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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
Final Report of Parapsychology Studies
Stanford Research
Institute
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Dr.
H.
Puthoff and
Mr.
R.
Targ will present their
final report
of parapsychology studies completed at
Stanford Research Institute
(SRI)
at
1000 hours,
September
1973,
in the East Building Conference room.
The report will
include but
not be limited to results
obtained from studies
of
two exceptionally capable
individuals
Mr.
Uri Geller and
Mr.
Ingo Swann.
Ex-
perimental procedures,
data and conclusions will
be
presented.
In the afternoon
Dr.
Puthoff and
Mr.
Targ
will
be available
for questions and more detailed
discussions.
You are invited to
the
final report
presentation and/or information sessions afterwards.
For your information,
attached you will
find
a
copy
of one of
the
latest reports issued by SRI.
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EXPERIMENTS
- Uri Geller
at
SRI,
August
4- 11 ,
1973
OBJECTIVE
The objective of
this group of experimental sessions
is
to
verify Geller 's apparent paranormal perception under carefully
controlled conditions and to head toward an understanding of
the
Physical and psychological variables underlying his apparent
ability.
EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM
In each of
the eight days of this experimental period we conducted
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used for EEG research
in the Life Sciences Division of SRI.
it
is
locked
by means of an inner and outer door
each
of rti.h
,
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each of uh ich
is secured with
a
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drawlngs uaed
ln “1= experiment wore selected by randomly
ope„lnB
a large college dictionary and selecting
the first wol which
could
reasonably be drawn.
The first word obtained
in
this, mallrlas
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"fuse'' and
the object drawn was
a firecracker.
All
target selection
and picture drawing was done with Geller already in the shielded
room.
Geller was notified
via
intercom when
the target picture was drawn and
taped
to the wall
outside his enclosure.
His almost immediate response was
that he saw
"a cylinder with
noise coming out
of
it".
(He was continuously monitored by
a one-way
audio circuit.)
His drawing
to correspond
to the target was
a drum,
along with a number of other cylindrical-looking objects.
Figs.
2 and
3.
The second word selected was
"bunch," and
the target was
a bunch
of grapes.
Geller’s immediate response was
that he saw "drops of water
coming out
of
the picture."
He
then talked about
"purple circles".
Finally,
he said that he was quite sure that he had
the picture.
His
drawing was indeed
a bunch of grapes.
Both the target picture and
Geller’s rendition had 24 grapes
in the bunch.
Figs.
4 and
5.
In this work the target picture
is never discussed by
the experi-
menters after the picture
is drawn or brought near
the shielded
room.
The intercom operates only from the
inside of
the room to the outside,
except when the push-to-talk switch
is depressed on
the outside of
the
room.
In our detailed examination of
the shielded
room and
the protocol
used
in these experiments no sensory leakage has been found, nor has any
defect in the protocol been brought
to our attention.
Sunday, August
5 .
Geller
is
locked
in the shielded room and
the target
is drawn
in
the experimenter's office about
a half mile away.
The target
selected from the dictionary was an outline drawing of
a man, which evolved
through
the drawing process
into
a devil with
a
trident.
To start
the
experiment,
Puthoff,
who was with Geller,
called Targ,
who was with
the
drawing.
Geller spent almost
a half hour working on the drawing before
producing the first of several responses.
His drawings were as follows.
1.
"Moses* Tablets"
i.e.,
Ten Com-
mandments,
inside the world with
a
trident
on
the outside.
2.
Apple
with
a worm coming out
of
it.
A snake was
in
the same picture.
3.
Com-
posite picture with
the Ten Commandments
on
top of
the world,
God
inside
the world and the trident on the outside,
along with
a neatly drawn
leaf.
One
is
led
to speculate
that
the Garden
of Eden representation
in these
three drawings
is perhaps associational material
triggered by
the
target.
The inability
on Geller’s part
to draw
the devil may be culturally
in-
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1973
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With regard
to
the pictures,
Geller did draw the trident from the
target picture,
but he did not draw the man who was holding
it.
From
l^his
it seems clear that Geller does not simply copy lines from the
target picture,
but rather he does perform some mental
orooessl.np'
on
them before drawing them himself.
Fig.
6-9,
The second
target picture was drawn by an experimenter while he
was inside
the shielded room with Geller outside the room with another
experimenter.
In
this case
the target was
a representation of
the solar
system,
drawn without
the orbit
lines.
His immediate verbal reaction
before drawing was one of
"space".
Fig.
10 and
11.
Geller’s drawn
response
to the target while outside the room also omits
the conventional
orbit
lines and appears
to have many similarities
to the
target drawing.
The block in the center of Geller’s picture,
according
to his
statement,
was his afterthought suggested by the movie 2001 and was drawn an an
addition just before comparing target with response.
Monday, August
6 .
The experiment
to be done this day was
a pure
clairvoyance
task.
