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Target
3:
Alta Mesa Cemetery .
The remote viewer reported
a recurrent feeling of "rough
cut stone."
"It feels
like
a church but
it
is
not a church."
He made a drawing of
a small arched building that
is at the site.
"Very peaceful and relaxed," he said.
He also had a
recurring theme
of some kind of stone overhang, which was not at the site,
and which resulted in the blind judge assigning this otherwise coherent
transcript to the Art Museum.
Accuracy Rating
= 4.
(U)
Target
4;
Jungle Gym .
The viewer described a
large box
with curved edges,
made of wire-like bent
coat hangers.
He also had
a
metal surface rippling and shining in the sun like
a
child's
slide.
(A
slide was
next
to the jungle gym target.)
He made schematic drawings
of
both the circular jungle
gym, and the slide.
He went on to say that the
target
is more
like
a sculpture than a building,
and indeed the playground
elements are in the form of metal sculptures
(horse,
car, etc.).
Accuracy
Rating =5.
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Target
5:
Salt
Pile
.
This target
is
a salt refinery on
the San Francisco Bay.
Its prominent feature
is
a gleaming white pile
of
salt about
100 ft high,
and 200 ft
long, which the viewer did not
describe.
He did, however,
describe an outdoor site with birds and wind,
which was
correct.
He also mentioned some machinery.
An additional item
that contributed to the judge’s ability to correctly match the transcript
to the target was his
drawing of
a
large,
orange,
pillow-shaped structure.
This was easily matched to
a large rusted quonset hut
at the
site.
He
also spoke extensively of a sharp, pointed object that
the outbound person
was especially interested in.
(In fact, RT had picked up a very large
salt crystal of this description, and brought
it back to SRI.)
Although
we considered the transcript somewhat nonspecific,
the
judge was able to
match
it correctly.
Accuracy Rating =3.
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Target
6:
Brickyard .
There are initial descriptions
of
rectangular objects, and the first drawing
looks
like
a drawing of
a brick.
The transcript also had discussions of being inside a building, and of
views
of towers, which are incorrect.
He later sees things
lined up that
look like books on a shelf.
Again and again he has
"very precise geometric
patterns," as "the most important aspect
of the place," which is
correct.
The drawing package has six pages of curved objects and forms that do
not
apply*
however.
The viewer also stated,
"when
I
look up
I see red, red
sky,
the sky is all red for some reason
..." which appears
to correspond
to the beacons'
note about spending a significant amount
of time "between
two very extensive solid walls
of red-orange brick."
Accuracy Rating = 3.
(U)
The sum of Accuracy Ratings for this viewer
is
24,
the
highest in the group.
The blind judging with transcript analysis resulted
in correct matches to the appropriate targets for four of
the six tran-
scripts,
and an interchange of the remaining two.
This gives four first
place matches and two second place matches
in the final
judging matrix.
Using the exact count-of-permutations analysis described earlier,
the
probability of obtaining by chance a result equal to or better than the
one obtained is
p
= 2/6 L < 0.003.
Thus,
the odds
of obtaining a result
of
this significance by chance
is
less than
1 in 300.
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The viewer's
significant performance was repeated in his
;
second training period at SRI, when he took part
in additional trials,
j
which again produced highly significant results.
j
4.
Viewer No.
468
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Target
:
Merry-Go-Round
.
The target was
a child's merry-
go-round in a playground sand pile.
About 25 ft away is
a spiral slide.
I
The viewer's main descriptions were
of
a
large multistory building in a
courtyard.
Inside this building he has
a "free-floating staircase that
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is kind of suspended.
It turns this way,
and then there is a chute," a
description that resembled somewhat the spiral slide.
However,
there
was nothing in the drawings
or transcript that pertained to the merry-go-
|
t
round,
and the multistory building concept was
incorrect,
so that
a
judge
would not be able to identify the target from these
data.
We therefore
assigned it an Accuracy Rating =
0,
in spite of
certain suggestive
correspondences
to
a nearby feature
.
(U)
Target
2:
Windmill
.
This target
is
a white-vaned windmill
on a country road and has been well described by two previous viewers
in
past years.
