Controlled Insanity – The Art of Living in Your Own Reality
Nathan Thomas
On the 5th of October last year, Steve Jobs passed away.
From nothing, Steve Jobs founded, built and championed a company which today is worth over 100 billion dollars.
His vision, passion and drive revolutionized the way we interact with each other, experience entertainment, and view the purpose and potential of technology.
How did he do it?
Friends and colleagues of Steve commented that one of his most compelling traits was what they called his “Reality Distortion Field.”
With the combination of a charismatic speaking manner, an unwavering gaze, and complete self certainty, Steve was able to convince people to believe, and later do, the impossible.
Throughout his career Steve Jobs often encountered doubt and resistance.
Many of the ideas which we now know were brilliant – from the iPhone to Apple Stores, were first met with ridicule and scorn from many extremely intelligent people.
Steve’s reality distortion field blew those doubts out of the water, and caused people to take action, and create changes and transformations that, to use Job’s own phrase, would “Put a dent in the universe.”
The power of the reality distortion field stems from one simple secret:
In order to convince others, you must first convince yourself.
People in the world of hypnosis and NLP call this “Go There First.”
What makes the reality distortion field such a rare gift is that most people don’t know how to convince themselves.
Most people source their beliefs from the world around them.
They constantly “ping” or reality check the people and inputs around them, constantly seeking to confirm that what they believe is true.
We search the reactions and behaviors of others to make sure we’re not out of line, and rapidly abandon out independence and sense of self when lost in a crowd.
Going against the raging tide of social pressure is a hugely demanding task.
Achieve it, however, and you’ll no doubt be able to pull others along with you.
Of course, what the masses believe is not always wrong.
In fact, most of the time it’s actually right on the money.
Ignoring everything everyone else believes and living in a world entirely of your own design is a pretty good definition of insanity.
Ignoring other peoples limitations and creating a world entirely of your own design is a pretty good definition of genius.
Like everything, it’s a sliding scale.
A sensible solution would be to be aware of the inputs of the world at large, and pay good attention to what others think, feel and believe.
After all, you are a part of humanity, and while there may be areas where you want to break free and carve your own ground, conformity is not always a bad thing.
However, when asked, Mark Twain said, whenever you find yourself on the side of the masses, “it’s time to pause and reflect.”
Don’t go on a bender of anarchic reality denial, in which you refuse to believe what others do.
Likewise, don’t be yet another sheep in the herd, believing only what society gives you permission to think.
Make a conscious decision to live a life of your own design, and set out to create a set of beliefs which are useful and empowering.
Your beliefs, particular about yourself, create reality. They don’t follow it.
So, ask yourself what is most useful and valuable to believe right now.
If it’s completely untrue, then believing it will not be valuable. If you’re broke yet you try and believe your a millionaire, you’ll probably end up in a cardboard box.
Yet if you’re broke and you believe that you have the potential to become a millionaire… and (this is the most important part) you take action based on those beliefs, you may well become one.
Reality is persistent, and social pressure will often try and force you to adopt a particular belief set. Ask yourself only “is it useful,” and believe it only if the answer is yes.
.
We are sponsoring;.
.
www.ladybythelake.net
.
http://www.facebook.com/rpierce1956#!/pages/When-Pigs-Fly-Aerial-Video-Photography-Special-Events-Richard-Pierce/165188250195664?sk=wal
Power of Observation is quite limited
The human power of observation is quite limited. People generally see what they expect to see. Here’s an interesting experiment that Daniel Levin created to show how poor our skills of real observation can be.
.
We are sponsoring;.
.
.
“Quotes About Perception
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“Humans see what they want to see.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
― Wayne W. Dyer
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu
― Lao Tzu
“It’s all in the mind.”
― George Harrison
― George Harrison
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it’s as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can’t explain his to us, and we can’t explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication … and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick
― Philip K. Dick
“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora
― Anne Rice, Pandora
“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.”
― Irving Berlin
and 90 percent how you take it.”
― Irving Berlin
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered”
― José Saramago, The Double
― José Saramago, The Double
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
“The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
― Erwin Schrödinger
― Erwin Schrödinger
“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality…Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”
― Gary Zukav
― Gary Zukav
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to ‘show’ it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg’s adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: ‘Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.’ I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
“…What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”
― Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
― Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
“You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
― Dorothea Lange
― Dorothea Lange
“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
.
“Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.”
