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BACKGROUND
Research efforts
in our laboratory and elsewhere continue
to provide
mounting evidence
for
the existence of so-called "parapsychological,
paraphysical, "
or "psychoenergetic" processes.
These processes include;
(1)
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.
(2)
The production of physical
effects
such as
the perturbation
of equipment
or instrumentation that appear
to be well
shielded against,
or otherwise inaccessible
to,
human
influence.
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OBJECTIVE
The objectives of this program are to quantify the characteristics
of,
and to investigate
the mechanisms responsible
for,
psychoenergetic
processes.
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TASKS
The following tasks are under investigation at
the present
time.
•
Role of feedback
•
Quantify judging
(coding)
•
Resolution
(cannister experiment)
•
ELF model
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Shielded rooms
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Submarine experiment
•
Submarine tracking
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Physical effects
—
Strain gauge
--
Random number generator
•
Training
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PROGRESS TO DATE
in
A.
remote
Role of Feedback
Theoretical considerations 1
have indicated
the possibility that
viewing post-experiment feedback may be an essential element for
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References are
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the end
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success.
We have
to date completed
two series of experiments with
experienced remote viewing subjects to^determine the effects
of with-
holding
feedback.
Both were of the standard type2
(remote viewing of
target
locations within a few miles of
SRI,
demarcated by an individual
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006 cons isted of a series of
6 trials,
all with no
feedback as
to the
target
sites;
one consisted of a series
of
7 trials,
3 with
feedback,
3 without,
and
a
final one with feedback.
Both of
tnese series
failed
to give
a single successful outcome in the no-
feedback condition,
while providing good results
in the feedback condition.
This result offers strong evidence that feedback is an essential element
physical
6SSfUl rem°t6 viewin§>
whether
the reasons be psychological or
The next appropriate series
of experiments with these normally
successful subjects
is
to intermix,
on a random schedule,
feedback and
thlt a subt ^
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to a given trial being carried out
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We again find no success
in trials without
feed-
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while the subjects continue to demonstrate successful remote
viewing in those experiments with feedback,
this would indicate that there
was
some substantive,
perhaps physical,
basis
for
the effect of feedback
on the experiments.
B.
Quantify Judging
One of the most successful psychoenergetlc processes
is the
remote viewing of target locations demarcated by some means,
such as
the presence at
the site of an individual known
to
the "viewer.
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Unfortunately,
this process --which works
so well—results
in narrative
description that
is difficult
to assess
in a quantitative manner.
To objectify the analysis of a single response from a subject
during a remote sensing experiment,
it
is necessary to quantify the
target content in some discrete way.
From an examination of the data
base accumulated to date
it appears
that certain recurrent
target
attributes
(dichotomies)
are frequently sensed correctly by our subjects
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is
inside/outside,
wet/dry,
man-made/natural,
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each of these attributes
is assigned a binary digit
a "one"
if the attribute
is present at
the target
site,
and a "zero" if it is
absent—we can,
then,
characterize a site by a binary code.
The
evaluation process becomes a more objective one of matching subject-
generated and site-team-generated binary codes.
We have to date sent two analysis teams
into the
field with
representative transcripts
to generate lists of appropriate dichotomies
which would appear
to be optimum for
this
task.
One team has completed
their
study;
the other
is in progress.
Upon completion these lists
will
be played back over the data base accumulated to date
to determine
whether such a procedure
is useful.
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