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CONCLUSIONS
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I
A protocol
has been developed
to address the relative evaluation
portion
of
the overall RV transcript assessment problem.
As
a demonstra-
tion
of
the technique, we provide in the following Appendix an analysis
of
a series
of four remote viewings that were performed
as calibrations
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In this
series the
remote viewing products were of
relatively high quality,
but
nonetheless
require
a sensitive technique
to differentiate because of
the
similarity
of
the
targets
and,
hence,
of the descriptions.
(The series was chosen
primarily for that
reason.)
Application of
the assessment technique
resulted
in the correct blind matching
(highest scoring in matches versus
cross
ijiatches)
of
three of
the four.
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The material
in this document
thus
constitutes an instruction
manual
or protocol for application
of
a step-by-step procedure for quan-
titative assessment
of the relative target /transcript correlations
of
a
series of transcripts matched into
a series
of targets.
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four coordinate remote viewings were con-
ducted as calibration
These four calibrations were
chosen as
a test bed for the evaluation procedure for the following
<Xf>p\lCa?b'Ort
reasons,
(1)
they were conducted
in an»
> setting,
and
(2)
the
targets had many similar features,
and would thus provide
a sensitive
test
of
the protocol.
Figures A-l through A-4 are the
transcripts that were presented
to the analyst.
They are exactly as they were when collected,
except that
the coordinates have been removed.
Figures A-5 through A-8 are the
National Geographic magazine targets
that were used during the calibration
sessions.
Finally,
the task coordinator provided Tables A-l through A-4
as target element
relevance scales for the four targets
in Figures A-5
through A-8.
This completes the information that was given to the analyst,
and thus the analysis was carried out blind as to the matching target/
transcript
pairs.
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Table A-5
is
a compilation of the completed work sheets that
were used by the analyst
in this evaluation.
They are shown in groups
by session number,
and alphabetized on the four targets.
(The task
coordinator first
randomized the transcript order then assigned
the session
number used above.)
For each of
the transcripts,
the analyst simply
included all phrases and all drawings
as concepts.
For example,
seven
concepts were found during Session 2.
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All concepts were then analyzed as described in the text.
The
matching target
element,
its relevance rating,
and the computed score are
shown for all possible combinations of transcript/target pairs in Table
A-5.
The score distributions and their resulting weighted averages are
also shown in Table A-5.
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Final
Report
Covering the Period October
1982
to September
1983
FREE WORLD PSYCHOENERGETICS
RESEARCH SURVEY
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SRI
Project 4028-2
November
I
INTRODUCTION
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This
study
is
an overview of psychoenergetics research ef-
forts
in those Free-World countries
that have published articles
in
the
open
literature.
The data are restricted
to foreign work and
are derived
from
a comprehensive
survey of
eight major parapsychological
journals,
spanning
a period
from 1972 until
the present.
Two hundred and
thirty-
three articles were evaluated
and computerized
in
a Data Base Management
System
(DBMS) according
to six major topics
or keywords
and
16 subtopics
that were chosen specifically
to reflect
those areas considered
to be of
•
.
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The
six principal
principal
interest
topic headings may
be understood
in general
terms
according
to
the
fol-
lowing
set
of definitions:
.
Remote Sensing:
The acquisition and description,
by mental
means
of
in^rmation blocked
from ordinary perception by dis
tance 'or shielding
,
and generally believed
to be secure against
such access.*
Remote Action:
Remote Action:
The production
of physical
effects
. ^
^
perturbation
-
^of
Instrumentation or equipment
‘*«* *^'*”
well shielded against,
or otherwise
Inaccessible
to,
human
influence
.
Re 1 iab il itv/ Screening
:
Spans
a wide range of prescriptive,^
methodological experiments or experimental
Pr°^
C°^’ *^es
eludes
studies
involved
in
the
identification
correlates
(e
E
physiological,
psychological,
and
so
forth)
that may en
hance psychoenergetic
functioning and/or facilitate
the
select
of
talented subjects.
Theoretical Models:
Various paradigms ^d piauaibiUty arguments
,
which have been Advanced within physics
and other disciplines
that endeavor
to explain observed phenomena.
Healing:
The ability
of
an agent
to cure
illness^or
to
influence
positively
the physical
state
of
a biological
system.
k
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H.
E.
Puthoff,
R.
Targ,
and
E.
C.