This viewer described curving stairs
(incorrect) and a
circular building
like a water tank
(correct).
Our assessment was
Accuracy Rating = 3.
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Target
3:
Stanford Art Museum .
The item of main interest
at this site
is
a 5-ft
cube sculpture standing on its corner in front of
a columned portico of a Greek-style building.
The viewer described a
dark rectangular solid sticking out of the front
of a building, and drew
a careful sketch of pillars that support the front
of the entry just behind
the cube.
The viewer also mentioned track lighting, heavy doors
, and an
"interior bridge," all of which show good correspondence to elements at
the target site.
His transcript also had office buildings and cyclone
fencing, however, which do not appear at the site.
We assigned it an
Accuracy Rating = 3,
based primarily on the two good drawings of the
projecting rectangular solid and the columns
.
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Target
4:
Methodist Church .
For this target he described
a building with a "sloping roof with windows
set into it."
He then drew
a large sketch of a building with a pointed roof supported from the out-
side by sloping roof beams.
These features accurately represent
the main
features
of the large stone church that was the target.
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the target team went
inside the building, and
then looked out through windows toward the end of the trial.
Accuracy
Rating =5.
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We also note that
the viewer seemed quite tense to the
interviewer during the first three trials.
On Thursday,
just before
trial
4,
our contract monitor arrived at SRI to observe the protocol,
and particularly the randomization procedure used in target selection.
He also observed this trial by joining the outbound target
team.
From
this point forward we noticed a dramatic change
(for the better)
in the
viewer's performance.
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Target
5:
Four Seasons Arch ,
"i get
the feeling
of their
walking through an opening in a
low wall.”
That
is
just what
a target
team does at an omega-shaped arch in front of
a restaurant
.
The viewer
had several arch shapes, together with a carefully drawn wall
comprising
300 degrees
of a circle,
and correctly labeled as
being white
(although
he had it
lying on the ground, which is incorrect).
The transcript
is all
arches and walls for the first four pages,
and then drifts into buildings
and wooden structures which are not at the
site.
Accuracy Rating =
5.
(U)
Target
6:
Mount Alverno Conference Center
.
This
target
consists
of an assembly building with glass
doors,
and an overhanging
shallow-pitched roof that resembles
in many details
the drawing made by
the viewer.
He also correctly described the approach to the
site over
a
little bridge with hand rails, and said that
the building was
locked,
so
that the target team could not go inside
(correct).
Further,
he described
a bridge "that goes nowhere," in striking agreement with a stairway that
rises up a hill, and appears
to go nowhere,
since all one sees
at the top
of the stairway is
the sky.
The viewer did not describe a tall stone
tower surmounted by a gold cross
next
to the assembly building, which is
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considered the main feature of the target
site.
Our assessment resulted
in an Accuracy Rating
= 5,
because of the good drawing of the main building,
and an accurate description of the place as being "quite
like a church
but
not exactly a church itself."
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Sum of Accuracy Ratings
= 21.
We note that this viewer's
ability to make clear drawings
of his mental images
(he
is
a professional
illustrator)
is
a great asset both to himself in describing his remote
viewing experiences, and to those trying to evaluate his descriptions.
Blind judging gave this series
4 first,
1 second,
and
1 fourth place
match
(p < 0.003,
or odds
of
less
than one
in 300 for such a matching
profile to occur by chance alone).
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Viewer No.
518
(U)
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Target
:
Stanford Shopping Center .
The target is the
central courtyard of the Stanford Shopping Center.
It
is
a large rotunda
surrounded by high arches and is paved with tiles
in a circular pattern.
The pedestrian avenues
leading away from this hub have fountains and large
planters with flowers.
The viewer drew and described a round fountain
with a spray,
located close to a rectangular box with something dark in
it.
This transcript did not
contain a description of the central focus
of the target, although many elements could be found in the nearby
pedestrian avenues
.
Accuracy Rating = 3
.
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Target
2:
Bowling Alley .
The viewer described an outdoor
scene with a large building with overhang
(correct), with many curves and
oaken doors
(incorrect).
