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Subject's
Perception
was
of
a "Cement
Depression —
as
if
a
Dry
Fountain — with
a Cement
Post
in
the
Center
or
Inside."
FIGURE
COAST-TO-COAST REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT WITH TARGET AT WASHINGTON
SQUARE
IN NEW YORK CITY
with the New York City area but blind to the
target,
did,
however,
identify the target cor-
rectly on reading the
twenty lines
of printout
as
it emerged from the computer terminal.
As
an example of the style of narrative
generated by
a subject during a computer tele-
conferencing experiment,
we include
the entire
unedited computer- logged text of the Washington
Square experiment below (Figure
7),
These teleconferencing experiments provide
an elegant demonstration of
the utility of
the
teleconferencing process
as
a secure data re-
cording system useful
in real-time monitoring of
long-distance remote viewing experiments.
In a more detailed tape recording she made
after the experiment, but before any feedback,
she described "cement steps going into the de-
pression,
like a stadium,
and the rounded edge
of the top of
the depression as you go up
to
ground level."
These descriptions not only are
correct but also show remarkable detail.
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A third long-distance remote viewing expo
ment was carried out under the control of an
independent,
skeptical scientist.
In this cas
both SRI experimenters visiting
in Ohio agreed
to take part in a remote viewing experiment in
which our host would select the target.
Under the observation of our challenger,
<
telephoned one of our subjects,
Hella Hammid,
:
New York City and obtained her agreement
to
participate
in a long-distance remote viewing
experiment.
She was told only that we were
located somewhere between New York City and
ou:
California laboratory and that shortly we wouli
be taken to a target that we would like her to
describe.
The time for the experiment was set
for 2:00 PM EDT.
We also agreed
to call her
again at 3:00 PM EDT to obtain her impressions
and to give her our feedback
as
to the actual
target.
The scientist took us directly to Spring-
field,
Ohio,
to the Ohio Caverns that he had
chosen as
the target location
(see Figure
8).
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FIGURE
COMPUTER
FILE PRINTOUT.
CALIFORNIA-NEW YORK LONG
DISTANCE REMOTE VIEWING.
TARGET:
WASHINGTON
SQUARE
(NYC).
We entered
the grounds through an entrance arch,
that opens onto an enormous expanse of
lawn,
perhaps twenty acres.
The caves
are located at
a depth of
150 ft and are entered through a
small building having a long flight of steep
stairs.
Once underground,
we walked through a
maze of rock-lined tunnels
that lead eventually
into a series of rooms lined with calcite sta-
lagtites and stalagmites,
frosty white and
beige crystals formed like
icicles.
The entire
cavern
is illuminated by small electric light
bulbs attached to the walls.
After a forty-five
minute walk,
we exited the caves through a large
metal door giving access to a square cross-
sectional shaft with stairs leading to the
surface.
Following the experimental period,
the
scientist observer called the subject
in New
York,
forty-five minutes after we
left
the
caves.
The opening statements of
the subject's
transcript as dictated over the phone and posted
to
the
SRI experimenters
is
as follows:
FIGURE
OHIO CAVES:
DESCRIBED BY
SUBJECT
IN NEW YORK
AS,
"UNDERGROUND CAVES OR
MINES.
DEEP
SHAFTS.... DARKER, COOL,
MOIST EARTH-SMELLING PASSAGES.
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"1:50 PM before starting
Flat semi-industrial countryside with
mountain rango
in background and some-
thing
to do with underground caves or
mines or deop shafts—half man made,
half natural—some oloctric humming
going on—throbbing,
inner throbbing.
Nuclear or some very far out and
possibly secret installation—corridor
mazes of them—whole underground city
almost—Don’t like
it at all—long for
outdoors and nature .
2:00 PM
(Experimenters) R and H walking along
sunny road—entering into arbor-like
shaft—again looks like man helped
nature—vines
(wisteria)
growing in
arch at entrance like to
a wine
cellar— leading into underground world.
Darker earth-smelling cool moist
passage with something grey and of
interest on left of
them—musty-
sudden change to bank of elevators—
a
very man-made steel wall— and shaft-
like inverted silo going deep below
earth—brightly lit
.
.
She concludes with
"I see
a lot of gold and metal and
silver-gold glow all over—not much
sound—very silent factory—scary—few
people—very special.
As
is often the case,
one observes that the
basic gestalt of the target site
is cognized
and even experienced, while specifics are mis-
interpreted.
New Orleans-California
Two experiments carried out between New
Orleans
and Menlo Park,
CA,
constitute the
latest members
of
the long-distance series,
five
experiments of which have been completed to date
(all reported here)
.
These were carried out
with the two subjects who had participated in
the New York-California experiments.
During an extensive cross-country
trip,
we
arranged to conduct two experiments between New
Orleans
and Menlo Park,
CA,
one each way.
The
Menlo Park subject was not
told
in what city the
outbound experimenter was
located.