May,
-'Psychoenergetic Research:
Suggested Approaches,”
SRI White Paper,
SRI
International, Menlo
Park,
CA
(1 May
1978),
SRI Proprietary.
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Miscellaneous:
Encompasses
all
topics
that were determined
to
possess
little or no
immediate!
interest
1 e .g .
,
"hauntings ," detection of
the human aura,
and
so
lortn;.
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Table
1 provides
a summary
listing
of
the Free-World countries
(and
their respective research facilities)
that have published articles
in
the open literature for
a given
topic.
This
table should be examined
with
the attendant caveats
that
(1)
no evaluation of
the quality of
any
published research was undertaken
for
the purposes
of
this
study and
(2)
a given article may have been counted more
than once
if
it had been
determined
that
its principal
research objectives
encompassed more
than
one major topic.
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By way
of
summation,
the
following observations may be derived
f tom
a general
analysis
of Table
1,
and by further utilizing
the
sub-
keyword capabilities
of
the
DBMS.
•
England
and The Netherlands published equivalent numbers
of
articles
on
the
topic
of
"remote sensing,"
followed
by West
Germany.
The following
represents
a distribution
of articles
according
to
remote
sensing subtopics
(Table
2).
•
The Netherlands,
West Germany,
and
Scotland,
respectively,
are
indicated
as performing
the majority of
the
research m "remote
action."
The distribution
of
interest with
regard
to
the
sub-
topics within
this major category
is
as
follows
(Table
3).
•
The Netherlands,
England,
and
Scotland,
respectively,
represent
the primary
investigators
of
techniques both for enhancing
the
reliability
of psychoenergetic
functioning and/or
for identifying
talented
subjects.
Within
the major category of
reliability and
screening,
the published articles
for these
three countries may
be
further subdivided
into
the
following distribution
of
specific
subtopics
(Table 4).
•
West Germany and
England,
followed
by The Netherlands
and
Scotland,
respectively, have advanced
the greatest number
of
published
theories and models.
These may be
further delineated
according
to
the
following subtopics
(Table
5).
•
Very
little work has
been published
on "healing"
in this par-
ticular selection o£
Journals;
this
Is not
to conclude that this
kind
of research categorically
is not occurring,
but that
may
be published elsewhere
in
a different genre
of periodical.
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Second,
the article had
to have
indicated
the
foreign facility
at which
the published research was
performed,
in order
for
the article
to have been counted
as
"foreign."
The reason
for
this
criterion,
of
course,
is
that American parapsychologists publish
in
foreign journals,
and
foreign parapsychologists publish
in American journals;
an accurate
assessment of
foreign work,
therefore,
cannot
be obtained
by simply sur-
veying
the
foreign journals.
The advantage
of
this procedure
is
that,
for
this
study,
U.S.
publications could
be
reliably excluded
from
the
data base.
The disadvantage was
that valid
foreign research was also
rejected
from
the data base--if
the
facility
at which
the research was
performed was not
listed
in
the article.
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Keyword System Development
—
The computerized article keywording
system was developed
specifically
to address
those
topics deemed
to
be
of primary
interest*
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^Be
keywords,
themselves, were chosen
to
reflect
the
principal
areas/
,in psychoenergetics,
as determined
from previous
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By applying
this
set
of
keywords,
then,
to
the Free-World data
base,
a primary overview of
Free-World
facilities
involved
in
similar or commensurate
research*
—
As
has
been mentioned pre-
viously,
it was
not within
the
scope
of
this document
to evaluate
the
efficacy of
all
of
the research efforts
in
the Free-World countries
but merely
to highlight
the principal
Free-World
facilities
that are researching
those areas
in psychoenergetics
that are of primary
interest
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Keyword
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For
the purposes
of
this
study,
the articles were sorted
ac-
cording
to
(1)
the
six major keyword headings,
only,
for
the presenta-
tion of data pertaining
to
all
countries
(cf,
Section
3,
-Data'- below)
and
(2)
further subtopic classifications
for
a chosen subset
of
the
Free-World countries
(cf,
Section
I,
"Introduction” above).
Table
provides
the operative definitions
for
the major keywords
and their
respective
subtopics-
In addition
to query capability on subtopics within
a given
major ^ic,
combinations
of major
and
subtopic keywords may be utilized
across
tbpics
to satisfy relatively specific query requirements.