Inside he had a complex structure
like
a throne
.
We found little resemblance to the target.
Accuracy Rating =
1.
(U)
Target
3:
Alta Mesa Cemetery .
The viewer described and
drew several buildings, which were not apropos, and described "a place
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Target
6:
Miniature Golf Course
.
The target team con-
centrated their attention on a red A-frame schoolhouse at
a miniature
golf course.
The viewer several times described teepee-shaped structures
(some resemblance to certain structures on the
course),
but the main
portion of his description pertained to the inside of
a hall with much
confusion, and a row of what
looked
like display cases
(a possible match
to a building at
the site containing rows
of pinball machines).
Accuracy
Rating
= 2.
(U)
The sum of Accuracy Ratings
for this viewer was
15, which
is
the
lowest of the six participants.
In spite of this
low rating,
formal blind judging resulted in separation of signal from noise, awarding
these data
4 first-place and 2 second-place matches
(p = 2/61 < 0.003),
which is
a statistically significant outcome for this
series.
Since
these trials
this viewer has returned to SRI for an additional two weeks
of work.
During that time he performed quite well on the remote viewing
of slides, hidden objects, and distant
coordinates.
These additional
trials are discussed in the next section.
6.
Viewer No,
690
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Target
1:
Alta Mesa Cemetery .
The viewer, on this
first
trial,
had a very diffuse transcript—mainly outdoors, grass,
reeds, and
trees,
in a natural,
not man-made environment.
The viewer had low cliffs
nearby.
The drawings were relatively nonspecific.
Because of the outdoor
naturalistic description,
the Accuracy Rating
= 2.
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Target
2:
Four Seasons Restaurant Arch .
The target
is
a
large white omega-shaped stone arch set into a wall in front of a
restaurant.
The subject described "a white dome supported by pillars,"
and also a fence.
Throughout
the brief two-page transcript there was
only a
"gazebo”
like structure that one can see through, and a fence.
Accuracy Rating
=
4.
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Target
3:
Shielded Room .
The target
is
a small rectangular
screen-room, about
4 by 8 by 7
ft high.
The principal feeling of this
target
is one of confinement.
The viewer said,
"he seems
inside a square
something,
looking out through a square.
It's dark inside.
It
is not
terribly high,
6 ft maybe."
The drawing shows
a rectangular structure
marked ”6 ft wide."
Our assessment
of the viewer's description is
Accuracy Rating = 5.
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Target
4:
Automobile Showroom .
The target
is
a hexagonal
glass building with a conical roof.
The viewer's first impression was
of
"a glass bottle with
a thin neck."
"I keep getting the impression of
glass,
lots
of glass objects."
"it
is
some kind of store."
The viewer
felt
"bad vibes" from the
place;
it seemed threatening.
It turned out
that
HP,
the outbound person, was
sent to an automobile showroom and was
pretending to be interested in a new
car, attracting the salesmen in the
showroom.
He came back reporting that
it was
one of
the most unpleasant
outbound experiences he has
had.
The drawings were diffuse,
but
because
of
the essentially correct,
though exaggerated emotional perceptions,
it
received an Accuracy Rating =
4.
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Target
5:
Palo Alto Library .
The outbound team stood
between the shelves in the
library stacks.
The viewer did not describe
anything about the
library,
and our assessment was Accuracy Rating =
0.
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There was an interesting facet
in connection with this
trial,
however.
The viewer described a cornfield with rows
of
corn ready
for picking,
etc.
When we heard the tape for this
trial we
could think
of
no such place in the city of Palo Alto.
But
in accordance with our
usual protocol, we took the viewer back to the target
site.
As we were
parking the
car,
the viewer
looked out the
left window of the car and
exclaimed,
"that's my corn field."
Immediately adjacent
to the public
library,
there is
a community garden which this
year
is devoted entirely
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So,
one may speculate that the viewer accessed this adjacent
area as the target team arrived at their
site.
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Target
6:
Methodist Church
.
All the images
in this tran-
script pertain to a one-story building with "an inverted V roof."
The
main feature
of the target
is
just such a roof.
The viewer also correctly
identified the target
as being a building in downtown Palo Alto.
