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In 1995, many years after our experiments with Djuna, I was the remote-viewing subject myself at a workshop at Virginia Beach organized by retired U.S. Army General Burt Stubblebine and Lyn Buchanan. I described the target I saw as a merry-go-round. My target turned out to be a cupola! Cupolas and merry-go-rounds seem to be interchangeable in the visual-to-verbal dictionary of psychic functioning. It is as if we are witnessing the emergence of a psychic dictionary that is evolving from translations of the real world into psychic images.
Two days after the Moscow-to-San Francisco merry-go-round experiment, we carried out a second trial with Djuna. This time she got right into the spirit of it, and seemed to be fascinated by the target she was describing. She went on and on, describing, "A building associated with a famous man. . . . There is a famous book associated with this place. . . . There is a statue of this man outside the building. . . . There is a painting of him inside the building. It is not the kind of place where people live. They just come and go. . . . I think they are having a party. I see lots of candles."
The target was St. Mary's Church in San Francisco! Once again, the sixty different concepts Djuna mentioned in her narrative also matched her target to a mathematically significant degree. Djuna loved the idea that she had so many correct things to say, without realizing at the time that her target was a church. We celebrated our success and mutual pleasure with a sumptuous Russian feast of vodka, cognac, herring, caviar, cabbage salad, and lots of dense black bread with cold borscht.
What particularly impressed me back in 1984 was the friendship and party-like ambiance that we experienced with the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where only a few years before, psychic abilities had fueled part of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. For example, one Congressman discussing our remote-viewing work in 1979 said:
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All I can say is that if the results were faked, our security system doesn't work. What these people "saw" was confirmed by aerial photography. There is no way it could have been faked. . . . Some of the intelligence people I have talked to know that remote viewing works, although they still block further work on it, since they claim that it is

 
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