For
example,
a keyword combination of
"Remote Action,"
"Micro," "Reliability/
Screening," and
-physiological Correlates" would
typically select out
articles
from
the data base
that dealt with experiments
in random-number
generator psychokinesis,
during which aspects
of
the
subject's physio-
logical
State
(e.g.,
galvanic
skin response) were monitored.
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In conclusion,
there are
three principal
advantages
to
the
current design of
the keywording system
in particular,
and
the DBMS
in
general,
in that
they allow
(1)
continual
expansion of data and modes
of
data classification;
(2)
"horizontal" surveying capability across,
for
example, many countries
or
topics;
and
(3)
"vertical"
in-depth surveying
capability through
increasingly
finer
topic discriminators
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OPERATIVE DEFINITIONS
OF MAJOR KEYWORDS
Major Keyword
Subtopic Keyword
Remote Sensing—The acquisition
and description,
by mental means,
of
information blocked
from
ordinary perception by distance
or
shielding,
and generally
believed
to be secure against
such access
Remote Action—The production
of
physical
effects,
such
as
the
perturbation of
instrumentation
or equipment
that appears
to
be
well
shielded against,
or
otherwise
inaccessible
to,
human
influence
Reliability/Screening— Spans
a
wide range of prescriptive,
methodological
experiments
or
experimental protocols;
also
includes
studies
involved
in
the
identification of correlates
that
may enhance psychoenergetic
functioning and/or facilitate
the
selection of talented subjects
Theoretical Models—Various
paradigms
and plausibility
arguments advanced within physics
and other disciplines
that
endeavor
to explain observed
phenomena
Healing—The ability of
an agent
to cure
illness or
to positively
influence
the physical
state
of
a
biological
system
Precognition:
acquisition of
information about
an event prior
to
the occurrence
of
the event
Altered
States:
psi modalities
in
the Ganzfeld,
lucid dreams,
hypnosis,
and
so forth
Dowsing or biophysical
effort
(BPE)
Remote viewing
(RV)
Micro:
interactive effects produced
at
the molecular
or atomic
levels
Macro:
effects or perturbations
typically observable without
the
aid
of
instrumentation
Biological:
production
of
measurable changes
of
state
in
biological
systems
Methodology
Physiological Correlates
Psychological Correlates
Perceptual Correlates
Physical
Correlates
Mathematical /Physical
Psychological
Philosophical
Physiological
No subtopics
as yet
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raw data,
all of them equally likely under
the null hypothesis that
the
viewer's
remote viewing attempts produce nothing but vague and general
descriptions
and/or occasional chance correspondences with various target
sites.
Each matrix has
its associated sum on the matrix
diagonal
corre-
sponding
to
a possible alignment
of targets.
The significance level for the experiment
is
then determined by
counting the number
of possible matrices
that would yield
a result
(diagonal
sum)
equal
to or better than that obtained for the matrix
corresponding
to
the key,
and dividing
by
nl
This ratio gives
the
probability of obtaining by chance
a result equal
to or better than that
obtained
in the actual
judging process.
For the results
shown in Table
in the
body of
the report,
for
example,
we
find,
by direct
computer
count
of
the
5:
matrices obtained by interchanging columns,
that
the
probability of obtaining equal
or better matching by chance
is
p
=
1/51
= 0.0083.
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1987
POSSIBLE PHOTON PRODUCTION DURING
A REMOTE VIEWING TASK:
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ABSTRACT (U)
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\ Attempting
to verify a claim by the Chinese that
light
is
emitted
in
the vicinity of correctly identified remote viewing
(RV)
target
material,
we repeated
an experiment
first published
in FY 1984.
In
that
earlier experiment,
a state-of-the-art,
ambient
temperature,
photon
counting system was used
to monitor the
target material
(35-mm slides
of
National Geographic Magazine photographs)
.
The statistical measure derived
from the photon counting apparatus
in
that
study showed
a significant
positive correlation with
the RV results
(p < 0.035).
That
is,
when
the
remote viewing was good,
there was
an
increase
in
the signal detected by
the photon. counting system.
In addition,
we observed two anomalous pulses
having
a signal-to-noise ratio of about
20:1
to 40:1.
In
the present
experiment
(FY 1987)
,
we
improved all hardware aspects of the previous
work,
substantially reducing the background noise
level and improving
shielding against artifact.