A picture was drawn by
a scientist outside
of
the
usual experimental group.
The picture was
locked
in the shielded room
before Geller
s arrival at SRI,
Geller was
then
led by
the experi-
menters to the shielded room,
and asked
to draw the picture
inside
the
room.
He drew a number of pictures,
all of which he rejected
as not
being applicable.
He said
that he got no clear impression and passed.
The target was a rabbit,
and nothing Geller drew in any way resembled
a
rabbit.
It should be added
that
the picture was drawn by
a scientist
of whom Geller
is not
fond,
and Geller asked at
the outset
if
this was
the case.
The experimenters said
that this was not
the case,
since
they did
not know who had drawn the picture,
Geller felt vindicated
to some extent when he found out that his
initial guess as
to
the artist
had been correct.
Tuesday,
August
7 .
This day
two target pictures were attempted with
Geller in the shielded
room.
He was connected
to an EEG apparatus
to
allow measurement of
his brain waves at the time
that he was attempting
to perceive
a hidden picture.
The
two target pictures were
a
tree and
an envelope.
He experienced difficulty,
did not make
a drawing
that
corresponded
to either drawing and passed.
Also,
he found
it very
difficult to hold adequately still
to make good EEG records.
We will
repeat
the EEG experiment another time
to try and obtain better data.
The
same skeptical experimenter who drew
the rabbit was
the EEG operator
on this second unsuccessful day.
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W^esday, August^.
Three
targets were drawn during the course of
this day’s work.
In
the
first,
the experimenters closed
the outer
door of
the laboratory
in which the shielded room
is located
(in ad-
dition to the inner double doors)
and worked
in an adjoining room.
The target picture
in this case was
a camel.
Geller felt unsure
and passed,
but his first choice drawing was
a horse.
Figs.
12 and
13.
The experimenters then returned
to the room outside
the shielded
room and drew the second picture which was
the Golden Gate Bridge.
Geller
inside
the shielded room drew some curved
lines with some squares under-
neath.
He said
that he didn’t know what
the picture was and passed.
The third picture was
a flying sea gull,
Geller almost immedi-
ately said that he saw
a flying swan over a
hill.
He drew several
birds and said
that he was sure
that his drawing was
correct, which
it was.
Figs.
15 and
16.
In these experiments conducted with
this shielded
room,
six day’s
work was done.
Good results were obtained on the four days when there
was no openly skeptical observer
(except
the. experimenters whom Geller
has learned
to accept).
Thursday,
August
9.
We moved
the experiments to a new shielded room
from the
Life Science to the Engineering building in order
to make use
of the computer facilities available
there.
After Geller was secured
in
a shielded room about
150 feet down
the hall and around
a corner from the computer room,
a picture was
drawn on the face of
the TV screen driven by the computer’s graphics
program.
The picture drawn was
a kite.
Shortly after Geller was
notified
that
the picture had been drawn,
he had
the computer room
ca
led
to determine
if
the target picture was
a geometric picture
or an object.
We
told him that
it was an object,
by talking
to an
intermediary, who was
ignorant
of
the target picture.
Geller’s first
drawing in
this case was
a square with the diagonals drawn
in.
He
then also drew some triangular airplanes and passed.
His first drawing
was
a good representation of
the actual
target picture.
Figs.
17 and
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August
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August
10.
Two pictures were drawn and stored
in the computer
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The first picture was
a church.
ine picture was drawn and stored
in the memory of
the computer.
Geller’s responses are shown
in
the
attached collection of drawings.
It
is clear
that both of his attempts
have some elements
in common with
the
target drawing,
but he had no
idea
at
it was
a church and he passed.
Figs.
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with Si
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lace of
the TV tube
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which will require further work to differentiate:
( 1 )
clairvoyant
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in the computer,
or
( 2 )
telepathy,
since there were several people in the computer room,
all of whom
knew the nature of the
target that was stored.
A
long distance telepathy experiment was also done on Friday.
An East Coast scientist was called and asked
to draw a simple repre-
sentational object for Geller to copy.
Following the experiment he
indicated
that he drew two peaked mountains with
a sun in the upper
right.
Geller drew two arches side by side with
a circle
in
the
upper right.
Geller’s picture also had
a
train-like object running
through
it.
We consider this
to be suggestive of communication but
not conclusive.
We do not have
the East Coast original.
a lengthy long distance experiment was performed
with another East Coast scientist.
In this case
the man chose
to draw
a cross-sectional view of
the brain.
(In retrospect we consider this
to be an unsuitable target since Geller would not recognize
the drawing
even
if successful.)
Geller began by writing down
the words
"medical,"
organic,
and ^living
on the top of his paper.
Later he wrote
the
worts
aviation
and
architecture
.
He made
two drawings, one of which
was complex and
indescribable.
The second did somewhat resemble an
anatomical cross-section.
These responses
are being sent
to the
originator for comparison.
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