably will
be
built upon
the knowledge
and understanding of
the phenomena taken control
of during
the
three-
year project.
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VI
WHERE ARE WE GOING
A.
Enlargement of
the Training Pool
In terms
of
future work,
it
is feasible and desirable
to further
enlarge
the training pool.
B.
Delivery of
Stage
It
is
important that Stage
4,
confirmed,
packaged
and ready
to be
delivered,
be tutored
to those who have completed Stage
3.
Locating and
stabilizing
the elements
of
Stage 4 was quite difficult and
it was
in R&D
for nearly two years.
It
involves
a significant
"jump" from configurational
data decoded out of
Stages
through
3,
into subtle data that bear
sig-
nificant intelligence potential.
Once
Stage
4 was
stabilized
and
self-
trained by Viewer
A,
a significant incremental difference immediately
manifested
in classified
site viewings as
is
shown in Figure
2 below.
Stage 4 was applied by Viewer A to certain sites after
Stage
4 had been
isolated and confirmed.
On
a rating of
intelligence value
of
to
,
the pre-Stage
4 sites averaged
1.21 while those
that incorporated
Stage
techniques averaged
2.75.
See figure
3 below.
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PRE-STAGE 4
STAGE 4
DIA Eval
Sit* #
Data
DIA Eval
Slta #
Data
J.S. *1
12 r*b so
2a
J.S. #39
6 r«b S3
J.S. #3
13 r*b 60
J.S. #40
10 Fab 63
U
J.S. #5
3 Mar 80
J.S. #41
n r.b S3
J.S. #8
1 Jul 60
2a
J.S. #42
n r.b S3
J.S. #12
2 Apr 61
2.75 Avaraga
Abort
J.S
-
. #13
3 Apr 81
J.S. #14
7 Apr 81
J.S. #13
6 Apr 61
J.S. #16
8 Apr 61
J.S. #17
9 Apr 81
2+
J.S. #20
6 Jun 81
J.S. #21
6 Aug 81
J.S. #29
14 Dac
0*
J.S. #30
14 Dac 81
2-
J.S. #31
14 Dac 81
No aval
J.S. #33
7 Jan 62
J.S. #34
1 Mar 82
0+
J.S. #33
4 Nov 82
J.S. #36
5 Nov 62
u
J.S. #37
15 Nov 62
J.S. #38
21 Jan 83
1.21 Avaraga
FIGURE
PRE- AND POST-STAGE
4 ACHIEVEMENTS AVERAGED
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c.
An R&D Potential
for "SEARCH
11 Has Come
Into View
In terms
of future work,
the problem of
'’SEARCH"
should achieve
a
platform of understanding
that has not hitherto been available under
standard parapsychological approaches.
These breakthroughs
are expected
to arrive through
the context of
Stage
(interrogation of
the
signal
line).
Although Stage
is
still
in R&D
as concerns
the packaging and delivery of
it,
there are sufficient indicators already present
to indicate that the
problem of
search will be addressed,
at
least
in
some
important under-
standings,
through continued mapping
of
it.
It must be noted carefully,
and based upon our ten year's
of
experience now,
that any resolution
to the "SEARCH" problem probably
will only be achieved
if we arrive
at some understanding
of how
it
is
that
the
signal
line might be profitably interrogated.
The danger will
be
to proceed with
ad hoc experiments which,
even
if marginally successful,
might not yield any basic understandings
leading ultimately to controlled
interrogation procedures.
The achievement of finding
a significant apperture through which
the
signal
line can be interrogated without also arousing volumes
of
"noise"
is
therefore an important prerequisite
for
the
"SEARCH" problem.
D.
The Electromagnetic Connection
During
the overall course
of
the R&D and training,
sufficient phenomena
have surfaced
that indicate a direct connection
of viewer performance with
certain geomagnetic conditions.
The daily parameters
of basic
earth
electromagnetic conditions therefore achieved
some interest on our part.
An "eye-ball"
scan of
these
interrelationships clearly indicates an
important,
but hitherto unsuspected,
interaction between viewing and
success
in correctly interpreting
the signal
line and electromagnetic
conditions.
We expect that this unsuspected relationship will bear
itself
out,
and
if
so,
establish
in some form the first verifiable psi-
electromagnetic relationships
.
This
in turn portends
the arrival
of
understandings
that concern countermeasures.
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In
the estimation
of
this consultant,
bearing in mind the
significances
of the several
steps
forward that have
come into view
during the last work epoch,
the biomagnetic/psi perceptual problem
should probably be given highest and first priority.