In addition,
analysis of
the remote viewing
indicates
that
three out of
the four viewers produced independently
significant
results.
Our analysis
of
the photomultiplier
tube
(PMT)
data
shows no evidence of any anomalous high count rate pulses,
no evidence of
any effect on
the PMT output during the RV session,
and no evidence
of any
significant correlation between RV performance and PMT output.
We conclude
that
(1)
the effect proposed by
the Chinese
is artifactual
in nature.
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REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 105
Session
Figure
of Merit
p-value
9001 .rs
0.4571
0.0412
9002
. rs
0.1667
0.3486
9003
. rs
0.1600
0.3618
9004
. rs
0.3333
0.1039
9005
. rs
0.0000
1.0000
9006
. rs
0.3810
0.0475
Overall
p <
0.0488
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REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 177
Session
Figure of Merit
p-value
9001. hs
0.4444
0.2430
9002. hs
0.1143
0.9579
9003 .hs
0.3810
0.2978
9004. hs
0.5000
0.2392
9005 .hs
0.5952
0.0677
9006. hs
0.6429
0.0136
Overall
p <
0.0385
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REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER
807
Session
Figure of Merit
p-value
9001
. cr
0.0000
. 0000
9002
. cr
0.3333
0.2267
9003
. cr
0.5208
0.0240
9004
. cr
0.0833
0.7494
9005
. cr
0.3750
0.1321
9006. cr
0.1333
0.5911
Overall
p <
0.1895,
n
. s
.
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(U) From the FM analysis performed for our FY 1984 experiment, we determined that by
computing the p-value for each FM we could determine an average p for each viewer and for all
sjessions combined. The overall probability of obtaining that average p-value was then calculated,
Either by an exact method for small numbers of sessions7 or by using the central limit theorem for
greater than 20 sessions. 8
In the current analysis, an additional test of significance, the Fisher
thi-square technique, 8 has been added
to supplement the probability associated with average
p-value
for a given series.
fcrhe overall p-values given
for each viewer's
series
as shown
in
jrables
1 through
4 were calculated using the Fisher Chi-square
technique.
Averaging all p-values
for all sessions yielded p(avg.)
= 0.3437.
Using
the central-limit
theorem,
the probability associated with
that average
Value
is p <0.004.
Using
the Fisher Chi-square method,
a p-value
of <
jo
. 0036 was calculated for all
sessions,
indicating good agreement
between techniques.
We observed
that three out
of
the
four viewers
independently produced significant results.
Such an outcome
is
an
Extremely rare event.
If
the probability of success
is
p <
0.05,
the
binomial probability of obtaining three out
of
four successful
results
is
p
< 0.00048.
These
individual and overall remote viewing results are
substantially better
than were achieved
in
the FY 1984
study.
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OBJECTIVE
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The objectives
of
this program are the optimization of rem
viewing
(RV) protocols,
the orientation of selected individuals to reaci.
enhanced levels
of ability, and the establishment
of screening procedures
to enlarge the population from which individuals are selected.
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INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY
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A.
Basic Program Structure
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In this report we present results and assessments
of a one-year
program for the optimization of remote viewing with^
"""^selected
individuals.
The objective of this program was
to familiarize these
individuals with the SRI remote viewing protocols,
to produce enhanced
levels
of ability, and to establish screening tests and procedures for
enlarging the population from which such individuals are selected.
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For the past seven years
SRI
International has been investigating
a human perceptual/processing ability called remote viewing
(RV).
This
is
the subject matter of the
current
study, and it pertains
to
the
acquisition and description,
by mental means,
of information blocked from
ordinary perception by distance or shielding and generally considered
to
be secure from such access.
: At the start
of this program,
six individuals were chosen^
j to participate in an RV technology transfer.
r
With the exception of one of the six who had participated in an ESP study
several
years earlier,
these participants when selected were inexperienced
with regard to paranormal perception in general, and RV in particular.
A variety of different training protocols were examined with the goal
of
helping the participants
familiarize themselves with the
SRI
RV techniques.
Formal assessment and transfer series were
carried out with each of the
six participants,
in which they were asked to use mental imagery processes
to describe distant geographic locations
(bridges,
roads, buildings,
etc.),
hidden 35-ram slides
of similar sites, and objects placed in a controlled-
access
location.
Several other information series were carried out.
These
are all described
in
later sections
of this report.