― James A. Kitchens
― James A. Kitchens
“Sometimes when you’re upset it’s so easy to forget what’s real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)”
― Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life
― Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life
“Your agreement with reality defines your life.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus
“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
― Eoin Colfer, Airman
― Eoin Colfer, Airman
“It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don’t let appearances fool you. There’s always only one reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“Love — not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.”
― Vera Nazarian, Salt of the Air
― Vera Nazarian, Salt of the Air
“It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.”
― Clive Barker
― Clive Barker
Operation Stargate: Unexplained Anecdotal Evidence
.
This article is a reference for Operation Stargate
.
Even though the experts hired by the American Institutes for Research recommended that continuation of the Star Gate program was not justified, they both agreed that certain of the test results seemed unexplainable by conventional science. Actual remote viewing may have been demonstrated.
.
It is difficult to judge the anomalies that Utts and Hyman proclaim, because the AIR Report reveals very little of the exact content of the tests: that is, actual beacons’ images paired with corresponding viewers’ descriptions. Instead, the report primarily offers obtuse bar graphs and spreadsheets of numerical test scores as evidence.
.One “success” that is described in anecdotal detail involved two separate remote viewers who reported the location of a secret underground installation. Given only the “coordinates of the site” located in West Virginia, the subjects described the surrounding landscape and a government base hidden beneath.
.
The report does not name it as such, but this site would appear to be the infamous Mount Weather Installation, also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
.
Mount Weather reportedly houses a complete duplicate of the Federal government, secretly waiting on stand-by to run the United States in the event of a national catastrophe or declaration of martial law. One of the remote viewers went so far as to name codewords and personnel associated with the base, and his accuracy was high enough to spark a full investigation into any possible leak for this classified information.
.
Hyman points out that these remote viewers may have been relying on foreknowledge of the Mount Weather facility rather than psychic powers. Considering that this particular test supplied the location up front, and that the majority of the remote viewers who participated were government employees, the possibility is a reasonable one.
.
A third remote viewer identified the existence of a rail-mounted gantry crane in the then-Soviet city of Semipalatinsk. Despite the uncanny accuracy of the description, the official who analyzed this viewer deemed his test results unsuccessful, since the bulk of his observations were erroneous.
.
Another anecdotal report, appearing only in a censored document given as an appendix, describes apparent successes in the remote viewing of North Korea. Viewers identified possible rail tunnels leading into the Republic of Korea. Unlike the others, this particular case appears to go beyond mere testing to attempt discerning information which the U.S. government does not already possess.
.
The document states,
.
“the indicator regarding rail line camouflage is extremely important since it provides a possible answer to the controversy over rail line activity south [deletion] where rails allegedly no longer exist.”
.
Of the pool of remote viewers studied, six were judged to perform at a level significantly higher than the rest. The report provides no further specifics about these six and what they “saw,” but both expert reviewers managed to use their existence to support their viewpoints.
.
Utts argues that since the same testing methods were used in every case, all results should have been equal; since some viewers were able to distinguish themselves from the rest, their abilities must therefore be valid. Hyman, on the other hand, points out that statistical methods used in the study can permit the few high scorers to overshadow the wild inaccuracies of other viewers.
.
Subjects scored much higher on “free response” tests, in which they described a target in their own words, than they did on “forced choice” tests, which involved selecting the correct target out of a list. Additionally, the successes of tests conducted without a distant person acting as a beacon raised the question of whether a beacon is necessary at all.
.
In another test, meanwhile, interaction between two distant minds produced a striking and unexpected result. Remote observation experiments, which measured whether a person can affect the body chemistry of another merely by looking at the person, yielded markedly more positive results when the two subjects were of the opposite sex.
.
One could interpret these findings as evidence that remote viewing is a potent, organic ability that functions independently of formal trappings and external assistance. Maybe it is an unrecognized aspect of the human condition that influences our everyday communication and behavior patterns.
.
Who knows — maybe this property that the CIA attempted to use for the purposes of war could even be a component of human sexual dynamics: the most complex intelligence operation of all.
.
Testing the Psychic Abilities of Stargate Operatives
An Evaluation of Remote Viewing
“Psychic Functioning is Well Established”
.
We are sponsoring;.
.
www.ladybythelake.net
.
http://www.facebook.com/rpierce1956#!/pages/When-Pigs-Fly-Aerial-Video-Photography-Special-Events-Richard-Pierce/165188250195664?sk=wal
Operation Stargate: “Psychic Functioning is Well Established”
.
This article is a reference peice for Operation Stargate
.
