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A,
Introduction
In FY
1984,
no
GDIP
funds were
spent
in
the Grill Flame Program.
This
was
due
to
the prohibition
imposed
by
the U.S. Congress.
All work
and
contract
funds
for DIA and Army were accomplished using R&D
funds.
Army's
$
chief
interest was dictated
by
the
fact
that
they have
an operational
J
unit,
hence,
training was
a
large
item
in
their budget.
Developing
a
method
to do
search remote viewing and
investigations
that would
lead
to
J
,y
ways
of
selecting
individuals who have
a high potential
to
do remote viewing r
wAj
we-re also
inves ti gated.
The Army also sponsored work
to determine
if
ELF
fluctuations
have
an
impact
on
the quality
of remote viewing data,
The DIA funds were
from DRE
and were used
to continue research
in
various
Grill Flame
areas.
As
DIA and Army had,
until
this
year,
totally
depended
on
one
training program,
it became apparent
that new ones
needed
to
be developed.
Therefore,
two new training procedures were
iniated
.
Also, within
the remote viewing area,
research was
directed
at
improving
the quality
of
the
data.
In
the PK area,
some
foreign research was
duplicated
and preliminary
investigations
on countermeasures were
accomplished
.
A major emphasis
in FY
1984 was placed
on authentication
and veri-
fication of
the
remote viewing phenomena.
In
the
first
three
years
of
the
Grill
Flame program,
the
research was
centered
on developing remote
viewing training programs,
improving
the quality
of
remote viewing data
and
looking at
some
of
the variables
that could affect
its quality.
During
the past year,
statistics were developed
that could
be applied
to
remote viewing data
and
a measure
of
its
success
could
be
obtained.
If
the data are favorable,
FY
1985 will begin
the
incorporation of
a remote
viewing capability
into
the DIA.
This prototype
unit,
if
succes sful
, would
serve
as
a model
for
the
incorporation of additional
units
into
the DoD
.
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Prior
to establishing an in-house capability,
several
items must be
in place.
First,
you must
be able
to select
individuals with good remote
viewing potential.
Then you must
be able
to
train
that ability to
the
point where useful data can be produced.
You must also have
a variety
of
targeting methods and
a
set procedure
to evaluate
the resultant data.
Finally,
you must have an automated data base
that allows
you
to
store
and manipulate
large volumes
of
information.
While research on several
of
these areas will
be
continued
into FY
1985 and
beyond,
enough data now
exists
to begin work
on establishing an
in-house DoD program.
In addition
to
replicating and evaluating foreign psychoenergetics
research
,^
Reports
completed
to date on each of
the
tasks
in-
vestigated
in FY
1984
are available.
B
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— 198^ Psychoenergetics Program
Following .re
the
took
sheet., inciting
task de8crlptl „ns
,
for each
of
the program areas under
investigation.
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Verbal Description of Project
At
the beginning of
the DIA/Army Joint Services Program
(FY
1981)
SRI,
in conjunction with
its
sponsors, made
a decision
to develop and
codify
the most promising RV enhancement procedure
that had emerged
from
earlier work--a
six
stage
coordinate remote viewing training procedure
developed
by SRI Consultant Mr,
Ingo
Swann,
The procedure
focuses
on
improving
the reliability
of remote viewing by controlling
those
factors
that
tend
to
introduce noise
into
the
RV product-
A broad overview of
the
procedure, which
has
been derived empirically on
the basis
of
a decade
;of
investigation
into
the RV process,
is presented
in
the documents
below.
The basic
components
of
this procedure consist
of:
(1)
Repeated
target-address
(coordinate)
presentation,
with quick-reaction response by
the remote viewer
(to minimize
imaginative overlays).
(2)
The
use
of
a specially-designed,
acous tic-tiled
,
featureless homogeneously-colored viewing chamber
(to minimize environmental
overlays).
(3)
The
adoption
of
a strictly-prescribed,
limited
interviewer patter
(to minimize
interviewer overlay).
At
this
stage
of near
completion of
the development,
the
RV
training
procedure
proceeds
through
a
series
of
six
stages
of proficiency,
hypothe-
sized
to correspond
to
six
stages
of
increased
contact with
the
target
site.
The
stages
are outlined
in
the
table below.
In
a given remote
viewing
session,
an experienced remote viewer
tends
to recapitulate
the
six
stages
in order.
H.
E.
Puthof f
,
"RV Reliability,
Enhancement,
and Evaluation
(u),"
Final
Report,
SRI Project
3279-1,
SRI
International,
Menlo Park,
CA
(February
1982),
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H.
E.
Puthoff,
"RV Reliability,
Enhancement,
and Evaluation
(U) ," Final
Report,
SRI Project 4028-1,
SRI
International,
Menlo Park,
CA
(December
1982),
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RV SITE CONTACT
SITE
IS ACQUIRED
IN STAGES
OF
INCREASING CONTACT
STAGES
1.
Major gestalt
(mountain,
city,
land/water
interface)
2.
Sensory contact
(cold/dry)
3.
Dimension,
motion, mobility
(large mountain,
panoramic
view)
4.
Qualitative
and quantitative aspects
(technological
cultural,
two buildings)
5.
Specific
analytical
aspects--by
interrogating
signal
line
(radar
tracking
function,
ABM defense)
6.
Three-dimensional
contact
(modeling,
layouts,
further
analytical
contact)
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Alternate Training Task:
The Alternate Training Task
is designed to demonstrate that remote viewing (RV) may
be taught to naive individuals.
Using techniques developed by viewer 009, four
individuals
will contribute 30-50 RV trials each using National Geographic photographs
as targets.
Theory and exercises
will emphasize the use of abstract targeting techniques
(as opposed to geographical coordinates).
Following a procedure
first outlined by R.
Jahn, Princeton University, RV analysis
will be computer automated to provide a
measure of training performance.
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#1
Verbal Description
of Project
Screening/Selection Task:
The overall view
is to develop independent measures of personality and remote viewing
skill and to determine
if a correlation between them exists.
From the remote viewing perspective, we plan to adopt the Priceton gfoup
V\ automated
judging procedure.
This technique, while not complete, represents the best automated
procedure to date.
It provides a
statistically meaningful score for each individual remote
viewing session.
From the personality assessment perspective, we plan to adopt the Personality
Assessment System (PAS), developed by Winne and Gittinger.
The PAS provides a
quantitative measure of personality derived from performance on the WAIS.
Specif.-experiments include the following:
1.
Administer the WAIS and MBTI to as many of the past “calibrated”
RVers as possible to determine
if there
is “grouping”
of good
performance in PAS space.
2.
Administer the WAIS and MBTI to
all the RV trainees.
3.
Predict, on the basis of
1. above, RV performance of the trainees.
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