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Four of the six participants each produced results
that de-
parted significantly from chance expectation in assessment series
that
were? formally judged by very strict
criteria.
The other two produced
resijlts
in the assessment series that were also suggestive of paranormal
perception.
Overall,
this result constitutes highly significant per-
forniance
(p = 4 X lo”
,
or odds of one in 25,000 of such
a result occurring
by Chance )
fc We are including in this introduction one illustrative example
of pn RV trial
for
a real-time San Francisco Bay Area outdoor target.
The viewer.
No.
372, who contributed this data, produced a mixture of
responses,
some excellent and some noncorresponding,
in his two series
|
at
SRI.
Several of his
descriptions were among the best obtained
in the
program, and his overall consistency in performance resulted
in both
of
his
individual series reaching statistical significance.
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Current and proposed programs are directed at training partici-
pants
to bring their RV ability under more
conscious
control, and to
learn
to recognize and overcome the factors
that
limit RV reliability.
Tliese
limiting factors center around the generation of erroneous data by the
viewer from hjs memory and imagination.
An example of the successful
resolution of such noise
is
the following.
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The viewer was
closeted with an interviewer in the laboratory
at
SRI
to await
the target team's arrival at their destination.
The
target was
the Stanford Art Museum on the Stanford campus
.
The viewer
made several tentative outline sketches of different shapes
that
he said
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were "associated with the face of a building.
Finally,
he made
a
careful
perspective drawing of the building he was visualizing.
A photograph of
the
target
is shown in Figure
1(a),
and the viewer’s drawing
is shown for
comparison in Figure
1(b).
The viewer's narrative described the face of
the building as follows:
"There
is a white and black pattern,
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"It's
like an Inverted rectangle, with a
square fastened to the back, or a rectangle
laid down behind It.”
"Like
two buildings
In one.
One building."
"I have the sense that there
is
dirt
by the walls
...."
He went
on to talk about trees,
flowers, and
bicycles,
all of which can be found directly in front of the
target
building.
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Task Summary
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In the following we briefly summarize results
of the various
perceptual tasks that were undertaken:
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Bay Area Target
Site Remote Viewing .
In the Phase One
activities
,
six RV trials with local San Francisco Bay Area
sites
as targets were
carried out with each of the six
viewers.
In these six series, four of the viewers each
produced results that were independently significant
(p < 0.05), making the series
as a whole strongly
significant
(p =
4 X 10“5
;
odds of one in 25,000).
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Remote Viewing of 35-mm Slides
.
These trials
were carried out under varying conditions for five
viewers
in Phase Two.
One viewer, who generated
significant results
in Phase One, was again independently
significant
in his description of distant slides.
A
second viewer, also producing significant results in
Phase One,
produced drawings in Phase Two that were
formally judged to have significant
correlations with
the slide targets, although his verbal material did not.
A third viewer was asked to describe slides before they
were chosen,
that would be shown to him at
a
later time.
His results were suggestive of success
(p = 0.1)
but
not
statistically significant.
Similar trials with two other
viewers were also encouraging
but- nonsignificant
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Remote Viewing into
af
]Area
.
A viewer who was
successful in the slide viewing trials also carried out
a
series using extended remote viewing, in which he spent
more than an hour on each of six attempts
to describe
objects held in a£
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In Section
III we describe the SRI RV protocols, including
results from the past, and our expectations for the present program.
We
also discuss the
screening procedures used to select viewers and the
judging procedures used to evaluate the results
of the investigations
parried out
in the current program.
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In Section
IV we describe the first phase of the study,
in
^hich we systematically carried out RV trials with the participants
to
obtain baseline data
from each under similar experimental conditions.
( "Vn Section V we present
the exploratory work carried out in
Phase Two in an effort
to extend
the repertoire of RV tools available
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of
a one-year program for the optimization of remote viewing with
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selected individuals.
To meet
the objectives of
the program we have
familiarized these individuals with the SRI RV protocol;
pursued the
development
of enhanced
levels
of RV ability through exposure to several
different orientation/training strategies,
and established screening
tests
and. procedures
for enlarging
the population from which
such
in-
dividuals: are selected.
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volunteers
is
that we have found
considerable
evidence for remote viewing
functioning among them.