The first of the two experts commissioned to review Star Gate was Dr. Jessica Utts, a Professor of Statistics at the University of California/Davis. Dr. Utts strongly asserts her belief that the tests she examined have proven remote viewing to be a real, measurable phenomenon.
.
“Using the standards applied to any other area of science,” Utts writes, “it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted…. Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of flaws or fraud.”
.
Central to the evidence Utts cites is a close similarity in “effect sizes” among test results. Effect size is a measurement method used in sociology to distinguish random chance (defined as zero) from a tangible effect (ranging from a small size of 0.2 to a large size of 0.8).
.
Utts presents results from a range of tests in which the numerical effect sizes are very similar across the board. She accepts this as proof that remote viewing can be successfully replicated in laboratory conditions, and thus is scientifically sound.
.
While the earliest remote viewing tests were later found imperfect, Utts reports that she found no flaws or loopholes in Star Gate’s modern methodologies. (Problems with earlier scoring methods included unfairly permitting judges to use a process of elimination in matching descriptions to targets, or to give the viewer hints such as the beacon’s driving time to his target destination.)
.
Utts goes on to speculate on a possible rational explanation for psychic ability. Noting that our five natural senses act as detectors of change (sight acts on change in motion, color and depth; hearing acts on change in volume and pitch, etc.), it is reasonable to expect that a psychic sense also detects change.
.
Targets containing a large amount of change, such as variations in color, were more successfully identified by remote viewers than other targets. Utts supposes that psychic ability may work by searching for high degrees of change, whether nearby or far away, whether happening now or in the future.
.
Despite her belief in the validity of remote viewing, Utts concludes that Star Gate can be of little, if any, use as an intelligence tool. Believing psychic abilities to be inborn, Utts contends it would not be possible to train a corps of agents as remote viewers.
.
She also deems the information gathered by the method too arbitrary and unreliable to be useful or accurate — even though, as she further admits, “The same is probably true of most sources of intelligence data.” Utts suggests that the government discontinue its inquiry into whether psychic ability exists and instead study why it exists.
.
.
We are sponsoring;.
.
.
Testing the Psychic Abilities of Stargate Operatives
.
This is a follow up to: Operation Stargate
.
The most recent series of remote viewing experiments by U.S. intelligence agencies was a Defense Intelligence Agency program codenamed “Star Gate,” which was instituted in the 1990s.
.
As part of a decision in 1995 to declassify its research in parapsychology, the CIA commissioned an outside organization, the American Institutes for Research, to determine whether remote viewing is a viable intelligence option. AIR filed its report, “An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications,” in September, 1995.
.
The report summarizes the history and methods of Star Gate and its predecessors, followed by independent reviews from two experts on parapsychology, Dr. Jessica Utts and Dr. Raymond Hyman.
.
The reviewers focus on two of the three primary objectives of the Star Gate program:
.
“Research and Development” – conducting studies to improve remote viewing for intelligence gathering
.
“Operations” – using remote viewing against foreign targets
.
A third objective, “Foreign Assessment” – which investigated any possible remote viewing capabilities of foreign powers – was outside the scope of the study
.
Testing Methodology
.
.
The bulk of the testing was conducted on a “beacon and viewer” basis. A person acting as the sender, or “beacon,” traveled to a remote location or examined a photograph or other object. In isolation, a remote viewer attempted to describe, through visual descriptions and drawings, the beacon’s physical surroundings or what he was observing. In most instances, the beacons were simply looking at photographs from National Geographic.
.
With the data collected, a judge compared the viewer’s descriptions to what the beacon was observing, and determined whether reasonably correct “hits” have been made. The number of recorded hits was matched against the number that could occur by random chance, providing a quantified measure of the remote viewer’s success.
.
The AIR report (see below) also examines the results of a different testing technique called the “ganzfeld” method. In a ganzfeld experiment, the viewer enters a trance-like altered mental state, unlike the standard remote viewing method, whose viewers remain fully conscious and alert. Unlike the “beacon and viewer” method, ganzfeld viewers evaluate the end results themselves, without a third-party judge.
.
Another sort of test dealt with the topic of “remote observation.” Citing the folk belief that it is possible to feel that one is being watched, these studies tested whether a person’s physiology changed appreciably when a distant, hidden observer alternately looked at them and looked away.
.
Obviously, if it were actually possible for a remote agent to manipulate a subject’s body chemistry, the implications for applications against a nation’s enemies go far beyond mere information gathering.
.
.
We are sponsoring;.
.
.
Operation Stargate: An Evaluation of Remote Viewing
.
This is a follow-up to .Operation Stargate
Research and Applications
Michael D. Mumford, Ph.D.
