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researcher in the study with the musicians and dancers. In 1979, she took part in an intercontinental remote-viewing experiment that illustrates the advantages of the one-talented-subject approach.
Remote viewing is an extension of the free-response protocol; it goes beyond pictures in the laboratory to the whole world of living, outdoor geographic and architectural targets. Schlitz hoped to replicate the new SRI remote-viewing experiments that we were conducting at that time. She wanted to do remote viewing at much greater distances than had been published in any of the SRI papers. To carry out this experiment she enlisted the help of her friend Elmar Gruber, a European parapsychologist who was traveling in Italy.
Each day for ten days in November of 1979, Schlitz, at home in rainy Detroit, Michigan, would try to experience and describe the place in Rome where Gruber was located at 11:00 a.m. Michigan time. Gruber, for his part, had made a list of forty different target locations in Rome. These included both indoor and outdoor sites at parks, churches, the airport, museums, the sports arena, the Spanish Steps, etc. Could Marilyn, 3,000 miles away, describe each day's target place with enough accuracy to allow a future judge to match each day's description with that day's target? In addition, could she do it without receiving any feedback as she attempted this psychic investigation?
An example extracted from one of Marilyn's successfully matched remote-viewing transcripts is as follows:
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Flight path? Red lights. Strong depth of field. Elmar seems detached, cold . . . outdoors. See sky dark. Windy and cold. Something shooting upward . . . Not a private home or anything like that  something  a public facility. . . . He was standing away from the main structure, although he could see it. He might have been in a parking lot or field connected to the structure, that identifies the place. I want to say an airport, but that just seems too specific. There was activity and people, but no one real close to Elmar. 22
In fact, the target site was the Rome International Airport, where Elmar had been standing on a hill to the side of the terminal building. Marilyn's

 
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