The
fact that
earth’s geomagnetic field and human physiology and psychology are both
influenced by and interact
with EMF has
been established quite some
time ago
(See Presman,
A.S.,
Electromagnetic Fields
and Life
. Plenum
Press,
New York
(Prof. Pressman,
Department
of Biophysics, Moscow
University, Moscow).)
Based upon experience,
if the work should
proceed under the
"spontaneous
result" philosophy or attitude,
there
will
be
a tendency to replicate more familiar approaches.
The EMF/consciousness/psi
area
is unfamiliar to most
of
us;
yet,
based upon
our observations,
there
is
an astonishing degree
of
correlation.
It
is strongly recommended that
an organized interest
in
this
special phenomena be given priority.
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VII
DISCUSSION
A.
Background
In considering this report on Coordinate Remote Viewing
(CRV) work,
several
important distinguishing features may be borne
in mind.
An in-depth review of
the history of
formal psychical
or paranormal
research—covering some
100 years—clearly reveals
that no successful
training methodologies have been
located or evolved prior
to
the work
undertaken at SRI,
specifically
in CRV.
While certain epochs
of psychical
work
in
the past have extraordinary merit,
these
for
the most part have
had
as
their goal
the establishing of credibility that the several
psychical manifestations d£ exist.
These manifestations have been contacted
in
a spontaneous
form,
and
displays
of
their arrays
always have been dependent upon the
innate
"gif tedness"
of
subjects
if
they emerged or could be
located.
The
spon-
taneous
forms have not
in
a continuing form lent themselves very well
to
the
scientific parameters designed
to "capture"
them.
Because
of
this,
the "field"
or "state-of-the-art,"
as
a whole, was
forced
to view the
spontaneous arrays
through,
usually,
statistical methods
of evaluation
and averaging.
The statistical approaches have sufficed
to establish credibility
for
the existence
of
spontaneous paranormal aptitudes
in given
individuals
or groups;
by
itself,
however,
it has not been sufficient or capable
of
extrapolating on the exact nature of aptitude-characteristics
in any given
and continuable psychical manifestation.
Furthermore,
seeking
to utilize statistical approaches
to
the problems
before
them,
psychical researchers ultimately came
to seek experiments
that might better
increase
the statistical averages
they sought.
This
overall approach
led
to
a drastic proliferation of random experimentations
that had
as
their goals more experimental design but often affiliated them
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less with actual psychical aptitudes.
Throughout this history,
the actual
problem of psychical manifestations has been addressed only tangentally,
if
at all,
prior
to
the present CRV work.
This problem consists
of two equally important factors:
(1)
What makes
superior
data, when
it emerges,
superior?
(2)
What makes
inferior data, when
it emerges,
inferior?
This dual problem
is
a problem for research
(rather
than random
experimentation)
into the different factors
that govern
the perceptual modes
that underlay
this extraordinary duality.
In approaching
this duality,
the statistical averaging or evaluation of experiments
of
the superior
into
the
inferior data
is
and has been of
little avail
in that
it does not
lead
into
intimate contact with
the perceptual attributes
involved.
The hallmark of
the CRV R&D work--leading
to training capabilities--has
been
to concentrate upon the exact nature
of both superior and inferior
arrays
of data and
to plumb
into
the exact nature
of
the perceptual
attributes
involved
in each of
them.
It was assumed,
at
the outset,
and
correctly
so,
that superior data contained
less
or
least false data among
its overall contents,
and
that inferior data were data
sets
in which most
of
the content was
false.
Superior data,
therefore, were data relatively
free of
false data,
and
it became easy
to think of
the overall problem as
one
of
signal versus noise.
The characteristics both of
signal and noise
had
to be discovered
and
isolated,
and
it
is
the cumulative
breakthroughs
in
this history that have
led
to constant progress
in CRV R&D and,
ultimately,
£o
a training program based upon those breakthroughs
so far discovered
B.
The Definition
of Training
Prior
to
a training program being established,
no
specific
set of
methods
or practices had been brought
into existence that elevated psychical
aptitudes
or attributes above just merely attempting
to encourage
the
emergence
of spontaneous displays.
It had been
in the recent past, possible
to give general orientation
to
individuals
about
the nature
of psychical
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abilities,
and thereafter
leave
it
to themselves
to attempt
to evoke
spontaneous psychical displays.