Andrew M. Rose, Ph.D.
David S. Goslin, Ph.D.
Prepared by
The American Institutes for Research
September 29, 1995
Andrew M. Rose, Ph.D.
David S. Goslin, Ph.D.
Prepared by
The American Institutes for Research
September 29, 1995
Executive Summary
.
Studies of paranormal phenomena have nearly always been associated with controversy. Despite the controversy concerning their nature and existence, many individuals and organizations continue to be avidly interested in these phenomena. The intelligence community is no exception: beginning in the 1970s, it has conducted a program intended to investigate the application of one paranormal phenomenon — remote viewing, or the ability to describe locations one has not visited.
.
Conceptually, remote viewing would seem to have tremendous potential utility for the intelligence community. Accordingly, a three-component program involving basic research, operations, and foreign assessment has been in place for some time. Prior to transferring this program to a new sponsoring organization within the intelligence community, a thorough program review was initiated.
.
The part of the program review conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit, private research organization, consisted of two main components. The first component was a review of the research program. The second component was a review of the operational application of the remote viewing phenomenon in intelligence gathering.
.
Evaluation of the foreign assessment component of the program was not within the scope of the present effort.
.
Research Evaluation
Research Evaluation
.
To evaluate the research program, a “blueribbon” panel was assembled. The panel included two noted experts in the area of parapsychology: Dr. Jessica Utts, a Professor of Statistics at the University of California/Davis, and Dr. Raymond Hyman, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. In addition to their extensive credentials, they were selected to represent both sides of the paranormal controversy: Dr. Utts has published articles that view paranormal interpretations positively, while Dr. Hyman was selected to represent a more skeptical position.
.
Both, however, are viewed as fair and open-minded scientists. In addition to these experts, this panel included two Senior Scientists from AIR; both have recognized methodological expertise, and both had no prior background in parapsychological research. They were included in the review panel to provide an unbiased methodological perspective. In addition, Dr. Lincoln Moses, an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, provided statistical advice, while Dr. David A. Goslin, President of AIR, served as coordinator of the research effort.
.
Panel members were asked to review all laboratory experiments and meta-analytic reviews conducted as part of the research program; this consisted of approximately 80 separate publications, many of which are summary reports of multiple experiments.
.
In the course of this review, special attention was given to those studies that,
(a) provided the strongest evidence for the remote viewing phenomenon
(b) represented new experiments controlling for methodological artifacts identified in earlier reviews
.
Separate written reviews were prepared by Dr. Utts and Dr. Hyman. They exchanged reviews with other panel members who then tried to reach a consensus.
.
In the typical remote viewing experiment in the laboratory, a remote viewer is asked to visualize a place, location, or object being viewed by a “beacon” or sender. A judge then examines the viewer’s report and determines if this report matches the target or, alternatively, a set of decoys. In most recent laboratory experiments reviewed for the present evaluation, National Geographic photographs provided the target pool. If the viewer’s reports match the target, as opposed to the decoys, a hit is said to have occurred.
.
Alternatively, accuracy of a set of remote viewing reports is assessed by rank-ordering the similarity of each remote viewing report to each photograph in the target set (usually five photographs). A better-than chance score is presumed to represent the occurrence of the paranormal phenomenon of remote viewing, since the remote viewers had not seen the photographs they had described (or did not know which photographs had been randomly selected for a particular remote viewing trial).
.
In evaluating the various laboratory studies conducted to date, the reviewers reached the following conclusions:
.
A statistically significant laboratory effort has been demonstrated in the sense that hits occur more often than chance.
.
It is unclear whether the observed effects can unambiguously be attributed to the paranormal ability of the remote viewers as opposed to characteristics of the judges or of the target or some other characteristic of the methods used. Use of the same remote viewers, the same judge, and the same target photographs makes it impossible to identify their independent effects.
.
Evidence has not been provided that clearly demonstrates that the causes of hits are due to the operation of paranormal phenomena; the laboratory experiments have not identified the origins or nature of the remote viewing phenomenon, if, indeed, it exists at all.
.
Operational Evaluation
Operational Evaluation
.
The second component of the program involved the use of remote viewing in gathering intelligence information. Here, representatives of various intelligence groups — “end users” of intelligence information — presented targets to remote viewers, who were asked to describe the target. Typically, the remote viewers described the results of their experiences in written reports, which were forwarded to the end users for evaluation and, if warranted, action.
.
To assess the operational value of remote viewing in intelligence gathering, a multifaceted evaluation strategy was employed.
