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visited by a target experimenter.
In this section we present the results
of this FRV study.
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Viewer No.
468,
RV and FRV of 35-mm Slides
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As a first step in assessing the reliability of future
remote viewing we carried out
a series
of eight slide trials with Viewer
468, who had produced several excellent responses
in his phase-one series
of real-time
local Bay Area target remote viewings.
Six of the eight
trials
were FRV trials,
two were real-time.
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In the six FRV trials
the viewer was asked to describe the
contents
of 35-mm slides, before each slide was randomly chosen for display
Immediately after his description of
the slide,
a random number generator
was activated in the monitors'
room in a separate building
(trailer) to
give a number between
1 and
60.
The corresponding 35-mm slide was then
projected in the monitors'
room.
After the monitors recorded the name and
number of the
chosen slide,
they went
to the viewer's
location and escorted
him to the monitors'
location for feedback.
The FRV series was blind
judged and also judged on the basis
of Accuracy Ratings by two analysts
.
All three ratings agreed that
the data were suggestive,
but
not
statisti-
cally significant.
The blind judging found that the FRV series departed
from chance expectation at the p
= 0.1 level, with two first place matches,
one second,
one third,
one fifth, and one sixth.
(A value
of
p
= 0.05
is
required for formal statistical significance.)
The Accuracy Ratings
by
the two analysts totaled
18 and 20 respectively, with four of the six
trials rated by both analysts as
3 or higher, which
is
to say
(from
Table
2):
"a mixture of
correct and incorrect elements,
but enough of
the former to indicate that
the viewer has made contact with the target."
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A summary of the six FRV target
slides and the viewer's
responses
is given in the following.
The remote viewer's
drawings are
shown for the two first-place matches to indicate the quality required
for successful blind matching.
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Windmill
.
The target
is
a
large white windmill
with four blades
, mounted on top of
a red A-frame
tower.
The viewer described an inverted V-shaped
structure, associated with
a circular object divided
into quarters.
He also had
a sense of circular
motion.
His drawing is shown in Section IV-C
[Figure 3(b)],
This was rated first place in blind
judging;
Accuracy Ratings by the two analysts were
4 and
.
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Stanford Shopping Center
.
The target
is
the
central mall
of the Stanford Shopping Center.
One
view of this target
location from an earlier series
is
given in Figure
10.
However, the target
slide for
the present viewer was taken from a different
direction.
This viewer described and drew the
repeated curved forms overhead and described it as
"like a shopping plaza."
(See Figure
14.)
The
blind judge awarded this description a first
place match.
Accuracy Ratings were
5 by both
analysts
.
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Alta Mesa Cemetery .
The target
slide features
a
large gravestone standing in the foreground,
and
several others visible in the middle distance.
The
viewer described a "dark vertical mass
...
jagged,
like a rock pile."
This reminded him of
a small
mountain at Disneyland, appeared to lead to further
erroneous analysis.
Based on the drawings
of
a
jagged rocky shape,
the blind judge rated this
response a second place match to the target slide,
while Accuracy Ratings were 3 and 2.
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Merry-Go-Round .
The Rinconada Park merry-go-
round as an outdoor target has been described
excellently by two viewers
in past
years.
This
viewer correctly identified the park-like atmosphere
(correct), but placed much emphasis on the target
being at a crossroads
(incorrect).
Finally, he
said that a cylinder had emerged at
the
crossroads
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in the park,
and he then made a formal drawing with
a three-dimensional cylinder, shown rotating as the
central object.
The judge rated this
a third place
match.
Accuracy Ratings were
3 and
4,
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Padre Statue .
This target
is a very large plaster
statue of
a kneeling monk on a hill top, pointing into
the distance.
The viewer had a description of a park
with a duck as
the focus.
The blind judge rated this
fifth place for correspondence.
Accuracy Ratings
were
3 by both analysts
.
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Bridge in Burgess Park
.
This target
is
a wooden
footbridge over
a stream in a nearby park.
The
viewer's first impressions
correctly portrayed a
wooden framework pierced by metal,
but
he followed
this first view with several pages
of incorrect
pictures,
resulting
in a sixth place match,
and
Accuracy Ratings of
2 and
1,
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Although this viewer's FRV data did not reach statistical
significance in the blind judging, we find enough correspondences
in the
Accuracy Ratings
to suggest
that
the viewer did make contact with the
target material on some of the trials.
In comparing the results
of blind
judging with those of the Accuracy Rating system, we note that statistical
significance in the blind judging is
a compound measure which includes
consistency and reliability,
as well as remote viewing per
se.
For
example,
in the following series, Viewer 292 provides two trials
that
were each given an Accuracy Rating
= 5,
but his overall blind judging
results were nonsignificant and
less
than the present series, because of
a lack of trial-to-trial consistency.