He knew only
that the outbound experimenter was in the cen-
tral
time zone.
For the first experiment
(subject in Menlo
Park)
it was agreed that
at 12:00 noon CST on a
particular day,
the outbound experimenter would
choose
a target location in his city by random
protocol
and remain there for the required fif-
teen minutes.
During this
time,
the subject
in
Menlo Park would tape-record his impressions
and
make any drawings that seemed appropriate.
(The
ARPA net was not available because of computer
not malfunction.)
The target choson by randomized entry
intc
a New Orleans guide book list was
the Louisian;:
Superdome.
The outbound experimenter tape-
recorded
the following description
as he lookci
at the building,
"it
is
a bright sunshine day.
In front of mo
is
a huge silvery building with
white dome gleaming in the sun.
It is
a circu-
lar building with metal sides.
It looks like
nothing so much as
a flying saucer.
Ibe
targe!
is
in fact the 80,000-seat Louisiana Superdome
stadium."
The subject
in Menlo Park described the
target
as "a large circular building with a
white dome."
He also expressed feelings of
wanting to reject what he saw because the dome
looked
to him "like
a flying saucer
in the
middle of
a city."
Some appreciation for this
perception can be obtained from Figure
9 in
which the target
is shown,
together with the
sketches
that the subject made.
The most recent experiment in this series
involved
a subject
in New Orleans viewing acti
ities of
a group of three people known to her,
at a location in the Palo Alto/Menlo Park area
2000 miles away.
Her principal impression was
of
a "overhang of
a building over their heads
also a round gold rim around a sunken de-
pression."
The target,
a bank building is sho
in Figure
10.
Principal features of
the targe
include
a dramatic building overhang,
and a
rectangular concrete depression with a fountai
in which the water comes out of
a circular gol
rim.
The subject also reported "some kind of
fake china flowers mushrooming out of the de-
pression."
There were four orange lamps mount
ed on the gold rim.
Finally,
she reported
"there was
a projectile coming toward David
(c
of
the outbound experimenters)
.
Like
a ball
c
frisbee,
as
if Elizabeth (another experimenter
has
tossed him a ball."
Actually
the experi-
menters had found a paper airplane lying on
t]
ground and had thrown it back and forth for
some period of
time.
In fact,
the photo of
tl
site taken at the time of the experiment
show:
the airplane between them.
This
is one of
th<
few times that
a remote viewing subject has
p<
ceived rapid motion at the target site.
The results obtained to date
in the
long-
distance remote viewing series appear to be
roughly of
the same caliber as those obtained
local remote viewing experiments.
The descri
tions not only contain correct information
beyond that expected by chance,
but also show
remarkable detail and resolution.
Although e
tensive data must be taken before a final con
elusion can be
reached,
we are
led
to conclud
at this point that there
is little,
if
any,
d
gradation in quality of perception as
the
sub
ject-target distance
is increased from a few
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FIGURE
LONG DISTANCE REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT — SRI,
MENLO PARK, TO LOUISIANA SUPERDOME.
SUBJECT
DESCRIBED LARGE CIRCULAR BUILDING WITH A WHITE
DOME.
31 OCTOBER
1976.
miles to transcontinental distances.
The re-
sults obtained on
the basis
of viewing
a New
York site from SRI
in Menlo Park,
California,
three thousand miles
away,
for example,
are
similar to those obtained in local remote view-
ing experiments ,
Any theory of paranormal func-
tioning put forward at this time should take
this insensitivity to distance into account.
PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS
POTENTIALLY APPLICABLE TO PSl PHENOMENA
One of the common objections to the exis-
tence of so-called paranormal functioning is
that
it would seem to be
in conflict with the
laws
of physics.
Our investigations,
however,
have led us
to the contrary view that the data
can in all probability be accounted for either
within the framework of physics
as presently
understood,
or within the framework of extra-
polations that havei been proposed to account for
other
(non-psychic)
data.
In fact,
we antici-
pate that not only can we use physical princi-
ples
to help us understand psi phenomena,
but
the psi data base will probably shed light on
some of
the current problems
in physics,
e.g.
with regard to the foundations
of quantum
theory,
and for geometrical models
of space-
time events such as exist
in relativity
theoi
In this section we outline how we are making
of our experimental data base to deduce
the
relevant physical principles and laws that
govern psi functioning.
In addition to attempting to determine
whether psi phenomena are generally compatib:
with the laws and content
of physics
as pres
ently codified,
we are also examining the
lii
of specific physical
theories
in modeling ps
phenomena.
The areas
of physics we have und
consideration
as potentially relevant
to mod
ing psi phenomena include:
the possibility
remote viewing
is mediated by extremely^low-
frequency
(ELF)
electromagnetic waves; 1 "'"
possible significance for remote viewing of
Bell's
theorem18 and the Einstein-Podolsky-R
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