.
First, the relevant research literature was reviewed to identify whether the conditions applying during intelligence gathering would reasonably permit application of the remote viewing paradigm.
.
Second, members of three groups involved in the program were interviewed:
(1) end users of the information
(2) the remote viewers providing the reports
(3) the program manager
.
Third, feedback information obtained from end user judgments of the accuracy and value of the remote viewing reports was assessed.
.
This multifaceted evaluation effort led to the following conclusions:
.
The conditions under which the remote viewing phenomenon is observed in laboratory settings do not apply in intelligence gathering situations. For example, viewers cannot be provided with feedback and targets may not display the characteristics needed to produce hits.
.
The end users indicated that, although some accuracy was observed with regard to broad background characteristics, the remote viewing reports failed to produce the concrete, specific information valued in intelligence gathering.
.
The information provided was inconsistent, inaccurate with regard to specifics, and required substantial subjective interpretation.
.
In no case had the information provided ever been used to guide intelligence operations. Thus, remote viewing failed to produce actionable intelligence.
.
Conclusions
Conclusions
.
The foregoing observations provide a compelling argument against continuation of the program within the intelligence community. Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the origins or nature of the phenomenon, assuming it exists, nor do they address the important methodological issue of interjudge reliability.
.
Further, even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that a paranormal phenomenon occurs under the conditions present in the laboratory paradigm, these conditions have limited applicability and utility for intelligence gathering operations. For example, the nature of the remote viewing targets are vastly dissimilar, as are the specific tasks required of the remote viewers.
.
Most importantly, the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy for actionable intelligence.
.
Thus, we conclude that continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted.
.
.
We are sponsoring;.
.
.
Operation Stargate: US Intelligence and Psychic Spies
.
In the early 1970s, the CIA created the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to begin a study of controlled clairvoyance under the direction of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff.
.
Under the rubric “Project Scanate” which stood for “scanning by coordinates,” thousands of people were recruited, placed in dark rooms, and asked to describe what they saw at given longitudes and latitudes. Edwin May, a former director of Stargate, which was the remote viewing project that was spawned of the cold war as a result of the fear that the Soviet Union might already have established a psychic warfare program, has gone on record as saying, “we are exactly correct 50% of the time.”
.
“Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of early laser technologies, as well as being the co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute’s investigation into psychic abilities during the 1970s and 1980s. He is a co-author of Mind Reach; Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities and The Mind Race, as well as Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities. Targ recently retired from Lockheed Martin which is a major defense contractor of the U.S. Government, working as a senior staff scientist, where he developed laser technology for peaceful applications.”
.
“Dr. Puthoff is currently the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas, a position held for more than 10 years. He is considered one of the premier theoretical physicists in the field of vacuum zero point energy and has published several of the most respected papers in the field. A graduate of Stanford University, he has been a research associate and lecturer at the University in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Puthoff also served for several years as the Director of the Cognitive Sciences Program at SRI International. As a theoretical and experimental physicist, he has worked in the areas of fundamental electrodynamics, quantum vacuum states, gravitation, cosmology, and high power microelectronics. He has authored more than 30 technical papers and is co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics, which is used in numerous Universities around the world. He is also listed in the publications, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in the World, and is also a Fellow of the Fetzer Institute.”
.
For decades, U.S. Intelligence Agencies as well as Intelligence Services around the world have been engaged in a quest to find Intelligence operatives with abilities reaching far beyond any network of informants or advanced spying technology. An agent with the ability to probe the enemy’s deepest underground bunkers, to determine the exact location of hostages, or physically incapacitate foreign leaders or entire armies, all from thousands of miles away by using only their minds.
.
Efforts to determine intelligence applications for psychic abilities have centered around “remote viewing,” which is a purported clairvoyant ability to spy on distant enemies.
.
It is worth noting that Mentalist Banachek during the early 1980′s replicated theses abilities at Washington University for Project Alpha and effectively fooled scientists into believeing he had psychic powers.
.
Operation Stargate was first brought to the attention of the American public by ABC TV’s Night Line news program on November 28, 1995. As a result of the program, at the request of the U.S. Senate appropriations committee, the CIA was asked to assess the project, which it had inherited from the Pentagon and had an operating budget of somewhere around 25 million dollars a year to determine whether more research would increase its efficiency and practicality.
.
The assessment concluded that despite its achievements as well as statistically significant results in the laboratory, remote viewing had not provided reliable operational applications in the collection of intelligence data for the purpose of national security.
.
