The power of remote viewing
Remote viewing is a psychic activity developed by several countries, including the Soviets, and is used as a term by the CIA and the US military to define a psychic intelligence gathering activity. The origins of remote viewing are somewhat shrouded in its clandestine origins and there are various accounts.
In remote viewing, the viewer is given a target that is placed in a sealed envelope. This target is not physically identified or seen by the subject, who nonetheless attempts to connect with the object, in a protocol somewhat resembling hypnotic induction. Remote Viewing embodies a procedure that attempts to induce the subject to an altered state of consciousness. Once induced, the subject supposedly separates from her body and attempts to connect with the target through the “astral plane” or “ether”. In many ways, this component of remote viewing is almost identical to astral projection, which is used to acquire information for intelligence operations.
Remote viewing is said to have started in the 1970s in a CIA-funded project. Shortly thereafter, he began research at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. At the time, researchers Russel Targ and Harold Puthoff worked extensively with New York artist Ingo Swann, who recently wrote Superpowers of the Human BioMind, which is available online, including his purported true account of the history of visualization. remote.
The next steps involved the formation of Task Force G, a group developed to study Remote Viewing; the start of INSCOM, a Major Army Command that governed Remote Viewing activities; the development of Gondola Wish, which attempted to monitor enemy uses of remote viewing, followed with the development of an intelligence-gathering group operating at Fort Meade called the Grill Flame. In the late 1970s, Grill Flame was integrated with SRI’s experimentation with remote viewing.
In 1981, Brigadier General Albert Stubblebine, III assumed command of INSCOM. The following year, Ed Dames, an intelligence officer who would ultimately play a major role in publicizing and privatizing remote viewing, begins using the Grill Flame as a source of intelligence information. That same year, Ingo Swann discovers new and more powerful remote viewing protocols.
In 1983, INSCOM connects with the Monroe Institute and begins sending recruits to take the Gateway Course to learn the art of astral projection. (see article on Astral Projection). That same year, Ingo Swann begins training four US Army officers and a civilian woman in remote viewing. One of those remote viewing officers is Edward Dames, CPT. Subsequently, Dames will be one of the trainers of Mel Riley, Lyn Buchanan, Gabrielle Pettingell and Dave Morehouse.
After his military work on Remote Viewing ends, Dave Morehouse decides to publicly expose the existence of Remote Viewing to the private sector, a feat for which he pays heavily as a record in his book, Psychic Warrior (St. Martin’s Press, 1996). Although Morehouse is not very successful in these endeavors at the time, it is Ed Dames who becomes the main spokesperson for remote viewing through Art Bell’s late-night radio show. Dames’ rather haunting and apocalyptic visions eventually led to the nickname Doctor Doom. Ed Dames actively teaches and explores the possibilities of remote viewing. Private companies such as Britain’s Paranormal Management Systems and America’s PSI TEK continue to explore the world of remote viewing.