Since
there were no identifying characteristics
given, we assigned it an
Accuracy Rating
= 4.
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The sum of the Accuracy Ratings for the six trials
is
19,
which is the third highest in the group.
One of the main features that
contribute to this viewer's comparatively high rating
is that these tran-
scripts are relatively free of incorrect material;
the viewer does
not
have a
lot
to say,
but what
is
said
is
largely correct.
We consider this
to be a very desirable characteristic.
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The formal judging for this
series
yielded five first place
matches.
The probability of obtaining such a result by chance
is
p = 1/21 < 0.002.
(The most significant of the study.)
C .
Analysis
of Transcript Correlations
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Before summarizing
the judging results
of Phase One, we digress
to discuss an interesting and potentially important observation.
During
the past seven years of research,
we have carried out
a total of more than
two hundred remote viewing trials with several viewers.
Since the target
locations
for these trials are selected by random processes from previously
prepared target pools, individual targets will recur from time to time
for different viewers
.
We have observed that
certain targets are almost
always described correctly, while certain others are described in a
consistent idiosyncratic fashion even when the description is incorrect
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the Baylands Nature Preserve, which is
a botanical garden
in the marshes of San Francisco Bay,
has been a target several times
in
the last two years.
This
large open area is reached by a wooden walkway
about a quarter of
a mile
long.
This walkway is crossed at
its midpoint
\
by another walkway under some high-voltage transmission wires
.
Nearly
all viewers
(including Viewer 372 from this program) describe this site
in terms
of a "large
cross
lying on the ground."
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In the Phase One series
,
two
large churches in the target
pool were not described by Viewers
468 and 690 in terms
of their rather
prominent
crosses;
instead, attention was
called to their "tall pointed
roof"
(correct).
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The windmill target
has
never been described in terms
of
its
four large white blades,
but instead by reference
to a circle with
four quadrants marked off, and a feeling of circular motion, even though
the windmill
does
not
move.
The responses
of Viewer 468 and an earlier
subject are shown in Figure
3.
(U)
We take these
consistent perceptions
as suggesting that
viewers
do not necessarily experience a target
location in the same terms
j
as they would if looking at
the target visually.
Instead,
some kind of
j
simplifying transformation may take place during the viewer's perception
j
of the target
site.
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An example of such simplification is shown in Figure
4,
in which the target
is
a
large cross on a hilltop.
Two viewers,
155 and
372,
described and drew it as
a tall isosceles
triangle.
(U)
In a recent experiment,
a viewer
(No.
155)
described
a
target
as
"squares within squares within squares."
His drawing and
description were quite parallel to
a drawing made by a subject six years
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earlier in response to the same target,
a pedestrian overpass.
The
responses
of both viewers are shown in Figure
5.
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Since
the subject in the laboratory is
not perceiving
the target visually,
it seems unrealistic and unwarranted to assume that
his experience
(perception and conceptualization)
of the target should
necessarily always
be photographic.
In a different perceptual modality,
if the only data a person obtained about
a trumpet was
its sound,
he
would be able to recognize
it each time it was heard,
but he would have
little information about
its visual or physical aspects.
On the other
hand,
after he had received visual feedback on his perceptions
of many
different musical instruments,
the viewer
(listener) would be able to
learn the particular transformation between the sound of
the instrument
and its
visual
appearance.
In a similar manner,
the occurrence of
simple, recurring and archetypical responses
to a given target in remote
viewing may signal
the possibility that the underlying transformations,
can be
learned and categorized.
D.
Summary of Judging Results
for Local Target Sites
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We have described earlier in some detail how a judge arrives
at
a numerical ranking of the trials
in a formal blind evaluation of a
series,
by use of
concept analysis
of the transcripts.
The overall results
of the formal judging are shown in Figure
6.
Although in blind ranking
one would expect
one first,
one second,
...
one sixth place match for each
person,
or six of each for the six viewers
combined,, we find in fact that
over half of the transcripts were first-place matched to the appropriate
target.
The result recapitulates that obtained in our
laboratory in our
original study published in the March 1976 Proc.