In the basic local-site RV-familiarization task
(Phase-One study),
four of
the
six participants produces results
that
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were individually statistically significant
(p < 0.05),
rendering the
-5
series strongly significant
as
a whole
(p
=
4 X 10
,
or odds
of one in
25,000).
(An entire summary of program data
is shown in Table
5.)
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jA second observation from that study is that
in general,
there
is more variability from trial
to trial
for
a given viewer than there
is
between the viewers themselves.
There are
no viewers
in the group who
have not
shown some evidence for remote viewing,
even though
some
of
their individual
series
may not have reached
the
p < 0.05 level
of
departure from chance expectation.
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In fact, each of these
four series exceeded this requirement by
more than an order of magnitude,
reaching significance at
the
p
= 0.003
level or
better.
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The individuals
chosen to parti cipate in the program
were pre-screened^
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250 potential candidates, using broad personality
profile guidelines recommended by SRI, with final
selection determined on the basis
of Interview by the
SRI project
leaders
(R.
T. and H.
P.).
The fact that
the overall study was successful
lends support
to the
effectiveness of this initial screening-by-profile
procedure
.
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The details of
the results of the program indicate that
a half dozen local-site RV trials may constitute a
meaningful screening- by-performance procedure to
separate the more reliable from the
less reliable
viewers.
In order for screening-by-performance
to be
successful,
it
is necessary that
the performnce of
a viewer be relatively consistent.
We find that
those
individuals who were the most successful in the Phase-
One trials, were also the most successful in Phase-Two,
even though different remote viewing tasks were pursued.
Of
the four successful viewers
in Phase-One,
two produced
significant results and one near-significant
(the fourth
was
not available for the Phase-TVo study).
The two
viewers from Phase-One that were
least successful
there
(not reaching significance) again did not reach signifi-
cance
in Phase-Two.
Although the sample is too small
to
be definitive,
it appears that the Phase-One local-
site RV series
itself offers evidence of constituting
a
useful screening-by-performance procedure.
P
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The data indicating that a viewer
can describe an individual
slide as
it
is
shown on a screen shows that targeting on high-resolution
transient
targets
(charts,
maps,
etc.)
is
not
out
of the question.
This,
coupled with our findings
that a viewer may be able to describe and identify
alphabet
letters
is
a most encouraging development, and one deserving of
further work.
Extension of the RV process
to Include high-resolution
material, especially with a reading ability, would constitute a significant
breakthrough
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in the FRV
(future remote
Viewing) series, both with slides and with
local sites
as targets,
appeared to give striking evidence of contact with the target.
However,
fhe trial-to-trial reliability was
low and no series reached statistical
significance.
Therefore
, although individual results were encouraging,
no definitive statement
can be made on the basis of this short study.
Given its obvious applications potential,
should its existence be capable
of unambiguous verification, we consider it a high-priority item for
farther exploration.
In the extended remote viewing
(ERV) trials a viewer was able
in each trial
of
the series
to identify significant elements of an object
placed
in various
locations!
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In these experiments
the remote viewer worked alone over
extended periods
of time
(up to three hours).
At
a minimum,
the good
results indicate
that the RV process
is not so fragile that
it
must
be
carried out under rigidly-specified conditions, since in this case an
alternative
style was in use and the results continued to be reliable.
Farther work would be required, however,
before
a definitive comparison
of
RV and ERV could be made.
k Finally,
the encouraging results obtained in the CRV
(coordinate
remote viewing) trials indicates that comparable accuracy and reliability
c^n be expected from experienced viewers
targeting either on the basis
of
a beacon person at
the
target,
or on the basis of geographical
latitude
and longitude alone.
As
a by-product
of the CRV study, which involved
the use of special procedures
being developed in another program for
reliability enhancement,
the high-quality output provided additional
confirmation as
to the effectiveness
of certain new approaches being
taken with regard to monitor/viewer interaction and control of the RV
environment
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; To take advantage of the most recent developments in remote
viewing, and to achieve the goal of continuing to develop remote viewing
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, we strongly recommend further development
of
capabilities
in the following areas:
•
Applications of Remote Viewing .
A training procedure has
been developed that appeares
to greatly increase both the
accuracy and reliability of
reinote viewing by coordinates.
This technique should continue to be examined, and applied
to targets_
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Effects
of Feedback .
An extensive examination should be made
of the necessity for providing feedback in remote viewing
trials.
A systematic variation in the presence or absence
of feedback should, be used
to determine the importance of
this factor.
