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would make a decision as to which, if any, of the targets had been described. In this case, it would be easy to determine that the viewer had described the pancake. If that were the "down" object, the interviewer would call the broker and have him sell the silver. At the end of four days, if you learned that silver had indeed gone down, you would show the viewer his pancake for feedback. If the price of silver had gone up, you would show him the "up" object instead, to fulfill the promise to show the corresponding object.
We believe that the feeling of consensus of purpose and mutual trust among participants are essential prerequisites for enduring reliable psi-functioning, so we carried out an experiment of this kind with our friends. We wanted to investigate the reliability of precognitive remote viewing, without actually betting any money.
In this 1994 experiment, the authors took part as viewers, and worked with two independent judges to design and implement a demonstration of associative remote viewing. 20 We used what is known as a "redundant protocol," which is described below, to eliminate some of the problems experienced by many of us who have tried to harness psi for real-world applications. We carried out nine weeks of remote-viewing trials, in which each viewer was to describe the target that he or she would be shown two days in the future. For each trial, the two viewers had their own separate target pools consisting of two targets, about which they knew nothing. A total of eighteen viewings were carried out at the rate of one per person per week. Targets were randomly assigned "up" or "down" status by judges previous to the viewing. If the viewers both accurately described the targets of different directions, then the trial was considered a pass. Additionally, if a viewer's target description failed to be awarded a rating of 4 or more on a 0-7 point scale rating, his or her call was declared a pass.
Of the twelve viewings that were not rated pass by the blind judges, eleven correctly described the object that the viewer was shown at a later time  that is against odds of more than 3 in 1,000. The objects shown to each viewer corresponded to the direction of the one-day change in the price of silver futures. Of the nine two-person trials carried out, two were passed for various reasons, and seven were recorded as traded in the market,

 
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