IEEE .
.
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In addition,
in order
to arrive quickly at a trial-by-trial
assessment, we made use also of
a simple post hoc rating technique of a
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EXPECTED NUMBER
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PLACE MATCH
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(6
subjects, 6
transcripts
each),
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type devised by the client.
In this approach one rates as
"perfect"
(e.g.,
7 on a 0-to-7 scale)
a transcript in which the target is unequivo
eally Identified.
If there is
no apparent relationship between the
transcript and the intended target, on the other hand,
the transcript
is
rated
0.
For intermediate results, an intermediate rating is assigned,
as indicated earlier in Table 2.
All transcripts were given a numerical
Accuracy Rating, using the 0-to-7 scale,
in the presence of the contract
monitor.
The summary data for the two Judging processes are tabulated
in Table 3.
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We are now in a position to compare mathematically our Accuracy
Rating of
the transcripts
(post hoc evaluation scale) with
the formal
ratings
of, the same transcripts
by a blind
judge.
In Figure
7 we have
Plotted a comparison of the Accuracy Ratings
(vertical scale) and the
blind- judge rankings
(horizontal scale).
We have also calculated the
correlation coefficient between these two sets of
ratings
for
the 36
transcripts/target pairs evaluated by both procedures.
For
the 36 pairs,
the
correlation coefficient
is r = 0.59.
The numerical probability of
a
correlation this high or higher occurring
by chance between "uncorrelated"
data over the same range of values
is only one
in twenty th<^and
(p
= 5 X 10~5
).
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This important result shows
that
a post hoc Accuracy Rating
technique similar to that used by the client organization
to evaluate
transcripts and viewer performance
is very well correlated with objective
blind matching normally used in psychology to evaluate data of
this
type.
Phase-One Conclusions
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In the first phase
Iwe have
carried out six series of remote viewing trials, one seriesTSTeach of
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ASSESSMENTS.
Blind judging provides objective support for the accuracy
rating evaluation
process,
in
that the high-accuracy-rated
transcripts
are
likely to be
first-place matched
(in
the
blind)
to the
appropriate
target.
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ORIENTATION PROGRAM—PHASE TWO
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In this second phase of the orientation/training program,
five
of the six original participants returned to SRI for an additional two
weeks of exposure to various remote viewing exercises.
One of
the con-
tinuing questions in our examination of remote viewing is
the determina-
tion of what constitutes
a target,
of crucial importance
7vA<-
applications.
To obtain data relevant to this question,
we carried out
two series of remote viewing trials, with two individuals who were asked
to describe the '.contents of 35-mm slides representing Bay Area
locations.
We wanted to determine whether the viewer would describe the slide itself
or the target site
of which it was taken.
The results seem to indicate
that
it
is
the slide as opposed to the target
site,
that
is perce^ed and
described in this series
.
A second area to be examined was
that of precognition,
or future
remote viewing
(FRV)
in which a viewer
is to describe a slide that will
be shown to him at
a
later time, under conditions where the slide had
not
yet
been chosen at the time of his description.
This situation
corresponds
to certain
trials
,
in which we have been asked
to describe a remote geographical target as
it would appear at some
later
time.
We have found good evidence for the successful outcome
of such
trials,
and our goal here was
to attempt to obtain further information
potentially useful in learning how to increase the accuracy and reliability
of such functioning.
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Remote Viewing
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The purpose of this
series
of trials,
in addition to determining
whether the slide or actual site
is accessed, was to determine whether a
remote viewer could describe the contents
of a 35-mm slide
of a target
site with the same accuracy that he describes an actual target
site.
A
slide trial
constitutes
a
finer-resolution task and involves a more
ephemeral target,
as compared to an actual target site, and therefore
some differences might be expected.
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The protocol was as follows.
The viewer was
located alone in
the third floor laboratory of the Radio Physics Laboratory Building,
and
asked to describe the contents
of slides projected on the wall of an
office trailer in a parking
lot 300 ft away.
The target slides for these
trials were photographs
of the
60 San Francisco Bay Area sites used in
the remote viewing trials of Phase One.
