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Puthoff was on a combined business and pleasure trip to San Jose, Costa Rica. A total of twelve remote-viewing descriptions were collected during Hal's trip, six from each of two viewers, one of whom was Pat Price. Police officer Price, whose incredible work is described in Chapter 2, was one of our most gifted viewers. He conclusively proved the ability of the human mind to make remarkable and far-reaching connections by showing us how well remote viewing could be performed. I was Price's interviewer as he described an assortment of churches, market squares, and volcanic mountains such as one would expect to find in a mountainous Central American country like Costa Rica. After the experiment was concluded, we found that Hal had indeed visited the market, the volcano, etc., on the days that Price had experienced them in the lab. |
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On one of these days I was waiting in our little electrically shielded room for Price to come and carry out the scheduled 9:00 a.m. experiment. It was almost time to begin and I had already put the introduction on the audiotape: "This is a remote-viewing experiment with Pat Price and Russ Targ. Today is April 12, 1973, and we are in the shielded room in the Radio Physics Building at SRI." But Price never showed up. We considered these first long-distance trials to be part of an important experiment, so in the spirit of "The show must go on." I decided to do the remote-viewing trial myself. |
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Although I had had many psychic experiences in my life, I had never taken part in any formal experiment before. As I restarted the tape recorder and closed my eyes, I saw what looked like an airport with an "ocean at the end of the concrete runway." I went on to describe an airport building with an overhang on the left, and grass and sand on the right side of the runway, which I drew. |
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All of this turned out to be correct, except that I "saw" a Quonset-hut type of building with an overhang, where in actuality it was a flat-roofed building. However, when I first saw the photo of the place Puthoff had visited on a one-day, unplanned trip to Colombia, shown in Figure Ia, my poor physical vision made the semi-circular patch of grass look to me like a Quonset hut. This raised the interesting question of whether I had been psychically looking at the place Hal was visiting, or at the feedback picture that I was shown several weeks later! |
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