en oa. ———~— Approved For Retease 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-08787R000200150003-3 experiment, it emerged rather naturally toward the end. This was similar to the "direct knowing” but not isolated to a single button; rather, there was a sense of the next two to. three buttons that would be the correct responses, These perceptual cues were obtained in a less objective/ rational way and in more of a meditative state, highly concentrated: but without specific focus on a particular button. Interestingly, in using this perceptual process, I was able to go somewhat faster and have greater access to all of the buttons in an equivalent way (see the second point - under Section 2 next page). Thus, this mode had the advantage of "loosening habituated perceptual patterns but it also made selections less amenable . to conscious control and testing. This process proved to be either highly accurate or highly inaccurate. Accuracy seemed to be a function of the | degree to which I could become synchronized with the evolving pattern of machine selected choices--and it was easy to get out of phase/sequence with this pattern. Rational Guessing (Used approximately 5 percent of the time) ~-Although {virtually never did try to superimpose some rationally predicted pattern upon the random, machine selection of buttons, I would sometimes temper “my selections (very seldom for the better) by noting that one button had come up too often for it to be likely on the next trial or, conversely, it had come up so seldom that it should be given special consideration as a likely possibility on the next trial. Again, although this was 2 tempting strategy, I found that random processes were not amenable to rational anticipations and my rational guesses seemed often to be wrong. ” * Tension/Vector Analysis (Used approximately 75 percent of the time)-- Here the cue was manifested as a sense of tension(s) pulling in one direction or another with the selection buttons as the locus for that tension. The cue was also manifested as a feeling of "emptiness" and Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200150003-3
Approved For Refease 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-0@787R000200150003-3 _i tend to agree with the notion that it might be more appropriate to call these processes “extraconceptual perception” rather than "extra~ sensory perception.” The perceptual cues were definitely present and they. had. sensory dimensions even though they do not. fit into our ‘traditional A mmm te - “+ . sensory categories, dust “where” _and "how" these sensory cues were present ed is not clear to me-~but_ ‘these are essentially conceptual rather than. sensory. issues. a Be Se aa a ot ewe ee 3. Problems in Perceptual | Translation : af + . - 4 Ae basic. problem in using the ESP machine was not so much the obtaining of perceptual | data as the translating of those data into sufficient information to allow the action of selecting the correct button. While the act itself is so simple as to be trivial, the information processes (gathering, filtering, dynamically translating) underlying that act seemed to me very substantial. It is within this unseen and unrecorded portion of the ESP testing process that most. of the "action" takes place. From this vantage point I would like to ‘suggest two impediments. that: might partially account for relatively low scores. . First, I am still not fluent in the "language" of extrasensory ‘perceptions--analogously, it is like hearing many separate commands in Russian (or another unfamiliar language), each time spoken in slightly different ways and with different intonations and inflections. The call for action may be clearly heard but the translation of that command into operational reality is an imprecise process until the language can be better understood. ae “a. Second is the problem created by shifting back and forth between ‘rational and intuitive knowledge processes during the course of the experiment. In selecting a single button I would use intuitive knowledge Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200150003-3 ; 5] : sos AE a PETE PSE Ble iT AY TD ST Tc a a