The use of this particular
target pool allows us
to compare the quality of the descriptions that are
elicited in trials using the slides, with the quality of descriptions
involving the actual targets
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A trial series
consists of six slides,
and the viewer
is given
feedback after each individual trial,
before the start
of
the next.
(This
is done to avoid displacement , known to occur in parapsychological
experiments where trial-by-trial feedback
is
not provided, in which a
viewer might tend to describe a target slide from elsewhere in the series,
rather than the one specific to the trial of interest,
i.e.,
just projected
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The viewer
is monitored via a one-way open intercom connected
to the room in the trailer in which the slide
is being shown to the series
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The session is tape recorded at the
latter end of the
link.
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A second intercom to the subject can be activated by the monitor
by a push-to-talk switch in the trailer.
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To begin, after the viewer announces
that he
is ready,
the monitor selects
a slide by random number generator.
No feedback
is provided to the viewer
until the viewer has indicated that he
is finished and the monitor has
gone to the room in which the viewer has been working and has collected
his drawings.
A session typically lasts about fifteen minutes.
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Viewer No. 372 RV
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The first series of six trials was carried out by Viewer
372 during his second two-week period at SRI.
The six target slides
were of the following targets:
(1)
Alta Mesa Cemetery
(2)
Ultra-modern Dome House
(3)
Pedestrian Overpass
(4)
Mount Alverno Conference Center
(5)
Redwood City Cross
(6)
Stanford Shopping Center Pavilion.
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Our post hoc personal impression was that three of the
six descriptions were good matches to the target
slides,
as indicated by
our Accuracy Ratings
of
3,
,
,
4,
3, and
5, respectively.
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The results were also formally evaluated by a blind judge
using the concept analysis techniques being applied to the
local target
series
of Phase One.
As per standard procedure, the transcript/drawing
response packages and target material
(slides) were turned over to the
judge,
each in a separate random order different from the order of target
usage.
Again,
the transcripts were edited only to the point of deleting
information that
could provide artifactual
cues to the judge,
such as
references to other targets
or temporal order.
(Only five of the target/
transcript pairs were submitted for judging,
since the judge had inadvertently
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been exposed to one
of the results
[Target
4] presented at
a briefing
as
an example of excellent slide viewing.)
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The judge was asked to blind rank order, on a scale of
to
5, best to worst match,
each of the transcripts against each of the
targets, generating a
5 X 5 matrix of
the five target /transcript pairings
.
Three slides and transcripts were directly matched,
one was matched
second place, and one was matched third place.
The direct-count-of-
permutations analysis
of the matrix yielded a result
significant
at
p = 2/120 = 0.017,
or odds of one in sixty of obtaining such a result by
chance matchings
.
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Three
of the drawings and slide targets for this viewer
are shown here as Figures
8 through 10.
We
conclude from these results
that viewers
can describe target slides
, and from our analysis
of the
content
of the transcripts
it appears
that they are describing the slides
as projected,
not the overall target location.
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518 RV
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A similar series
of six trials was
conducted with Viewer
518.
His six target slides were:
(1)
Laundromat interior
(2)
Varsity Theatre arcade
(3)
White Victorian house
(4)
Sylvania dome building
(5)
Glass Slipper Motel
(6)
A locomotive slide in a playground.
The viewer made what we
consider to be three excellent
sets of drawings
to correspond with the Theatre,
the Victorian,
and the Motel targets.
These three drawing/target pairs are shown here in Figures
11 through
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The correspondences for the remaining three were
of
lesser quality,
although still
containing many correct elements.
(The Accuracy Ratings
for this series were
2,
5,
5,
2,
5,
and 2,
respectively,
for a total of
21.)
Note that neither slide series used an interviewer.
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With regard to the formal blind judging ,
in the rankings
of
the six pictorial responses alone the judge made an assignment
of ranks
(two
1st,
three 2nd,
one 5th place) that was significant at p < 0.04.
However,
the overall rankings
combining verbal and pictorial responses together had
a numerical deviation from chance expectation which yielded only p = 0.075.
Although suggestive,
this
does not meet the criterion for statistical sig-
nificance.