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The
two real-time slide targets,
a redwood grove and an
underpass, were inserted in the FRV series
(for comparison purposes)
after the fourth FRV slide.
They received Accuracy Ratings of 3 and 4
respectively,
and were thus
of similar quality as those in the FRV series
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Viewer No.
292 RV and FRV of 35-mm Slides
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We carried out twelve randomly intermixed future RV and
real-time RV trials with this viewer.
The targets were 35-mm slides
displayed in another building as
above.
In this effort, we tried to deal
with the
fact that a viewer might
feel anxious about FRV experiments
in
general.
The previous viewer, in spite of his encouraging results,
daily
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expressed concern about the impossibility in principle of
the task.
Therefore,
in this series we had equal numbers
of real-time and FRV trials
randomly intermixed,
so that the viewer would not know,
at the time
of
the trial, which type
of trial
it was.
The protocol from the viewer's
point of view was exactly the same in both cases,
in that he could not
distinguish between the two conditions on the basis
of the protocols.
He would give a description of a target slide, and a few minutes
later
would be taken to see the slide.
From the monitor's
point of view the
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two situations differed in that during the FRV trials
there was
no slide
to look at, since
it would not
be chosen until after
the conclusion of
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the viewer's description.
In the real-time trials,
the slide was viewed
by the monitors for the entire duration of the viewing/description period.
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The two groups of trials were rated for accuracy,
inde-
pendently by two analysts.
The six real-time trials received summed
Accuracy Ratings of
19 and 16 by the two analysts, while the FRV series
was rated
16 and
.
Both series are therefore rated somewhat on the
low
side overall, with results
of individual trials ranging from no evidence
of contact with the target
site to excellent
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As
in his initial Local Bay Area remote viewing series
in
Phase One, however,
this viewer again turned in some of the highest rated
and most accurate individual responses of any viewer in the Phase Two
portion of the program.
We discuss two of these which occurred in the
FRV series.
Both were very accurate descriptions
of quite unusual targets,
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target.
Instead, he described a wooden cylinder sticking out
of the
water,
so that
its bottom could not be seen.
He described and drew on
top of the
cylinder
a conical metal
cap or cover.
He also said that the
main item in the vicinity was a redwood building with exposed timbers and
a
large, peaked overhang.
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The difficulty with judging this trial,
and,
in fact,
the
series
as
a whole,
derives from the following:
While standing at the
salt pile for the feedback portion of the trial,
the viewer
can look
a
hundred yards
or
so across the estuary that separates
the salt refinery
from the Redwood City Marina, and observe that his description matches
the latter perfectly.
For across this narrow body of water was
a
large
restaurant made of dark redwood just
as described in the transcript,
and
along the dockside was
a row of posts sticking up out
of the water,
each
with a blue conical sheet-metal
cap to serve as an anti-seagull device.
An accuracy rater at
the restaurant would certainly give the transcript
an Accuracy Rating of
5 for its
correspondences,
but,
since that
did not
happen to be the intended target,
the transcript receives an Accuracy
Rating of
3.
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Because
of the above difficulties
inherent
in FRV site
definition we did not think
it worthwhile to subject this otherwise quite
interesting series
to blind judging.
It
is
our impression, however,
that
this series and the other FRV slide series carried out
as
part
of
this program does offer some evidence for the existence
of FRV functioning
with individual trials often at an accuracy comparable to real-time remote
viewing
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(ERV), Viewer
No.
518
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1.
Background
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One of
the program remote viewers
(No.
518) stated that
over the past few years he had on occasion experienced spontaneous ex-
tended remote viewing
(ERV),
usually associated with rest or sleep
periods.
Subjectively,
these ERV experiences appeared to be
of unusual
intensity and clarity;
however,
the situation and/or
content of these
experiences
did not
lend themselves
to independent objective verification.
Therefore,
Remote Viewer 518 requested that
some time be devoted to
in-
vestigating the phenomenon, with the goal
of determining whether the con-
tent of such ERV experiences was verifiable and,
further,
of superior
quality to that obtained in the ordinary RV protocol.
2.
Pilot Effort
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An initial single-trial pilot effort in ERV was carried
out during Remote Viewer 518 's first day at
SRI.
In this trial there
was some evidence that information obtained in the ERV state was veridical
Therefore,
it was decided that upon his return a formal series
of trials
would be undertaken.
3.
Formal Series
(Six Trials)
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The formal series of trials
consisted of six targeting
periods
of approximately three hours
each.
During each of these trials
the remote viewer was closeted in a third-floor laboratory of the Radio
Physics Laboratory in the SRI complex and asked to render drawings and
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ERV
(extended remote viewing)
is here defined as an exercise in re-
mote viewing for an extended period of time, generally lasting for more
than an hour.
Furthermore, an effort
is
made to maximize the subjective
sense of awareness of the target site while minimizing the subjective
sense of awareness of the remote viewer's physical surroundings.
