a aaa a rt Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4 Appendix 2 PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF THE FOUR-STATE ELECTRONIC RANDOM STIMULUS GENERATOR * The following. notes are based solely upon my experience and I there- fore make no claim that they are generalizable to other persons, Since I am still learning about ESP phenomena, I am confident that additional , work in this area will expand, modify, and refine the perceptual processes ' discussed below. While I have tried to describe these experiential processes with as much precision as possible, the use of seemingly precise language should not leave the impression that the perceptions themselves were equally precise. To the contrary, I found these perceptions to be delicate, transient and ephemeral~-and yet, at the same time-~-and somewhat surprisingly--unmistakably real, 1. Perceptual Processes ae OC esses Working with the ESP machine proved to be a venture into unfamiliar perceptual territory which functioned according to new and different rules. It took some time (five hours or so with the ESP machine) to begin to learn not only which perceptual processes would work but, equally important which would not work. There was clearly a learning process in finding those delicate and subtle internal cues that would allow me to make perceptually based choices. After approximately 1000 trials with the ESP machine, five dominant perceptual modes emerged. Subsequent ee * Prepared by a policy research analyst at SRI, who was a high-scoring . -6 : subject (p< 10 -) with the four-state electronic random stimulus generator, Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4
“ a y Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4 work with the machine seemed to essentially expand and refine these perceptual processes that emerged initially. Direct Knowing (Used approximately 5 to 15 percent of the time)--This perceptual cue came as a "gift" that I did not have to. work for. This is not to say that this "cue" was always right, but when there was a direct perception of the appropriate response unmediated by any of the other cues described below, my chances of being right seemed quite high (say 75 percent of the time). Internally, this was simply the feeling that I should push one specific button and the knowing was almost immediate. If it were not immediate then, typically, one of the other cues would be used. "Closure Cues" (Used perhaps 75 percent of the time)--This cue ON the time): manifested itself in a variety of ways; a sense of "fullness" with respect to a particular button, an internal anticipation of the bell ringing, a sense of "hardness" or "firmness" and a sense of being "locked into" the correct response. The validity of this cue could be tested: by acting and thinking as if I were going to push a particular button and then noting the extent to which these "closure cues" became present. This sense of active intentionality--both physically and psychologically-- seems important in. that it allowed me to sort out many real from imagined perceptions. Also, this cue often gave a kind of veto power; i, -e., it did not necessarily assure me as to the right answer but it would tend to tell me if I had picked the wrong one, i.e., I would not experience the aforementioned cues, Pattern Recognition (Negligible use initiall but then used approximately 75 percent of the time during Phase IV)--Although I used this perceptual. mode very infrequently during the initial stages of the Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4 experiment, it energed 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 I 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 a 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 g Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4 ° " To describe this process further, conversely as a sense of "fullness. ' it felt analogous to vector analysis in physics where, in sorting out competing tugs and pulls, one finds the "dominant" vector; i.e., the one with the strongest "pull" or the one that best "balances" the other vector tensions. Figure A-1 illustrates this phenomenon. Although the tension/vector cues were very useful and among the most reliable of all the cues, I found them to be at times quite mis- leading. The source of confusion stemmed from the role of time as a variable rather than a constant in extrasensory reality (discussed in more detail under section "Comments on Perceptual Processes"). If my assumptions as to the temporal nature of my perceptions did not fit with the actual nature of those perceptions. then the perceptions were quite misleading. (Recall that precognition refers here to a button that will be selected in the future--typically the next trial). The nine-cell matrix shown in Figure A-2 may clarify the complexity of the perceptual process, the need for discriminating awareness and the possibility for error. Out of nine possible combinations of the assumed/actual nature of perceptions, only three are matched or congruent and yield accurate understandings. Each of these primary cases is discussed below: e Clairvoyant--Here the feeling which allows sorting and selection is like that described in Figure A-l,. * Precognitive--The feeling, sorting, and selection is like that described in Figure A-l with clairvoyance; the primary difference being a shift in the time dimension to refer, not to the present target of the machine, but to the one to be selected next. To act on this perception I would press the pass button to bring the future into the present and then press the button that corresponded to my precognitive per- ceptions. ° Clairvoyant and Precognitive--The perception is of a pattern of buttons, distributed through time, that are and will be selected by the machine--the "pattern" usually consisted of two to three buttons, Again, the time variable was most Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4
Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4 LIGHT PULL/UNBALANCED STRONG PULL OR/BALANCE LIGHT PULL/ UNBALANCED ; SA-2613-21 EMPTY ~g FIGURE A-1 ILLUSTRATION OF TENSION/VECTOR ANALYSIS IN OPERATION With Button C being the one selected using these cues. ACTUAL NATURE OF PERCEPTIONS Clairvoyant Clairvoyant Precognitive and Precognitive Clairvoyant Correct P. ’ ASSUMED erception NATURE OF PERCEPTIONS 4 Correct recognitive Misperception Perception Misperception Clairvoyant . and ‘Misperception Misperception roorect Precognitive erception SA-2613-22 Misperception Misperception \ MATRIX SHOWING CORRECT PERCEPTION AND MISPERCEPTION IN THE USE OF TENSION/VECTOR CUES VIA THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ASSUMED AND ACTUAL NATURE OF PERCEPTIONS FIGURE A-2 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200010007-4