In this series,
therefore, pictorial information alone appears
superior to pictorial plus verbal.
In other words,
the verbal information
appeared to degrade the overall product
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It appears from the data of these two series that remote
viewers
can perceive the contents
of projected slides.
Furthermore,
they
Appear to describe the slides themselves,
rather than the geographical
locations
corresponding to the slides.
Finally,
taking into account the
brevity of the transcripts on the part
of the viewer and the greater ease
of analysis experienced by the
judge,
it appears that because of the more
limited focus
of
content presented by a slide,
a viewer and a judge have
an easier time assessing data associated with the target in the slide case
as compared with an outdoor target.
Thus,
in future screening/training
studies the use of slides appears to be an efficient alternative to the use
of physical locations
as targets.
3.
Comparison of Blind Judging and
Accuracy Ratings for 35—mm Slides
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After the completion of these two series, we undertook
to make
a further determination of the correlations between the Accuracy
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The two series
received Accuracy Ratings
of 22 and 21, respectively, and blind judging
statistical significance measures
of 0.04 and 0.08.
Then,
as a control,
two researchers assigned new Accuracy Ratings for each of the twelve
transcripts, this time rating transcripts
in each series against the
same
numbered target
from the other series.
In effect,
this
is
a measure of
the Accuracy Rating that
a transcript will receive when matched against
a random target.
A mean score of
13 was obtained for transcripts from
Viewer No.
372 when matched against targets
of Viewer 518.
The mean
score for the
cross-matching of transcripts from Viewer 518 against
targets from Viewer 372 was
9.
The mean of these two scores
is
(9 + 13)/2 = 11, which is roughly half the average accuracy scores
from the series when matched against the appropriate corresponding
transcript/target pairs.
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This result
is
in good agreement with a similar analysis
carried out two years ago in connection with
a coast-to-coast remote
viewing series.
One viewer who took part
in the series was
to describe
the location of a traveler in New York City on two different
days.
The
transcripts and drawings were considered good matches for each day's
target, although they contained incorrect as well as
correct statements.
In this early study, each transcript
contained about twenty identifiable
concepts.
Each statement was given a numerical rating on a scale from
0 to
10.
When the concepts were matched to the
correct day's target,
the mean score was
66%, whereas when they were matched against
the other,
noncorresponding day's target,
the mean score was
33%.
This previous
analysis thus also yielded a two-to-one correspondence factor between
remote viewing transcripts for corresponding and noncorresponding targets.
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Future Remote Viewing
(FRV)
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In the
course
of our remote viewing experiments we have occa-
sionally been directed
^jj
to have subjects
describe a target
location or event as
it would appear at some future time.
We have also
asked viewers
to describe target
locations that would not be chosen until
after the end of their description.
Our assessment
^^^i, that
the quality of these
(admittedly few) future
remote viewings
is approximately comparable to that the the remote viewings
carried out with real-time targets.
It appears that
if the FRV process
can be developed further it would offer a new and stunning array of
Jpossibilities
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In addition to our own experience with FRV in the laboratory,
the principal remote viewing replications in the academic community,
which have been carried out at Mundelein College in Chicago by Bisaha
and Dunne,
have all-Ieen of the FRV type, with the target selection
following the viewer description, often by several hours.
These were
successful even when the viewers were in Chicago, and the outbound experi-
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in the Soviet
Union.
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We recognize that there
is
no current physical explanation for
future remote viewing, although theories have been put forward by physicists
Feinberg and
de Beauregard, among others.
However, even in the absence
of a good understanding,
these phenomena appear to occur with some relia-
bility, and therefore
lend themselves
to utilitarian purpose.
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In the past
year,
future remote viewing scans have been carried
out using as
targets
both 35—mm slides and
local Bay Area locations
being
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J,
Bisaha and
B.
Dunne,
"Mind at Large,
Institute
of Electrical
and Ele ctronic Engineers Symposia on the Nature
of Extrasensory Per-
ception,
C.
T.
Tart,
H.
E.
Puthoff
,
and
R.
Targ,
Eds.
(Praeger,
New
York,
Tt.Y .
,
1979).
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