It
is
the definition of
"training"
that gives
the CRV project
a con-
siderable difference from orientation and spontaneous displays
of psychical
aptitudes.
"Training" implies
a prefigured regime that will,
if correctly
applied,
lead
to predictable performance which,
in turn, will yield
superior results.
Such
a training program should be considered viable
if,
together with increasing discoveries,
it continues
to develop along
lines
of
increasingly refined results
and precision.
The R&D training project has well established
that predictable per-
formance can be trained
;
and
its results correctly extrapolated
into use-
oriented functions.
Furthermore,
the overall approach utilized
in R&D
continues
to reveal
increasingly refined capabilities which
in turn,
as
of
the close
of
the three-year project,
imply pending entrance
into some
truly interesting areas
of tactical concern.
C .
Epochs of CRV R&D and Training
Exploration and development of Coordinate Remote Viewing
(CRV)
has
gone through many phases:
from random experimenting
in
1974,
ultimately
to
its
substantive contents now isolated
into
a primary,
but standardized,
training course.
Based strictly upon the
Increasing
success
of
trainees,
it
is antici-
pated that the CRV procedures will continue
to increase
in value
as
a
practical
applications
tool.
See Figure
4 below.
It
is nearly impossible
to talk
in detail
of
the complexity of
the
tasks
of precision and perceptual-control which which the viewer-trainee
is
faced
as he
or
she begins
to try
to achieve command over
the
signal
line.
The reality of
the multiple tasks
involved only become apparent
to
the trainees during the course
of
their training through each subsequent
stage.
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1.
EXPLORATORY
1872 TO
1976
INTERVENING AREA
1974 TO
1976
PROBLEM OF SIGNAL
vi NOISE
1076 TO
1978
4.
FUNDAMENTAL PERCEPTUAL STUDIES
1977 TO
1979 AND CONTINUING
6.
ISOLATION OF
THE IDEOGRAM
1979
6.
TRAINING/LEARNING
1980 — PRESENT AND CONTINUING
7.
INTENSIVE ENHANCEMENT
1982 AND CONTINUING
a.
PROJECTION OF OPERATIONAL
READINESS
1983 AND CONTINUING
FIGURE
EPOCHS OF COORDINATE REMOTE VTEWING
(CRF),
R&D
D.
The Precision of
CRV
R&D,
aligned with training,
have
shown that "psychic"
signals offer
themselves up
to
interpretative consciousness through
a predictable
series
of
"signal
impulses."
This
series
starts with "greatest" meaning,
and evolves
into "specific" components.
This predictable process has easily yielding "stages" each of which,
in training,
can be
specifically tutored.
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It
is
important
to establish,
in the context of
this first overall
report on CRV training,
that these tasks are
of extraordinary delicacy
and require precision control,
as will be exhibited by the trainees upon
completion of
each stage of training.
The psychological perspective
that
necessarily
is required
to surround
this operation,
should be
seen as
a
new contribution
to overall perceptual psi requirements.
This psychologi-
cal perspective should not be assumed to resemble any other forgoing idea
of requirements
in the area of general spontaneous psi displays.
E.
The CRV Training Course
is Carefully Designed
The most important task in creating
the CRV training course was
to
come
to grips with
the subtle factors
involved
in accepting the fact that
the self-generating creative faculties
of
the trainee would achieve prime
importance
The
second task was
to design an approach that might incorporate
psychic
functions
on
a strict and repetitive basis,
and
yet not drive
these emerging functions
into extinction.
The result has been
the devising
of
a course
of
training
that has
produced satisfactory results
in these very important areas.
Analysis
of
learning patterns,
display patterns
that are recognizable
in other disciplines
of training
in which
a new performance-skill
is gained through precision
tutoring or coaching.
See Figure
5 below.
WHAT ARE WE ASKING THE TRAINEE TO DO?
•
TO CONTACT A DISTANT
SITE BY MEANS OTHER THAN NORMAL
SENSORY EXPERIENCE
•
TO ACHIEVE A COMPREHENSION THAT INFORMATION
IS AVAILABLE
THROUGH NONSENSORY CHANNELS
•
TO ACTIVATE PARTICIPATION
IN THESE INFORMATION CHANNELS
•
TO ACTIVATE AND FORM NEW SKILLS TO DO SO
•
TO PUT THESE NEW SKILLS ON A CONTROLLABLE AND PREDICTABLE
BASIS
FIGURE
THE CRV TRAINING TASK
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