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describe into a tape recorder his
impressions of a target object.
Each
session was terminated either by the monitor who indicated that the
(approximate) three-hour period was up,
or by the remote viewer himself
at
a somewhat earlier time.
The remote viewer was then taken to the
target
location for feedback.
For the first four trials
the targets
Placed on display on a conference room table in that
facility.
As
part
of
the first
trial the remote viewer was
asked
to describe the facility as well as
the target object;
for the
remaining three trials
he was asked to describe the target object
only.
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Before the fifth trial,
it
was decided by the remote viewer
and monitor
that
the target
location for the remaining two trials
should
be changed so as
to avoid analytical overlay problems associated with
target-site familiarity.
The site chosen by the monitor was the roof of
the Radio Physics Laboratory building,
directly above the ceiling of
the
room in which the remote viewer was
located.
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Trial
1.
The target object
for Trial
1 was
a copper ewer
(pitcher)
placed on a dark brown wood-grained table
(see Figure
17).
The remote viewer sketched an object
that evolved into a table-lamp base,
finally topped by a
lampshade.
The description of
the facility rendered by the remote
viewer had many matching elements, although
it appears that
the remote
viewer combined the two primary rooms
into one;
because
of this,
however,
the description is ambiguous and cannot be taken as evidential.
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Trial
.
The target object
for Trial
2 was a metal
food
mill with red handle shown in Figure
18.
In response the remote viewer
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sketched a silver-grey object with a handle on it that
looked first
like
a fireplace scoop
(most
correct), and then evolved into a bellows.
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Trial
3 .
The target for Trial
3 was
a straw hat with
curled up brim and dimpled top
(Figure
19).
The remote viewer's response
is shown in the same figure
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Trial
4 .
Target
4 was
a photographic tripod
(Figure 20).
The remote viewer's response, shown in the same figure,
consisted essen-
tially of a silver teapot-like object sitting on a tripod.
Trial
5 .
Following the
first
four trials,
the monitor and
remote viewer agreed that
the target
location for Qfb remaining two trials
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ative
locations were discussed, with the final decision to be made by the
monitor.
The monitor chose the roof of the Radio Physics Laboratory and
intended to place
a target
there.
Due
to an error in timing,
the remote
viewer began the fifth session without having
met with the monitor to
learn which of the discussed alternative locations was
to
be used.
In
the absence of this communication there was
no overtly agreed-upon target
location and no special target was set up.
Nonetheless, we observe post
hoc that the remote viewer described an outside,
brightly
lit gravel-based
area, and provided a response that resembled the intended roof target
area
(see Figure 21).
Because of the ambiguity of target
location and
absence
of a specific intended target,
however,
this
trial
is
set aside
and not
included in the package of results
to
be blind
judged.
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Trial
6 .
The target chosen for the
final
trial was
a world
globe
(Figure
22).
In response the remote viewer drew a sphere mounted
on a stand,
but did not cognize
the map aspect.
He also shows
the roof
line,
but
this
cannot
be taken as evidential since
it was known that
the
target was
to be on the roof
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TARGET,
AND
VIEWER
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An orientation program for CRV has been designed at
SRI, and
is being' applied with success with RVers Inexperienced in CRV.
Ihe
details are as follows.
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A target pool of more than 100 geographical sites from around
the globe has been prepared and is being continually expanded.
The loca-
tions are chosen to embody some particular well-defined characteristic
(e.g.,
mountains,
oceans,
deserts,
lakes,
cities,
islands,
rivers).
The
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coordinates of these
locations,
obtained from standard reference atlases,
are each written on one side of a 3-by-5-inch file
card, on the other side
of which
is
a descriptor
(e.g.,
Mt
.
Hekla volcano , Iceland)
, along with
an atlas reference.
The
cards are then placed in envelopes,
coordinates
facing
the back, and randomized.
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The CRV orientation procedure
is
as follows
.
RVer and facilitator seat themselves
at opposite ^ds
JPa table in a special environment,
the former with
a
supply of paper and a pen,
the
latter with target envelopes
(contents unknown) and the reference atlases.
The CRVer
is
instructed that
the facilitator will
befin the CRV process by selecting an envelope and
reading aloud the target coordinates.
The CRVer
is
to note down on paper any immediate impressions
(which
he may also express aloud) and then, rather than
embellishing on his
first impressions,
to ask for
the coordinates
to be
read aloud again so that the
original process may be repeated,
etc., until a coheren
picture
of the site emerges.
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The Times Atlas of
the World , Hougton Mifflin C°*
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197
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People
1 s Republic of China AtlasT U.S.
Government Printing Office,
1971.
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The RV environment
has been optimized during testing on another
program to
bo guiet
. dimly lit, and to provide a
monoohrome visual
field,
free
of strong features and peripheral