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Final Report Project 7408
Covering the Period November 1983 to October 1985
December 1988
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INVESTIGATIONS (U)
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I.
(U)
Objective
(U) The objective of this program was to provide an overview of the current
state of
psychoenergetics research and, based upon this assessment, to recommend avenues of approach
for future investigations.
II.
(U) Background
(U)
Psychoenergetic research can be divided into two major areas of interest:
(1)
Informational Processes
(2)
Causal Processes.
Each of these areas can be subdivided further into training, screening, and fundamentals such as
various type of functional correlates
(e.g., psychological, physiological, and physical).
(S/NF) During FY 1985,
SRI
International completed a retrospective
analysis of a substantial body of open and classified literature
in order
to assess existence issues,
research questions and potential applications
of the previously reported activity in these areas.
Subsequently,
part
of
this analysis produced two reports that outlined an improved remote
viewing analysis technique and provided a meta-analysis of the random
number generator literature.
(These two reports are included as Appendix
A and
B,
respectively.) What follows are the recommendations,
for a
three-phase multi-year research effort.
III.
(U) Recommendation
A.
(U) Phase I—Knowledge Building
(U) Phase I is considered to be a knowledge building effort.
During this phase, SRI
recommends that some form of technical oversight be included in order to provide guidelines on
research protocols,
to assess the
credibility of the research, and to provide
insight into new
directions for future research.
This phase should be as wide in scope as resources allow.
More
focused research should be delayed until a knowledge base
is established.
Table
1 shows the
specific areas that are recommended for consideration as research items for Phase
I.
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Table
(U) PHASE
I RECOMMENDED RESEARCH AREAS
Topic
Description
Informational Processes
Analysis
Training
Screening
Physical Correlates
Personality Correlates
Physiological Correlates
Medical Correlates
Feedback
Spatial Search
Temporal Search
A quantitative remote viewing (RV) analysis technique.
Novice and advanced RV training methodologies.
Techniques to identify good remote viewers.
A search for RV correlates to the physical environment.
A search for personality traits in good remote viewers.
A search for physiological correlates to RV.
Monitor medical conditions of all viewers.
Determine the role of feedback in RV experiments.
Determine
if items can be located in space.
Determine
if events can located in time.
Causal Processes
Micro-remote Action
Intuitive Data Sorting
Macro-remote Action
Correlates
Remote action (RA) on random number generators.
Test the Intuitive Data Sorting Model.
Test a variety of physical systems as RA targets.
As above, determine correlates to RA.
General
Information Services
UNCLASSIFIED
Develop a user-accessible library system.
(U) While some of the items shown in Table
1 can be considered beyond existence
issues and
thus
should
be
considered
during
Phase
II,
the
predominant
effort
is
toward
knowledge building.
B.
(U) Phase II—Development
(U) During
Phase
II,
research
areas
from
the
Phase
I
effort
that
yielded
incontrovertible
evidence
for
their
existence,
will be expanded.
With
the
assistance
of
a
technical oversight committee, hypotheses will formulated and tested.
(S/NF) Those areas under Phase
I that showed the most promise,
will be expanded toward a potential application area.
For example,
if a
physiological measure could be found that correlated strongly with
excellent remote viewing,
then that measure could be used
to improve
intelligence applications.
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