However, the remarkable success that operation Stargate experienced in the late 1970′s and early 1980′s cannot be overlooked. The early successes were due largely to a group of six psychics known as “The Naturals.” Joe McMoneagle, a retired army intelligence officer, who claims that he left Stargate in 1984 after receiving a Legion of Merit award for “providing information on more than 150 targets that had been previously unavailable from other sources.”
.
When asked about this, McMoneagle said, “The project deteriorated as the military began letting any old kook into Stargate.” Other sources also began deploring the New Age twist given by the influx of spoon-benders and crystal gazers.
.
“Joe McMoneagle is considered to be one of the greatest naturals.” In the early 1970′s Joe had a Near Death Experience (NDE), which seems to have given him the ability to achieve telepathic and altered states at will. Joe has stated that a viewer’s ability to remote view is dependent upon each individual’s innate talent.
In other words, their achievements in remote viewing are limited by the amount of natural ability they are born with.”
.
McMoneagle said, “It’s important to withhold belief in any paranormal abilities until they’ve been fully demonstrated and replicated by science.”
.
Operation Stargate’s crowning achievement came when remote viewers were able to describe in an incredible amount of detail the Soviet Union’s construction of a secret missile base, which were not be seen by U2 flyovers or orbiting spy satellites. Remote viewers were able to draw highly accurate sketches of a large crane, which was constructed on railroad tracks as well as a large metallic domed structure. The drawings were substantiated by U2 spy plane flyovers and integrated human intelligence on the ground.
.
Operation Stargate was not confined to activities solely at the SRI. At Penn State University Park, PA beginning in 1980 and lasting until 1992 students were subjected to non consensual experimentation, this included being drugged and subjected to verbal psycho stimuli while asleep. Target subjects at times recalled indicia of memory where by those who were experimenting on them directly indicated or eluded to working for federal agencies such as the FBI, secret service, CIA, NRO, ATF, and Interpol. These activities were not limited to federal involvement. State and local agencies were also implicated in the participants’ memories.
.
The backgrounds of these students were internally manipulated in order to forestall criminal liability on the part of the federal government. Participants say their credit ratings were ruined and their academic records had been abused. “Professors you knew suddenly did not know you.” Students have also alleged that photos were taken of them and surveillance devices were placed in their apartments and dorms. When contacted by journalists, Penn State refused to comment on the allegations but did not deny them.
.
The experiences of the participants in the alleged experiments all suffer similar flashbacks as soldiers from Vietnam that were subjected to mind altering drugs which were intended to decrease a soldiers need for sleep as well as decreasing his fear to fight. This program has sometime been referred to as “Jacob’s Ladder.”
.
Operation Stargate was officially decommissioned in 1995 under the Clinton administration’s defense budget cuts. However, its missions were simply absorbed into the covert operations of allegedly disassociated federal offices and agencies.
.
Unexplained Ancedotal Evidence
Testing the Psychic Abilities of Stargate Operatives
An Evaluation of Remote Viewing
“Psychic Functioning is Well Established”
.
We are sponsoring;
.
.
Using NLP and Hypnosis to Build Rapport: Embedded Commands
.
Have you ever wondered how you can easily create that deep feeling of rapport in others using hypnosis? If you haven’t you’re in for a treat. As you read my last post teaching how to embed commands you’ll very quickly become aware of all the wonderful ways embedded commands can help improve almost all aspects of your life. Below are some examples of embedded commands to help build rapport in others.
.
Practice, Practice, and Practice some more and then come and tell me how you got on.
.
BUILDING RAPPORT
.
Have you ever noticed how you can easily…feel comfortable…with certain people?
.
.
My old professor told me that people…become synchronised…with each other as they begin to…feel deep rapport.
I used to find it difficult to…trust people (point to self)…until I began to…feel familiarity… around them.
I used to find it difficult to…trust people (point to self)…until I began to…feel familiarity… around them.
.
Multiple Embedded Commands
I was reading an interesting book that said when people…feel deep rapport…they tend to…feel very relaxed…and they…pay full attention…to what the other is saying.
I was reading an interesting book that said when people…feel deep rapport…they tend to…feel very relaxed…and they…pay full attention…to what the other is saying.
.
When I met X a couple of years it was a very strange experience because until then I didn’t know how to…be truly fixated…in a conversation. We hit it off straight away and as we spoke I was able to…feel very at ease… I knew that it was ok to… be trusting…towards him and I was able to… free freely expressive…and although it was a new friendship a part of me was saying…‘We’ll make great friends’.