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Target Demarcation .
Coordinate remote viewing experiments
should
be carried out
in which the target
is demarcated by
means
of various types
of coordinates^
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This should be done in order to
discover the part
piffle 13" by the target
coordinate
in
determining remote viewing accuracy.
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Audio Ana 1 ys i
.
In an effort
to separate correct from
incorrect
data available from taped subject descriptions
of remote viewing target
sites,
the use of speech and
audio analysis techniques should be investigated as a tool
to provide selective editing.
This should include semantic
analysis,
in which analysis of written transcripts are
carried out
to look for variations
in grammar,
style, or
vocabulary to help separate correct from incorrect statements
in the RV transcript.
Tracking .
Further effort
should be pursued to perfect the
RV process whereby,
instead of demarcating a
location to
obtain a target description,
one provides
a targe t description
and asks for
location'
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SRI has under development certain
strategies
involving FRV feedback,
computer averaging of
multiple trials, and so forth, which appear from pilot
efforts
to hold promise.
•
Spatial Resolution .
A study should be carried out to
determine
the extent
to which it
is possible to aid
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CONCLUSIONS
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.
A protocol
has been developed
to address the relative evaluation
portion of
the overall
RV transcript assessment problem.
As
a demonstra-
tion
of
the technique, we provide in the following Appendix an analysis
of
a
series
of four remote viewings
that were performed
as calibrations
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In this
series
the
demote viewing products were
of relatively high quality,
but nonetheless
require
a sensitive technique
to differentiate because of
the similarity
of
the
targets
and,
hence,
of the descriptions.
(The
series was chosen
primarily for that
reason.)
Application of
the assessment technique
resulted
in the correct blind matching
(highest
scoring
in matches versus
cross matches)
of
three of
the four.
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The material
in this document
thus constitutes
an instruction
i
iqanual or protocol
for application of
a step-by-step procedure for quan-
‘
titative assessment
of
the relative target/transcript correlations
of
a
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of
transcripts matched into
a series
of
targets.
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viewers
in learning to read hidden and distant printed
material that
is blocked from ordinary perception.
•
Temporal Resolution .
An ERV effort should be pursued
to determine the accuracy of remote viewing as
a function
of time
for future targets
•
ELF Experiments .
Since one of the prevalent hypotheses
for paranormal perception requires the use of an ELF
electromagnetic carrier, we suggest carrying out
definitive experiments
to examine this hypothesis
(e.g.,
by using ELF generators as beacons), and to
provide analyses
correlating data from our past data
base with the dally record of geophysical parameters
known to affect ELF propagation.
•
Theoretical Studies
.
Modern physics offers several
mathematical descriptions of reality that may also
prove to be testable descriptions
of paranormal
perception in general, and remote viewing in particular.
We recommend work with leading physicists who have
agreed to consult for
SRI on these theoretical problems,
in an effort
to develop a physical understanding of the
phenomena
we observe in the laboratory and
in the field,
and to apply this knowledge to improve remote viewing
functioning
•
Technical Meetings
.
SRI proposes
to host private quarterly
conferences
to bring together selected U.S,
scientists
and government representatives who are concerned with the
technical
issues
in psychoenergetic research.
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Successful pursuit
of the above priority items
could be expected
to result
in an increased reliability and breadth of utility of
the RV
function
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Final Report
Covering
the Period October
1981
to October
1982
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in
the
time condition,
but the level of significance for
the one subject
rendered
the entire experiment significant.
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, This
is
the third laboratory replication of
this experiment.
In each experiment,
there were significant results which could have been
useful*
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I
.
The best
subject
in the FY 1987
experiment showed a reduction
in the area that would need
to be searched
in 72% of
the
trials
in the space condition,
with an average reduction
in
area of
33%.
Previous experiments showed even greater reductions.
In
real-world applications,
this could represent
a substantial
savings
in
resources.
However,
the
skill has not been shown
to be completely robust,
and more experimentation should be done before attempting these
applications
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(U) A second “search” experiment was conducted in FY 1987 to see
if self-proclaimed
dowsers could “find” a lost ship by searching a grid which had previously been keyed to a map.
The object of the search was
a sunken Spanish galleon called the Atocha, which was actually
found
in
1985.
The experiment was carried out with two
sets of 25
trials
for each of
five
participants, but failed to produce a single significant
result.
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